Love On The Brain

 PRELUDE- WEDNESDAY MORNING!

At a morning press conference... District Attorney Garcetti spoke-

"I believe I have been the most transformative and transparent District Attorney in this city's history, which is why I have been re-elected for a record third term Heh heh heh...I've been just as determined to put hardened criminals behind bars as I have been to make sure that innocent, wrongly convicted felons have been released...A few years ago... I started the WRONGFULLY CONVICTED UNIT, a unit that explores conviction integrity...Something I steadfastly believe in...We not only get wrongfully convicted people released...but we make sure that those we do convict are convicted fairly and correctly..

"This young lady here, Assistant District Attorney Karen Page

Spearheaded the unit and operating on a shoe string budget...She single handedly got 300 wrongfully and or unjustly convicted people released from unjust sentences....With an increased budget...I was able to get her an office down at the Bridge Building and three new staff attorneys....

Brooke Kennedy-Mars, Natalie Tennison and Mr. David Charles...Her staff attorneys , Three Superstars in the law world who have kept her record solid...now with 350 successful cases and not one loss." he said.

The Press corps all clapped and cheered...

"In the spirit of fairness... their success has not been done by themselves... In the spirit of co-operation.. ADA Page has relied on the talents of attorneys who have often been at odds with this office, but who are masters of their craft and did not think it robbery to help us from time to time... The Innocence Project Attorneys, Jessica Sanchez-Burrows and her husband, Charles "Chip" Burrows.." he said.

They came out to much applause.......

"Attorneys from McCluskey/Cozen/Connor & Pratt, Mrs. Yvette Jones-Lockwood, Mr. Keith Jones, His wife, Mrs. Beatrice "Bee Bee" Evans-Jones, Mrs. Sofia Garcia-Ahmed and her husband, Kahlil Ahmed and their investigator, Jade Lee Ho! "

Mrs. Yvette and the rest of us smiled 

as the reporters clapped and applauded wildly...

"And last but not least...you all know these guys...They've often been at odds with this office, but when there is a worthy cause...They put their differences aside and answer the bell for justice.. Olivia Bennett-Alexander, her niece, Mrs. Beverly West -East, her nieces, husband, Nelson East, and her associates, Josie Boyd and Bresha Billips and Olivia's husband, investigator, Donnie Ray Alexander.

They all smiled and waved...

Our friends, Olivia and Beverly and their team got the loudest applause....

"For the past three weeks, these attorneys ,teamed with my Staff Attorneys , Overseen by ADA Karen Page and won a landmark case...The exoneration and freedom of the "Ridge Avenue 9"  Nine young African-American men, falsely arrested, beaten and accused of killing a young woman... These Attorneys worked dilligently on these men's defense.....and argued before the State Supreme Court on their innocence...

The brilliant police work of my own Criminal Investigation Division... headlined by ADA Keith Wallace... With Lt. Sissy Van Buren, Detectives, Carlotta Rodriguez-Wallace, James Barlow, Tyriq Pile,Sirena Pile,  Tony Hopkins, Edwin "Duke" Baylor, Angela Belton Barlow and our two stalwart Medical Examiners, Dr. Hazel Baylor and Dr. Marcy Martin....They were able to capture the actual suspect in this crime..

They got a loud roar of applause....

"You don't get that lucky, but when you have good competant people working together with no egos involved...you can get much accomplished and I just want to thank everybody involved for their hard work and co-operation....and by the way...This is our 359th straight victory for the Wrongful Conviction Unit guys...

The Press snapped photos of everybody and clapped and cheered wildly... We had all worked together..Many hours... We had set up a command center in our conference room..

And worked practically to midnight a lot of nights...All 18 of us.....

We had all three meals, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner in our building's cafeteria...

And some nights after we finished working...We retreated across the street to the No I.D. Bar... Our new hangout place...

We were joined on some nights by our building mates /neighbors, Jazzy, Dabnis, Kayla, Ray,Bresha's husband, Tony, Virginia and Jetty,Brookie's husband, Sean,  Ms. Yvette's Husband, Gary and Josie's husband, Paris...

They came with much needed food, Burgers, Hot Dogs from Jakes and Pizza and Cokes.. It made the experience that much better for us..

Olivia's buses were there to take us all home...

Now it was over!  Now we went back to our normal lives.. I almost hated it.. I loved all of us together,working on one case.. I think we all did.

