Ray's Story - Life Is A Highway

CHAPTER 11

Although Donyelle’s arms were pinned down by Dmitry, she managed to inch her hand over and pound with her fist on the wall. Dmitry was too busy trying to take off her shorts to notice her pounding.
The door to the sleeping area flew open, and Heidi walked in. “Donyelle, I thought you were asleep…” she trailed off as she rubbed her eyes in disbelief. She looked around and saw a sweating Dmitry on top of Donyelle, whose shorts were at her knees. She gasped, and Dmitry quickly jumped off of Donyelle. Donyelle reached down hurriedly to pull her shorts up.
“Heidi!” she exclaimed, full of relief.

“Heidi!” exclaimed Dmitry. “What are you doing here?”, he asked, since he hadn’t heard Donyelle pounding for help .

“Well, I was coming because I heard someone banging on the wall…” she said. She looked at Dmitry, who had a massive hard-on, then looked at Donyelle, who was wearing nothing but a lace camisole and very short pajama shorts. “…but I guess that banging was something else…I should go”. She walked out of the room.

“Heidi, wait!” Donyelle cried. She ran after her into the main area of the bus. “Heidi, it’s not what it looks like! I have to explain!”

Heidi turned to look at her. She had always seen Donyelle as a perfect match for her cousin Benji, but now she was just disgusted and disappointed. Benji’s self-confidence around Donyelle was already low enough, and now this? “It’s okay, Donyelle. You don’t need to explain anything. Not to me, at least. You have some explaining to do to Benji, though” Heidi said sadly.

“Heids, please hear me out. Dmitry totally assaulted me! I tried to get him off me, but he’s too strong! Heidi, please! I would never do such a thing! I’m just glad you came in, because who knows how far he would have gone?” Donyelle said as tears welled up in her eyes. Heidi looked at her in shock.

“You mean…that…what I saw…that wasn’t consensual? Is that what you’re saying, Donny?” Heidi asked with a look of concern.

“Yes, that’s what I’m saying Heidi! You were right to think the pounding on the door was for help! Please believe me” Donyelle pleaded. Heidi immediately hugged Donyelle, stroking her hair.
“You poor thing! Are you okay? Tell me everything, it’ll be alright. Did he hurt you?” Heidi asked. Heidi sat down on the sofa and Donyelle lay down, putting her head in Heidi’s lap. Heidi continued to stroke Donyelle’s hair as Donyelle cried and recounted everything that had happened. Dmitry was nowhere to be found, but eventually Travis walked into the room.
”What’s going on? What happened?” he asked, yawning. Heidi told him and Travis joined her in consoling Donyelle on the couch. He sat on the other side of Heidi and softly rubbed Donyelle’s hand.

“Donny, don’t worry about anything. Heidi and I will take care of this. Shhh, don’t worry.” Travis said soothingly. Even though he was almost a decade younger than Donyelle, he had seen her console people enough times that he knew what to do for her.
Donyelle’s sobs died down as she realized that her friends really would take care of things. She knew she didn’t have to worry about reporting Dmitry, or about sharing a room with him anymore. She sighed as Heidi kissed the top of her head.

“We’re going to have to tell Benji about this”, Heidi said after awhile.

“No, Heidi! Please don’t! I don’t want him to think of me like this!” Donyelle protested.

“Donny, you know he’d be so hurt if he were out of the loop. It’s important that he know about this, he’ll take such good care of you! I remember one night in high school when a guy was giving me unsolicited attention; Benji scared the guy away and comforted me afterward. Plus, he’s going to realize something’s different; you can’t hide this from him” Heidi replied.

“Okay. I guess you’re right. Tell him tomorrow, we shouldn’t bother him tonight” Donyelle said.
“Deal”, Heidi agreed. “In the meantime, you should get some rest. Where and with whom do you want to sleep tonight? Dmitry’s still in the sleeping area”.

“I’ll stay out here and sleep on the floor. I don’t wanna go back into that room anytime soon”, Donyelle responded.

“Heidi-ho and I will sleep with you here, then” Travis offered, getting up to get a blanket. Donyelle consented to this, so that night, she slept on the floor, protected on either side by the arms of Travis and Heidi. She slept a dreamless sleep.


~ Moose ~