THE SCAR THAT NEVER BLED

|JUVIE VISIT|

November 4th 1977

After school Robin asked me if he wanted to hang out. Which I agreed to, well it was more like a sleepover anyway because.

The next morning I woke up to a door opening I flipped over and saw Robin coming in

"Mornin' curly" he chuckled

I smiled and said morning back

Call me weird but I felt comfortable with Robin by now. I felt safe in his presence.I felt like I could be myself without him judging

After we heard something hit the floor loudly, it sounded like a pan then a female's voice let out some swears. Robin's eyes widened as he went out there.

Then I heard the smoke alarm go off as I heard multiple voices argue in Spanish. I wanted to go out to see what was going on but i didn't know if they thought I was here. And seeing a girl walk out of Robin's room with no context...yeah not the smartest idea to do. And also I didn't wanna embarrass Robin by going out there

I get up from the bed, my heart skipped a beat as I jumped again because of another loud crash in the kitchen

'is somebody dying in there?'

I then looked down at Robin's sleeping bag on the ground and decided to pack it up. I rolled it up and I put it against the wall

A few moments later Robin came back in

"What happened?"

"Oh nothing"

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In the kitchen i see a grown man cooking up something. I didn't see him before when I walked with Robin home yesterday?.I turned to Robin giving him a 'who's that look' with a sort of scared expression to go with it

"This is Diego, my uncle, Diego this is Marliyn"

Diego shot me a quick smile before going back to cooking.Robin waved his hand, signaling that I should follow him to the living room.Where the tv was on playing Micky mouse cartoons.

There was Robin's older cousin, Vanessa,His younger half-sister Alondra,and his younger brother, Ernesto. Vanessa was sipping on a cup of something while sitting in the corner on a rocking chair.Alondra was sitting on a pillow on the ground criss-crossed watching the cartoons play along with Ernesto

Ernesto was quite the opposite from his brother.Ernesto had brown fluffed hair, glasses , soft brown eyes and this sweet look written all over face. And not may I mention made the honor roll list

"Morning kiddo" Robin says to Alondra as he rubs the top of her head walking past her

I sat on the other couch as Robin sat beside me.I put my legs up on the couch, while my chin rested on my knees. I turned my head to the window and noticed it was raining. I watched as the rain droplets fell and raced down the glass. Rain always made me think of Vance, thinking about Vance. I wondered if he was back from juvie yet?

While staring out the window I saw a black van speed by. The same van I saw that tried to take my life. I wrapped my arms around my legs and looked away from the window staring at the tv,and tried to block out the vision of the Van I still had swirling around my mind