A Short Story : A Story?

“You’re going to be an amazing lawyer,” he tells me. “But your verbal-diarrhea won’t work on me tonight. Stop trying to get out of talking to me.”

Early Monday morning, Jerry drove downtown, relieved he had taken time off from work to be in the courtroom. One of the first ones to enter, he sat in the back row not wanting to see Marlene when they brought her in with her attorney.

letting him in, so he wept outside. Leah finally had enough and stated: “I’m going out there to

Chapter 1 • Jerry Renault gets tackled multiple times on the football field, but he keeps getting back up to play • For a moment Jerry doubts his ability to be on the football team but the coach tells him to come back the next day • As Jerry goes to the locker room and feels his pain, he remembered his mother and the of her life •Jerry makes it back to school to get cleaned up but he vomits instead Chapter 2 •Obie and Archie argue about an assignment that list ten people •Archie is unable to be defeated in an arguements due to his "fast comebacks" •Archie is the leader of the vigils •Archie writes down Jerry's name to work for the chocolates Chapter 3 •Jerry feels nervous seeing/ reading a playboy magazine.

“That’s obviously up to the district attorney’s office. It’s my understanding that it’s over; there will be no more charges coming out of it.”

“You are free to go Ms. Wington. Have a great night.” Says her manager, Mike as he walks past her. Irene didn’t thank him, she just walked out and seemed happy to leave.

"Hey dad. Yeah we're leaving now. Okay see you soon. Love you too, bye." She hung up. "Okay, they're leaving now, we should get

“WHAT?! Oh my God!” she screamed with a hint of crying. She bolted out the door, grabbing my brother by the arm, started the car and rushed to the hospital leaving Chloe and

" As much sense as that makes I can't stop worrying. I hate that every time you've gone to court so far it's been awful. It's hard for me to be optimistic. I'm sorry

As soon as they walked out the door Beth started to talk,“ So what kind of trouble do you want to get into tonight? Or do you want to just walk right back to Daddy and be a good girl.” She laughed.

“ Well the policemen came to the house and question me for a while and for a long time and It just spilled out” said Mary

“I spoke with Judge Lucas, you’ll be okay. He is coming in now let’s find a seat.”

Then, his wife was pregnant, so he quitted the job to take care Katy's "mother". Katy tells her about the letter and the death of her "father". John's mother is very surprised. "I see that you have nowhere to belong, so I will give you a room to stay," John's mother smiled. Katy says "Thank you" to her lots of times.

Coming out of the kitchen, Margaret kissed him good-bye as he went to the garage and she went into the family room to turn on the TV. “I am a lucky woman to have such a wonderful husband,” she said as though someone would respond to her.

Jerry’s mother stops and looks for him and asks if he wants to go to