Shattered Hearts “Are you stupid?! You really messed up this time!”, hissed my mom when I got in her car. She leaned over and popped me directly in the nose. I felt my warm blood trickle down into my mouth ; I cupped my hands to catch the liquid from going all over. “Jeez mom, lay off of me or I’ll get a taxi.”, I said wiping my bloody hands on my clothes. She remained silent as she started the car and drived away from the prison in New York. Twelve years, and my mom didn’t bail me out, but she refuses to actually care about her only son. I don’t see the point of picking me up from the slammer if she couldn’t even tolerate me. My mom has long grey hair and little pursed lips. You could easily see the years got to her. “What even made you do something so dumb, Bob?”, my mom …show more content…
She screamed like she just saw Bloody Mary. I looked over just to see the people in the other cars eyeing me, and then the light finally turned green. “I was meeting my old pal, Jimmy wells, he was the loyalist guy around. We were going to be in different states, so we promised to meet up in twenty years at our favorite place to hang out, a restaurant. When I got there, the restaurant was long gone, but I still stood where it had been. A police officer saw me and asked some questions. I told him about why i was there, and started to smoke a cigar. He asked me if I would leave if Jimmy didn’t show up on time, and I said no and the police officer left. Later a man arrived and said he was Jimmy. At first I believed him and we hung out. Later I saw him in the light and realized it wasn’t him. He told me I was under arrest and gave a note saying the police officer was Jimmy. Jimmy said he couldn’t arrest me himself because he just couldn’t do it.” My mom stopped the car mid-street in surprise and said, “Why were you