A man has after he refused to donate a kidney to his sister, who is on her deathbed because she married his high school tormentor. The 35-year-old shared his story of being "bullied severely" in school over his sexuality and now faces the bully at every family event since his sister married him. He detailed his ordeal on : "When I was in high school, I was bullied severely by Darren*.
I won't go into the details, but it was really bad, past the point of typical high school douchebaggery. In my sophomore year, I made the mistake of coming out to one of my friends, who promptly spread this information around the school." "Before this, Darren and wearing glasses and had done this to a couple of other kids as well, but after I was outed it was only me, and only because of my sexuality.
" He managed to leave those painful memories behind when he went off to college, where he found a new circle of friends and even a boyfriend. However, his past came back to haunt him when his sister, Ellie*, brought home her new boyfriend, Darren, during a family holiday. He recounted: "No joke, the first thing he said when he saw me was 'Damn Ellie, you didn't tell me your brother's a ***'" To his dismay, Ellie, along with their father, laughed at the comment.
Shocked and hurt, he chose not to engage in a confrontation and simply walked away. "After the fact, my family tried to play it off as Darren was joking because he was nervous meeting the family, and they told me that he and Ellie were seriou.
