Ashton:
The following week, I sat in a courtroom telling a jury, a judge, and several strangers about what little I could remember about that night in a stuffy, overheated club bathroom. The whole experience felt like someone had taken a cheese grader to my mental health, and that wasn't even the worst of it all. Standing along with everyone else as the honorable judge read off the guilty verdict, thinking that this was all over, only to find out that he would do no real time over this was the worst, most embarrassing part of it all.
"I sentence you to three months…"
I couldn't hear anything after finding out that I had convinced Arden to spare his son because there was more than enough evidence to convict his son of his heinous crime against me. Instead, as Arden predicted, Benjamin
