Rapid Days Behind the Bars of Life

Chapter 6

Okay, this is serious. It's been 5 days and still nothing on Kaiwa. I have to find out what's going on, I don't even know why I waited so long anyway.

It's a Saturday and I don't want to be home with my mom, Lidia and Ana, her girlfriend from hell who wants me to call her mom, which is not happening. Not even in a million lifetimes, she's my moms girlfriend not my mom. Regardless of the fact that they are thinking about marriage and I'm soon to have two moms.

I could just go to Kaiwa's house.

I'm driving and I start thinking of all the possible reasons that could have landed Kaiwa in her situation. I'm thinking she got busted for using a drug, maybe meth. Oh who am I kidding, Kaiwa's not into that. She has a strict rule of weed only and some occasional ecstasy or Xanax but no meth type of shit. Those get you seriously messed up.

I've finally reached Kaiwa's house, I've been here so many times. Enough times to catch up on the fact that her parents don't really like me. Clearly, they think I'm a bad influence on her. To be fair they are right. After all, I did get her to try weed, I took her to her first party and she lost her virginity to me, and they know that because her mom walked in on us while we were doing it. We were supposed to be studying so I don't blame them for not liking me. This happened last year, freshman year. We were studying for our sex-ed quiz and I guess we decided to experiment. Thank you science class.

Anyway, I rung the bell, and her dad opens the door. Wow he's so excited to see me, and you can tell by the way his face completely became straight when he saw it was me at the door. I guess I was the last person he expected to show up at their door.

"Uhh, hello sir"

"That's Mr. Young to you" he said with a stern voice.

"Right, uhh I was wondering um...how's Kaiwa?...Uhh the last time I saw her she-"

"She's fine" He said cutting me off

"Well, it's just that she hasn't been in school, and I saw her last, getting escorted by you and cops and dogs and I'm just worried about her."

"It's really none of your business Mr. Winston"

He never calls me by my first name.

"It is my business sir, she's my friend and I'm genuinely worried about her. Could you please just let me see her? Please" Wow, I found myself on the brink of tears.

Mr. Young was about to speak but then Kaiwa came down and when she saw me, she pushed past him and hugged me.

"Kaiwa, this is absurd. Go back up now!" Mr. Young exclaimed.

"No dad, he came to see me and you are not going to drive him away. You've kept me locked up in this house, you took away my phone and laptop, the least you can do is let me have visitors."

"The least I could do? The least you could do was not get-" He stopped himself, wiped his face with his palms, took a deep breath and said, "You have less than 20 minutes."

To save me from this awkward position, Kaiwa grabbed my hand and took me upstairs to her room, without looking back at her dad, or even saying thanks.

I haven't been up to her room in a long time, it looks different. Messier in fact.

Her closet door, had a sweater hanging on it. Her bed looked like it hadn't been made in days, her comforter was more on the floor than it was on the bed. There were three pillows on the floor, her little circle shaped black furry rug was folded in half and on a corner of the room instead of the center.

I could keep going but it's a waste of time.

"So, what's going on dude? Did you do something bad?" I asked as I threw myself on her bed. Despite how messy it was, it did smell really nice.