Jury Monologue

As I sit there in front of the judge with smiling at the jury and my lawyer with my lawyer my forehead drenched with sweat I was filled with apprehension. I didn’t want to do it, I didn’t want to get my own mother in trouble even knowing what she was doing with me was wrong. My head was spinning. My heart was pounding. “Miss Bowman will you please point to the person who extorted you”, I heard her but responded as if she hadn’t ask me that question yet. “Miss Bowman will you point to your mother who unfairly extorted you”, this time she wasn’t so nice about it. As I pointed in the direction of my mother my face began to droop and my mind began to remember all things that my mother did to me. It’s been a week since i’ve been locked in this room, no windows, no cracks or crevices for sunshine to come through. With no food only water to keep me alive I said to myself, “I’ve got to get out of here before I die of deprivation.” With no knowledge of the time or date I heard faint footsteps and by the minute they began to get more rambunctious, I knew what was next. Due to the previous night when my mother gave me proposition to go out with one of her older guy-friend I declined impertinently.I messed up her money for her daily fixes. I hear water running in the bathroom in the next room over, the
My whole body was in shock when I began to come to my senses. As I’m looking at my mother into her eyes, I’m realizing that she’s immersing me in the tub. I kick, hit and scream under water swallowing more and more water at the same time and I began to feel the pressure lift off of my neck and lower abdomen. I began to hear my mother laugh at me and mock me as I was gasping for air. “I don’t see you smiling now, Do I?” I couldn’t believe that all of the things she was doing to me was all to steal a simple smile away from me, but of all people it would be my mother to do the