Shit Luck! | chota's Blog

Things changed for the worse on the Friday and took the decision out of my hands as to who I wanted or what I wanted to do. Leon was due to come at 7 o’clock that Friday night but I couldn’t get hold of him that day at all though I tried what seemed like non stop. When 8 o’clock came and went I knew something had happened so I phoned Boy S and asked him to go down to Leons Dads and find out for me. The answer that came back was as big a shock as when he first told me he had cheated.

He had been arrested along with his brother, J and another friend and there was no way he would be making it out for dinner that night or any night in the near future for that matter. It turned out I was right about J and my dislike of him. A lot came to light after this about what else he had been up to in our 2 weeks off. They had been out in the car a lot with a friend of theirs and had been nicking cars and crashing them, going out with all sort of new people whom I still have never met nor do I ever want to. In those 2 weeks his simple crimes went into overload. The reason they had been arrested was breaking and entering. 

This was not the Leon that I knew but then my Leon didn’t cheat either. Even though I was gutted about the fact I wouldn’t be seeing him in a long while I couldn’t believe this was what he had turned into all in the space of 2 weeks. Part of me wondered if it was my fault as it was me after all who had wanted the two weeks apart though I knew I hadn’t made him do it nor would I ever have let him. My Leon was more clever than this to follow some idiots idea of fun or a quick buck. 

Leon was never really far out of my mind no matter what I did. He wasn’t due in court for a while so apart from going to see his mum to check he was alright I tried to block out that side of my past and get on with the present with Dan for a while. I didn’t go when he was in court but his mum and S told me what had happened. Seven years. Even half of that was still three and a half years which by then we would both be in our twenties. I went once with his mum to see him at Chatham young offenders and he and his brother  seemed ok and were even sharing a room together. It  was awful leaving when the visit was over something seemed wrong and something was missing. Leon.