Take A Walk - Passion Pitt
It's been about a month or three since all the events that had happened. Toni's parents had stuck to their promise of shipping her off to her grandma's in the Eastern Cape. She has been gone for what feels like a lifetime, but has probably only been a couple of weeks. You see life is a little greyer when you're separated from your soul mate, but in my instant life is the darkest of greys.
Many things have played the role of the light white in my life. There aren't too many which is why the grey darkened, but they did their best and if it weren't for them I wouldn't have been there for much longer.
Both Siba and Alec were charged by our respective families, Toni's family charged Siba for assault and sexual relations with a minor. My family sued Alec for attempted sexual assault and sexual harassment. When I told what had happened, they were quite upset, more than that, but I knew that they never looked at me the same way after wards, for you see in these instances, the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth comes out, because if they don't then the tables might be turned on the victim and they end up paying for a crime they did not commit.
The legal system is weird in that aspect, but I was never too interested.
They both jailed because the two of them were both of age. Uncharacteristically, I felt bad for the two of them and almost wished I'd kept my mouth shut about the instances. I don't know how well jail resembles Orange is the New Black, but I still felt bad that they'd had their freedom ripped from them.
They had deserved it, but often times we don't get what we deserve anyways.
With time and love I came to accept what they'd done, none had life sentences, none of them would be there forever. I didn't think jail would teach them any lessons about doing what was right. Knowing Siba personally, I knew he'd either come out of jail gay or specialising in more crimes than he'd gotten into while in jail.
Probably both.
Alec I wasn't too sure, but the look on his face during the trial, was as illegible as a dictionary was to a baby. No one really had any interest in attempting to keep eye contact with him for long periods of time anyways. His face was haunting.
At the end of the trial neither of them even cried. They had stones hearts and broken tear ducts. They co-operated and were both lead out.
I still remember that day. I'd spent it with Terence, because he was paranoid that Alec would try something dumb in an attempt to hurt me. He came there to be my 'muscle' even though we both knew I didn't really need any. It was the day that we started hanging out more again, more than before.
Though my dad wasn't hot at all on the idea of Terence in my life again, even he thought that I should spend more time with him. He too thought it good that we were in each other's lives again, but only so that Terence could act as my defence of meat to vegetarian attackers. His words too, he'd been quite pleased with himself for coming up with something so 'witty' and 'cool'.
