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I turn around to see an unfamiliar face of a guy smiling at me. My happy feelings suddenly disappear and I start to feel nervous. I slowly take a step back releasing myself from his grip, still facing him.

"Don't be scared, beautiful girl." He says with a calm tone that somehow gave me chills, not in a good way. He has a hard, emotionless voice that makes me feel very uncomfortable. His smile isn't leaving his face.

He takes a step closer to me and grips my shoulders firmly. "I won't hurt you, I just came here to have fun."

I don't know how but I suddenly gain the courage to ask "who are you? And what do you want from me?"

"Well, now I like you even more. You got some courage to talk." He raises an eyebrow as if amused. "I am a gentleman. I saw a very beautiful girl standing here alone so I decided I come and say hi."

"Well thanks for caring. Now I gotta go." I say that, then I immediately turn around and start walking fast towards the entrance when I feel his tough hand gripping my arm.

"Not so fast, young lady!" He pulls me closer to his body and buries his face in my neck. He smells of heavy alcohol. I feel his hard lips on my body I try pushing him away as hard as I can but I couldn't move him. He's holding me too tight and I can't let go.

I have to fight him. I can't let this happen. Not again.

Taylor, breathe, nothing's gonna happen to you. Do not give up.

I suddenly lift my knee and hit him as hard as I can on his man part. He immediately starts screaming and he pushes me with all his strength, I hit the wall that's behind me, pain starts getting to me and I fall on the ground.

"YOU BITCH! YOU'RE NOT GONNA GET AWAY WITH THIS." He comes to me and pulls me by my arm.

This is it. This is the last thing that I could do.

I scream as loud as I can hoping that someone could hear me over the loud music even though I know that this is a very little chance. But this is all I could do at the moment. I can't let this happen to me again.

God please, save me, please..

Then I feel his hand suddenly letting go of me as someone pulls him away and knocks him to the ground. God has answered my prayers.

I look at the man who just came. My breath quickly stops when I see that that man is Mason. Mason King, is now on top of the guy who just harassed me, hitting him hard on his face making him bleed.

My mind is too tired to process what is happening right at this moment.. I feel so many mixed emotions that I can't even explain as I watch Mason throwing punch after punch and I'm not even sure if he's human right now. His face is emotionless but you could feel his anger. I don't know how but I finally managed to scream.

"MASON THAT IS ENOUGH!" I yell as loud as I can but he doesn't stop.

"MASON PLEASE HE'S HAD ENOUGH!" He flinches as if he wasn't aware of what he was doing. He gets up, his white shirt now covered in blood, his hand still in a tight fist, he looks down at the guy whose face is all bloody and says with the calmest, most relaxed tone, "Never force yourself on a girl ever again."

The guy passes out, when suddenly Brandon and Natalie run towards us.

"Man, what the fuck happened here?!" Brandon looks between the passed out guy and Mason's bloody knuckles.

I feel Natalie's arms wrap around me.

I can't move. I'm still looking at that guy who just tried to rape me. Tears start running downs my face even though I tried so hard to hold them, but this all is so overwhelming for me.. it's like a flashback..

I walk up to Mason who is still standing in the same spot making eye contact with Brandon as if they're discussing what happened. The only problem is that Brandon wan nodding as if he ACTUALLY DOES UNDERSTAND!

"Why the fuck did you do that?" I say trying to keep my temper.

He breaks eye contact with Brandon and looks straight in my eyes. I wait and wait but he doesn't answer.

"WHY DID YOU DO THAT WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T YOU STOP?!" I finally scream at him.

I raise my fist to hit his chest but suddenly I feel his firm grip on my arm.

"He was trying to rape you. What did you expect me to do? Just stand there watching?" Each word comes out from his mouth slowly and calmly.

"I EXPECTED YOU TO FUCKING KNOW WHEN TO STOP!" I snap. Then I try to manage my tone and say calmly, "You didn't see yourself. You almost killed the guy." Tears still running down my cheeks.

He pauses for a while and then finally says, "If I did, he would've deserved it." He says that and walks back into the house.

