twenty three part two

"Your honor, may I present more evidence?" Rickell stands up proudly. Her shoulders back, chin up and her voice thundering this time like when she talks to me.

"Please proceed"

"To the stand, I bring Keisha Johns"

What?

The court room erupts again in "oohhhs" and "what?"

Keisha comes from behind me and I can only see her back as she pasts me.

As she approaches the stand, i pay attention to her. She has a burn mark on her face yes, and she looks to be malnourished. Scared even.

Her eyes apologize to me as she gets comfortable in her seat.

"Keisha Johns. How are you first and foremost?"

"I'm well" she answers shakily.

"I'm happy to hear that" Rickell states.

I watch her intensely, watching her every move. How her body jerks from her legs bouncing under the table to how she peels the burgundy red nail polish off of her nails nervously.

She got some damn nerve being nervous. If she wasn't already supposed to be dead, i could kill her all over again.

I'm happy she's alive yes, it's helping my case but my whole life is blowing up in my face.

"So now Keisha, why are you not.. how should i put this? Dead!?" Rickell asks eyeing Anna.

Anna's mouth is set wide. Jaw in the table beneath her.

"I'm not dead because i never died. I was in the hospital yes, but i made it out healthy" she states so quietly that everyone in the court room has to stop breathing to hear her.

"Interesting" Rickell says to allow Keisha to keep going.

"Noni died in the fire. Not I and not Miko" Keisha says a little louder and confident.

The court room erupts again.

"Shortly after the fire and i got out of the hospital, i was kidnapped and brought to a facility not too far from Arizona. I'd never saw their face until a month ago but Miko had it set up. They ran the whole operation. Miko failed to kill Autumn so she spun the story onto Autumn."

Scrunching my face in confusion, my heart begins to speed.

"Explain more"

"Miko had a thing for Autumn. Like a real thing. They had a wooden chest with pictures of them, real and photoshopped, handwritten love letters to Autumn and they made some letter look like they were from Autumn with her handwriting" my mouth drops appalled in my chair.

"When Miko found out Autumn had been messing with someone on the low, they'd lost it. They'd had a plan to end her. On some and i quote 'if I can't have her, no one can' type. Miko set up the fire and it was supposed to blow up Autumns car but Miko didn't install it correctly. The time was set for a certain time but Miko had yet to put it in her car. That's why Miko wanted to walk her out. We were all drunk and Miko forgot and that resulted to this" Keisha says pointing around the courtroom.

"So.. Miko Hayes set a bomb?"

"Yes"

The courtroom erupts again.

"So Autumn Jones did not set the fire?"

"No"

"No more questions" Rickell suggests and walks towards the bench area and sits down.

"Your honor may I?" Anna sits up. Judge Hughes nods.

"That's not fair. I didn't know any of that evidence" she states.

Judge nods. It is supposed to be equal. They share their evidence so the other knows how to defend themselves.

"We'll recess for tonight. It's been long. We'll come back tomorrow at 10 am" Hughes bangs her gravel and gets up.

Before I could turn to ask Rickell what's going on, the guards grab my arm and leads me behind the wall in the background which I came from.

In my cell, I cry myself to sleep. This is all too much.

"Jones, let's go" officer says banging against my cell bars.

"Grab What you can, we'll send the rest back" he tells me. Confused, I pick up what I can and follow behind him. We walk and walk, further than I would if I were being transported. We're on a different level in the prison.

"Am I not being transported?" I ask him.

He scrunches his face in confusion.

"You haven't heard?" He asks

"Heard what?"

"I should let you call somebody before you go in" he tells me and we backtrack our steps to the phone area.

"Call who?"

"Try your lawyer kid" he suggests turning his back to me. I dial Rickell's number.

"Hey Kid. I was just about to call you"

"About? What's going on?"

"So word hasn't gotten around in there? You don't watch the news?"

"No, I just woke up. What's going on Rickell?"

"Keisha is dead" she starts.

What?

"What? How? When?"

"Her mom reported it this morning. They found her dead in her bed. Breaking and entering"

"What the fuck. Why?"

"Why do you think? She just aired out the whole operation"

Oh my gosh.

"So what does this mean? Like what's gonna happen?"

"Don't worry Autumn. You're going into protective custody just in case someone tries something inside. Your mom and Je'Mari are under intensive watch"

"Ok but I mean with the case.."

"Court date got reset. Two weeks Autumn. March 30th"

I drop the phone. I have to stay here longer?

Ty P.O.V

"What now?!" I yelled through the phone at Rickell.

"They holding her for two more weeks in protective custody"

"Why? Autumn should be free today"

"The girl died Ty'Elle. Everybody is in P.C right now"

"I'm not really caring about all that right now. When is my baby going to be free?"

"In two weeks I presume"

Fuck.

"Ok. Can I go see her?"

"She can't have visitors in the first two weeks in P.C. It's a high risk"

"All she doing in there is two week. And why they treating her like she supposed to be in solitary confinement?"

"I don't know Ty"

"Aight Rickell. And thank you for absolut-" I cut myself off. It's not rickells fault.

I hang up the phone and go sit down.

"I know this the last thing you wanna talk about but Ty come on. It's been a month and you yourself hasn't put out an official statement regarding your last home show" Miriam says holding the iPad in her hand and rubbing my shoulder.

"Mir" I say calmly.

"I don't wanna hear it. It'll be quick. Go live" she says pushing the live button and putting the iPad in front of me.

I side eye her before watching the screen seeing the numbers climb.

"Wassup yall"

x.otic where you been?

freda.bigbootyhoes looky here

jaythat.1 a nigga finally back

"Yess im back yall. I have a lot on my plate"

veronicaa How's Autumn?

reali.hoes don't ask that dumb shit^

veronicaa bitch^

"I just came on here to let yall know I'm here. Still breathing and that I'm sorry for letting y'all down"

jaythat.1 so wassup with the refund?

geradii heavy onnat^?

killa.duce So no show?

"Ahh. If yall let a nigga talk id tell yall that im working on something real special" i lie.

geradii Say that 🫡

"But that's all. Ima catch yall later" I say ending the live passing the iPad to Miriam.

"That's all?" She questions.

"You said quick"

"I ain't say lie"

I shrugged at her statement.

"Don't shrug now cause you will actually find something special!"

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Yall i be wanting to post these so bad but i be wanting to wait at least 24 hrs 😕

Soo. How yall feeling?

Make some noise yall wtf

& yall still ain't answer my question about "yall" and "you all" 🙄