A Tribute to silence

She didn't think I'd remember all the stories she told me. Like how the popular girls would call a girl who they didn't like over to a certain part of the play ground so the boys could touch her. As the popular girls giggled and laughed. She didn't think of the consequences than because she was young. It was high school. She didn't think that it would come back in the end like karma, to bite her in the ass! When I sat across from her in the detention facility next to Bob Wiley. She asked me why God had done this? I looked her in the eye and told her he didn't... I had! The guard came up to us and said we couldn't be holding hands. I was trying to make her feel better! Halloween was spent with out my family, I didn't know what I had done to deserve such a punishment. I remember singing in the vents. It was like a request line. The song I loved Singing was amazing grace. When my family came to my hearing I sat in front of the judge and told him I didn't want to go back home! That was when I moved in with my first foster parent. The first meal I ate at her table was spaghetti! The girls watched me eat two whole plates. It was also the year I didn't go home for my grandmothers birthday because my probation period of being a ward of the state wasn't up! When I did go home for family visits the girls including the parent would go through my stuff and took what they liked! That was how I lost a gift an x boyfriend gave me! (Brian from CVC) It was a skirt, and a tan stripped shirt. The black girl who went to Golden West was the one who stole it! I remember her story of her aunt being killed by her boyfriend! The Aunt's body was found in one of the fields of the people who I had gone to school with at CVC.  If I looked in the papers of that time I could find the names and dates.... But honestly I think the words of these lives and how they were connected is enough for me. If I think back even further I can remember waking up and finding Andy sitting on the couch while I ran around the house getting ready for school! I asked him what he was watching... "the news" The World Trade center had been hit! I sat and said "it looks like a movie"  When I got to my first period English class at CVC the news was on again! I was never the type to sit still long enough to watch the news! I stared out the window and thought about who in my life would be effected by this tragedy! Laura I believe her name was. Her dad worked in a pizza place and was also apart of the Lemoore air base! Her picture hangs on my wall to remind me of the day Andy proposed to my mother at Knotts berry farm!