Trouble

04

"So do you want to give the boy his food or do I?" My dad asks.

"I can." I say grabbing both me and Robbys food. I walk over to unit 5 and walk into the wreck room where Robby was. I look inside and see Robby sitting alone, guarding his food with one of his arms next to the bowl.

I walk over to him and put his bag of food down next to him. "You like Taco Bell?"

He looks at me and nods blankly. "Thanks" he says taking the bag. I grab the bowl from in front of Robby and put it in front of another boy at a different table.

"Yeah, I know food in here is shit. Slowly getting used to this place works best." I say sitting down and unwrapping one of my tacos.

"How come your doing all this for me?" Robby asks.

"Well I may or may not have gotten a hold of all your records. Parents are divorced alcoholics, run away teen. Basic shit in here" I tell him. He just kind of nods off and continues eating. "Tell me about Sam."

He looks up to me again and frowns his eyebrows. "Sam is my ex. She cheated, and the other girl that was dating the dude she kissed flipped out and started the fight"

"Wrong place wrong time?" I ask. He nods.

"You know, I'm happy I'm able to talk to you here Izzy" Robby says.

"Me too. I'm also happy I didn't just meet rich assholes in this town" I say smiling.

"What school are you going to go to?" Robby asks.

"West valley. And I know that's where the fight was" I say standing up and throwing away our wrappers. "I'll see you before lights out" I say walking out of the room.
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"What time are we leaving?" I ask my dad.

"Midnight. Trust me, I won't be working this late much longer" my dad says.

"Izzy, do you want to go with me to announce visitation?" My dads coworker, officer Jones asks. I agree and we walk down to the first room of bunks.

"All right, listen up. Visitation tomorrow." His voice rang. "Velasquez, Binder, Espinoza, Keene"

I look up over to Robby, whos head shot up. Jones takes the clipboard from me and he walks out.

"Did it say who's visiting me?" Robby asks.

"I think it said, Lawrence or something like that, Who's that?" I ask.

"He's my dad. He cares more about Miguel than me"

"Miguel Diaz, broken spine, paralyzed" I say to myself but Robby heard.

"Miguel's paralyzed?" Robby asks with wide eyes.

"Yeah, but he's getting better." I say putting my hand on his shoulder. "I'll try to keep you updated, yeah?"

"Sure, yeah thanks" Robby says. I walk outside and back over to my dad.

"Izzy, I can clock out around 11, and I don't have to come to work tomorrow!" My dad says raising his arms.

"Fun" I say trying to not sound rude.
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As soon as I got home I went upstairs to my room. When my head hit the pillow..I was out.

I wake up to my dad shaking me awake.

"Hey, I just wanted to let you know, me and Vivian are going out. We'll be back in a few hours" he says walking out. I sit up and rub my eyes to get me awake. I get out of bed and throw on some leggings and a white tank top. I throw my long hair into a pony tail and lace on my gym shoes.

I unlock my back door and walk out into the street. I start jogging down the block until I see a small park area. I run over to see a bunch of girls that look around my age hosting a car wash. I walk up to them and get a few weird looks from some of them.

"Hey" One of the girls say walking up to me. "Do you live around here?"

I looked at her long and hard. Something about her took me off guard.

"yeah, I just moved here a few days ago" I tell her.

"well, uh, do you want to help us? we could use a extra pair of hands and a extra sexy body" She asks.

"Sure. Why not" I say walking up with her to the group of other girls. "Hey, I never got your name"

"Oh I'm Sam." She says sticking out her hand for me to shake.

"I'm Izzy. So uh what do you want me to do?" I ask. Sam hands me a sponge and a rag, and points to a car pulling up.

"This is a charity event, we're trying to raise as much money as we can." Sam tells me.

"Okay, who or what for?"

"Miguel Diaz. He needs a surgery so we're raising the money for it" Sam says walking over to the car with me behind her.

I slide off my shirt, revealing my sports bra as Sam takes their money.

"I'm going to grab another sponge, be right back" Sam says walking away. I soak the sponge in a bucket of water Sam left over there and started wiping down the front windshield of the car when I saw the guys inside.

"Aw fuck" I say so loud I'm pretty sure everyone there heard me.

"What's wrong?" Sam asks running over

"It's Mason, and Owen" I say looking into the car in awe.

"Hey Bella" Mason says rolling down his window.

"What the hell are you doing here?" I ask, trying to hold back my emotions.

"You know I lived here Bella" Mason says throwing a hand out of the window.

"It's Izzy." I correct him.

"I'm sorry- who is this?" Sam asks again.

"I'm Mason, this is Owen." He says pointing to Owen. "I met... Izzy, apparently during-"

"Yeah, so Sam these are my old friends. What are you guys doing here?" I ask again.

"Well we're friends with Miguel and we wanted to help" Owen says leaning over so we could hear him.

"Here, keep the change, Bella." Mason says handing me a $50. "Nice build, by the way. You really worked on that upper body like you said you would."

Before I could think, my arm swung into the car and my hand clasped around Masons neck.

I quickly came to my scenes and let go, holding my hands behind my back.

"Go away, Mason." I say walking over to the other side of the parking lot, Sam close behind me.