Damin

Chapter 4: Carson

A/N This is my third chapter today I am kind of just whipping out a few because I am really excited to start making this story more interesting. In this chapter we get to meet Conners Dad Carson Enjoy!

I wake up on my bed with Carson sitting on Conners bed with a worried look in his face. "Car-" I start but have a coughing fit before I finish saying his name. Once I hear Carson's deep soothing voice I relax "Don't try to talk too much kiddo, you had an episode last night in the shower and your throat is probably not the best right now seemings how you were screaming in the shower for 5 hours last night". I sigh and then remember that I have a baseball practice after school today and start to get up, but instantly fall back. "Don't worry Damin the school and your coaches have been informed" Why me? I think to myself.

When I can finally move I grab the tea that Carson made for me and sip at it. "Do you remember what it was about this time?" Carson asked. Carson is a big muscular guy with deep green eyes and light brown hair. If Conner worked out and gained weight he would look just like his dad besides the eyes. I slowly reply " Yeah... It was about him again doing those things to me" I rub the scars on my chest. "I'm sorry kid" Carson said sympathetically with a intense look of sadness in his eyes. He and my biological father we're best friends just like Beth and my mother were. "Just don't think about it right now bud, don't want to have another episode" he said scratching his neck.

"I'm sorry Carson for making you have to skip work for this" I said because he is here instead of doing the thung he loves, surgery. "It's fine kiddo I need to take some time off anyways" he said as he chuckled. "Works gotten stressful recently so I took my vacation"
"Beth is gonna be pissed at you Carson" I said.
"You're probably right" he replied nervously realising that Beth would be mad.

"Do you know what caused this one?" Carson asked as if he knew. I sighed "Yeah I know what caused this one" I replied sadly.
"Lily's birthday is tomorrow" he said almost appolegetically. Just so you know Lily is the name of my dead mother. Lee was named after her but prefers to be called Lee. My thoughts were interrupted by Carson saying "she was an amazing person kiddo" I hesitated before asking, "Was he good before..." I stopped. "Yes, before all of it, your father James was the greatest man I ever knew, I know it doesn't comfort you but..." He stopped for a moment "The man that did almost those bad things to you, the one that made those" Carson points to my scars " That was not the James I knew, not the James that Lily left to raise you and it is not your fault." For the first time ever in all my time at this house I saw a tear running down his face. He wiped it off and stood. " I'll leave you to rest". When he left I turned on my phone and put in my headphones so I could listen to music and fall asleep.