1992
"You deserve it." The words echoed continuously in his mind. "You deserve it for ever thinking I could like someone like you." Alexa Lisbon had told him tauntingly as the football players had tied him to the pole. She had looked straight into his brown eyes and said it unflinchingly to the twelve year old boy being stripped naked and tied to a goalpost. He kept hearing the words in his mind as he struggled against the rope attempting to free himself hours after they had gotten bored and left without untying him. The words were still echoing in his mind as he trudged home in the dark night sometime after midnight. He still heard the words as he dealt with his mother, trying to get her to bed later that night as she fought him, not even recognizing her own son. He still heard them as he laid in his bed staring at the ceiling covered in faintly glowing stars after failing to fall asleep. "You deserve it." She had said. "You deserve it." The words haunted him for years.