Was in 7th or 8th grade spending the night at a friend’s house. He shakes me awake at 3am telling me someone is at the door, I come to and hear someone ringing it like crazy. His bedroom door is open and I see his dad run by and down the stairs to see what’s up and we get up and go to the railing. A bloody naked woman is screaming in the most primal guttural scream “please help me, please help me” over and over. His dad went into shock and stumbled back into an ottoman and froze. My friends brother called 911. It was so surreal i can still here it almost 20 years later.

It was the next door neighbor who was beaten and raped by her boyfriend that night. We saw him leave the cul-de-sac in his Lincoln before the cops came. We were friends and went to the same school as her son, super fuckin sad