Everyone In Town Thinks My Friend’s Dad Is A Monster. I Just Found Out The Real Monster Is His Mother, And Now She’s Coming For Me. How Do I Stop Her?
A Helping Hand
They grabbed my money and one of them kicked me in the ribs. I curled up waiting for more when suddenly they all scrambled away. Brian’s dad stood there, not touching anyone, just standing.
“You okay, kid?” he asked before helping me up.
He walked me home without saying much else. When I told Mom what happened, she completely lost it.
“He approached you? What if he’d taken you somewhere?”
She called the school immediately.
“A known abuser confronted my son?” she kept saying.
By the next day, the whole school knew. The principal sent out an email banning Brian’s dad from school property. Parents shared it on Facebook calling him a predator who lurked around children.
At school, Brian looked destroyed. He sat with his head on his desk most of the day. When I tried to slip him a note saying thanks for his dad helping me, he pushed it back.
“Please don’t,” he whispered. “You’re making things worse for him.”
The Real Truth
Two weeks later, I saw Brian crying in the library. He was trying to hide it, but his shoulders were shaking. I sat down anyway.
“They spray painted ‘Predator’ on his car,” Brian said. “He lost his job because of it. We might lose our apartment.”
He wiped his eyes hard.
“Everyone hates him, but they don’t know anything.”
“What do you mean?” I asked.
Brian looked around to make sure we were alone. He then dropped the bomb. Turns out him and his dad never hit their mom. In fact, it was the other way around. Their mom hit them.
She’d throw bottles, smash pans, plates, use lighters. Brian still has a burn mark on his back from that.
“Then why was your dad blamed?” I asked him.
That’s when he just broke down crying. He revealed that his mom, on top of hitting them, always threatened his dad saying if he ever left and took Brian, then she’d tell everyone Dad was the abuser. My face went pale.
“And that’s what she did,” Brian said crying. “When Dad took me and we finally left, she took him to court and lied about everything.”
“Then why does everyone say you are guilty?”
“Usually you’re all calling idiots who can’t do a Google search.”
