My heart raced.
The officer came out and opened his driver’s door.
“Excuse me,” I said low. “Can you tell me how my man is?”
He didn’t respond. He just got in and started to back up.
“WHAT ARE YOU DOIN’?!” I yelled out. “I can’t leave! I need to know that he’s okay! I need to know that he’s okay!”
He never responded, and I cried silently.
We got to the police station, then I got searched and led to a room.
I sat in there for what felt like hours before an officer came in with a blanket and said.
“Gio is at the hospital; he’s okay.”
I felt like I could breathe for the first time.
The officer read me my rights, then sat across from me and looked deep into my eyes.
“We don’t want you; we just want him. But you will be here until we search your place.”
I tilted my head. “Want him for what? Gio don’t do shit.”
The officer smirked. “Ma’am, did you forget that we caught you flushing drugs? Technically, we could lock you up if we wanted to. But we’d rather go for the big fish.”
I leaned back in my chair.
“One thing I know for certain, Gio is not the big fish?—”
“How so?” she asked, cutting me off.
“Did you see where we live? So I don’t know what you are talking about.”
She sighed, stood up, and walked out, closing the door behind her.
I sat there for a bit, paced the room, and prayed for Gio and what he was about to face. After a while, I dozed off.
When I woke up, the officer was coming back into the room.
“We are done with your place. My partner is going to drive you home.”
I stood up.
“Can I go to the hospital to see Gio?”
She shook her head. “No ma’am. He’s in police custody.”
“Well, when can I see him?”
The female officer looked at his file, then looked at me with a smirk on her face like she was doin’ her big one.
“Ma’am, this is not your man’s first rodeo. You can see him once he’s booked and processed.”
I opened my mouth, about to say something that might have gotten me locked up, but changed my mind and gave her a nod and walked out to her partner. The sun was starting to come up by the time we left the station. The ride there was silent. I thought about whether I knew anybody who worked at the hospital and if they could sneak me in.
Just as we were about to pull up to my complex, the officer got a call on the radio. He responded in some code and stopped at my entrance.
