Dr. Cashby [✔]

Chapter Twenty Eight: When You Love Josh...

Austin's POV

"Look, I know you probably hear this all the time, but I'm innocent." I whined, crossing my arms over my chest. My three lawyers, Michael Bohn, Tyler Carter, and Lacy Sturm. They worked extremely well together, considering they got me out of the horrible mess that my old job got me in. Now it was a total repeat of what happened last time, and now, it was just a repeat of what happened years ago. 

“We believe you, Austin.” Lacy said smiling at me and patting my arm, reassuringly. 

“But it’s not us who you need to convince.” Michael told me, doodling mindlessly in his notebook. “This is going to extremely hard to do considering this is the second time you’ve been accused of this.” 

“And,” Tyler butted in, “Alan Ashby will get the court’s sympathy because he’s mentally unstable.” 

“But if he’s mentally unstable, wouldn’t that be a red flag for the court?” I asked, my stomach turning a little when Tyler mentioned Alan’s name. 

“Not necessarily.” Lacy admitted, running her fingers through her hair and sighing slightly, raising one eyebrow. “Since the diagnosis came from you, and you were his personal doctor and nurse, they’ll believe that you meant to become his ‘double duty’ and this was your plan all along.” 

“I need you to tell us what happened between you and Alan Ashby. Please. Every detail is necessary.” Michael said, now placing his pen to the lined paper. The other two lawyers looked at me, expecting me to just immediately start blabbering my head off. 

I let out a heavy breath and coughed a little towards the end. “Fuck. Okay. Fine.” 

I started from the very beginning, from when I first met Alan. He hated me from the get-go, but he seemed to warm up to me when Jaron had killed himself. I told them about how Alex Gaskarth wanted to place a bet on us having sex in a month. I included the part about how I was reluctant to even agree with the bet. I talked about how Alan and I shared flirtatious moments. I explained that I had tried to resist kissing the boy, but couldn’t help it when the ginger forced himself on me. 

I told them about how I was nervous someone was abusing Alan, and how someone visited him one day, and I didn’t know who he was. I discovered that week that Alan was raped, and I had no doubt it was whoever that had ran away from his room. 

I told them every single detail. I was exhausted when I finally stared at the three waiting for one of them to speak. Lacy was the one who spoke first, her eyes trained on mine. 

"Austin…" She said, my heart plummeting from her tone. "No one will side with you since you had sex with Alan, even though it was consensual. I hate to say it, but…even though he said yes, he's still a patient of yours. This is bad." 

I felt my upper lip curl, my anger getting the best of me. "This is so fucking stupid!" I snapped. "When he first started showing signs of bringing this stupid thing to a physical level with me, I learned he was being abused by someone. He basically threw himself at me. I tried to push him away, like…distance myself. He asked me to kiss him like…ten times!" I rubbed my face. "And when I first discovered the rape kit came out positive, I hadn't even fucked him yet-"