The Bad Boy Next Room (Charlie and Taylor)

"My mother began suspecting Amber, but I really liked her then and fought for her.

I told my mom that Amber would never do such a thing. I even left home for two weeks, resulting in another headline suggesting Grandpa was losing grip on his family."noveldrama

"So, it was all Amber?" Charlie asked, turning to him with concern.

"Unfortunately, my mom was correct. Some information, even I willingly gave her," Taylor said, his voice breaking in and out as if ashamed to admit it. "I completely missed the signs."

"Well, you were in high school," Charlie said. "You're allowed to make mistakes."

Then, out of nowhere, Taylor's face reddened. He kept gulping and heaving until he said, "She caused us to fight as a family, and then, the worst part was how she humiliated Tristan."

His hand balled into fists, recounting, "A video suddenly surfaced on the internet. It was a video of Tristan touching a girl's breasts and ass. The girl was wearing clothes, but the fact he acted that way made headlines that suggested the Governor's grandson was guilty of sexual assault."

"The girl's face was blurred out in that video, but I instantly recognized it as Amber. I knew her body after all. Then, the video was recorded at school." Taylor shook his head. With his eyes closed, he ran his fingers through his hair, saying, "I can't even begin to describe the amount of humiliation Tristan went through. Some, he understood, some he didn't."

"Tristan was going to the same school as me, and his classmates called him a maniac. Girls his age began fearing him. Mothers at school started to complain about Tristan."

"And my brother, he did not understand. He kept asking me what wrong he did? I remember how Tristan banged his head on the wall because he was worried he did something wrong." Taylor's eyes brimmed with tears as he described, "That was probably the most painful part. We've given Tristan so much love. We never thought he would hurt himself."

"It took my grandfather's team twenty-four hours to take down the source of the video, but the damage was already done. My grandfather had been called names on the internet, some even requesting him to step down."

"You could say that it was a dramatic few days, but thankfully, I easily identified Amber. We confronted her, my family and I, and she denied it at first, but there was one thing she didn't understand about people with ASD, which is that they barely lie!"

Taylor explained to Charlie, "Many individuals with autism have a very literal way of thinking and may not

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grasp the nuances of sit

exaggeration or bending the truth. Kids like Tristan thrive on structure, order, and rules. Lying is often seen as breaking these rules."

"So, no matter how Amber twisted the truth, we believed Tristan!" Taylor concluded.

"And what exactly happened?" Charlie asked.

"Amber told Tristan that they were recording a science project and that he was supposed to touch her breast and butt as a way to identify her body parts," Taylor said. "And that makes sense because my brother has difficulty understanding malicious intent!"

"So, my grandfather focused on investigating Amber and her family, and we eventually discovered that my Grandpa's political rival had

was to slowly infiltrate the Carrington home and smear Grandpa's name," Taylor said. “Amber was not a high school student. She simply looked young. Apparently, she was already twenty-two years old."

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"We also identified where she took Tristan to make the recording, and thankfully,

there was a CCTV across from it. It was from a distance, but it captured how

Amber was clearly instructing Tristan."

"But whether you believe it or not, we didn't care about the position, even Grandpa. We were more hurt that Tristan was used in their scheme, and we were most angry about the how he

fact that he didn't realite

was manipulated." Taylor sniffed back the tears that were threatening to fall. With regret laced in his voice, he said, “I blamed myself for it, Charlie. I honestly did. And for months, my mom ignored me too. I hurt my own brother."

Overcome with emotion, Charlie couldn't hold back her tears. She felt Taylor's

pain. She hugged him, saying, "It wasn't your fault, Taylor. It was a cruel scheme from the start. Sometimes, politics is just so dirty."