by Ruby Star

Created on: December 28, 2008

She was only six years old, Beth* lived in a seemingly normal family of three brothers qwith their parents. She should have been carefree, enjoying life as a kid should. Her brothers were older than her, the eldest of twelve years, was Brandon*. He was the golden child. He was the attractive one, growing tall in a family of generally small people. He was popular, always the charmer, and his parents, and everyone around him, loved him.

Their father was a drinker, struggling to provide for his family the best that he could, which never well enough. As a youth, he was much into recreational drugs, but stopped after Beth was born, replacing these with copious amounts of weed. Their mother knew that life was not going like it should have been, but she slapped a smile on her face every day all the same, working where she could to help pay rent and buy food. Through all the adversity the mother worked hard to keep life looking as normal as possible to the outside world.

The girl was so pretty, so bright, with everything ahead of her. Such an ambitious girl. One day she goes up to her mother, sobbing. It was summer, just weeks after her sixth birthday. The mother immediatly held her daughter in her arms and asked her what was wrong. Terribly distressed, she couldn't say. She was so scared, but finally, she looked up at her mother and through tears, said, "Mommy, Brandon beat me up in my vagina." She had been sexually abused by her own brother, before she even understood what sex was.

Horrified, her mother slaps her quickly accross the face, tells her to shut her mouth. How dare she try to break up her perfect family? Brandon is a wonderful boy, and she shouldn't make up such horrible lies! Beth was just this tiny, little girl, trying to get help, and she was being punished, where her brother should have. Her mother sent her to her room, yelling so much she convinced Beth that it was all in her head, that she had in fact just made it up. She continued to think this until it happened again, and again. After a few years, her other brother, Rich*, started doing it too. When Beth eventually tried to seek help from her father, she got the same reaction. He beat her. Her parents, the two people that are supposed to be there and be supportive would not accept this fact that she was being thouroughly abused by those closest to her, those she trusted most deeply.

Beth is grown now, and went through most of her life with absolutely no memory of what she went through. Just a few

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