Lowmans baby

Chapter two

The glass was cold, same with the whiskey it had in it. I was ordered by Juan to sit at this bar top while he tries to convince the rest of his club to let me stay in a spare room for a while. I wasn't gonna lie I was nervous, I needed this desperately if I don't then I could not be able to go to school.

My eyes kept darting around the room trying to find something to distract me, I got up and started searching. An old pool table with scuff marks from previous party nights covered the green felt, I was gonna sit down in my seat when a brick wall covered in portraits caught my eye.

I walked close until I stood right in front of all the pictures, but instead of just it being portraits with friends or family, they were mug shots. Everyone I had saw in the body shop earlier this morning was on this wall, each person being charged with different things disorderly conduct, drug possession, prostitution, even murder.

Any kind of law that the police had were broken at least once or twice judging by the pictures. I scanned through the pictures until I saw the two men that had greeted me earlier at the shop, I looked at the tall man that helped me, Harry 'Opie' Winston charge: domestic violence. I'm not sure why but I was taken back by this, by how nice and kind he seemed to me in the shop he didn't seem like he could hurt a fly in my opinion.

A couple frames down I noticed the guy that was hitting on me outside of the shop with the Opie guy, Alexander 'Tig' Trager charge: Possession of drugs , now I wasn't that surprised by this. I looked away from all the pictures when I heard the door  beside me open and Juan stuck his head out and looked around the room until he saw me "uh they wanna speak with you" he stuck his head back in and I followed into a small little rectangular room with only a long table and a couple of chairs in it.

I looked around and felt so out in the open, there eyes seemed so piercing with everyone staring at me, I gave a tiny smile to hope that maybe it would boost my confidence but it didn't. "Alright guys, I wanna talk to her alone" the man at the end of the table spoke, everyone got up except for him and left us in the room together.

He seemed rather intimidating to me, his hair was white from age and his smirk could kill, and not in a good way, he looked to as if be at least 40 or 50. "Sit down, I don't bite" he gestured to the seat next to him, I sat down and twiddled with my fingers waiting for him to say something "look, you don't have to let me stay here, I can argue with the school board maybe I can change something" I reasoned "who said that I wasn't gonna let you stay?" He asked.

"What's your name sweetheart?" He asked "Talia Ortiz" I said "well, Talia, why do you need to stay here anyway?" He asked "something happened at my other college, long story short I got kicked out and the only way for me to attend college is if I stay with a relative for 6 months while attending" I explained.       " what did you do that was so bad" he rested his elbow on the table and watched my every move "to be completely honest I have no idea, the last thing I could remember about the night before was that I got really drunk and that we were walking back to the campus" I paused for a second "I don't remember anything else and they won't tell me because they believe that I do know what I did"

The whole story seemed rather odd out loud now "I'll pay rent, or I'll help out around here, just please" I leaned forward on the table "this is the only thing I got left" I pleaded to him. He rolled his eyes but looked back at me again, I could tell just by his face that he had sympathy for me, maybe even a soft spot. He leaned forward towards me and I leaned back as he pointed a finger at my face "you go to school everyday, get your grades up, and help out around here and I will let you stay" I felt over joyed I wanted to cry and scream all at the same time.

"Yeah of course I will, thank you" I couldn't help but let a smile appear on my face "don't make me regret it ok" he said "ok" I giggled. We got up and walked out of the room with the man who I assumed was Clay and went into the bar section "welcome to Samcrow Talia" he whispered in my ear then walked away.

Juan came up to me "so?" He questioned "I can stay" I said with the big dumb grin coming back onto my face "that's great!" Juan yelled "Juice be a good boy and take Talia to any empty room down the hall will ya" Clay yelled from the bar "you got it" Juan yelled back.

Juice, huh, I like it.