Roxanne went to the witness stand and swore to tell the whole truth on the Bible.

"Miss Roxanne," said the lawyer. "Please tell us about your relationship with my client from the beginning until today."

Roxanne started with the day she and her dad had to leave Spoonerville to go and live in Dallas. She met Jake a week after she and her dad cleaned up the penthouse for his rich dad. She started dating him and then she became his boyfriend during her last year in high school in Dallas and they remained in a relationship during college. For that time, she felt like he was her only friend in the world.

"So would you say Jake improved your life?" the lawyer asked. "You know, made your life less lonely."

"I thought that until I discovered he had been cheating on me with other women," Roxanne said.

"Then why did you stay with him and help raise his son if you knew what he did and you were miserable with him?" the lawyer asked.

"Because I felt like that I had no one else." Roxanne sighed. "In Spoonerville, I had my dad and I had my best friends from school Max, Stacey, Bobby and PJ. When I came to Dallas, I only had my dad and Jake. Then I discovered that Jake was cheating on me and my dad soon died in an accident. Before all that, I lost my mother when I was very young as well as my identical twin sister Emma." She started to sniffle. "So, looking after Jimmy was the only thing that kept me going. And Jake never gave me any money or paid anything for me. I was only able to buy a car and pay for everything I and Jimmy needed from the money my Dad left me in his will before he died. So, no, I don't feel like Jake has done anything for me."

The lawyer ran out of questions, so he said to the judge, "No further questions, your Honor." Then he returned to his seat.

"Mr. Lawton, any questions for your client?" the judge asked.

"Just a couple, Your Honor." George got up and approached Roxanne. "Miss Roxanne, was Jake ever this aggressive to you before he was on the day when he went after you and Max?"

"He never tried to physically assault me," Roxanne said, "but he used to verbally threaten me all the time, even when I did everything to the best of my best abilities."

"And we all know how much Jake treated his own son like a doormat," George said, "but has he ever been physically or verbally abusive to him?"

"There were a few times Jake yelled at Jimmy for no reasons at all," Roxanne said. "Probably because he was drunk like he was every day. He would yell at him, even when he did nothing wrong at all. And I remember always having to calm him down, stop him crying and make him feel better.

"There was one time when Jake nearly smacked Jimmy for failing to do a 'proper' drawing of a bowl of fruit. He would have smacked him if I didn't rush in and say that it was my fault for not getting him familiar enough with fruit. He didn't smack Jimmy, but he yelled at both of us. He yelled at me for not doing my job right, even though I was never his employee, and he yelled at Jimmy for being a disappointing son."

George turned to the judge. "No more questions for Miss Roxanne, Your Honor. For my next witness, I would like to call my next witness James Morton."

"Very well, proceed," said the judge. "Return to your seat, Miss Roxanne."

George picked up Jimmy and took him to the witness stand, while Roxanne returned to her seat. Her hand got held by Max's.

"You did very well, Roxanne," he whispered to her. "I'm very proud of you."

Roxanne smiled as she started to feel better. "Thanks, Max."

"Please tell us of your life, Jimmy," George said.

Jimmy told the court of the first young memories he could remember, which were playing with a lovely red-haired lady who he would later call Auntie Roxanne. He remembered her always being there for him every day and doing things with him.

"Do you have any memories of your dad over there?" George asked, pointing to him.

"The only memories I have of him is just him saying hi to me on a few mornings and that's all. I don't see him ever again for the rest of the day and I've never done anything with him in a day of my life, except the times he yelled at me for reasons I don't know why."

"And have you tried to do things for him like cards and presents for his birthdays, Christmases and Father's Days?" George asked.

"Yeah, all of them," Jimmy said, "But I feel that has made no difference to him. I feel no different than the paintings at our home."

"Do you mean he passes them every day before he goes to work and not takes time to be with them?"

"Yes, George. That's exactly how it feels."

"Objection, Your Honor," one of Jake's lawyers called. "Are we forgetting the fact that Jake has spent his own money for his son on cards, presents and kindergarten?"

"The same way my clients Max and Roxanne spent money on Jimmy to on food and the kids activity center for him to make friends and learn new stuff here in Forksville while your client wasn't the teeny weeniest bit interested in that?" George said. "Since he spends more money on drinking alcohol and seeing women instead of spending time with his own son, I find that objection pointless and not a good fighting point, Your Honor."

"Objection not sustained," the judge said. "Any more questions, Mr. Lawton?"

"One last question, Your Honor," George said, before turning back to Jimmy. "Can you tell us how staying with Max and your Auntie Roxanne was like?"

"It was the happiest time of my life." Then Jimmy went on to say how he had the most fun in his life, how much more friends he has in his life, how much more appreciated he felt and how he got to spend it with his favourite people in the whole wide world, Auntie Roxanne and Uncle Max.

Roxanne was immediately touched by it and Max was surprised. That was the first time Jimmy called him Uncle Max.

"Thank you, Jimmy," George said, taking him from the stand. "No more questions, Your Honor."

"Do any of you have any questions for James?" the judge asked Jake's lawyers.

They all said no. Then the lead lawyer stood up. "We would like to call our client for his testimony, Your Honor."

"Proceed," the judge said.

Everyone gulped as they watched Jake go to the witness stand and swore to the truth on the Bible.

The lawyers began to ask Jake questions about what he did in his life, his business career and his relationship with Roxanne and Jimmy and he boasted about how he did his very best and successful he was like any narcissist would boast.

After his lawyers were finished, George rose up, but he didn't ask Jake any questions because he felt that he didn't need to. Instead, George called some staff members from Morton Enterprises as witnesses and asked them questions about what it was like working for Jake since he took over from his father. They all said that since Jake's takeover of leadership, the business was declining and he was a polar opposite person from his father.

"A spoiled, lazy son of a respected self-made man," the last staff member George described Jake.

There were no more questions and they were no more witnesses to be called.

The judge turned to the jury. "The jury has heard all they need to hear. I will give them a maximum of five hours to find whether the client is guilty or not. The trial will resume until after then." He banged his gavel.