Chapter 20 The Incident
The Incident
I clamped my knees around Milo’s waist. He let my arms go and tried to push me off, but I was annoyed and clung on harder. ‘You want me, I know you do. You called me Daisy Duke.’ Then he dug his thumbs into my inner thighs and pushed with all his might.
‘Stop this, Ruby.’
‘No, no, no.’ I cried and pushed my hand into his crotch, feeling for a hardness but finding none. He was able to sidle forward in such a way that he jumped up. I fell sideways and landed on my back on the floor, hitting my head on the coffee table on the way down. The coffee cups went flying.
‘Holy shit, Ruby, what are you trying to do? Are you okay?’
When I put my hand to my head, I felt a clammy dampness. I was defeated and humiliated and hurt. I slumped on to the floor, saying nothing. He put his hand on my head, and it came away crimson with my blood.
‘You’re bleeding.’ He took the blanket from the back of the couch and put it around my shoulders.
‘Cover yourself. What the hell were you trying to do?’
I started to cry. ‘Don’t you want to?’ I sobbed.
‘With my girlfriend’s baby sister? You got to be fucking kidding me.’
‘I’m not a baby,’ I said as hot tears full of shame poured down my face. He pulled me up from the floor, put me sitting on the couch and knelt down to eye level like he was talking to a toddler. He took my hands in his.
‘Ruby, I’m going to go now, okay? I suggest you put on a different shirt. I’m not going to tell Erin anything, okay? I don’t want to embarrass you. This never happened, right?’