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"What’s wrong? What truth?" I asked worriedly

Looking back down at me with an eerie empty face, he quietly said, "I was remanded into custody a couple weeks after you left I went through an initial hearing, then a second hearing, and I pled guilty to a fucking crime I didn’t commit Then I was sent off to amonths of my life"

Nineteen

It was as if so pain in my heart at this new revelation Confusion and shock were at the forefront of my emotions

"You went to prison?" I repeated "For… For what?"

"Trevon had been using round," Jaxon ain He had his eyes pinned on his clasped hands "I let hiotten evicted fro since Lexi had taken off with you, I assume" He looked up at me and I nodded

"Anyway, the police were tipped off and they flooded into the apartht and arrested both of us for possession of a deadly weapon There were two unregistered guns he’d stashed in the laundry closet, and then they discovered e cri dope on the side, it was the easiest case for the cop that arrested us had a real problem with me and of course it didn’t help I had a set And then suddenly there was a bag of heroine underobviously planted there Cops, I tell you They’re either good, or they’re out to get you" With a sigh, he rubbed his eyes and es"

"How do you know that? You could have"

He shot et out of that If I pled not guilty, then it’d have been an uphill battle trying to fight a bunch of charges that were virtually i to afford a good attorney? Mo at the tiuilty That’s what overnment appoint, I pled guilty and the judge sentenced ht there on the spot Three years at Winthrop Maxiht then and there to start my sentence"

I slid down the wall and onto the ground, haulingto wake up from this fucked up dream Prison? He’d been in prison all that time?

"Why did Lucinda tell Lexi that you were overseas?"