New Chapter ! Sorry it took a little while, i just couldn't get the trial right ! and i still HATE it ! But i'm updating anyways! SO im apologizing right now in advance IM SORRY THIS CHAPTER SUCKS! Its going to be a disappointment to you all, so once again I AM SORRY !
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bam! Mitchie will win, just saying :P yes ashley in negatives HAHAHA
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On with the chapter !
I'm sitting next to my lawyer, my hands shaking in fear, and in nerves. My leg started bouncing up and down, and I took a deep breathe, and I released it shakingly.
"Ms. Torres, to the stand please." The judge called me up. I shakingly stood up and walked to the stand where I then took a seat. I looked at my hands, until my dads lawyer came up to me.
"Please state your name for the court." He said
"I'm Mitchie Torres." I said, my voice shaking in nerves.
"what has your dad done to you?" he asked
"He abused me, and he attempted to kill me." I choked on tears.
"Please explain to us how all of this happened." He said as he stopped and looked at me.
"Well, me and my dad, we never got along really, and one day I heard him and my mom arguing. I went and sat on the stairs to look between the railings. he was screaming at her, saying me and her are horrible and he hates the both of us. So my mom ran out the house. About a couple hours later, I heard things, I peeked out my bedroom door and I saw my dad making out with another girl and they went in his room. He cheated on my mom, and it was going on for a while. The late nights at work, and even when we moved so he could stop those late nights, still they happened. So i texted Shane, and he told me to go to his house. So i did. I started to stay with my friend Caitlyn and so we needed to get my clothes, and so we did but my dad came home before we got out, and then he came up and i was climbing down the balcony when he grabbed my arm and yanked me up, and dragged me into my room. he then abused me, and shane, nate and caitlyn came in and saved me. Soon I was staying with my friend Caitlyn, and we then left for Hawaii. When we got back, Shane and his brothers, and caityln had to go on tour, so i had to go back to my house. So I did, and my dad told me it will be the a horrible then abused me after dinner, I woke up on the kitchen floor hours later. I was bruised and bleeding. it got worse every night. He ended up breaking my phone, so I couldnt call anyone of my friends for help. Then Shane came one day, and my dad punched shane, and shane stumbled back. My dad then took me and dragged me away. I was screaming and crying, and shane came to help me, and thats when my dad took out a knife and held it to my neck, said that if shane got any closer, it wouldnt end well. So shane stayed put, and I told my dad I was mad at him cause he cheated on mom, and he admitted it, and my mom had come home at that time and heard him. She started crying and told him to let me go. He did, and she yelled at him for it and called the police. thats all." I looked down at my hands, tears down my cheeks.
"Who is Shane?" He asked. Out of that whole thing, he asks that question. GOSH!
"My boyfriend, Shane Gray, from the band Connect 3." I said
"alright thank you. So did you and your father ever get along?" he asked
i shook my head. "No, never, we mostly always ignored each other, we didnt exist in each others worlds. We tried multiple times to get along, it never worked, he gave up, soon so did i. It wont work if only one of us is trying. so i stopped after him."
"why do you think you never got along?" he asked
I shrugged "I really dont know, it was just really that type of relationship, honestly." Another tear down my cheek.
He nodded. "Alright."
The questions continued. I dont understand how my dad could not be found guilty.
"Shane Gray eye witness to the stand." The judge said
"You were there the day he attempted murder correct?" He asked
"Yes sir." Shane nodded
"He threatened to do it because you were getting closer, correct?" He asked
"Thats correct." Shane said.
"okay please explain what happened" He said
"well I was worried cause I hadnt talked to mitchie in a few weeks, and I knew that her dad abused her, and so I went to her house to get her, to come join us on tour. I got there and her dad opened, she came running down the stairs. She asked to leave, and I said of course, which then he punched me in the face, I stumbled back and Mitchie screamed my name, and continued to do so as her dad dragged her away. And so I caught my balance and ran after them. Her dad then pulled out the knife, which he held to her kneck, saying if I stepped any closer, it would end badly. So I stopped." Shane explained
"So how did you know her dad abused her?" He asked
"She told me, and also the first time it happened I was there. we were climbing off her balcony to escape cause he seemed furious. Me, Nate and Caitlyn got down and she was still up there. Me and Nate were at the car when we heard Caitlyn yelling for us. Running back over Mitchie wasnt there. Caitlyn said her dad got her. So we ran around the house to the front, where we went inside and ran up to her room. We burst in to see him hitting her while she was laying on the floor. I punched him in the face, and Nate pulled him away. Me and Caitlyn helped Mitchie up and got her out the house." Shane said
"How come you never called the cops?" He asked
"Mitchie didn't want anyone to call the cops. She was scared of what her dad would do." Shane explained.
