Brother in law

My Mom had a baby girl the year of '64, the year I turned 13. My little sister was born in Jan. and then Mom got sick that same summer and had to go into the hospital for an operation. My step sister who was four years older than me and shared the same birth month as me had gotten married and was pregnant and they were on their way to Hawaii. Her husband was in the Coast Guard. They stopped over to help out with us kids while Mom was in the hospital. One day we were doing the ironing and she wanted to tell me a story. Said that she did a foolish thing on her prom night. Said she got drunk and went to bed with her date and well, when she got married she spent the night locked up in the bathroom crying and her new husband was ranting at the door because he had been cheated. She wasn't a virgin.

Why she wanted to tell me this I will never know. Maybe she was trying to warn me to take care .Remember I was 12 going on 13. Her big husband was at least 6'7" and weighted a good 250lbs. Anyway step sister and my Dad took the baby to see my Mom at the hospital and me and my brothers stayed at home with my brother in law. My brothers wanted to go craw dad fishing. They could sell them to the fishermen and make some candy money. I wasn't allowed to leave the house so I was stuck there. After my brothers left, this brother in law shooed me into the boys bedroom and locked the door!! I wasn't afraid at first, till he started to pull my clothes off. I started to fight him with all I�had to fight him with. Which wasn't much as I only weighed around 75lbs. He had me pinned on the bed with him on top trying to put on a rubber while keeping me held down, when my brothers came back home and was knocking on the bedroom door. He told me to quick put my clothes back on an not say a word. He went into the bathroom and locked that door. I got dressed and unlocked the bedroom door and let my brothers in. They sort of looked funny at me and said they had forgot their bait and had come back for it. Well, I pulled my one brother aside and whispered to him no matter what, was he to leave me alone. I didnt have a chance to say any more to him before our brother-in-law came out of the bathroom.

I don't know if my 11 year old brother suspected anything or just the fear in my voice or the terror in my face that day convinced him he needed to stay home with me. When my brothers didn't leave after getting their bait. Brother-in-law was trying to get them to leave anyway he could. Threats and shoving didn't work so he pulled off his belt and started beating the boys on their backs with the belt. I don't know how they stood it, but they did. My little brother who was only 9 at the time would try and jump on his back as he was swinging the belt on my other brother. And when he would sling my little brother off him and throw him up against the wall he then would start to beat on the 9 year old with the belt my 11 year old brother would start to hit him to make him leave the little brother alone. This went on till the brother in law got tired of it and left us alone.

They took a horrendus beating never let out a whimper. I lifted up their shirts and saw all the welts and blood and bruises. It looked so bad. My brothers never ask me why they had to take a beating that day for me, till this day they never asked. My one brother went to his grave without ever knowing that he saved his sister from being raped. I do know my baby brother swears he will kill him on sight if he ever sees him again because of what he did to them on that day so long ago. We never told. We were close so we kept it to ourselves. I don't know why we didn't. This brother in law was family. We were supposed to trust our family. We never saw it coming. The story my setp sister told me of her wedding night : I keep wondering if her husband was trying to substitute me for what his wife gave away before they were married take what he thought was his , that was denied to him by his wife. Weird huh? I still ponder about that one . A foot note to this story. Many years(25) later I told an older step sister about 'that day' and her ex-brother-in-law. I knew that the other step sister had been divorced from the monster for years and had been remarried twice since then. What I didn't know was the one sister told the other and it got back to me I had made it all up just to hurt her. So much for family.

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