help me. Because she’d told me she
wouldn’t. “If you ever get arrested,
don’t call me.” I needed someone
sympathetic to my plight, and I
didn’t believe she was that person.
So I didn’t call my parents. I
decided I didn’t need them. I was a
man. I could go it alone. I used my
call to phone my cousin and told
him not to tell anyone what had
happened while I figured out what
to do—now I just had to figure out
what to do.
I’d been picked up late in the
afternoon, so by the time I was
processed it was close to lights-out.
I was spending the night in jail, like