Now that I have finally found out that Raylyn was living in
an abusive home I didn’t know what to do next, all I knew was I had to help
him. Seeing him, the guy I’ve liked for years, being hurt like that hurt my
heart. So I decided that this was not something I could take on myself so I
went to the one person in my life I know I can go to for anything, my mom. I
asked her what I should do because this has apparently been going on for way to
long and I couldn’t just sit back and ignore the fact that Raylyn was being
hurt both mentally and physically every day. So me and mom came to the
agreement that this wasn’t something that we could take care of ourselves so we
called someone we knew who could. After talking to them we knew that the best
thing to do would be for Raylyn to go to DHR and report his abuse since going
to live with his real father was not an option. So the planning began. We
decided that one day I would pick him up before school and we would go talk to
someone at DHR about this situation. So
once we got to the DHR office we waited for what felt like to long then finally
someone called out his name and he went back to talk to someone. I on the other
hand still had to wait and wait and wait but at this point I didn’t care
because I thought I was waiting so long because someone was going to get him
out of this situation. Finally Raylyn came out and got me and I thought this meant good news. Then the
lady went on to tell us that since he was 17 he had just one more year left
before he is 18 and can move out and since he has put up with it for that long
what’s one more year. Okay I promise I’m not one to yell at people but I wanted
so badly to give this woman a piece of my mind. How could she say that I mean
really! Raylyn just sat in her office and told her it was so bad he has tried
to kill himself many times just so he wouldn’t have to put up with it any
longer. So we left seeing as they wouldn’t do anything for him and went back to
school. Well it’s not long before his mom finds out what he did since DHR
called to make her aware of her sons “suicidal state”, yeah because that’s the
big problem, right? You would think the lady at DHR would have enough sense to
know that when a kid comes in her office to tell her he is being abused by his
parents and they don’t know he came to talk to her to not call his parents
since it would make the situation worse, you would think but I guess not.
Raylyn at this point never wants to go home again since he knows what is going
to happen when he gets home. So with me being afraid that it’s going to get
worse I go to my best friend since she knows everything and we, along with Raylyn,
came up with a plan to run away. No I wasn’t the biggest fan of this idea, I
had no reason to be running away, I’ve never even thought about running away
but I couldn’t let Raylyn go back to that place. This was our only hope.
