Mental

Chapter 19- Everything that goes up comes down

"Hello Madeline, Im Mr.Nelson. I'm representing you on your case. Thank you for meeting me here today, i greatly appreciate it." He shook my hand as I walked in the room and sat down in front of his desk.

He was a short man but he looked tough. I was hoping he would be tough for me because these past 4 days since I first went to SVU have been an emotional rollercoaster going to hell.

"Thank you for taking this on." I smiled nervously looking around the room. Detective Marlotto and Kelly were there as well.

"So first things first, we got a lot of evidence from the scene that it happened. I knew we would. Frat guys don't ever clean up there mess. We collected the sheets and blood samples and pretty much everything i need to make a strong case. It's looking really good for you, Madeline." He gave me a confident smile as he arranged papers on his desk.

"His face was priceless when we showed up, Madeline. He looked like such a punk, I had no problem tackling him when he tried to run." Detective Marlotto which made me laugh a bit. I would have loved to see that.

"But you weren't wrong, he is definitely something. He had his daddy calling in everyone. And I mean everyone. But that doesn't matter cause we're going to be fine. Except for one thing. Our lead witness Harry Styles has quite the track record. I'm not too worried about it but if it goes south, it shouldn't hurt the case too bad." After that we just went over my statement and a few other things. The trial was in a few days and I was extremely nervous.

Mr.Nelson seemed to know what he was doing and he seemed to be very good at what he was doing so that was a lot of reassurance and I needed a ton of that.

Evan had gotten out on bail since he was brought in. It was a ridiculous amount of money they paid too, that was the only thing that made me uneasy. He hasn't been a problem so far and I hope it stays that way.

After I was done there I went over to Harry's house to talk to him for a bit. He always made me feel better and right now I wanted to cry and curl into a ball from all the stress. It had been really hard on him too. He was really nervous about it all and the fact that a lot of people were going to be in the court room. People who Harry didn't want them to know about all the things he has done. But, he's been coping. He's been smoking a lot of weed and giving me drunk calls after yet another bottle of his Francene's nice wines. But he was fine, we were all going to be fine.

I stood on the stoop and knocked on the door a few times and waited. I heard noise inside and I knew he was there probably doing something stupid. I wasn't judging. Whatever helps him cope.

"Hey." He opened the door with nothing but a blanket wrapped around his waist, a cigarette in his mouth and his hair was all messed up. "Uh,"

"Harry who is it?" Some girl leaned over the couch a blanket covering her chest. She seemed very familiar but I couldn't quite figure out where I had seen her before. She looked like a mess as well. "You got a girlfriend?"

"No, uh no. I do not. Uh, Madeline it's a really bad time. Is it an emergency?" He asked bouncing on his heels. Usually when he saw me he rushed me inside and made sure everything was okay. "Hello?"

"Uh, no. No, I'm fine. Sorry, I'll see you around." I turned around and left and he closed the door. A few seconds later I heard a loud squeal. He's just coping. Don't get upset.

I drove back to my house and went inside to find no one home. I sat in the living room for a while and watched nonsense shows even though my mind was a million other places. I heard a knock on the door and got up to open it. "Hey Louis." i smiled surprised to see him here.

"Hey babe, how are ya?" He came in and gave me a hug before we went and sat down on the couch.

"I'm alright, it's been really hectic." I gave a soft smile and he gave me a sympathetic look.