Sly: SBMC Maryland by erin trejo

Author:erin trejo [trejo, erin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

I think I’ve been down here a few days. I don’t really know. I try to sleep through most of it, but Dez brings food and water down more than three times a day. I’m not sure why she stays when she does either. Like now.

“They didn’t have cells down here when I was a kid. I used to hate it down here,” she says looking around the basement. There’s only four cells like the one I’m in and I don’t need to wonder what they use them for.

“Why?”

“It was creepy. You know when you’re little and you would watch scary movies? You think the killer clown or some shit is out to get you? That’s what I thought of this basement,” she giggles.

“It’s not so bad.”

“You’re in a cell,” she reminds me with her eyes narrowed.

“I suppose that’s my own fault.”

“Gauge told me what you told him.”

“I figured he would,” I admit. Not that I care or expected anyone to believe me, but I offered that man the truth and let it go. Gauge hasn’t come back down here and neither has Sly. I guess my word doesn’t mean much to them in the long run. I can’t say that I blame them looking back on all of it.

“Is it true?” I nod my head slowly and take a drink of my water.

“All of it. I never wanted it to go down like this.”

“Is that what you told Gauge?” I hear his voice as Dez turns to look over her shoulder. Sly comes down the rest of the stairs and finally into view. He looks tired, worn out, and I can’t say that I blame him. Gauge said this was hitting him hard and I believed him to a point.

“I told him a lot more than that.”

He nods his head and looks to Dez. She looks back at me, giving me a small smile before standing and jogging up the steps. Sly walks over, taking Dezzy’s seat in the chair.

“They keep tellin’ me I need to hear what you have to say, but I don’t know that I want to.”

“Why not?”

“You don’t get it, Fab. I brought you here, I trusted you. I haven’t trusted a woman in a long fuckin’ time. Hell, I haven’t had feelin’s for a woman in years. Then you fall into my lap, and goddamn it I wanted it to be real.” His voice is as pained as the look on his face. It sends an ache through my chest, but I can’t fix that part of him.

“I was almost asleep when they called me to tell me my brother had been killed. I remember sitting on the edge of the bed in a daze. I thought maybe, just maybe, I was dreaming it. You know when you’re not fully asleep but not fully awake either? I thought that’s where I was. It wasn’t until Deb came into the room that I realized it was all real,” I admit to him. It killed

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