The Guilty

"Do you understand why we are going to court?" Amy looked at her young client wondering if he even heard her. They had been talking for over an hour and it was going nowhere, "I need to know what you want to plead," he looked at her with blank eyes, looking not at her but right through her. They sat there in silence as Amy waited for an answer. She decided to take a different approach, "Did you do it?" he tilted his head and smiled with innocence.
"John, try to focus, do you understand what they think you did?" Amy pushed her hair back and looked in his eyes willing him to understand
"The police think I killed that boy," John's eyes were filling with tears. Amy looked away so not to embarrass him, "I just wanted him to leave us alone."
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