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anything else
besides crying, his sister trying to calm me down and then Nic. No
one could touch me or I would start freaking out all over again.
One minute I was on the couch all relaxed and the next I was a
crazy person!
    I couldn’t stop crying
hysterically. After several attempts by his sister to calm me, Nic
came over to me and in one fell swoop said, “I’m so sorry
Addie, I am sorry, no one will touch you I promise. We'll get over
this together, this was too soon. The two of us together, two are
stronger than one, right?” She squeezed my hand and winked at me.
And in that exact moment I stopped crying. I wiped my face
with my sleeve “My grandma used to say that.”
    “I know.” Nic
replied.
    I could hear his sister
saying “Get her the hell out of here!
Take her back where you found her, she’s crazy and has huge issues,
take her home!”
    They had me in the truck
quicker than we could blink. On the way back to McDonald's, Nic
asked everyone to never mention this to anyone, they all agreed
pretty quickly. Nic hopped out of the back, I had both hands
on the side of the truck ready to get out when the boy who had his
arm around me earlier, that started me tumbling into my horribly
embarrassing frenzy of delirium said “I wanna know if you wanna go
on a date.....”
    His friend chimed in and
said “He's in love with you!” I finally got mad, I wanted to reach
across the cab and smack'em, when I felt Nic put her hand on mine
and said “Addie my mom's here.” I climbed out using the tire to
step down and could feel my inner body still boiling from anger,
like a pot about to boil over. I turned and apologized to everyone
quickly for my actions and walked away and didn't look
back.
    We got in the car and her
mom was totally silent the first couple of minutes. Then chimed in,
“Have you been drinking? And smoking? You two reek of alcohol and
cigarettes!” She was mad and even though we weren't smoking others
had been.
    Nic replied “Mom, Addie and
I had one beer each and we won't ever again, it was gross, we went
to a party at my friends Ben's house. It was horrible they were all
drinking and smoking so we asked them to bring us back.”
    She nudged me “Oh, yeah it
was horrible.” I replied. She looked over at me and gave me a small
smile.
    “As long as you don't do it
again and you tell me the truth, you aren't in trouble, but this is
a warning. Another incident like this and I'll have to tell your
parents Addie, and Nicole you'll be grounded.”
    “I promise.” Nic said. “Me
too,” I mumbled.
    The rest of the ride back to
Nic's house, was quiet, she kept looking at me nervously like I'd
lose it any second. I felt weird. She turned to me in the car and
whispered “What was he thinking?” she shook her head in
disgust. I wasn't quite sure if she was talking about Logan or
the boy from McDonald's and I didn't care. I didn't say a
word.
    When we got to Nic's room
she closed and locked her door. Looking at the floor ashamed of my
behavior, I told her “I don't even remember anything. I don't know
what happened. I remember crying upstairs, but I don't even
remember going upstairs. I’m sorry.”
    Nic's voice cracked, “Don’t
apologize, you were due, you needed to cry it out…. It was a
delayed reaction.” She paused, “you ran up the stairs screaming.
You went on and on about how you didn't provoke him, it wasn't your
fault. You asked if we thought it was your fault, I think it had to
do with that night that you told me about.” A long time passed
before she started again “You also asked if you should tell
someone. Thank goodness you told me what was going on so I at least
had a clue, not sure I helped but at least I had an idea.” She
cleared her throat “You kept repeating, ‘I didn't ask for it, he
started it, I didn't start it and it wasn't my fault.’ And you're
right Addie..... It wasn't your fault and you didn't start it, nor
did you deserve it. If you need to tell your