~Chapter 21~

"We'll look for him tommorrow, get some sleep tonight ok." Brian said sleepily. "Yeah, I guess". "I Love you Sparkle." "I love you too, Bri". With that, they hung up the phone and fell asleep. The next morning Kristy was woke by the ringing of her phone. She crawled out of bed and picked it up. "Hello?" "Hi, is this Ms. Caswell?" the voice on the line asked. "Yes". "This is Neil Kenyon, Chief of Police. We have a Kevin Richardson in custody, you were the person he said should be notified. He got into a fight last night outside of a bar. We think it was over drugs, the other man was in posession of cocaine, but the was no proof to hold against Mr. Richardson. He is being fined $500 for disturbing the peace and his bail I set at $200." "Ok, I guess I'll be right there to pick him up. Thank you". She placed the phone back down and went next door to get Brian. After knocking three times Howie came to the door. "Is Brian around?" "No, he left, he said he had to go look for something. He didn't say what" Howie answered. "Will you come with me to pick Kevin up from the police station" she sighed tiredly. She had gotten plenty of sleep last night, but was weighed down by the events that had taken place in her life recently. "I guess he got into a fight last night at a bar or something. I have to go bail him out." The exhaustion in her voice melted Howie's heart, he felt so bad for her but there was nothing he could do about it. "I don't get why you don't just leave him there! I would." He said. Her eyes silently pleaded with him not to make her go alone. "Come on, let's go". They proceeded to the station occasionally speaking to each other. "Why are you being so nice to Kevin after what he did to Brian? What did the rest of us miss that made you and Brian able to forgive him so easily? Its just not right that he tries to kill Brian and gets away with it." "Howie there are circumstances that…" "Circumstances? What circumstances excuse you from doing some thing like that, from trying to kill your family?" Howie interupted. She sighed and got out of the car, they had finally reached the police station. "I'm not finished talking to you about this, something is up that we should know about" he said calmly letting her know that he wasn't mad at her. "We're here to bail out Kevin Richardson" Kristy said to the man sitting at the desk. "Here is the money" she handed him two-hundred dollars. "Right through here" he directed her down a small hallway that led to the holding cell. "Richarson, you've been bailed" the officer unlocked the gate and Kevin came moping out. "Kristy, Thank you so mu…."He began. "Kevin, I don't even want to talk to you right now" she stopped him. He hung his head and followed her and Howie out to the car. "Man, you are such a screw up!" howie commented as Kevin got in. When they got back to Kristy's, Nick, AJ, and Brian were sitting outside on the porch. She walked right by them into the house. She was a little surprised when she saw that all of her belongings were unpacked and the house was decorated perfectly. The moving van had came while they she was picking up Kevin and Brian thought it would be a good idea to help her out and do it all for her. She walked back out to the porch gave Brian a kiss a returned inside. She pulled a business card out her wallet and dialed the number printed on it. The conversation was short but relieving for her. "You have a solution for everything don't you?" Brian said coming up behind her. ~**Chapter 22**~
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