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• Chapter fifty-nine: Comtemplation

Contemplation

Laying in bed, I contemplate.

I contemplate two things: Going to confront Luke Maddison and his treatment of my sister, and going to visit Alex's dad in prison in hopes to get the answer that Alex was looking for but didn't get.

There's a downside to both, which are similar. Aggravating the person's anger and making the situation worse. It's not really my place to go and visit either people, but they hurt two of the people I love most in this world, and I feel as though all I've been doing is watch it happen. I feel a strong urge to get involved and I can't shake it off.

I reach over to my phone to search some things up, only to find it hasn't been charging overnight and is completely out of battery.

So, I get out of bed, Alex still sleeping as it is only half past seven in the morning, and go into the living room of his apartment to grab his laptop which is always left in one of the drawer of the coffee table. I open it, type in the password, and click onto Google, searching: How to visit someone in prison Massachusetts.

The first thing I see is from Mass.Gov. In a box before I even have to click on the website, it reads "They must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian that has physical custody and who is on the inmate's pre-approved visiting list. An adult who is not the parent or guardian having physical custody of the minor must submit a completed Minor Consent Form and obtain the Superintendent's approval before visiting." 

No hope for me, then, seeing as I am a minor.

Still, I click on the website to read more and I find that it says that if you're an adult, you have to be on a pre-approved visiting list, and if you're a minor, you need to be accompanied by an adult on the visiting list. I'm guessing Jasmin completed a Minor Consent Form and went with Alex when he visited his dad. But wasn't it a last minute decision? This doesn't seem like it takes just a few minutes to do. Or maybe it does. I wouldn't know.

I go onto another website. This one says pretty much the same as the first website, but also that Alex would need his birth certificate with him. I know that he his. I remember him taking it when we were packing up his things the day he got kicked out. It's etched in my mind, for some reason. I recall him saying, "If I don't have parents who give a shit about me, I guess I'm going to need this to do things myself." I'm not sure they know that he has it, but I'm quite certain that if Alex needed it for any reason, they wouldn't have given it to him if they did, which is why he took it.

So I can't go and visit Alex's dad, fine, but how will he get his answer? As his boyfriend, I feel a calling for me to go and find it myself. I want to know why Mr Montgomery chose to be this way towards his son and wife almost as much as Alex does. But I don't know how.

That's until I see, after I scroll down on a website, that you can send letters to prisoners.

I sit here for a while, back to contemplation. Should I write a letter? If so, should I tell Alex? If I don't and he finds out, would he get mad? Would Mr Montgomery even write back to me?