"Did you.. Did you actually sleep with your therapist like that guy said?" Ethan said, referring to when Daniel exploded at Chloe's home.
"Yeah. Okay- yes, I have slept with him, almost twice a week since I met the damn man. Yes, I have fucked my principal because my therapist thought it would be a good idea," Chloe's voice began to raise out of anger towards Robert. Her eyes became glossy and she could feel the sticky tears running down her cheeks.
"Yes, I have let him use me over and over, because I thought he loved me and it's quite clear to me that he doesn't. He doesn't love me, he only said it to keep me around.. Kinda like what my dad did to me." Chloe mumbled through her tears.
"I think I owe it to you to tell you why I'm in therapy to begin with."
And as Chloe told him every single terrible and fucked up thing in her life, Ethan began to feel sorry for her. Her mom, her dad, Therapy, Robert, Everything that has made her the broken person she was today was let out all out as she cried hard out of agony and devastation. If Ethan had known the whole reason behind Chloe and her tragedian life, He wouldn’t have given her the cold shoulder- instead being her shoulder to cry on.
Ethan took it upon himself to bring rosemary onto his lap on into his arms, trying to comfort her and calm her down from her sobbing. She was a wreck, sobbing out how much she loathed her life and how cruel the world was to her.
"Shh, hey, please don't cry," Ethan whispered, pressing a gentle kiss to her skin.
"You know where he is right now? He's probably at the police station- handcuffed and everything- because he's slept with an underage girl- me. God, I saw how it destroyed my principal, I can't destroy another life. What if he goes to Jail? It's going to be all because of me. He's going to lose his family and his job, and his freedom, How sick is that." Chloe cried.
Chloe cried for Robert. As much as it broke her knowing that he fucked her over, She cried for him, for she still felt an ounce of love and appreciation for him. She felt stupid and hated herself because she knew Robert didn't love her, she knew Robert just used her for her body and belittled her where she thought of herself as nothing but the dirt on the ground, but even with knowing such, she still felt bad for Robert and didn't want anything bad to happen to him.
Maybe it was because she was naive enough to believe that he cared for her, or maybe it was because his claws were too deep into her skin that even though he hurt her, she could crawl right back to him because he made her feel so alone and small that she thought the only person who she could look towards for comfort was him- Robert. Whatever the reason may be, It would be a mystery to everyone- to us- because only rosemary knew what it felt like to be held in Robert's arms at the end of the day, to be bruised by his massive hands, to be caressed with by his mouth and tips of his fingers. Only Chloe knew what everything felt like, only she knew what went on in her mind, and to us, it was simply unexplainable.
Ethan couldn’t figure out why she cared so much for Robert even though it was obvious he only did damage to her. All he could do was try to comfort her in hopes of her calming down from her crying.
Chloe could cry, thinking about the look on Laura's face once she had seen her naked in sheets on Robert's bed. She would've thought it was someone else at the door for Robert, only to be told that Robert was being shoved into the backseat of a police car. Laura had told Chloe that she found out about Robert being in the video that went around her school, She said that it was inappropriate for harry as her therapist to be touching her- it was inappropriate no matter what because she was an underage minor.
And as Chloe broke down in front of Laura's eyes, Laura had spilled about why she decided to stick with Chloe's case- why she decided that she wanted to help Chloe get better. She told Chloe about how When she was a young girl, she had been molested by a family member of hers. When Laura was around the age of nine, Her uncle used to babysit her when her single parent mother had night shifts at the hospital. Laura's uncle would make it seem like him touching her body was a game that they could play, sickly putting his hands on a little girl whom hadn't realized what his intentions were until she grew older and into the women she was now. She didn't want to see any more people hurting, so she took Chloe's case and assigned herself to it- only to put Robert into her position and take over the case- big mistake.
Chloe hadn't known about Laura's past, she didn't know that she was sexually abused by a family member and that made her heart ache even more. And just like Ethan to Chloe, Had she known that Laura had been through all of that, she would have been more easier on her instead of always being so stubborn.
"I'm sorry I'm such a fuck up." Chloe mumbled to Ethan, afraid of what he now thought of her for that he now knew the cold and hard truth about her.
"Let's stop talking, let's just... Let's just lay down for now and forget about the world, Okay?" Ethan removed Chloe from himself, laying back against the grass as he stared up at the
