"Danielle's Forbidden Love"

"Danielle's Forbidden Love"

Danielle had the best life, she was the oldest of 4 siblings. Danielle was 15, her brother John, 13, her sister Ella 11, and her youngest brother, Matthew 9. Both of her parents John and Alyssa had great jobs. Her Dad was a corporate lawyer and her Mom was a pediatrician. Her family was very well off, financially. Danielle and her 3 younger siblings went to Catholic elementary and high schools. They always got wanted they wanted, when they wanted it! Danielle’s family was also very smart. She ranked in the top 10 of her class and her younger siblings followed suit.
Danielle and her family had a summer house in the Hamptons. They would spend most of their summers in the Hamptons. Her parents allowed her to bring a friend with her each week, if she wanted, too. Her best friend in the world, Lynn would always go with her. Lynn and Danielle had been best friends since they were 3 years old. They met in nursery school. Since Danielle and Lynn were getting older, Danielle’s Mom would let them go on the beach near the water, without her. They would spend all day and most nights on the beach, hanging out, relaxing and meeting new people.
On a Tuesday morning, Danielle and Lynn spent the ENTIRE DAY on the beach. As they were lying on their beach chairs and reading magazines, this older guy, between the ages of 18-25 years old, was walking on the beach with 2 of his other friends around the same age. The 3 guys came over and sat down on their towel. The guys were obviously flirting with them. They lived in Manhattan and Steve’s family owned a house on the beach so they would spend their summers, just like Danielle on the beach.
Danielle and Lynn asked how old were they and they replied “21”. The guys didn’t care they were much older then the girls and the girls didn’t care or realize how much the age difference mattered. Danielle’s Mom met Steve, Mike, and Matt. She thought they were very nice, but watch out for Matt, she had an “uncomfortable feeling”. Danielle assured her Mom, there wasn’t anything to worry about. Steve, Mat, and Mike all knew how to drive, therefore they would drive into town to go shopping and go for lunch and dinner. Danielle’s Mom wasn’t thrilled with the fact that they drove, but she allowed it. It was very well-known that Matt liked Danielle and Steve liked Lynn. Mike would tag along with them. During the evenings they’d all hang out on the beach and watch the sunset and look at the stars. On the last weekend of the summer, Labor Day weekend, Danielle’s family had a BBQ at their summer house. Danielle’s Mom invited friends and family and she invited, Matt, Mike, & Steve. This BBQ was the last night, or saw they thought, that they would see each other ever!
On Wednesday, everyone started school again. Danielle was always excited about a new school year starting, but this year she really wasn’t. All she kept thinking about was Matt. Since they said good bye to each other the day before, on Tuesday morning, all she did was text him. Her Mom noticed some changes in Danielle since she had been hanging out with Matt, but didn’t say anything to her. As school approached the first full week, Danielle and Lynn were talking about Matt and Steve and Lynn liked him, but was able to focus, whereas Danielle was “in-love” him and couldn’t focus on anything else.
As school continued, she still couldn’t focus and stayed up late talking to Matt. She failed her first history test, and history was her favorite story. She hid the grade from her parents. Her parents did not approve of her constant IMing at all hours of the night and constant texting 24/7. Her parents sat her down and spoke to her about Matt. They asked her if they were going out and she said, “no”. She said they were close friends and denied all other questions about their relationship.
Matt and Danielle had made plans to go out together, but Danielle knew her parents wouldn’t allow it, therefore, she told them she and Lynn were going to hang out at Lynn’s house and just watch movies. Lynn went along with the plan and it worked. Danielle and Matt went out together to the movies. She made it back to Danielle’s house before her Dad picked her up. Later that night she went on line and they continued to IMing until her Mom came into her room about 3:45 in the morning. Her Mom got very annoyed and banned her from the computer. As the week continued Danielle continued to act different. Her parents got her school progress report and it said failing the class for 4 out of 7 of her classes and the other 3 classes she was on the border of passing and failing. She was grounded and not allowed to go out with “Lynn” that weekend, but
Danielle refused. Lynn was getting uncomfortable and nervous to keep doing this, but Danielle was her best friend, she felt she didn’t have any other choice because she knew Danielle would do it for her. Lynn and Danielle planned ways to meet up so Matt and Danielle could go out over the weekend. When Danielle came home from school that Friday her parents said she looked guilty, but didn’t question it.
