Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-2175012-20160315140658/@comment-2175012-20160316143651

Well, I still have a few issues with the candidate. Anyway, in Speak, Melinda meets Andy at a party sometime in August, and she dances with him after she had taken a few drinks (she was around 13 at the time). What happened was that Rachel talked Melinda into attending the senior party, but anyway, Andy takes Melinda out to the woods, and he rapes her, covering her mouth so that she doesn't scream. Now, the actual rape took place in a flashback, which we see, though it's not too overtly explicit in its descriptions. After that, Melinda attempted to call the police, but she couldn't explain what happened to her. As a result, several people were arrested, she earned the hatred of all of the other students, including Rachel, etc.

Now, in the present, Andy torments Melinda by commenting on that night last August, and even blows into her ear at one point. As you can see, Melinda was still rather traumatized by the experience to the point that she almost stops speaking. Now, there is one part of the book that has Andy offering her a doughnut, though it's played out as him doing that to torment her more.

Anyway, Melinda discovers that Rachel/Rachelle (she apparently wanted to go by that name in the presence of her foreign friends), was dating Andy, and that she was to accompany him to the senior prom, on a double date. Fearing that he would try to make Rachel his next victim, Melinda writes notes to Rachel as to convince her of Evans' bad intentions, though she doesn't believe her. She does realize that she was right when Andy started to make advances on her. She dumps him, and she later burns everything that he had given her. To add insult to injury, she even puts the ashes near his locker.

Rumors start to spread regarding Andy, and he goes to the closet to rape Melinda a second time out of spite. Now, as I had mentioned before, Andy has a prolific history of sexually assualting girls as evidenced by the multiple entries pertaining to him that could be found on the wall in the girls' restroom. It could be argued on whether this is an informed attribute, but I say that it isn't, because he expressed the same intentions towards Melinda and Rachel. The multiple entries indicate that several other girls were assaulted prior to Melinda, and that they never spoke about it to anyone.