A Moment, A Bad Decision, A Sister, Manning Up

College caught me totally unprepared. I felt I was the big man on campus, confess thst was with my hometown high school crowd. On campus I was invisible. Over Christmas break of my freshman year I got way too friendly with my tenth grade sister's best friend. I had full sex to completion with her. I went back to campus with fear and regret. The girl facing the worst outcome imaginable.

I drove home that weekend, went to her house with my sister and confessed to statutory r**e. Her family was visibly upset, the girls life changed forever. Pregnant, sixteen, tenth grade. Rather than going the legal route we got married and I returned to college. She stayed with her family, the baby came and everyone chipped in, especially my sister.

Marriage, living in marriage, was a long hard path. We were not in love, far from it. Resentment on both sides. My sister kept us together. Our son, number one son, is now 21. We've settled in for life's marathon run.