:All You'll Ever Need: -- Beach

Des shuddered as he pulled out the phone with the camera on it. Lips pressing together in an effort to form a frown but it hurt too much and she winced to back to an emotionless façade. She wanted to complain again, beg him not to do this, but knew it was needed. Knew it was the only thing that’d keep the bastards from coming after her again. Even Derek with his daddy’s money couldn’t buy himself outta this; thank goodness none of their parents were judges.

”It hurts.” The only thing she could muster as his thumb touched her chin, fighting the instinct to pull back from the touch seeing the look of worry in his eyes knowing she’d put it there because she’d done yet another reckless thing and paid for it dearly. The idea that it could’ve been worse not yet planted in her mind, too lost in the fact it’d happened at all for her to realize her luck at Elden’s arrival when he did.

As he moved away from her she stood there, eyes closing as he’d suggestion, shielding the flash from sore eyes that were sure to be red with tears and puffing black and blue from the strike. She didn’t know it but as the pictures were flashed, tears caught in the camera light trickling down her cheeks in silent sobs, as she stood there ashamed and embarrassed. She was still standing there crying silently to herself when Elden mentioned he was done, unable to break the spell of despair washing over her…not even for the approaching sirens that were fast approaching.

It wouldn’t be till after the police report had been filed and the boys questioned that Desiree would learn how much trouble Derek had caused in the past. It seemed Jimmy and Mark weren’t innocents easier and this hadn’t been their first attempt of rape…in fact there were multiple accounts coming in of successful rapes, going back as far back as freshman year for Jimmy and Sophomore year for Mark and Derek. The boys had been a trio of pain and destruction for years and she, along with Elden, had finally put a stop to it. Though she’d never take glory in this fact and the face of Derek would be a reoccurring nightmare for months to come…