Sitting in back of the room steaming with anger was Lt. Tragg.... He had spearheaded the task force nine years before that had arrested the nine men....Two of the detectives on that case were now in prison themselves for murder...Pne of those detectives  was His former partner , who was serving a life sentence for the murder of the Assistant District Attorney who had prosecuted this case , the other was serving life for murdering Bresha Billips's aunt, a civil rights attorney , a few years before this... and another one, dead by suicide. The rest were all retired...Only Lt. Tragg remained...He had been in court everyday for this and was livid...He hadn't been able to locate where Olivia and her crew or us were working.. He didn't know about the Bridge Building...and the few times he had ventured to our building to talk to Karen, he was told that neither she nor her team was there...He was totally unhinged in the weeks leading up to the trials and to the reversals.... When he heard that Detectives from the C.I.D. and the Medical Examiners Office actually identified and arrested the actual culprit, his mood was even more sour..

But the case was over....

District Attorney Garcetti treated us all to Breakfast at Sam Mothers , on his dime... well, The City's Dime..

"Enjoy folks... This is that rare time I'm in YOUR DEBT!" joked DA Garcetti ...

Ms.Yvette, Me, Bee Bee, Sofia, Kahlil, Ms. Jade , Olivia, Beverly, Donnie Ray, Nelson, Josie and Bresha, who were joined by their husbands...Paris and Tony all sat at one big table..

"It's nice...Nice for us to be in YOUR DEBT Gil" said Ms. Yvette, as we all laughed...

"Thanks for the grub...."I said...

"Hot Stuff, stop eating so fast...You're going to choke yourself." said my wife, lovingly....

Sofia laughed and rubbed her husbands arm... "You could stand to slow down too papi." she laughed..

"I know....I knowwwww!" laughed Kahlil....

"I for one am starving after hearing all of that hot air this morning." whispered Jade to Olivia

Olivia giggled and playfully punched Jade's arm....

"This is very nice....Very nice."said Beverly , who was in a very good mood.

"Yeah,let's enjoy it while we can."said Donnie Ray,looking around.

"I know what you mean Donnie Ray." said Nelson.

"Ummmmm I love the Buttermilk Biscuits and Gravy...This is the only place we can get it."said Josie.

"I know...."said Paris..

"Come on Husband,stop eating so fast...You're going to choke yourself." said Bresha lovingly....

"Okay Babe, I'll slow down." said Tony with a smile.

Behind us at another table sat

"Thank You  Gil.... We are very grateful for your faith in us." said Karen...

"Yes thank you for opening up these positions for us."said Brooke.

Her husband, Federal Public Defender, Sean Marks sat quietly, lovingly looking at her.

"Thank you Mister District Attorney for re-uniting me with this fabulous Attorney here..." said Natalie staring lovingly at her fiance...David Charles...

David just beamed as he enjoyed his breakfast...

"Natalie....I've never seen you so happy, so gaga over anyone....."said Jessica, smiling..

"Me neither."laughed her husband, Chip.....

The food arrived... We were all famished... and we chowed down.....

Sam Mother was happy...He loved it when we came in and ate at his diner...

He hated when Lt. Arthur Tragg came in....As usual he was in a foul mood... His prior investigation ,which had gotten him a week on HARD BOTTOM nine years ago and lauded had been torn to shreds..

The Nine guys he arrested were innocent after all and detectives had captured the actual killer  who had been sitting back laughing at him for years and bragging to friends about how he had done it and that "dumb keystone copper didn't have a clue."

Lt. Tragg didn't care about any of that...He was livid that these attorneys had overturned one of the landmark cases of his that had put him on the map and once again made him look like an incompetent boob...

"Look at you...All of you... Crusaders....Do gooders, defender of the so called little man.. We got a group of attorneys here who attach yourselves to every case that looks controversial...and if there is none ,you open up an old long ago closed case and make it one... and then you have over here, Three incredibly successful Assistant District Attorneys, Karen, Brooke and even you Natalie, who lost your desire to put the bad guys away and are now dedicated to freeing losers in long ago closed cases.. I just don't get it!" he said.

No one said a word...We all kept on eating.. enjoying our food and talking amongst each other as though he wasn't there..

"AHHHHHHH THE SILENT TREATMENT EH?" he bellowed...

It was the same old thing with him...The whining, the complaining and the staring at us with that baleful glare of his....

