"Are you staying with your dad or still living with your mom?" Clarence asks.
"Staying at my dad's place for the week." I say back.
Honestly, I just wish I could live with my dad until the day I turn eighteen because I am tired of this fucking life.
"It is crazy that you gave him a black eye and he didn't press charges on you." He said.
"Yeah it is crazy but I know he would never hit me if I wasn't a minor because one he is married to my mom and two I feel like he think I could try to manipulate him."
"Wait would you?"
"Please I wish I could."
Clarence was about to say something but a voice interrupted him.
"Hey." Erika says.
"Hey look I was-"
"Sammy I don't really care about that anymore but are you okay?"
"Yeah I am fine, just had some family problems that is all."
The tone in that last sentence probably seems cold didn't it but I like how she seems worried I mean if she cares then that's a good thing.
I could see Clarence smirking at me and I rolled my eyes at him.
"Oh look at the time, there is somewhere that I needed to be." Clarence said.
"Like where?" I asks.
I know what he is doing and he is not slick.
His phone starts to ring so he left to answer it.
I turned around to see Cameron who was twelve feets away from me with his phone on his ears and as soon he saw me looking at him, he decided to act stupid and smirk at me before walking away.
"Your friends are really something." Erika says.
"Yep they definitely are." I says back.
**********
Francis's POV
"I see the black eye is still there." Scott said.
I rolled my eyes at him and just kept my focus on the files.
"I am not surprised you didn't press charges on him for punching well basically a police officer." He said.
"We were both mad at each other okay so I am not pressing charges on him."
I could had pressed charges on him but I didn't want to and it is a big deal knowing the fact that he might do it again.
"Okay but you know the kid would never respect you no matter how hard you tried."
"But anyway though you know the age difference right Francis, you are old enough to be his brother and he honestly doesn't see you as a stepdad."
"Yeah I know that Scott."
"On the other hand, he probably thinks you are using his mother for money."
I laughed at him and he gave me a look knowing that he is actually serious.
"I married his mom because of love not for money and besides I didn't give a shit that she was rich when I met her." I said.
"Yeah that is true but to him it probably not." He says back.
"If he did believe that wouldn't he try to find evidence on me saying that I am only with her because of her money."
"Yeah he would though but anyway I got more evidence on this suspect that we have been looking for."
"What is it."
Scott placed a plastic bag that had a gun and a hat in it on the table.
"Did you do a test if the DNA matched?"
"Yep it is the same person."
Scott hands me the file and as I scanned through it, I noticed something.
"Any relations to this guy?"
"Yeah got a sister and a mother but no father in the picture."
"Scott do you think they would have been part of this stuffs that he been doing?"
He shrugged his shoulders. "I don't think they do because they probably have no idea that he is robbing places for money."
"I just want to get this over with it and move on to another case."
"Yeah me too Francis."