"I'm sorry about that. I'll get someone to deal with the guy." Brandon says tapping my shoulder and leaves after Mason.

"Come on, let's go to my room." Natalie holds my hand and leads me back inside.

I hear the music suddenly stop as we walk and Brandon shouts "Party's over. Everybody go home, thank you!"

I couldn't but notice the drops of blood on the floor leading to the bathroom. His knuckles must be hurt bad.

I shake my head trying to push my thoughts away as Natalie leads me into her room and closes the door behind us.

"There's the bathroom, go take a shower and I'll give you some of my clothes." She says pointing to a door to her right.

I lock the bathroom door and look at my reflection in the mirror. I look like a damn panda with my mascara all over my eyes. I undress and get into the shower. Once the hot water hits my body gently my thoughts start attacking me.

He could've left you with that guy you idiot!
He was nice enough to even care to help you!
You should apologize to him!
He helped you and all you could do is shout at him?!

He could've killed that guy like honestly..
He isn't human.
Like h—

"STRAIGHT OFF THE PLANE TO A NEW HOTEL NANANANANANANAA JUST TOUCHED DOWN YOU COULD NEVER TELL NANANANANANAA" I sing as loud as I can to shut all of these thoughts down.. and to be honest, it worked!

I continue to sing when suddenly I remember that there are other people in the frickin villa so I do my best to resist one direction and finally manage to shut up.

I get out of the bathroom to find some comfy sweatpants and a hoodie on Natalie's bed, I put them on and sit there absorbing my surroundings. I didn't really pay attention to Natalie's room when I first got here because of all the thoughts that were on my mind, but now that I feel better, her room looks really comfy, really organized that you could barely tell that someone even lives here, the walls were light pink that went really well with the black and white sheets, and I notice some beautiful drawings hung on the wall. One of them was a drawing of one direction!

Suddenly the door opens and Natalie gets in and throws herself on the bed beside me.

"Umm, uh- do you know if your—"

"Yes, we all heard you." She answers before I could even finish my question.  She notices the shock on my face so she bursts out laughing.

"What are you laughing at?" I try not to laugh, but I'm sure right now that my cheeks are as red as a tomato because of my embarrassment.

She stops after a while and asks worriedly, "how do you feel now?"

"Better, thanks." I smile at her.

Natalie is a really sweet girl. Not only does she know me for like 4 hours or so but she helped me and treated me like a friend and I'm so grateful for that.

"So, Mason.." I ask hesitantly.

"He left a few minutes ago." She says.

"What do you think should I do?"

"Look," she straightens her position, "I consider Mason as my brother.. him, Caleb and Brandon are the same to me. Mason could act like a dick sometimes but believe me, he is a really good person. There is a reason why he behaves like this and he's got anger issues so.. I guess these don't go well together right?"

"I've never seen him act properly around anyone. Like ever. Except for his friends of course." I tell her.

"Well, that's because Mason doesn't let people in easily. We've been his friends for a long time now and that's why he trusts us." She says. "But I think that you could earn his trust. You're a good person, Taylor." She holds my hand.

I smile at her, "so are you. I'm so happy that I got the chance to meet you!"

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"WHAT?!?!?!?!" Katherine yells loudly.

"Please lower your voice I don't want my dad to know.." I beg her.

"Sorry.." She says calmly. "Oh my lord this is all my fault! I shouldn't have pushed you to go to that stupid party!"

"Don't do this! Don't blame yourself for something that you had nothing to do with. I would've gone to that party anyway.. I really wanted to spend time with Caleb.." I comfort her.

Katherine is one of the few people that I am very grateful to have in my life. In most cases, step mothers and dads' girlfriends would be cruel and snakey but Katherine was exactly the opposite of that. I consider her as a really good friend and I tell her everything. She gives me the time that my own mother doesn't, and I am so lucky to have her around.

"This is never gonna happen to you ever again. And I'm making sure of it." She nods as if agreeing with herself, "I'm gonna send you to some self defense classes."

"Katherine you really don't have to do this.." I say trying to convince her.

"No. I do. I'm gonna ask around. You're gonna learn and that's final." She pauses for a little while. "Especially when this happened before."

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