In the finale of A ride of A lifetime" we left off at me making an attempt to reach out to the mother of the young man I had met and had an encounter with during the earlier part of the day. Reaching out in an attempt to apologize for the encounter and to hopefully makes things better. Little did I know things were already headed downhill and that she had already started to process to take how she felt about the situation to a whole different level. To my surprise, some of the events of that the next few days have become a little blurry So I will share with you all the details i remember and everything will fall into place.
I never shared with my mom what had happened that day, because my wish was that over time the guy's mom would calm down, fuss at him a little, dislike me from a distance and that would be the end of it. I had decided that I would not go back to their home to attempt to apologize, but that if I ever saw her out in public again and the opportunity presented itself, I would try to apologize again. I later remembered the aunt saying her name and her name sounding familiar. So familiar that she knew some of my family and my family knew some of hers. I don't know why I didn't expect it, but it didn't take long for word to get out although I didn't volunteer the information initially to anyone. It was my desire to try to put the whole encounter behind me. I could only wish that things would happen like that, it actually happened just the opposite. As I said, some way, somehow the word got out, and eventually a version of it got back to myself and my mom. I did begin to ask around to a few older people I was closer to at the time to inquire about what possible consequences I would experience if the police were involved. I didn't have to inquire for long, because shorty after a friend of mine had an officer friend that was able to run my name and learn that there had been a report filed against me by the mother and there would soon be a warrant out for my arrest.
While I was inquiring about things, my mom was also calls and information as well. Sadly, to say, she was not getting the information from me, but from others that had talked to the aunt of the guy. When she did approach me and ask about it, out of fear and embarrassment I gave her very little information from my version of it. She pretty much knew the most important details, so I didn't feel that the smaller ones were relevant. Again, I was also ashamed and embarrassed to have her know that I had stooped to such a level to be intimate with a young man I had just met. Although, I was a single parent at the time, she knew of other things that i had done, but to me this was one of the worse because this went against everything, she had tried to instill in me. I had been raised in a very wholesome, Christian home; she had always been the best example to me especially pertaining to abstinence but yet, here I was having found myself in the worse of the worst-case scenario. However, despite it all, she did what moms do, and got the ball rolling to see what we could do to get me out of the mess I had gotten myself into. We had a close family member that had once been on the police department in our city and still knew some people on the force. So, she talked with him to see what the best thing was to do, and in the meantime, she also was able to reach out to the mother of the young man and hear her side of things.
At some point the decision was made that I would go one day to the police station and talk to the police to give them my side of the story. My close family member made a phone call to the police station and informed them that the next day he would personally drive me to the station to talk to the investigator handling the case if they agreed not to come to my mom's house and drag me out in handcuffs for the sakes of my mom and son, to please spare us that scene. The officers agreed to do so if we were certain that we would keep our word and I would show up the next day. I agreed to that plan and tried to mentally prepare myself to talk to the officers the next day. All the preparing in the world could not prepare me for what I was getting ready to walk into the next day!
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