Sunday, August 7, 2011

What do you think? Juvie or more of this?

My BFF & I are always getting into trouble together. We like to skip school and go hang out places. We've both been busted before for shoplifting and recently we were back in court due to truancy and a new shoplifting charge each. The judge decided to revoke the probation we'd received from the first shoplifting charge. He told us he could either send us to the detention center while we await our hearing on our new charges, or we could stay out if we and our parents agreed to certain terms. So what happened is, in order to make sure we stay out of trouble, we are to remain handcuffed together until the hearing. When this first began, school wasn't out, so a police officer would meet us at the steps to our high school and lock us together for the day. That way, we wouldn't be tempted to cut since we couldn't really go anywhere like that. We had most of the same classes anyway, so we only had to work out a couple transfers. Once school was out for the day, an officer would meet us outside to free us. On the weekends, we had to stay cuffed together for 24 hours a day. The chain on these cuffs is long enough that one of us can stand outside a bathroom stall or stand in the shower with the curtain drawn when we use the bathroom at one of our houses. Now that school is out, we're like this 24/7. We alternate sleeping over at each other's place, so each of our families get to see us. The only time we are now allowed to be separated is for 30 minutes in the morning while we shower and get dressed. Surprise checks insure we're never apart for any other reason. If we get caught out of them, we'll go straight to juvie. Our hearing is FINALLY coming up and that leads me to my question. Our lawyer says the judge could either send us to juvie for a year (since that was the length of our probation) or we could opt to stay like this for that length of time, or perhaps shorter. I don't know what to do. I don't really wanna go to juvie, but as much as I love my friend I don't think we wanna stay like this either. What would you do?

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