Chapter 8: Guilty or Not Guilty
Shana just sat there watching the news. "Honey are you there please speak to me Brad do something?" demanded Mrs. Benumb as she grabbed Mr. Benumb's shirt and pulled him up. Just then the door bell rang.
"Brad go get the door." said Mrs. Benumb
"No I'll get it." said Shana as she wheeled out of the room and opened the door.
"Delivery for Shana Benumb." said the man holding a box.
"That's me." said Shana as she grabbed the box.
"Can your parents sign here?" asked the delivery man
"Yah sure." said Shana as she wheeled around and up the ramp to her room, "Mom, Dad a delivery man needs you to sign something!"
"Okay." yelled Mrs. Benumb. She walked to the door and signed the clipboard and then she closed the door. After Samantha had closed the door, she went up stairs to see what Shana had. Brad was already there and Shana was opening the package.
"Its from Lindsay and its my old...gun! Here's a note from Lindsay." said Shana as she grabbed the note and sealed up the package.
"Please read it honey!" said Samantha
"Dear Shana..." began Shana, "after I heard what had happened, I thought I should mail this to you, just in case that Blade and them came after me and destroyed the evidence. So hopefully this will help you. So talk to you later if not well I love you. Sincerely yours Lindsay." When Shana finished reading she had tears rolling down her cheeks. 'She was like a sister to me,' thought Shana as she grabbed the box and put it in the family safe. An hour later Shana when to bed and dreamed about what would have been if none of this happened.
Two Days passed and Shana was heading to the court with no package because she gave it to Chief Longleaf earlier.
'Court is now in secession!' said Judge Jackson.
'Here's Shana's gun your honour.' said Shana's Lawyer as he handed Judge Jackson the box. Judge Jackson opened the box and examined the gun.
'Chief Longleaf here's your proof.' said Judge J as he handed it to him. Chief Longleaf inspected the gun for every little detail.
'We have proof that Shana never fired that gun at that man and killed him.' said Shana's Lawyer, Mr. Erred.
'Please proceed.' said Judge Jackson
'Well these are the bullets Shana had in her gun and these are the bullets in Blade's gun.' said Mr. Erred as he handed them to the bailiff and the bailiff handed it to Judge Jackson.
Meanwhile Lily was looking for Travis, Ray and Robbie, so she decided that she'd go to Mickey's and see if they were there. When Lily walked in Ray was on the couch talking to Audrey, Robbie was chatting to Kim on his cell phone and Travis was searching for some new CD's.
"Ray! Travis! Robbie!" yelled Lily. Ray stopped right in the middle of a sentence and turned around and looked at Lily and at the same time Travis and Robbie stopped everything and turned around and stared at her! "I need your help!"
"With wwwhhhat helping you make out with your boyfriend Travis!" said Ray in a nagging voice
"NO!" Yelled Lily as she walked up to Ray and punched him hard on the side of his arm.
"OW! Lily that hurt!" yelled Ray in pain as he started to rub his arm. By now everyone in Mickey's were staring at them.
"Will you guys help me or not?" asked Lily in a pleading voice.
"Okay I'm in!" said Travis as he walked over and put his hand on Lily's shoulder.
"Me too." said Robbie as he hung up his phone and walked over to Lily. Lily, Robbie and Travis looked at Ray as they waited for a response.
"Okay, Okay I'm in." said Ray. They walked out of Mickey's and around the corner. After walking for about an Hour Ray asked "Where are we going and what do you need help with?" But all Lily did was ignore him and kept walking.
"WHERE ARE WE GOING AND WHAT DO YOU NEED HELP WITH?" demanded Ray as he walked in front of her and stopped, "I'm not moving until you yell me what is going on."
Ten minutes passed and Lily hadn't said a word. Finally Lily let out a sigh. "Well if you won't move I'll just tell you. Well we are going to the gun specialist at the police department. I think that this is the only way to make Shana not guilty."
Back at the court room Shana was waiting anxiously to see what the jury would decide. When the jury entered the court room five minutes later a man named TJ a tall, blacked haired man, blue eyes and wearing a Blue Jay baseball cap, a blue sports jacket and blue jeans handed Judge Jackson the verdict.
'Will the plaintiff and the defendant come forward.' said the Bailiff.
'We the jury find Shana Benumb guilty on lack of defence and hear by sentence you to 20 years for the murder of J.P. Dewmont.' said Judge Jackson as soon as Judge Jackson finished reading the verdict Chief Longleaf jumped for joy.
"No! I refuse to help you to save Shana after all the trouble she caused and we are not friends any more remember the kiss with Travis?" yelled Ray as he was about to leave.
"Yah well Ray you don't own me and you were never my boyfriend so you have no right to say who I can kiss and who I can't!" yelled Lily
"Yah well..." began Ray but Lily cut him off.
"Yah well what Ray!!" shouted Lily but she got cut off by Robbie.
"Guys! Guys stop shouting lets just help Lily and argue later." said Robbie as he looked at Lily then at Ray and back again.
"Yah Ray why don't we just put the passed be hind us." said Travis
"NO! I'm gone! See ya Swami." yelled Ray as he stomped off and left them standing there.
"You guys will help me right?" asked Lily
"Don't weary Lily we will right Robbie!" said Travis
"Yah." said Robbie.