Trial

The court trial was yesterday. I will not elaborate. It's an ugly story. But the thing is, that particular trial has life-altering consequences for me. And I'm not even being dramatic.

When I say life-altering, I mean life-altering. I mean I might have to stop studying and support my younger sister through her last year of nursing. I mean my family could be ruined and our name shamed. I mean my father could be imprisoned.

But I don't think the possibilities have hit me yet because I'm looking at it with a strange detachment. And I'm still hopeful nothing would change at all.