Chapter 153

• "Hey," Mike said, raising her face up with a finger. "You've got nothing to be ashamed of."
• She nodded and slowly uncovered her face, nervously picking at a fingernail. "Well, I began to get worried about when it would all slow down, but he just kept getting crazier and crazier. He convinced me to try... letting him put it... somewhere it normally doesn't go," she said. "I began to get a reputation as a girl who'd do anything. I don't know why I kept agreeing to do these awful things. I stopped going to church, and all I wanted to do was have sex all the time. I stopped going to class and all we did was fool around."
• It was a painful tale for Mike to hear. He'd known Emily as a pure, innocent girl. To hear that she'd been turned into something so slutty was awful. He felt so sorry for her.