It's A Thug Thing

Chapter 87

Ariel

This is bullshit. They holding me in this dirty ass jail till my court hearing. "Warren, you got visitors" One of the C.O's say coming to my cell. She opens it and I follow her down to the visitation room.

I see my parents sitting there with a lawyer. I sit down and wave. "Hey"

"Wassup" My Dad says in the same tone making me laugh. "You good in here?" He asks.

I shrug. "I usually just draw or play basketball when we go out" I answer. "So what's the bad news?" I ask.

"Why you gotta assume it's bad?" Ma asks.

"Ma, you look like you've been crying for hours" I say looking at her. "And you're still crying"

She sniffles and wipes her face. "I'm not crying" She says. I just look at her then at my lawyer.

"So what's up?" I ask.

"Your court date is this upcoming Friday at 10:30, they won't let your dad take the charge cause it seems all the evidence points to you, and with the victim still being in a coma, this won't be a juvenile offense, they're gonna take take this to adult court" She says. "Which means you're looking at about 1 year in prison"

My jaw drops. "How the fuck you expect my small ass to survive in prison?" I ask. "I ain't even do the shit" I say.

"The officers won't let us get anymore evidence or more time to investigate,  for some reason they're set on putting this all on you" My lawyer says. She slides my mom a file and smiles small before leaving. Fuck is yo bald headed ass smiling for?

"We were gonna wait till your birthday, but here" Ma says sliding me the file. I open it and read everything. "If we can't do shit else, you gone graduate this year for sure" Dad says.

"Ion even care anymore" I say shrugging. "What's the point when they gone take my scholarships cause of this?" I ask. "I wanted to play basketball, I can't play, and I'm not having thousands of dollars spent to send me to some whack ass school if I can't play ball" I rant.

"Do the shit Ariel, I'm gonna handle everything out here, I promise" My Dad says. He whispers to my mom and she nods. She gets up and hugs me. I hug her back and she kisses my forehead.

"I love you" She says.

"I love you too Ma" I say giving her a squeeze. I let go and she leaves out.

I look at my dad and his face is blank. Which usually means he has mixed feelings. "I'm not mad at you" I say clearing that up. "He wanted me here cause Christian halfway dead" I add.

"But that shit ain't on you, I put him there, but it's cool, cause I'm bout to cause hell" He says in a weird way. It catches me off guard and I'm kind of scared.

"I love you Ariel and I'm proud of you" He says.

"I love you too and thanks" I say.

"You get one more visitation which is Wednesday, I'll bring your brothers, Leah, and Mila" He says. "Tamia is coming after us"

"Okay" I say. "I'll see y'all later" I add. I hug him and he kisses my forehead. He leaves out and I get escorted back to my cell.

Tamia

"Ma, I can't" I say walking in my bathroom.

"Why not?" She asks yelling in my ear.

I sit my phone down and put it on speaker. "Cause Ariel has court Friday, and I gotta go" I say. I start straightening my hair.

We're going to eat today but she wanted me to watch Ty Thursday.

"I forgot, tell me how that goes, when did all this happen?" She asks.