Suicide Hotline € Lashton

8.5

Calum got up and walked to the stand as the lawyer followed.

"Calum, what did this man do to you?"

Calum lowered his head.

"He would beat my brothers and I. He-he started to beat my brothers and I when he started dating my mother. He started molesting us after the got married. Once he took us on a weekend to a cabin and left Ashton. We were his personal dolls. Everything he did to us would never measure up to everything he has done to Ashton. He broke Ashton. I remember being jealous of him. I use to make Ashton's life a living h*ll in high school. I caused him so much pain because I didn't want to accept everything that had happened to him and me." Calum said as tears ran down his face.

"How old were you when everything began, and if you can remember give the ages of your siblings."

"I was 9 when they started dating which was when the beating began. I was 10 when he began to molest me. Francs was 16, J.C was 18, Dan was 19, Clarence was 21 and Greg was 21." Calum said as more tears came.

"May it be noted two were minors. Now Calum, Do your remember any certain things he did to you?"

Calum looked up as tears flowed down his face. "I-I-" Calum couldn't make words out. He was sobbing.

"You may take a second to think and calm down." The lawyer said sadly.

"I-I lost the football game against our rival school my freshman year and he burned my feet and hands so badly I had to sit the rest of the season. I had to tell the coaches I had gotten pushed into a fire when our family went camping. I-I still have scars." Calum held ,his hands up and showed the burn scares across his hands.

Ashton was crying too. He never realized the boys he hated so much had suffered so much without his knowledge.