"I'm alone again"
But my family were not safe, but they were safer than this pedophile and this boy.
Dad turns up. I stay seated at the top of the playground. He'd made me promise not to tell my parents. I feel conflicted inside, sick in my stomach. I'm trapped. I don't feel I have anyone I can turn to. I'm sad and confused. I clench my jaw. I'm exhausted. The man said that the sexual touching was, "Our special thing", but that was clearly a lie as he also had been touching the other boy. He was a liar. He had been using me. I'm clearly not special, desired, wanted. He doesn't care about me at all. I'm discarded, like a used tissue.
Dad and the man talk. They have a conversation and a few laughs. I hear the man say, "He's tired." Dad nods in understanding. I'm tired, angry, afraid, feeling trapped, feeling sick. I'm numb. Dad doesn't get me. I don't feel he cares. No one cares.
Dad lifts me down from the playground and we get in the car. Thankfully I'm with Dad now.
But in reality I'm alone again.
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