Chapter 31

Dakota POV

I cannot believe what I have managed to get myself into tonight, all because I lusted for Tonya. I thought Melanie would talk to me. I had no idea she would pull this shit on me. The police take me in to book me into jail. I sit in a room waiting for what seems like forever. Finally, an officer comes to get me and takes me to a space to search me. He takes my clothes for evidence and gives me a set of scrubs to put on.

The officer walks me to a smaller room and makes my picture. He then walks me down the hall to an interview room. He opens the door for me. He walks behind me. I sit down at the table. He takes off the handcuffs.

“An investigator will be in shortly to get a statement from you and go over the charges. You will see a judge in the morning about bail,” the officer says.

I do not ask him anything. There is no point. No one is going to believe me anyway. These bitches got me right where they want me now. I sit waiting again. They are in no hurry to come in here and talk to me. I bet Tonya is over the damn moon about my arrest. I know I have lost my job for sure now. I should have let it go, but no, I just had to go and try to talk to the crazy bitch.

Finally, a man comes in to talk to me. He sits down across from me with a file with pictures inside of it.

“Hi, Dakota, I am Officer Green, and that is officer King standing over by the door. We want to give you a chance to tell us everything that happened between you and Melanie Black tonight. We need you to be honest, and let’s clear this up quickly,” Officer Green says to me.

I look over at Officer King. He is a big man, and he seems like he means business. “Officer Green, I did not rape her. I was not even in the room for very long. She started screaming as soon as she saw me,” I say to him.

“Then how did you get on top of her?” Officer Green asks me.

“She pulled me into the bed with her. I was only there to talk to her,” I say to him.

Officer Green pulls out pictures from the file he is holding. “Then please explain all of this to me. She has bruising in areas consistent with rape. We took a semen sample from her,” Officer Green says.

“When you test it and compare it to me, it will be mine,” I say to him.

“So you did rape her?” Officer Green asks.

“No, we had sex earlier in the day, but not when I came to the apartment to talk to her,” I say to him.

“Let me get this straight for the record, Dakota. Okay, I want to have a clear picture here. You are saying Melanie, and you had sex earlier in the day, then she staged a rape when she did not even know you were coming by to see her. Is that what you are saying?” Officer Green asks me.

“I know it sounds crazy, but Melanie and this other crazy bitch have been fucking with me all summer. They both set me up somehow. I know it,” I say to him.

“Son, you sound like the crazy one,” Officer Green says to me.

He grabs the file with the pictures in it of Melanie and walks out the door. Officer King takes a good long look at me. “The judge will set your bail in the morning; I hope you got a damn good lawyer,” Officer King says to me.

“The other crazy bitch is a lawyer. I bet I won’t even be able to get a damn lawyer because of her in this town,” I say to him.

Officer King walks over to me and puts cuffs back on me. “Come on, let’s get you settled in for the night,” Officer King says.

Officer King walks me out of the room and down another hall. He puts me in a single room that is solid white. He closes the door. I put my hands through the small hole, and he removes the cuffs.

I sit down on the floor. There is nothing in here except a sink and a toilet. After a few minutes, someone opens the door and throws a plastic mat in for me to sleep on the hard cold floor. I will not be getting any sleep. I lay down on it anyway.

Who the fuck can I call to get me out of here? I have some money in my wallet and a credit card if my bail is not too high. No one will come to get me or be on my side in this. It is over for me. I have lost my job and all of my friends, and there is no way even to prove that I did not touch that bitch.

There might be one way. If I can convince Heath, who I am sure is stuck up Tonya’s ass by now, I know she works fast, to look at the surveillance from the resort; maybe he could find some of Melanie and Tonya’s conversations. Perhaps that would free me and prove I did not rape her. I need a lawyer and fast. There has to be someone out there that Tonya has fucked over before. I have to get out of here first.

I lay back on the mat on the cold floor. I need to find out if anyone else has ever been banned from the resort after fucking around with her. I need to see if she has a past. I need help. The first call when I get out is to a private investigator. I am going to get that bitch. She will pay!