The guy nodded. "Did you ever want to call the cops?"
"All the time, cause I was worried about her, and I wanted her to be safe, but I didn't want to go against my promise to her. So I never called" shane said. Oh how I love him! He is so sweet!
Once again the guy nodded.
My dad was called to the stands, and I did not want to look at him, so I looked at my fidgeting hands, biting my bottom lip. My lawyer was now pacing infront of the stands.
"So Mr. Torres, Why did you and Mitchie never get along?" My lawyer asked
"We didn't have that type of relationship, I honestly didn't want a daughter, I always wanted a son, and then I told my wife, that I thought she should just put her for adoption, but of course Connie would never do that. So we got stuck with Mitchie. I didn't know what to do with a girl daughter, so me and her never developed a father-daughter relationship" Steve explained.
I looked up at him, tears once again down my cheeks. He didn't want me as a his kid. that explains so much! He looked at me, our eyes making contact, I glared at him, and he had a hint of a smirk. I quickly looked away.
"Why did you start to abuse your daughter?" The lawyer asked
"She left without telling anyone, that got me mad, her mom was worried sick about her! But their relationship soon failed." Steve said.
"why is that?"
"cause Mitchie told Connie that I cheated on her, Connie didn't believe Mitchie, and so things just went downhill for them." he explained
"Did you cheat on her?"
"Yes, I did." He admitted
"Why did you cheat on her?"
Steve shrugged. "I was getting bored of her, she was just...boring. So this lady at my job, she was exciting, and fun and so things just heated up between us, as things deflated with me and connie." He said
I shook my head in disgust. I looked behind me and saw my mom crying. I sighed and looked at steve.
"So back to abusing Mitchie, other than her leaving, was there any other reasons?"
"Yeah, she decided to try to run away from me when I was calling her name, she was sneeking out, and running away, and then she was gone and didnt contact us for the entire summer, Connie knew she was safe though, but to me that didnt make things any better. Then she returns asking to only live with us for a month. I didnt like that, so i wanted her to pay for all she has done."
"So you abused her?"
"Yes sir."
"Do you believe that was the right thing to do?"
"In my mind at the time it was, right now I'm not so sure." Steve looked down.
I rolled my eyes, he is so lieing! He just wants to seem like a good guy.
"Did you try to attempt murder?"
Steve nodded "No sir."
i scoffed and crossed my arms across my chest.
"Did you put a knife to her neck?"
"Yes sir."
"But you werent attempting murder?"
"No sir"
"so what were you doing?"
"Just threatening them, and just trying to get them to listen to me. it was like to scare them."
"explain to us what happened that night."
"Well this guy, just shows up at our house, and Mitchie just like hugs him and right then and there wants to just leave. I didnt know this guy, and so I punched him for back talking me. I was taking Mitchie away from him, when he came after us. So to stop him I pulled a knife to her neck, I threatened them, but thats all, I wasnt really going to hurt her, i wanted to scare them. But then Connie walked in and i was shocked she heard me admit I cheated on her, and so I dropped my hand from Mitchie's neck. I was too shocked that Connie was crying and so I didnt move. I knew what I did was wrong."
"Who was this guy that showed up?"
"Shane Gray, Mitchie's boyfriend."
"What part of that did you find as wrong?"
"Cheating, and holding a knife to her neck."
SUCH A LIAR! he is guilty! He is ! They can't not find him guilty I'm serious!
We are now waiting for the jury to come back with their decision. I was anxious and nervous and scared. I looked over to my dad and he smirked. I glared at him and the door opened. in walked the jury. I watched them walk up to the judge who nodded and they communicated quietly. Then the judge got our attention.
"According to the Jury is found NOT Guilty" My heart sank and there was quiet gasp "for now, until we have more proof. Which means we will need another trial. Until then is to stay away from Mitchie Torres and her family." the judge banged his hammer thingy...hahaha "You all are dismissed."
