Chapter 9: The doctor leads us towards Kyle's room. It's a plain room with old, patterned wall paper. The T.V only catches 10 channels and the room only has one available chair. That leaves me ane Erika standing in the corner of the arid room. "How are you feeling Kyle?" Ms. Becky walks over to him and rubs his forehead. "My head hurts." Kyle says, slightly laughing at his own remark. He spots me in the corner and smiles at me. I give him a slight grin and then I feel Erika pushing me out the way, making her way towards Kyle's bed. "Kyle! What was all that nonsence about?" Erika asks him, her arms are crossed and she has a very concerned look on her face. "Look. Erika..." Kyle pauses, and looks at me before saying anything more. "Uh... Don't worry about it sis. We had our reasons. That's all you need to know." "Kyle!" Erika yells, but is interupted by Ms. Becky. "Erika stop it! How about we go get everyone some food from the diner down the street. Laura, would you mind staying here with Kyle?" Ms. Becky says, and starts walking towards the door, pulling Erika behind her. "No, I don't mind. I'll stay here." I say to her while she walks out the door. Ms. Becky is pulling Erika out the door with her. When Ms. Becky and Erika are completely out the room, I walk over to Kyle's bed and I sit down on the chair beside it. "Why did you do it?" I ask him while staring directly into his dark brown eyes. "How could you ask me that question?" Kyle responds to me sounding sympathetic. "Laura, he hurt you! Now I'm going to hurt him. And on top of all things... Erika, my sister, is his girlfriend now!" "Kyle please stop... Don't say that." I say while looking at the ground with my eyes watering up. Having the thought and vision of Matt cheating on me brings back the same feeling of anger. I thought I loved him. I thought he loved me. "Laura, what's wrong now?" Why don't you want Matt to suffer for what he did to you?" "Kyle, you don't understand, and you never will! I loved Matt. He was the only one that was ever there for me! Even if he hurt me, I still have feelings for him. Now that I realize that your sister was the girl he has been cheating on me with, I don't know if I can stay living with your family for even one more day. I seen Matt kiss your sister the day I got raped, and that vision keeps replaying itself in my head over and over again, along with the sound of him screaming at me because I 'Didnt know what I was talking about.' when I mentioned it. But I knew all along and was stupid for doubting that fact!" I say to Kyle finally catching my breath. There was a long pause... "Wow, I didnt realize you felt this way. I'm... I'm sorry. But Laura, you can't keep all of this a secret! You have to make Matt be sorry for everything he's ever did to you." When Kyle finishes speaking, I look up at him and see tears comming from his eyes. Each one rolling down his face, and I knew it wasn't the pain from his head that was making him cry. "It's crazy... how you think you can trust someone you loved. I don't know what to do. I feel so used Kyle. I wish this could all just go away." More tears leave my eyes and I find myself crying in Kyle's arms. He rubs the top of my head gently and pushes my hair to the side. I then look up to him and give him a slight grin as a thank him for everythings he's done for me. I stay with my head on his chest for a while and didn't even notice that he had fell asleep. I decide to lay next to him. I take off my shoes gently and snuggle on side of him. I look up at the clock and it reads 5 o' clock. It's been a long day. I close my eyes and fall asleep. It feels so good to finally rest again. Two Hours Later... I hear a knock at the hospital door, and I realize that I'm still laying next to Kyle. His arms are around me tightly and one of my hands lay carefully on the top of his stomach. I stand up carefully, trying not to wake Kyle up, but I then realize he is already up from the knocking at the door. I walk over and open it gently. It's Ms Becky with a bag of food. I don't see Erika anywheres around. "Hey you guys. I brought the food. Erika said she had to go do something, so she took her food with her. I guess it will be just us tonight." She hand us our food and sets up the table and chairs near Kyle's bed so he can simply sit up at the end of the bed and eat. I sit next to him and slowly pick at my food. Kyle doesn't say to much. Just that his head still hurts him. The food is acually pretty good, but I'm not hungry. I take a couple of bites here and there, but I have to much going on inside my head to eat. To much to think about. To much to worry about. To much to be scared of. Too much... "Kyle, may I ask you what happened earlier?" Ms. Becky suddenly decides to ask Kyle. I slightly look up Kyle and then quickly back down at my food. I see him still looking down at me trying to figure out what to say. "Mom. Please don't ask me that right now. It's not a good time." "You should be able to tell me. I am your mother, you know. You can not hide anything from me for too long. I will find out. You don't even know Matt to just randomly fight with him." Ms. Becky says to Kyle, trying to persuade him to tell her what the fight was about. She was right about one thing, he didn't really know Matt. I do, though. I know everything about him. Even things that he, himself doesn't even know. I also know that he lied to me, and made me belive he loved me. I also know if he isn't stopped soon, I will be in his arms again, slowly being destroyed of everything I am and could have been. Kyle doesn't say a word and Ms. Becky turns her head to look at me. I stand up and walk to the door, tears rolling down my face once again. "Kyle, tell her the truth." I say to him and then slowly walk out the room.