The night I didn't know I'd be raped.

Date was the night that changed my life. I was 28 years old when I met a man on a dating app and we had been talking for a majority of the day through the app. He seemed normal and genuinely nice. The night we met up was a last minute decision on both ends and ever since that day, I regret ever making plans with him. It was decided that he would come to my house and was supposed to pick me up and go for a drive but 5 minutes before he arrived he asked to come in and watch a movie. I sat on one side of the couch, he sat on the other. I remember thinking that he was not my type and that I had no attraction towards him. We awkwardly watched the movie with some small talk. At one point, he started making comments about me sitting far away from him, and then he abruptly stood up and came over to my side of the couch. He got on his knees and pushed himself in between my legs. He held my wrists down on the couch and ripped my shirt down with his teeth to expose my breasts. I told him to stop and that he was ripping my shirt. He replied, "Don't worry, I'll buy you a new shirt". That's when I knew he wasn't going to stop. He began to suck on my nipples really hard which caused me a lot of pain. He then forced me to get up, aggressively pulled my jeans down and off of me and bent me over the couch. He forced his fingers inside of my vagina which again caused me a great amount of pain and then forced his penis inside of my vagina. He choked me and pulled my hair while he penetrated me. It felt like forever for him to finish. When he ejaculated, he took his time getting dressed and before he left, the last thing he said to me was: "If we weren't going to have sex I would have just left after the movie". That night, I did not know I was going to become a victim of rape. I was so confused about what happened to me, it took me almost a week to get a rape kit done and another week to decide to report it to police. I know for myself, I did that right thing by reporting it. He was recently charged on rape charges related to my case and I am lucky that I had investigators and a prosecutor who believed me and supported me. Everyday I am healing and everyday I feel like I am closer to justice.