He said he'd been named after his dad's old drinking buddy.

He said he'd been beaten all his childhood.

He said he was afraid to go home.

He cried real tears in the school office and said he needed another way out.

He said his dad couldn't know he had told.

He said he didn't eat when he was home.

He said he'd never hurt himself before.

Finally, he told them he'd been lying all but one time, but he said, "I'm not going to tell you which the lie was."

All it took was one phone call to find out Will's father had a best friend named William in his early twenties.