Believing In Blair

9. rivalry and stand offs

Dear Blair,

We need your help more than you think. You're actually important to us. I have no idea what to do

Don't leave him stranded...please.

Regards,
A friend

Friday
01/12/18
7:45

I haven't been in school in three days. I've been bed bound and incapable of bringing myself to life as I was severely sleep deprived.

Gran was quick to notice my change of character and immediately set up a three hour appointment with my therapist the next morning and got me on another strict set of medications. She thought this freak switch in my mood was due to it being a year since mama, but it wasn't. It was all Mackenzie.

I'm still having the reoccurring dream of her, the burning up car, the screaming, me being immobile and stuck to the concrete, but each time I feel her hand touch my shoulder and when I turn to look, I wake. The only glimpse I get from her is the olive skin tone, the yellow nail polish and the dark brown, almost black hair.

I can't get past that exact moment, maybe I'm not ready yet, but I need to know.

It's now Friday and I'm on the bus, I feel like I've missed a whole month of school. I felt more unsettled than usual, maybe it's because I've an economics test this morning. You'd think just by looking at me that I was that person that stayed up all night studying for a test the next day. I did stay up all night, but it wasn't studying I was doing.

I was reading articles upon articles on Montgomery Atkinson and about his murder trial. I've been doing it every night since he arrived Monday. I went to obsessing over Mackenzie to digging up on Monty's past. It's not the best change, but a least it's not like Monty involves me.

The occurrence of Yohan Downtinegro's death happened on the 6th of July two years ago. He was just twenty when he was brutally shot and left to die alone in the cornfield owned by the very own family.

Monty was just fifteen and was charged for his death early the following morning. The trial began in two months. He plead not guilty, denying the advice from his lawyers to plead guilty. Monty and his family had fired three lawyers that were representing him one after the other.

It came as no surprise to the public when he lost the trial and was locked up in Juvie. Months later his Mother overdosed and weeks following his little sister committed suicide. Monty was denied release to attend both their funerals. He was sixteen and his entire family gone. 

His father Jeremiah Atkinson hasn't been present in Monty's life since the age of eight. Didn't even go to his son's trial. He didn't want the press to be bothering him, but he did make a statement staying that he always knew Monty was sick in the head and would grow up to do bad things. His father did nothing to help him.

But no matter how far I dug into the past there is nothing about how Monty got out, how he managed to get a retrial, who represented him. It was all undercover and out of the public eye. No one even knows how long ago the trial was. Just that he spent a year in military school after he got out. He was out for an entire year and nobody in Trinity knew. It's scary how the world works.

What's interesting is that Mr. Julian Sinclair stayed well away from the trial. Julian's father wasn't only a great business man who also worked with racehorses, but he was a criminal defense lawyer, too, and very good at his job as I've heard. He rarely loses a case. If he had represented Montgomery he would of won the trial for him, but there was one major problem. He would of been going against the accusation which were the Downtinegro's. Jo and Julian could have been dating at that time, the early days of there long two year relationship.