Sylvia- An American Crime

The Lies

Probably about a week later, we were in one of the girls bedrooms getting ready for a night out. Even though Jenny didn't wanna come, I still wanted to with Paula so I could meet her friends. 
"Johnny!" Shirley shouted when Johnny was messing with her toy bear.
"Stop that!" They both screamed and started hitting each other.
"I'm fifteen, I should be able to come." Stephanie said to Paula.
"Well, somebody's gotta play catch with the little ones." I said sarcastically while nudging Jenny sitting beside me.
"I wonder if Bradley's gonna be there." Paula said to herself in the mirror, and I looked over and gave her a look of disappointment. Quite frankly, after she told me her secret and that the father of her baby was married, I really didn't like him. 
"What are you gonna see tonight Stephanie?" Marie asked while she was doing Stephanie's hair.
"Well, they're not showing a movie Marie." Stephanie says.
"The only thing she'll be seeing is Coy's hand while she's pushing them away!" Paula shouted.
"I might not be pushing too long." Stephanie smirked, and I laughed.
"Yeah yeah princess priss, you'd scream if he breathed down your blouse." Paula yells.
"That's not true Paula, and you know it!" Stephanie yells back.
"Don't give Sylvia the wrong idea now." Stephanie whispers towards my direction. We sat in silence with Music and the sound of hair being brushed, and buttons clicking together until Shirley and Johnny finally continued their screaming fit.
"Look, I shoot his eye out." Johnny holds up the teddy bear with one button eye to Shirley.
"Why'd you do that?" Shirley whined and grabbed the bear.
"Johnny! get out of here!" Paula turned around to snap at him, and he held up a toy gun and pulled the trigger a few times at her face.
"You're dead." He whispered.
Finally, we got him out of the room and continued getting ready. 

About an hour later, we were sitting at the back of Coy's car. Everyone was drinking and smoking, except for Paula and me.
"God! This is crap!" Ted stands up.
"There's nothing ever to do in this shithole town!" He screamed.
"It ain't that bad Teddy!" Paula yelled out.
"Yeah, it is." Sally whispered sitting next to me, and we smiled.
"Hey!" Teddy shouted as he looked in the back window to see Stephanie and her boyfriend making out inside. But as they were caught, Coy smacked the back window and everyone laughed.
"I don't know about you.." Ted sits down next to his girlfriend and puts his arm around her.
"But I'm staying up all night tonight." He says.
"Your parents aren't gonna like that." She said as he exhaled his cigarette.
"They don't give a shit." He sighs.
"Do they?" She giggled, and Sally nodged me.
"You like it here?" She asked.
"Yeah, it's really nice." I smiled, but I heard someone's car pull up and Paula glanced over at it and grin.
"He's here." She whispers excitedly.
"I'll be right back." She says to me before hopping off.
"Maybe you shouldn't." I said trying to stop her, but she must've not heard me. I just sat there thinking about Paula and what she might be doing with Bradley, until Ricky Hobbs came out of nowhere.
"Hey!" He exclaimed from behind me.
"Ricky." I jumped.
"You shouldn't sneak up on girls like that." I turned out and grinned.
"Sorry." He lowers his head.
"Hey!" Teddy got Ricky's attention.
"The nursery is around the corner, might wanna get back before they miss you." He winked with his arm around this girl and she giggled.
"I brought some favors?" Ricky held up a brown paper bag shaped like a bottle.
"Give me some of that!" Teddy shouts and grabs the bottle out of his hand and chugs it. I didn't wanna sit there any longer and linger to smell alcohol and cigarettes, so I went to go find Paula. 

I tiptoed around to try and hear, that's when I heard their conversation around this back alley corner.
"You know Mama has been calling you trash, and I'm starting to believe it." Paula says.
"Well, you should listen to your Mama Paula, she knows best." He says in a sarcastic manner.
"You know you don't mean that." Paula looked like she was trying to kiss him, and he was rejecting it.
"Get off me!" He said a few times.
"It's just a kiss." Paula said, and he slams her against the wall and she screams.
"Stop it!" I screamed and walked out from around the corner I was spying at.
"Get the hell out of here, this is a private conversation." He says and continues to hurt her, and my blood was boiling inside watching her get hurt. I could not take this guy down, so I said the only thing on my mind that was bothering me and would hopefully get him to stop.
"She's pregnant!" I shouted, and he did stop.
"Don't try and pull that shit on me, you know it's not true." He said to Paula and she looked like she was gonna burst into tears.
"Stay away." He says to me as he walks past. 
I knew why Paula, so I tried apologizing to her, but she just said I was gonna pay for it and she ran away. I tried following, but Ricky was around the corner and he stopped me.
"Is everything okay?" He asks, but I was annoyed.
"Would you quit following me!" Was all that was on my mind.