Thinking about becoming a vegetarian, what do you think? This goes to BeVegan2SaveTheWorld for somehow being a vegan.
Kind of a boring chapter...
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Joes POV
Kevin is pushed into a police car, and we walk sadly into ours. My brain is being torn in half, one side occupied with Nick, the other with Kevin. I see Kevin turn and put his hand-cuffed hands on the window behind him, looking at us. He tries to smile and mouth 'it's okay.' But all I can see is him putting his hand to the window and mouthing 'help.'
I turn and hold Robins hand. She insisted on riding back with me so I could tell her what happened. I look into her eyes and play the painful video again, then the unforgettable conversation runs through my head. She nods and shows me a weak smile.
Everyone is trying to be so strong, small smiles and encouraging words. Even I do that, but none of it works, because nothing will ever be okay again.
Robin avoids my glance, when we do open think, her eyes wander, breaking the conversation. I don't know what is going on with her, she is acting so strange. But then again we all are acting strange. Who would not act strange, when they are put in the position that we are all in?
"Robin!" I think, when her eyes settle in mine, "Think to me. What is wrong?"
"Everything is wrong." She thinks, and I loose her focus.
We get Kevin as settled as he can be for the night, blankets from home, toothbrush and toothpaste, change of clothes. We want to give him a guitar, but they wont let him have that.
"I have already let you say past visiting hours already. Time for you to go home." A different officer by the name of Steve Vister tells us.
My Moms eyes, just recently stopped streaming with tears, start back up again as we walk away from the cells.
I wonder how Kevin will make it through the night. All alone, while his honeymoon plane leaves without him.
I wonder if there are rats, or was that just the olden days. Could he be standing on him bed right now trying to ward of a swarm of rats? I shudder and start to turn around. No there can't be rats, that must have been the olden days.
What if they find Kevin guilty? What if he is guilty? Even the thought that I consider it raises the hairs on my neck. I don't look anyone in the eyes, especially Robin.
In a majority voting, we decide Robin will bunk with Danielle tonight, so she does not have to go home so late.
As Danielle and Robin try to set up a bed in Danielle's room (she has one in our house) with shaky hands, my Dad pulls me into his underused office to talk.
"Joe, I need your help," my Dad says. For the first time I notice how old he looks. In just a few short months he has sprouted gray hairs on his head, his eyes are drooped and he walks with his shoulders hunched with the weight of the world.
"Yeah Dad?" I ask.
"You are the second man of the house now..." He says, his eyes telling me nothing but what I already know, sadness. But the responsibility of him coming to me and not Kevin is huge. He would always go to Kevin for help on something, such as checking his math when he paid the bills and telling us what to do when he is gone. I don't know if I like it, it just shows how things have changed, once again.
"Okay" I say, unsure of what he wants.
"We have a problem. How are we supposed to go to court, being on both sides of the line. We will need a lawyer for Kevin and Nick," he says, shaking his head.
I don't know what to say. He is right, we will need a lawyer for both, that's going to cost a lot. We will need a lawyer to defend Kevin, and one to go against Kevin.
"No, we only need one. We all know that Kevin didn't do it. So that is our stand. The state can provide for the other lawyer, against Kevin." I say.
"What if... never mind," he says, walking away. I know what he was going to say, what if it was Kevin. That is what I have been thinking too. But with all my heart I hope that it was not Kevin, but even my heart tells me I may be wrong.
I run to my room and kneel by my bed, at first I pray to God, yell at God, plea to God. Then I start praying to Nick...
Well New Years may not matter because I'm going on vacation too and may not have Internet access or access to the video and story if I do. Then again we may only go for a few days before Christmas which would suck for you mote. :)
JonasHouse09 2 years ago
I'm going to be a bad vegitarian. I will start with still eating chicken and I will still eat organic meat. And when we have soup for dinner I'm not going to make my parents make me a seperate soup, I'm just going to avoid the meat. I am mainly against giving animals corn so they have to be given dupliments which is bad for humans and the corn could feed the hungry. Plus the waste on factory farms is tremendous
JonasHouse09 2 years ago