Tears poured down my cheeks as i stood up and hugged Shane tightly. He returned the tight hug and i cried into his shirt. My mom placed her hand on my back and rubbed it.
"I cant believe this!" I cried
"None of us can Mitchie. Steve is guilty and we all know that." Shane said softly
"Yet he is not found guilty until more evidence is found! what do they want?" i sobbed
"Maybe we can get Nate and Caitlyn, they were eye witnesses." Shane said
I nodded my head eagerly. "yeah, we have too"
"Come on lets get home." My mom said.
I'm laying on my bed with my head on Shane's chest where i could hear his heartbeat. and my hand on his stomach. His hand around my waist. His other hand rubbing my cheek. I closed my eyes and relaxed. I soon drifted off to sleep.
not long later did i sit up with gasp. I looked around and couldnt find shane. My room was dark, and it was lightning and thundering outside. tears came to my eyes. These nights...i hate them.
Flashback
"You B*tch!" I heard my dad scream.
I covered my ears trying to block out the argument. My eyes closed tightly as it was lightning outside.
My hands did no help, i heard smashing and screaming and bangs.
"Stop! Just stop! Dont talk about Mitchie like that!" My mom yelled
My dad knocked something over. "Me and her have no father and daughter relationship! What is wrong with this family! IT SUCKS!"
"It does not! Make more of an effort and maybe you could improve your relationship! My mom yelled
my dad laughed humorlessly "Oh i give up, i give up on mitchie, she isnt like a daughter to me, i give up on trying."
my room flashed with lightning.
End of flashback.
the night my dad gave up on me, it was thundering and lightning and raining. It bought back nightmares. I wasnt ascared of thunder, or lightning, or rain, im afraid of the nightmares, and flashbacks and memories that they all bring back, but only when its all 3 together. I jumped out of bed and ran to my door. I looked at the clock and saw it said 2:36am. I opened my door and looked down the hall for shane. No where.
I ran back in my room and grabbed my phone.
Shane! where are you? xoM
I waited anxiously and scared for a reply.
I'm downstairs babe. xoS
Please come back up here, please! xoM
on my way right now! xoS
i sat on my bed leaning against the headboard where i held the blanket to my chin, my knees bent up. I stared at the door, and jumped when it opened and in walked shane.
"You okay babe?" shane asked.
I nodded once and jumped up so i was standing on my bed. I wrapped my arms around shanes neck and laid my head on his shoulder.
he put his hands on my hips since it was hard for them to go around me since I was bending over in order to lay my head on his kissed my shoulder. "you okay babe?"
"yeah, I just..I thought you left or something." I whispered
"Babe I wouldn't leave without you knowing, or I wouldn't leave unless you were coming with me." He said as he kissed my shoulder again.
I smiled and giggled. "I love you shane."
"I love you too mitchie." he said
I stood back up straight and laid back down on my bed pulling shane with me, when he was laying next to me, he pulled the covers on us and I cuddled up into him. As I laid there thinking, tears appeared in my eyes as I thought about todays events, my dad...was found not guilty.
Closing my eyes a tear slid down my cheek.
Horrible right ! Gosh ! Anyways see the problem is, is that i never been in a trial, okay actually thats not a problem, like that is a good thing of course! It is a problem like in the way as saying I wouldnt know how to right about it. OMG do you get what i mean cause im confusing myself! LOL! But anyways since i was never in a trial i dont know how to write one, SO all the questions are out of order, and not all types of questions were asked. I know there is cross examination and direct. or something like that. I took a mock trial class last year, but every time we had the trial thing that we performed I was never there, i always had orthadontist appointments! it was weird! wait no i was there for one of them and we did horrible lmao okay ima stop rambaling now, but you get what i mean on why this was hard to right?
so for those with high expectations- im sorry to disappoint! xP I was going to just skip the trial, like say it happened but give you no details about it except for simple details like if he was guilty or not and why. you know? but i decided to add the trial for those who wanted one. im so nice :) LOL
I tried to improve my grammar and punctuations. :)
next chapter will be out quicker than this one cause it probably wont be as hard to type. :)
anyways like? love? hate? dislike? favorite and least favorite parts?
QUESTION: Who likes or is good at bowling? i suck at it ! :P