Beyond the Shadows

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

At home I was calmed while being mad all at the same time.  I just didn't know if Joseph was right.  I thought it over about a million times yet I never really knew what to think.  It is just the way in math class I fell asleep because I bored my self with my mind, talking over and over.  I guess I have mixed feelings of my mom.  Well she always is inmy mind and I don't even know why.  She is in jail and I havent seen her since I was 8.  I lived with my dad ever since then and as long as I can remember she only wrote a few times in a couple of years.  I was miserable and needed to get something to eat to think on it.  

 "Dad!"  I shouted as I ran down the stairs.  I need something to eat, whats for dinner.  "I don't know maybe baked ziti."  I knew that he was going to make baked ziti, it was his favorite dish, there was no doubt about it.  So I walked to the pantry and grabbed a snack and hid it behind my back to get it upstairs without my dad seeing it.  Suddenly as a stepped on a lego the package crinkled and my father, who was all the way in the kitchen, heard it and said, "wait a minute, what do you have?"  "A pecan wheel."  I said very quietly.  "You know what I say about food upstairs,  but this time its okay because syou have been at school all day, just make sure you clean up okay?"  Okay!"  I shouted as I ran back up the stairs into my room.  I unwrapped it and turned on the TV.  It was some weird show on MTV.  I decided to call my mom because it was the time she gets to use the phone. 

"Hello, warden, I would like to speak to Sarah Fukaga." I said as the warden opened the cell door.  I heard the moan of the doors as it opened slowly, a sound I always hated to hear.  "Hey mom," I said.  I didn't really know what to say because I haven't really talked to her that much.  "I was just calling to see how you are and I wanted to see how man more days until you can get out and come and see us, me and dad I mean."  She paused before she answered and then she started.  " I am doing fine and by the I have 38 more days left, jail has done its time on me and I am ready to see you again."  I almost forgot, it had been a long time since she had got arrested for selling pain killers.  She was busted when it slipped out of her hand in the midst of an exchange.  I hadn't known f this until I saw her behind bars.  This was a terrible memory and wanted to get it ou of my head but there was a  barrier like I needed that memory or smething. "Mom that is great to here well I know you have to go because I can hear the warden in the background, but I will call you every day until you get out so love yo...." "Hold on before I go I need to tell you be careful, I need to tell you something but there is not time.  I will tell you when I can but now I must go.  You need to know abot your family tree.  Goodbye."

What did she mean need to know about your family tree. It must be serious becaue she cut me off for it and she has never done that.  It was just weird so I decided to do some research. 

And that is when I found out.

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