If you read my last post I briefly mentioned my friend Andrew. Before I start I want to explain our friendship. Before I lived at my grandparents I lived at an apartment complex named Royal Oak Gardens which is a "ghetto" that most people call The Gardens. There I was pretty secluded because there wasn't many white people. Not to say that I'm racist but most of the people that lived there were and didn't like me. Now don't get me wrong I had plenty of friends most of which were black but one of my white friends was Andrew. We didn't really hang out much he was more friends with my other brothers. Well long story short we moved out and we didn't see each other for a while.
Now lets fast forward through my grandparents house and a couple weeks before we moved out of the trailer park. Me and my other friend Josh was riding bikes to his dad's house and we stopped by the store. Josh went in and I stayed out and what do you know a familiar face rode right by me. I looked at him and realized that it was Andrew. We talked a little bit and when Josh came out I introduced him to Andrew and then we took him back to my house to "surprise" Daniel. After this we hung out a lot up until we moved out.
After hanging out with Andrew for a couple of days he mentioned he had a court date. It was for two counts of felony arson. Both fires were at different times at the same house and were both very small. He told me the first was an accident but the second his friend suckered him into it. Although his friend was present at both fires. After about a week or two of hanging out with him he told me he wanted me to come to his court date with him. Of course I agreed.
On the day of the court date me, him, and three of his family members drove out to the courthouse. We went through security then waited upstairs for court to start. His name is Andrew Cook so he was like the third name to be called. At the same time the other other kid that was with was called up at the same time. The other kid claimed to only be present for one of the fires which is untrue of course which gave him only one count of felony arson. This court date was just stating the charges and the punishment would be set the next court date. After this Andrew had to talk alone with his attorney. While he was doing that me and his family stayed outside and talked to his alternate detention officer. Which is someone that gave him a curfew and he had to call everyday on his curfew to show that he was home. It's called alternate detention because it was either that or in the detention center until the next court date.
What really surprised me was how his family especially his mom was talking about him behind his back. She got his curfew put back an hour which meant he had to come in at six. She also wanted him to go to the detention center. To show how bad the detention center can get there were two mothers near us crying because their kid had to go there. She also said the she was afraid that he was going to hurt her. Which is completely ridiculous. I knew Andrew and the way he talked about his mom it made her seem perfect. He himself said that he respects and loves her way too much to hit her.
After all this I of course told them everything they said. I thought that he needed to know. I wanted to go to the next one but I moved away before I could. I visited a couple weeks later to check on him but he wasn't there. His mother said that he was in the detention center. He was sentenced to five days in the detention center, a month of house arrest, and a year probation. I never heard what happened to his ex-friend though. I called him three times after he got out. The first time he was at church and the second time he wasn't aloud to talk. The third time was like a week later and what I heard shocked me. He was at a group home which is a fancy word for orphanage. It made me so angry that his mom abandoned him. Now I didn't ask why he was there so I don't know the whole story but regardless that is horrible. I want to find out where he is so I might be able to talk to him. My dad was in a couple group homes when he was a kid and he told me that they will not let you talk to the kids there. I still will not give up on him though.
-Dylan
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