What Lies AheadChapter 19
When we got back to the house, I pulled Vicki into her room while Mom and Jonathan stopped to talk to Vicki’s mom downstairs. “How’d it go?” She asked. “Not well. We lost.” “Already? I thought this was just to set a court date or something.” “It was, but they always ask the judge to just decide the thing then and there. The judge usually says “no” and then everything moves forward. It’s apparently standard legal stuff. But this time the judge said “ok”, and found in favor of the State,...