ABOVE THE INFLUENCE
Epilogue
"The Jury's decision as followed for the six Lincoln High Students:"
Lester Dewitt: Two years sentence in up state New York
Gwen Rodriquez: Three hundred and sixty hours of community service, and one month in jail.
Rodney J. Templeton: Five years sentence in Queens.
Robert Tremont: One year sentence in up state New York
Lynn Sabatini: One month of Probation and two hundred and sixty hours of community service.
Stephanie Williams: One year sentence in up state New York
As we said our goodbyes we all headed out the door one last time as a whole.
Four Years Later : 2003
I'm using my time trying to get my diploma to graduate from NYU this year. Sometimes when I study I think about the six other people I was stuck in the library with in the winter of 1999. What I heard about them was only this:
Lynn had her baby, Zechariah, and last I know she's some where in Maine. Rivers is now a successful business man in one of New York's leading companies. Rodney is bowing on his knees, but not for the reason you think. (He still has two years left.) Jackson is now a retired cop, and helped his wife open another clinic for abused children in Queens. Stephanie spent one year in prison, and now is in collage. (On a scholar ship.) She's hoping she can go to medical school after.
Lester got out of jail two years ago, and is trying to get a teaching degree. He visit's the school every year now. (Which has been fixed up, and given new textbooks, thanks to a certain circumstance).
As for Ziggy, I hope he's happy. When Lester visit's the school, Stephanie and I go with him. In the attic Lester holds a memorial in front of selected students. He tells of a story about how seven students like themselves were tired of never being listened too. He said, it was on the coldest day in Queens that the students had their voices heard, but with a price. He said that the price was of a life, but not one that was to be taken in vain.
This life, was to be why these seven students came together, to rise Above The Influence.