“No way!” you shout. “I trusted you to be my science partner
and look what happened!”
“Fine,” Taniquia replies, a sad look on her
face. “I guess the only thing left to say is, I’m sorry. So very, very sorry.”
Then she sneaks out as quietly as she had entered.
Your lawyer arrives twenty minutes later,
with very bad news. “The police have overwhelming evidence that you were involved
in a plot to kidnap the President’s daughter. If you agree to plead guilty to
attempted kidnapping and grand theft auto, the police won’t charge you with
murder.”
“But I didn’t do any of those things!” You
shout.
“The evidence says otherwise. I have to
advise you to take the deal. If a jury finds you guilty, you will spend the
rest of your life in prison. If you take the deal, you could be out in twenty
years… with good behavior.”
Not wanting to spend the next twenty years
of your life in prison for a crime you didn’t commit, you refuse to take the
deal.
Six months later, a jury finds you guilty
on all counts and sentences you to life in prison.
You spend the rest of your life in prison,
never knowing who Taniquia really was or how that black Lamborghini ended up in
your garage.
THE END
