No One Understands

Chapter 21

Someone was shaking me awake, I rubbed my eye and looked to see my mom standing there. I yawned and got up

"Yes mom," I said

"Get up, the court hearing is in two hours and if they" she pointed to all the sleeping bodies "Are coming, then you have to get dressed"

I nodded and walked to my closet. I got out something that was professional, then I went into the bathroom, brushed my teeth and washed my face. I put hair in a tight bun and put on the outfit (LINK)  I walked out of the room and downstairs to the living room, my mom looked at me and smiled

"Well don't you look cute," she said

"Thanks, where is everyone else?" I asked

"Where do people go when they just wake up beside the bathroom?" she said

I laughed and walked to the kitchen, they all looked at me "Well don't you look like a little lawyer" Cass said

"Thanks, you guys ready to get this over with?" I said

They all nodded, then I grabbed an apple and my mom and I had to take both our cars, so we all hopped in and I followed my mom to the courthouse. Once we got there and parked, we got out and my mom walked over to what I'm guessing is the lawyer for our side. She didn't seem very convincing

"Is this your first class battle?" I asked

"Yea, my boss thought it would be a good idea to do a big one like this," she said

I shook my head and took a deep long breath, we walked inside and my father was sitting on one side of the judge and I had to seat on the other side.

"All rise for the judge" we all stood and the judge came out

"You may be seated, now I hear that we have two cases in one time. This is going to be interesting, let's start with the recent one" he said

The other lawyer stood "Your honor, if we may, we would like to have Ms. Lacey take the stand" he said

"Go ahead" I stood up and walked to the stand, once I said the oath I took a seat

"So Ms. Lacey please tell the jury why you shot your boyfriend?" he asked

I stayed calm "I didn't shoot my boyfriend, my father and I were fighting over a gun and it went off," I said

"What happened that day then?" he asked

I took a deep breath "I got a call from my mother saying I need to get home quickly, I asked why, but before she could answer she screamed, so I took off running all the way home, once I get there the front door was knocked in. I ran up to my mother's room to find her tied to her bed, my father comes out from behind the door, I ask him why he's torturing us, but all he does is a laugh. I see he left the gun lying at the bottom of the bed and I go for it, then we struggle for it, then I see Marcus at the corner of my eye and I lose focus, then..."

"But how did he know you were gonna be at home"

"He must have followed me home in my car"

"So then what happened?"

"My dad pulls on the gun and it fires, we look around until I see Marcus lying on the ground. I run over to him and stop the bleeding, then I call 911 and they come. I was thinking about killing my father right then and there, but I didn't I told him he'd be better off being some cellmates bitch" I said

"So you pointed the gun at your father?" he asks

"Yes, I did"

"Why?" he asked