Danielle told her parents she was going to the library all day to study with Lynn. Her parents allowed her to go with Lynn because they were going to study. Lynn met Danielle at the library around 12:00pm and she was due home at 6:00pm just in time for dinner. Matt met Danielle at the library at 12:15. Matt was taking her to a surprise, shedidn’t know about, except Matt told Lynn just in case of her Danielle’s parents. Danielle asked, “Where are we going?” and Matt said, “You’ll see.” It was a blustery Saturday afternoon. Matt took her to the mountains right outside of her hometown. As they continued driving to the mountains it started snowing, the further they were away from the town, the more it snowed. They finally got to their destination. It was near one of the cliffs on the mountain. They were just sitting, listening to music, and talking. By the time they got to the cliff of the mountain it was 2:30 already. Danielle asked, “Why did you take me here?” He replied, “This is where I take all my special girls.” Danielle felt very comfortable around him. As they were talking Matt started to make out with Danielle. She was okay, with that, but then he started over-stepping his boundaries. He was trying to do things Danielle didn’t feel comfortable with. She said, “Stop, I don’t want to do this.” He kept trying to, but he eventually stopped. He was annoyed, but just left the topic alone. It was about 3:30 now and Danielle knew she had to be home at 6:00pm for dinner and COULD NOT be late!
Danielle said, “We should get going so we don’t hit traffic.” Matt assured her they had plenty of time to get her back on time and just to relax. He suggested moving to the back seat to get more comfortable. As they moved to the back seat, Matt got closer, and Danielle felt more uncomfortable. As they were talking Matt made another move. He kept persisting and she kept trying to stop it, but he refused. She tried moving away from him and going back to the front seat, but he grabbed her back. She tried opening the back car door, but they were locked with the child-safety locks. The more she resisted the worse it was for her. He grabbed her, put tape on her mouth, ripped her clothes off, raped her, and killed her!
It was around 5:45 and Lynn was getting anxious and worried because she had to be home in 15 minutes and there was no sight of her. She tried calling her cell-phone, but it was off. It was now 6:15 and Lynn was very worried she didn’t’ know what to do because she wasn’t sure if she should go to Danielle’s house, call the police, or look for her herself. It was now 6:30 and Danielle’s parents called her phone several thousands times and thought it was strange it was off and called Lynn’s phone numerous times but didn’t answer it. Lynn finally answered the phone and Danielle’s parents came to the library. Lynn explained to them she went with Matt and they were going to a cliff on the mountain right outside of town and it was a surprise.
Danielle’s parents called 9-1-1 immediately! The police showed up the library and they explained the story Lynn gave them. They drove up to the mountain and couldn’t find anything because the snow had covered all of the tracks. They had dogs search through the mountains with police detectives and officers. Danielle’s family and Lynn were hysterical! They all followed the police up to the mountain. It was about 10:00pm and it was snowing really hard and 1 of the detective dogs found something. He kept barking. The detective went over and found a girl that fit Danielle’s description. Her parents came over to see if that was her. Unfortunately it was. Matt had raped, killed her, and threw her into the mountains.
Danielle’s entire family was in mourning! Lynn felt half responsible because she allowed her to go out with him when her parents thought she was with her. Two weeks later another girl was raped in the same way, near the mountains. They noticed similarities in the rape cases. One week after the second rape, they arrested Matt! They found him connected to 6 other rapes in the past 3 years. They found him in a bar. He was brought up on rape charges and first degree murder. His sentence was 25 years to life in jail. Six months later, the jury found him guilty of all charges.