The next morning.

I awaked in Justin's bed with a bouquet of red roses by my side. I sit up and rub my aching head. The morning light crept inside of the blinds and let some light into the dark bedroom.

I grabbed the roses and smelled them.
I inhaled the sweetness of the roses and I felt smile play in my face. A white love note was inside if the roses. I picked it up and opened it:

Your voice is my favorite sound,
Your smile is the brightest around,
The way look at me,
It brings me to my knees,
I love you, Mel

I hope you know that....

Justin

I smile sweetly and I hold the white note to my chest. Next, the door opens slowly and Justin walks in. His blonde hair was pulled up in a man bun and he was dressed in a Chicago Bulls basketball jersey and a pair of ripped jeans.

"I loved the roses and the note. It was super sweet, Justin." My voice was hoarse and I swear I sounded like a car engine. I cleared my throat and repeated, "I loved the roses and the note. It was super sweet, Justin."

"I knew you would. The poem was written by me." He says, as he takes a seat beside me.  "I never knew you wrote poems like this." I said. "Sometimes, most of all them are about you, Mel." He admits.

"I would love to read one of them one day." I continued. "I would like that." He smiles. He cleared his throat and spoke, "I want to talk about last night."

Last night at The frat house's Halloween costume party it was chaotic. I was under the influence of alcohol and I was lured into a bedroom where two guys tried to make a sex tape with me.

That moment scared me and in that moment, it felt like the world had froze and the only thing I heard was the fast beating of my huge heart.

I was alone. I was by myself and I think for the first time I felt helpless and terrified. I was scared to death.
The way Sean kissed me and dry humped me will haunt me forever and ever.

A sniffle and then a tear drop that fell onto my arm had cleared my thoughts. I snapped back to reality to find Justin with his face in his arms with his elbows balanced on his knees. He was crying and it instantly broke my heart.

"Justin, why are you crying?" I question him. The way he lifted up to show me his bloodshot eyes full of wet and cold tears. "Mel, I let those assholes touched you and I wasn't there to stop them." He sobbed.

"Justin, look at me." I demanded softly, as I brought his face close to mine so he could look me straight in the eyes. "It wasn't your fault. If it was anyone's fault, then it was my own. I was dumb enough to accept their offer to play truth or dare. I was drugged and almost got raped." I confessed.

It wasn't Claire, my friends, or even Justin's fault about what happened on Halloween night. It was mine and I should be crying and apologizing but, instead of I am going to own up to my mistake.

"I had a nightmare about it last night, Mel. It was even horrifying than the real thing last night. I stood there frozen and for some reason I couldn't move at all. I stood there at the door as Sean raped you." He explained.

"I'm really sorry, Justin." I apologized.
"Don't be. Hey, I'm cooking you some breakfast. Are you hungry?" He asks me. "Yes, thank you." I say. "No problem." said Justin, as he opened the door and disappeared into the upstairs hallway.

That whole situation last night shook me and traumatized me. It was the day that had me scared for my life. But, if Justin and the rest of my friends didn't make it, I would have raped and that sex tape would have been leaked across the internet.

I didn't want that to happen, unlike Kim Kardashian, I have a bright future ahead and I don't need a sex tape to get me there or ruin it for me.

My phone begins to ring and the caller ID belongs to Ethan Greene. I haven't heard from him since the day he tried to call me when I was going to my job interview with Studio 90 Black.

Even though, that was a couple of days ago, it feels like a decade, better yet a century. I pick up the phone and answer it, "Hello?"

".....Hi, Melissa, how is everything going?"

I don't want to lie to Ethan, but I also don't want to tell him about my fiasco last night at that frat Halloween party.

"..... It's going well. How about you?"

"Great."

"How come I haven't seen you on campus lately?"

"I had just moved into my new apartment."

"You should come on over sometimes."

"Um....I don't know."

I end the phone immediately and slide my phone into my purse. I sit up and begin to read the beautiful place poem Justin had wrote me over and over as I await for him to arrival with my breakfast-in-bed meal.

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I know I haven't updated in awhile but, here you guys go. Omg!!! *happy cries* I can't believe Friends With Benefits is almost finish!!!! I can wait!!!! Because I got sone big news babes!!!!! But, your going to have to wait for the end of this epic love story!!!

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