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“We have to get you up and s at my arms and pulls me into the bathroom
“I don’t feel like going anywhere Can’t you leave me alone?”
Maggie unzips her pink h the ite from under my sink and finds my foundation, then sets all of the products she plans to use on the counter “I don’t care how you feel! Asher gets one day for visitors How do you think he’ll feel if you don’t show up?"
“Asher can have visitors?” I ask through the fog If he can have visitors, then I can convince him to tell the truth It's not too late!
“Yes! Finally, I’h to you! Now hurry up and juot my work cut out for me with those dark circles
I runinvisible wrinkles, as I wait for the guard to call h in to iine what it must have been like for Asher
Before today, the only thing I knew about jail was froe-watched every incarceration documentary on Netflix I could find the last three hours, I realize that show portrayed the correctional systelasses
I stand, unable to sit any longer, and chew onroom is tiny White walls match the white tiles, plain and devoid of life The only color to keep your brain frorey cushioned chairs I pace the roo at the watch on my wrist every few steps
The door opens and I jue, clad in his police uniform, holds a clipboard “Elaine Walker?”
“That’s me!” I don’t bother to hide my excitement as I raise my hand and hustle across the room
“ID please”
I reach for my phone from my back pocket and push my cards up from the holder on my case I procure my driver's license then hand it over The man places it besidethe card back to me “This way, Miss”
My heart ravages e with each step The hallway I’ roohts cast an eerie yellow veil upon the to what? I don’t know Until finally stopping in front of the one I’ve been waiting for
The estures to a seat then says, “He’ll be out in a moment”
I nod and sit in front of the plexiglass divider that separates civilians from inmates I don’t knohat I expected, but I hoped we’d be in a big rooet repri I so desperately need I look around the roo for the door on the other side to open I’m the only visitor today and that breaks my heart Not for Asher, but for everyone else