Marissa

We're not going to have sex.

Relax, relax.

And then the assault continued and he continued to push it farther and farther.

I thought that if something like this had ever happened to me, I would have been a fighter, but my body definitely shut down on me.

I continuously was trying to tell him, slow down, stop, slow down, stop.

And he kept telling me, you have no idea how long I've been waiting for this.

Relax, nothing bad's going to happen to you.

I'm not going to let anything bad happen to you.

To me, this was a huge red flag because I already said nothing was going to happen.

We had already communicated that.

Then he started to get more physical.

I remember sitting up on the bed and he would pull me back down and he would find different ways to try to have sex with me.

I would get up and he would pull me back down.

It didn't really feel like he was listening or that I was even in the room with him.

I kept trying to communicate to him, stop, no, but he wasn't listening.

Eventually, he ended up on top of me with his arms open.

under my arms holding me down.

And that's when the longest portion of the rape occurred.

And that's when I started speaking really loudly and saying stop because I thought that my friend Sarah would hear me and that she would come in.

No one came in.