Drinking: A Short Story

The summer before going into my second year of highschool, I chose to take the risk of drinking with my friends. While drinking, I had a 21 year old male have non consensual sex with me. I was unaware at the time what was happening and could not stop it. I remember getting pushed out of a car onto the ground and a lot of pressure. Around two in the morning, a cop found me in the middle of a field and took care of me before calling my father. When my father picked me up I was blacked out and only remember getting home and falling to the ground because I was unable to function. My father carried me to my bed and shut my door without saying a word, which is when I knew I had made a mistake. I went to bed, oblivious to what really happened to me.
I woke up with a pounding headache and was still unable to walk on my own. I felt pain, regret and memory loss. I asked myself more than a dozen times ‘what happened last night?”. As the morning went on, I

upon arrival, my mom told me “Alaina, you will never get back what you lost last night”, which hurt but I was to empty to show the emotions of being sad. I walked into the waiting room unaware of what I was there for, until I heard my father ask for a Rape kit to be done on me. A Rape Kit is a long process where doctors try their best to get the DNA that is on or in someone’s body, clothes or belongings. I got a head to toe examination, had my blood taken more than once, wiped down etc. The last hour of the kit, The police officer who found me came in and told me that I was more than lucky to be alive, as my alcohol limit was above what it should’ve been. He questioned me on everything that happened that night and got any information about the male that he could. Next, a women form SASSMM came in and attempted to comfort me, after telling me what she was there for. She also checked up on me months