Sarah

I wasn't there the night of, but the morning after I got a call from Olivia.

And she said something really bad happened last night.

SL raped Marissa.

We don't know what to do.

And I remember being horrified, obviously, by that news and scared and sad and hurt for Marissa.

I called her after getting off the phone with Olivia.

I actually felt fortunate because one of my older sisters had been an advocate for the Rape Recovery Center for a couple of years at that point.

And I knew what she did and how things worked with the Rape Recovery Center.

So I talked to her.

After I got off the phone with Marissa, obviously I didn't say Marissa's name, but I said, what do we do?

She said, first things first, we're going to want to go to the hospital.

So I told Marissa, I think we should go to the hospital.

I think she was in shock.

It was pretty obvious that she hadn't been able to grasp what had happened.

I specifically remember her talking to the lady that was checking into the hospital and she had a hard time even saying the reason she was there.

It seemed impossible or not real that that was the reason that she was there.

I mean, we were there for hours just waiting for the forensic nurse to get there to be able to do the exam.

And then the exam itself required very invasive procedures and things that I was upset that Marissa had to go through all over again.

I mean, no one wants to do that on a normal day.

So the fact that she had the night before, it was really upsetting to watch her have to go through that.