"OK.. the choices of movies are 'Once We're Warriors' or 'Clueless' Zac said, screwing up his face to the second movie. (*Authors note: Once We're Warriors is a New Zealand movie about a poor family and the family has a abusive father and it's a really good movie :c)*)
"We'll take Clueless" Jaymi joked.
"Ha ha.. very funny" Zac said and put 'Once We're Warriors' into the video player. The six of them were sitting in the Hanson living room. They were the only one's home, and the night before Zac and Jessica had gone with Mr. Hanson to hire some movies. They sat back and watched the credits.
"Hey... there's sex scenes on this" Zac announced, like no one else in the room could read.
"Zac.. you are so perverted" Taylor said.
"I AM NOT!" Zac shouted, embarrassed.
"Yeah you are... you're sex crazy"
"Shut up!" Zac said, throwing a cushion at Taylor.
"Will both of you shut up?" Isaac said. Both Taylor and Zac shut up. After the first half of the movie, Isaac, Jaymi, Taylor and Kayla soon grew bored of watching the movie and retreated to the warmth outside, leaving Zac and C.J in the room together.
"Why did they leave me with you?" C.J asked.
"It's not the greatest experience being alone with you" Zac replied.
"You smell" C.J said.
"Me? I'm not the one who puts on half a bottle of perfume everyday" Zac snapped.
"I do not!... at least I put something on so I don't smell like BO!" C.J said. Suddenly Zac threw a cushion at her and it hit her in the head. Zac burst out laughing. C.J hurled the cushion back at him but it missed, that made Zac laugh more. Just then a cushion hit him right in the face. That made him stop. The two of them looked at each other and silently agreed on a truce. They sat back and watched the movie. Suddenly there was a scene on that C.J did not like. There was a teenage girl lying in bed and her Uncle came into the room and raped her. This brought back terrible memories.
"Zac... turn it off" C.J said.
"Huh?"
"The movie... turn it off... now..." C.J repeated, keeping her eye's away from the screen. Zac put the movie on pause.
"What's your problem?" He asked.
"TURN THE MOVIE OFF! Zac, please... not on pause... just off!" C.J shrieked hysterically as she burst into tears. Zac did as he was told and turned the T.V off. He then got up and sat on the end of the couch nearest to C.J.
"What's wrong?" Zac asked.
"You wouldn't understand... nobody would" C.J cried, burying her face in her hands, her shoulders heaving up and down with every sob. Zac started to get worried, obviously something in the movie had freaked C.J out... now he wanted to know what it was.
"Maybe I can help... " Zac said. C.J shook her head no and looked up at him. She had tears streaming down her cheeks.
"No one can help me" She said. Zac shrugged.
"Fine... if you don't want me here then I'll go" Zac said, thinking that C.J was crying over nothing. He got up and started to walk out of the room.
"Zac! wait... don't go" C.J pleaded. Zac turned around and sat down again. <
"That last scene that we saw... that really freaked you out" Zac said. C.J nodded.
"Yeah... it did... because... it- it happened to me... my brother raped me" C.J said, breaking down. Zac sat in shock. He couldn't believe what he had just heard. He reached over and gave C.J a awkward hug.
"I'm gonna go get Jaymi and Kayla ok?" Zac said. C.J nodded. He got up and reluctantly left C.J alone. He raced through the house and out into the backyard. His brothers and the twins were nowhere in site. "Damn!" Zac swore. He went around the house and found them in the front yard. "JAYMIIIII KAYYYLA!!" He yelled out, breaking into a sprint to get to them. Jaymi and Kayla whirled around with surprised looks on their faces.
"What's wrong?" Kayla asked.
"It's C.J... she... well... C.J needs help-" Zac stammered. Jaymi stood in front of Zac and placed her hands on his shoulders.
"Zac"
"What?"
"Calm down and take a deep breath and let it out" Jaymi commanded. Zac did so and then told the twins what C.J had told him.
"Where is she?" Jaymi asked frantically as she and Kayla started to run towards the front door.
"C.J??" Jaymi called out. C.J came walking into the front hall. She took one look at Jaymi and Kayla and burst into tears. Jaymi wrapped C.J up in a hug and tried not to cry herself. Isaac, Taylor and Zac came walking into the front hall.
"Ike... we're gonna take C.J home ok?". Isaac nodded. Kayla and Jaymi left, both of them had an arm each around C.J's waist. They soon got home and found that Mrs. Bennet was still at work. Kayla noticed Malcom's car in the driveway... C.J did to.
"Please don't tell him!" C.J said frantically. Jaymi promised not to but Kayla remained silent. As they were walking into the front door, Malcom was walking through the front hall.
"What's wrong with her?" Malcom asked, the worry and surprise showed on his face and in his eyes.
"Oh uh.. Zac pushed her and she fell and hurt herself" Jaymi thought quickly, feeling guilty to blame Zac for C.J's tears. Jaymi escorted C.J up to her room but Kayla stayed downstairs and followed her brother into the kitchen.
"That's not what happened is it?" Malcom asked. Kayla sat down at the table and toyed with a napkin. She slowly shook her head. "Well... what happened then?"
"We found out something". Malcom waited for Kayla to say more... she didn't.
"And?" "It wasn't good"
"Duh... I kinda figured that out for myself" Malcom said, rolling his eye's.
"Mal... C.J was raped by one of her brothers" Kayla said. Malcom's mouth dropped open. "When?"
"We don't know, Jaymi's talking to her now" Kayla said. Just then Jaymi came walking into the kitchen.
"How's C.J?" Malcom asked. Jaymi looked at Kayla, Kayla avoided her sisters gaze. "You told him?"
"I had to! It wasn't like he wasn't gonna find out anyway!" Kayla defended herself. Jaymi shrugged.
"C.J's asleep right now.. she told me she was 10 when it happened... and it was Brendon who did it" Jaymi said quietly. About two hours later Mrs. Bennet arrived home and the twins lead her into the living room, as C.J was still sleeping.
"What is it girls?" Mrs. Bennet asked, worried by the looks on her daughters faces.
"Mom... maybe it would be better if you sat down" Jaymi started. Mrs. Bennet didn't like the sound if that. She sat down and then Jaymi dropped the bombshell. "We found out today that Brendon, C.J's brother... raped her when she was 10."