the prettyway // a PRETTYMUCH fanfic

~62~

el:
*a few days later: trial*

i'm tired of hearing nathan's bullshit. why can't he just be proven guilty? i don't understand.

"honey, can you please tell us why el came inside our house?" his mom asks.

"because she needed to get her grade up in history," nathan responds. that is most certainly true, finally something true.

"okay, were you and miss honoret in a position to have sex?"

"yes, but we didn't."

"then why is she accusing you for something so major?"

"i don't know. the only reason i can think of is because we like each other and we had sexual interactions, but not sex. but she wanted it to be a secret from her boyfriend who's a psychopath. i wanted to leave her, which i did, but she didn't like it."

excuse me? what the fuck? that's not even close to what the hell happened. i turn around to look at the boys, anger fills their face.

"lastly, did you rape miss honoret?" his mom asks.

"no i did not," he states. i can hear the evil tone deep within that line.

it's my turn, his mom is about to question me.

"did you go to our house to get your grade up for history?"

"yes."

"did you have sexual interactions with my son?"

"most definitely not."

"why did you agree to study at our house, knowing it would just be the both of you?"

"correction, i didn't know it was just going to be just the two of us until i got dropped off at your and i agreed because i needed to get my grade up."

"no more further questions your honor."

i go back to sit down next to darcy.

"excuse me your honor, but my client has some evidence as to why the defendant might do such a thing," darcy states.

she automatically looks at me and signals me to do something. i'm so confused as to what she wants me to do.

"what?" i whisper.

"the evidence," she nudges.

OH SHIT! i forgot to print out our dms. i wasn't really thinking about the case the past few days. damn i'm an idiot.

"i forgot," i hesitate.

"where is the evidence?" judge martin asks.

darcy turns around to face judge martin, "excuse me your honor, but can my client use her cell phone to present the evidence."

not knowing what type of evidence it is the judge gives me a chance to show him evidence through my phone. i open the phone and go through my camera roll. i accidentally go past all the screenshots and a video that i've never seen intrigues me. i go to click on it and it was recorded the day of my attempted rape. confused, i play it and place it next to my ear where only i can hear it.

"excuse me miss honoret, what are you doing?" judge martin asks.

i pause the audio and respond with, "i'm trying to figure out if this is the correct piece of evidence."

i play it again and tears start to roll down my face. darcy looks at me, concerned, not knowing what's going on. no one knows what's going on.

i stand up and wipe away my tears, "i found my evidence."

i hand darcy my phone to present the evidence to judge martin. she is still confused as to what is happening, but she just goes along with it. she makes her way to the front and plays it with the volume all the way up:
el, injuring your ankle was intentional. i made that happen, i know my way around soccer, i know how people injure their ankles. i knew you were going to be gone for a week and i knew dr. ross was going to give that much work. you were supposed to take the work home, but i convinced dr. ross to keep all the work you needed to catch up on to tutor you and he agreed. i knew you wouldn't be fully healed by the time you had to have all your work finished so i took advantage of that. i always wanted to have a taste of you, i knew you wouldn't let me so i had to all that.

we have this case, we won this case for sure. i turn around to look at the boys and they look so happy. i look to see darcy and she looks so relieved. but i turn to look at nathan and his mom, they look so defeated. his mom looks so disgusted.

"and who's voice is that? none other than the defendant, your honor."

...

"jurors, what has your decision come to?" judge martin asks.

one woman stands up, "the defendant is proven guilty as charged."

"very well. i hereby declare, nathan wright guilty as charged," judge martin states.

wow, this is the first time nathan's mom didn't win a case and this is especially sad because she lost to a 15 year old girl. the officers cuff up nathan. nathan will be serving three years at juvie, not prison because he isn't of age yet. but i'll take anything i get.

his mom starts to cry and she approaches me. "i'm so sorry honey. i did not think my baby would do that. i'm sorry, but i had to protect him. he told me multiple times that he did not  rape you and that you wanted to have a case because you hated him i'm so sorry, my husband and i are going to repay you," nathan's mom states.

"it's okay, you didn't expect that out of your son and him serving his time is my award. i'll just let the law take care of him."

she gives me a hug and nods, then walks away.

i run up to the boys with tears of joy. they are all very happy too. i might've not locked up nathan for all his life, but enough time, hoping he can change his ways. i don't wish anything bad happening to him and i don't hate him. but if something does happen to him, that's what's meant to happen to him.