Living Life One Moment at a Time

The Fourth of July is a time for cook outs, family and drama in my household and this past weekend, it wasn’t any different. At a cook out held at the oldest living member of the Day family’s house, I was talking to my cousin’s wife, from the Auburn area of Alabama, said to me “we just found out about [Redacted] being in prison.”. I had no idea what she was talking about so I said nothing back. What got me is even if I knew, why would you want to talk about it in front of the whole neighborhood?! These people are the noisiest people because they live on a mountain with nothing better to do! I immediately confronted my grandmother about it who is [Redacted]’s sister. She told me that it was true. He had been in prison for six years now. I became so angry that I was yelling at her for not telling me the truth. I was hysterical. You see, [Redacted] has always been there for me. He gave me my first laptop, bought clothes for me when I was younger and has always stayed in touch with me except in the last few years. They told me that he sold all his possessions to help his business partner who had AIDS. His business partner does have AIDS but [Redacted] isn’t taking care of him unless he’s doing that from prison. It hurts to think they would lie to me like that but I know why they did it: to protect me. I just hate that I had to find out from Bigmouth. It’s all I can think about because both of us have missed out on so much.

I want to contact him via letter but I don’t know. I miss him so much and would love to hear from him. My grandmother did send him my graduation invitation so he knew what I was doing now and I know that it saddens him that he couldn’t be there to see it. I also want to help pay his fine which is pretty effing large from what I gather and he only has 3 more years to pay it off. He helped me back then so is it wrong of me to help him now when he needs it? Am I wrong for wanting to contacting him? I need help.