"Give it a rest Artie...All this whining and complaining is no good now... If you and your Task Force had done a better job nine years ago... None of us would be here right now.. Cut it out and leave em alone." said Garcetti...

Lt. Tragg stood there ,staring balefully at us..but not saying another word!

Since we didn't have to pay for our meals..we ate , finished our meals and all one by one filed out and vanished inside the crowd 

And got on the train that would take us back to work and Olivia and her team home..

Only Karen stayed behind.. She sat alone and applied her lipstick...

Lt. Tragg sat next to her...

"You know Karen....My Mood would really improve if you'd have a drink and some quiet conversation with me..." he said, putting his arm around her waist and pulling her close to him..

"Then you're going to be in a pretty sour mood Lieutenant...because I'm not going anywhere with you, and please, please take your hands, from under my skirt!" she said, removing his hands...

"Ummmmmmmmmmmm!" Lt. Tragg moaned.. He had a pleased as punch look on his face...

Karen removed his hand from up under her skirt and got up.... She slapped his face, hard..

"I told you to stop it!" she said sternly and got up and left the diner....

 

For the first time, Lt. Tragg smiled..

II-

EARLY  WEDNESDAY MORNING!

LOVERS LANE!  3:10 AM

A young Black Man sits alone in his car and dials a number..... He is smiling, clad only in his boxers....

It is not known who he is calling...He does not see the gunman come up behind him and fire three shots,

one that shatters his back window of his car and all three which hit him in the back of the head, killing him instantly....

Just another murder in the city of Philadelphia.

That same night...

We are all at home, relaxing after the end of our last big case....

Bee Bee was wearing another sheer see through Baby doll.....She had just taken a hot shower and walked into our bedroom..

My eyes popped out of my head..

She giggled..

"Oh my goddd..look at you...Are you going to act like this all the time?..WOW!!! That boner is massive." she said and put her hands over her mouth..

I pulled her towards me...Is this something you bought at Bridget's store the other day?" I asked.

"Yes, both, the panties and the baby doll...I knew you'd like it." she giggled..

"I like everything on you.." I said.

"Awwwwwwwwwwww" she giggled.

I undressed and  slipped her panties down and off  and took her into my arms and kissed her softly....

"Ohhhhh my godddd, Bee Bee...These are grown women's panties"I moaned...

"I'm a grown woman aren't I?" she said.

"YESSSSSSS! YES YOU ARE BEE BEE." I said.

 "Ummmmmm, ouuuuuuuuuuuu you are so hard....Ouuuuuu, look at youuuu!" she exclaimed as she stroked me lightly...

We lie across the bed, kissing and practically slobbering over each other....

Soon we were making love passionately on top of the bed..Not thinking about recent events..

The next EIGHT TO NINE HOURS, all we were thinking about was each other..

The same was next door at Kahlil and Sofia's house..

Sofia and Kahlil were lying across the bed..

Kissing ,fondling and laughing..

He slipped her panties down and off...

"OHHHHHHHH MAMASITA!!!" he moaned...

"OHHHHHHHH PAPI, DON'T SAY IT!!! OUUUUUUUUU!" she cooed

"OUUUUUUUUUUU PAPI...AYE MIOS DIOS! You are sooo damn hard! OUUUUU!" Sofia moaned  as she rode him on the side of the bed until neither one of them could take anymore...

"You've always gotten me hard mamasita." said Kahlil.

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" she cooed.

before they too were making sweet love for the next EIGHT TO NINE HOURS!

Gary and Ms. Yvette were way ahead of us..

They had been making sweet love since Ms. Yvette got home for the day...

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH GARYYYYYYYY, UMMMMMMMMMMMM!" moaned Ms. Yvette..

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUU VETTTTTTTTTTIE, you're my sweet girl." moaned her husband, Gary...

They had made love early into the morning hours...

 

Yvette smiled..

"OHHHHHHH VETTIE I LOVE YOU SOOO MUCH!" Gary yelled out..

"Not More than I love you....OUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" said Yvette..

Their bed was sturdy and very very comfortable...It moved with their every move and was very comfortable and warm..It actually enhanced their lovemaking..

EIGHT TO NINE HOURS had passed by.

 Bee Bee and I were fast asleep in each others arms..

Sofia and Kahlil were in each others arms and still kissing, almost asleep.

And Gary and Ms. Yvette were sound asleep..

