She Brought Light || Guy's POV

Chapter 70: Logan

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Never in my life did I ever think any of us would get hurt this badly.

Thirteen years of nothing but pain and torture. That's how long Veronica and Mason have been dealing with Henry.

Sure there's been days where I've felt how powerful Henry's punches are, but since I wasn't actually living with them at the time, he didn't take his anger out on me as much as he did with Mason and Veronica, but the days he did, he knew there was no way I was going to tell my parents.

Even at the age of 6 years old, I knew telling my parents wouldn't end well. I would either make things worse or I would get taken away from my best friend.

So I kept my mouth shut.

It wasn't until my parents died and I moved in with the Stone family that I realized just how bad Mason and Veronica actually had it. It was then that I realized I've been getting it easy.

Veronica got it a whole lot worse than Mason and I combined.

We began paying frequent visits to the hospital and I know the doctors and nurses began getting suspicious.

There was actually a time we got sent to hospital for Veronica. It was just Veronica and I at home with Henry. Henry hit her head against the wall so hard, she blacked out. He took one look at her, smirked and then just left. Lynn wasn't answering her phone and Mason had an away game so the only other person I could call was Ben.

I had to sit in the waiting room while Veronica got cleaned up and the doctors spoke to Ben about her injury and whatever else. I remember sitting there, angry at myself for not being able to help her and angry at Henry for doing what he did, for hurting her, when suddenly one of the doctors walked up to me.

The first thing she asked me was if I was okay and I lied through my teeth and said, "Yes, ma'am. Just worried about my sister." She then went on to ask me if we were blood related and I told her no, that Veronica was my best friend but I saw her more as a sister than anything else.

When she offered to take me to get something to eat, I just knew she wanted to talk about something private and that scared the hell out of me. I was only 11 years old at the time but I just knew I wasn't going to like this conversation, but I also felt like I needed to talk to her because if I refused, they would have gotten even more suspicious.

When we got to the cafeteria, she got me something to eat before asking me the one question I wished she wouldn't ask me.

"What really happened to your sister?" She had asked. I didn't answer. I just kept my head down and my eyes on the food I was pushing around in the plate in front of me. I wasn't stupid. I knew that if I said anything, we could get separated and there was no way I could look out for her if we did.

So I kept my mouth shut.

The doctor went on to explain that it wasn't the first time she treated us. She even went as far as to describe what Mason looked like since he wasn't with us and she was spot on. All I could do was pray she didn't say anything to the cops.

Henry has a brother who works in the police department. There is no way Henry would serve time for what he did.

Eventually the doctor gave up, realizing I wouldn't say anything and later that night, when Mason finally got home, I told him everything the doctor told me because I was so scared I would lose the only family I had left.

Mason and Jason tried teaching us self defense but after a while, Veronica just gave up trying to defend herself. She just allowed him to hit her and didn't even try defending herself, but the second he laid a hand on me or Mason, she jumped in, hoping to direct his anger onto her rather than us.