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As the cell door shut behind me, I knew I had fucked up good. I was in a holding cell with thirty other guys, and this was not where I wanted to be at all. I found a corner and sat back hoping to God that I was not going to be in here for long. As I sat, I saw a number of guys looking at me and laughing as they tried to guess what I was arrested for. None of them were right so I thought nothing of these fucks, but the reason I was in jail was simple: I caught my, now ex, girlfriend in bed with another man and nearly killed him.
Yes, I was in jail because he attacked me and I kicked his ass. He really shouldn't have even tried, but he did. I won the fight by a long shot, so now here I sat. He was lucky, as he was safely in the hospital and where they desperately tried to save his life. Unfortunately for me however, I was in here in the tombs with my own life in jeopardy. I sighed as I stewed in the jail cell for hours thinking of everything that had happened.
It was one thing for me to come home to find Beth asleep in our bed; it was another thing to find her on her back in our bed being fucked by some asshole. I caught them red handed in the middle of their act. He came at me talking shit and flashing gang signs trying to intimidate me. I had been to Iraq and back, so his threats meant absolutely nothing to me. He fucked up when he shoved me, that's when I started seeing red. He decided to swing on me, and that's all it took to set me off. I slugged him in the jaw and he fell backwards to the floor. He grabbed his pants and I saw the black glint of a pistol so I reacted.
I lunged forward and grabbed his arm, then snapped it backwards so hard that the bone came through the skin. Next I used the flat of my palm and hit him in the jaw straightening him up with a sickening crunch. He hit the floor in a heap and started twitching violently. Beth was on the phone with the police the whole time and three minutes later I was in cuffs. The guy, Jason, was on his way to the hospital soon after that. I now sat here in this cell, possibly with some of his homies. I thought of everything I had done in my life, I even thought of how I came to be with her, the thoughts made me sick so I just tried to sleep.
"Ryan Jackson!" I heard a guard call out my name.
I looked up and he was motioning me to him. I walked to him; he had me turn around with my hands through the bar slit. I was cuffed then taken out of the holding cell and led down to an interrogation room. I sat down in a chair where I was un-cuffed, I then noticed a police detective sit down across from me.
"OK let's make this quick. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say or do can and will be held against you in a court of law. You have the right to speak to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you. Do you understand these rights as they have been read to you?" he asked me officially.
"Yes sir." I said with my head down.
"It seems that Mr. Washington is going to live although he is not going to be the same. You really did a number on him didn't you?" he asked me looking at me with scrutinizing cop eyes.
"He came at me with a gun man, I only defended myself..." I tried to respond but he cut me off.
"I know. We found the gun under the bed, it seems Ms. Davies tried to hide it from the officers that arrived, but we did find it. So now it seems she is going to be facing accessory charges and obstruction charges as well." he said. He then looked at me and asked, "Why did you hook up with that bitch?"
I tensely laughed and looked at him with a resigned look, "She has nice tits I guess. I don't know, we had a good thing going then bang she's a slut and I'm in jail. I don't know what she was thinking, if she was thinking...I just don't know."
"Some advice." he said and I looked up at him, "Find a different set of tits in the future, maybe a pair that's more dependable."
I nodded my head as he filed the paperwork for me to be released. Mr. Washington later filed charges against me for his beating. I had to go to court where, I plead not guilty for I was defending myself. I testified that I came home to find Mr. Washington and my ex in bed together, he attacked me and I proceeded to defend myself. He survived, but he was confined to a wheelchair for the near future. Of course he was using his injuries to milk the jury by showing his medical records. I was found not guilty of any wrong doing, but then I had to face a civil trial. It didn't help that the NAACP was all over the case of a white guy nearly killing a black man and walking in criminal court.
I felt like the whole fucking world was after me, as I got phone calls from his friends threatening my life. It was only by the grace of my good lawyer that I got away from having to pay him restitution. As for the phone calls I was forced to move from New York to Miami to get away from it all. It was a seriously nerve wracking time in my life and I was glad when it was over. The down side of it was I was now miserable and drinking a lot. In the nine months of trials and courts I was facing a hard time financially. I was forced to get a new job as mine cut me loose, but luckily my friend from the Army helped me out when I needed it most.
Juan and I served in the Striker Brigade for six years together. We actually went further back than that. As we both hail from Patterson, New Jersey me and him grew up together in the same rough and tumble neighborhood. We stayed out of the nonsense of the gangs and when seventeen hit us, we joined up to get away from it all. We got to stay together and serve out our time in the same unit, afterward he moved out of New Jersey and I lost touch with him.
I moved to New York and it wasn't until I moved to Miami I found out he was already living there. He had gotten married to a sexy woman named Isabella. She, like him, is Dominican. He was lighter skinned and she had a more dark bronze skin type. She was so sexy that I admit, I had doubts whether could keep her for long. To my surprise they were married now for four years and are still going strong.
I got a job in his bar as a late night bartender. The money was actually really good and between my bar tending money plus the cash I had saved from my old job I got a decent place to live. The only problem I ran into was my own: I was still drinking and a lot more than usual. I was easily killing an eighteen pack a day with hard liquor to wash it down. Juan didn't say anything at first because I was good at my job, but after a while it became apparent it was becoming an issue. At twenty eight I was going to suddenly find myself dead in a car wreck or by my liver failing me.
One day Juan stopped me as my shift ended and I was cleaning up. He looked at me then shook his head. I was still in good physical shape, but the smell of booze on my breath made him mad. I had been drinking on my shift and he found out.