All About Him by Pat Tucker

Author:Pat Tucker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Strebor Books

Chapter Twenty

Hours later, I was booked into the city jail for possession of marijuana. What bothered me most was not that my husband drove my mother’s car back home after I’d taken the rap for something he had done and probably explained to her, but it was the fact that he’d allowed it to go down the way it did. We’d agreed to do it, but that was when we thought I’d get off with a warning, not jail.

As the officer clasped the cold, hard handcuffs around my wrists, I noticed that Cooper didn’t even wait for them to put me in the back of the cruiser.

He had already taken off. More often than not, Cooper showed me exactly who he really was, but there was something in me that refused to see what he showed.

I was slapped with probation for the weed, and given drug classes. But it was the ride home when my mother came to pick me up that was most painful.

“Now, I have done quite a bit in my younger days, but I ain’t never dabbled in no drugs. When your husband told me what happened, I gotta admit, if he would’ve left, I wouldn’t be surprised. Everybody knows, weed ain’t nothing but a gateway to heavier drugs, and you know, I raised you and your sister better than that.”

She was going in on me and didn’t know half the facts.

“I’m just glad the folks at church don’t know. We are living in trying times for sure,” she said.

All I thought about was why my husband hadn’t come to pick me up. My mother might not have known exactly what had gone down and how it had gone down, but he did. It was clear that he simply threw me under a really low bus, and didn’t even care.

“I don’t know where I failed you. I pray for you each and every night and every morning; I don’t know what else to do. I’m just glad you got yourself a good man who is sticking by your side.”

If I’d had the energy, I would have told her about that so-called good man.

“Can you just get up off Cooper’s tip for a few seconds?”

My mother pulled her eyes off the road to look at me.

“What did you just say to me?” She sounded so incredibly outdone.

“I don’t know what he told you, but the weed wasn’t even mine! Cooper’s stupid behind met up with some druggie and accepted some weed; the two idiots didn’t smoke it all, and that fool husband of mine decided to hang on to it. When the police came, he decided going to jail would be too much of a stain on his career, so I did what I always do: I took care of it.”

The silence in the car seemed everlasting. My mother had no visible reaction to the news I’d just dropped, and she didn’t say another word about the results of her parenting.

“I just want to put this entire incident behind me as soon as possible.

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