And Next door at Jessica and Chips house.

"OUUUUUUUUU YVETTE IS SOOO Loud. HAHAHAHA ,IT MUST BE GOOD, GARY MUST BE REALLY LAYING SOME PIPE TONIGHT!" said Jessica .

"I'm about to make you scream loud.. I'm about to lay some pipe in you..." said her husband, 

I

"Ummmmmmmm Aye Mios dios papi, make me scream loud." said Jessica..

As they kissed and Chip ran his hands down into her lacy panties

and slowly slipped them down...

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU PAPI LAY THAT PIPE PAPI..." Jessica cooed.

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...AWWWWWWWWWWWWW!" he moaned lously..

"Now I'm making you moan loud." said Jessica..

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU PAPI...PAPI.....PAPPPPPIIIIIIIII, EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

AYE MIOS DIOS...OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" Jessica screamed...

"AWEEEEEEEEEE!! AWWWWWWWWWWWW LAWWWWWD!" Chip moaned...

As they began to make sweet love and their bedsprings began to squeak...

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU PAPI...PAPI.....PAPPPPPIIIIIIIII, EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

AYE MIOS DIOS...OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" Jessica screamed...

"AWEEEEEEEEEE!! AWWWWWWWWWWWW LAWWWWWD!" Chip moaned...

"UMMMMMMMMMMMMM..OUUUUUUUUUU! PAPIIIIIIIIII AYE MIOS DIOS!! OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!" Jessica moaned loudly..

"AWEEEEEEEEEE!! AWWWWWWWWWWWW LAWWWWWD!" Chip moaned...

"I'm going to have to take Jessie and Chip to the store where we got our foam bed....Their bed is so loud and squeaky........She's loud enough...but their bed is really loud..."laughed Yvette..  "I love her to death, but the girl is loud. Chip must be really putting it to her!." laughed Yvette.She and Gary had been awakened by Jessica's cooing and screaming and Chip's loud moaning and the squeakiness of their bed..

"And we aren't loud?? Come on Vettie...You're as loud as she is."laughed Gary, who was rubbing Yvette's butt softly and lifting up her baby doll..

He mounted her again......

"OUUUUUUUUUUUU I DON'T BELIEVE YOU.....OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" she moaned... "YOU ARE A HORN DOG SUPREMEEEEEE!" she laughed out loud..

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I JUST...I JUST DON'T GET ENOUGH!!! OHHHHHH " he moaned.

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH GARYYYYYYYY, UMMMMMMMMMMMM!" moaned Ms. Yvette..

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUU VETTTTTTTTTTIE, you're my sweet girl." moaned her husband, Gary...

They moaned...carrying on until both Gary and Yvette exploded in an orgasmic splendor...both of their bodies trembling, sweat running down both of the sides of their faces....

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU THAT WAS AMAZING!" she coooed..

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH DAMNNN GIRRRRRL!" Gary said..

As Yvette rested on his chest..

And At Ms. Jade's House...

"I'm glad to be home ,with you." said Danny...

"I'm glad to be home with you too." said Jade.

"Come here..." said Danny, pulling her towards him..

They kissed passionately..

Standing in the middle of their bedroom kissing passionately.

Danny slipped her panties down....

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH JADEEEEEEE!!!" he moaned..

She eased herself down on Danny slowly.....

"OUUUUUUUUUUUU JADE!" he moaned.

"OHHHHHHHHHHH HUSBAND!" she cooed.

They began making love. 

Even at Ms. Virginia's house...

''Well the case is over..Life is back to normal.." said Jetty..

Ms. Virginia laughed..

"I guess that means you can't live up in my office , trying to take my clothes off anymore doesn't it?" she said.

As he helped her undress

Unsnapped her bra...

slipped her panties down..

"Doesn't matter, I can take em off here...ummmmmmmmm...ouuuuuuuuu!" he moaned as they began to make sweet love...

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!! MY LAWWWWD JETTY DO YOU EVER GET ENOUGH??? OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SWEET LAWWWD!" Ms. Virginia howled.

III-

The Next Morning...

"Wow, poor guy took three to the head... The first bullet tore out his entire back window." said one CSI man.

"He never saw it coming...He was calling somebody...There's a phone on the floor over by the passenger side." said another CSI Man...

He's in his boxers.....no socks no shoes...You think he was entertaining somebody?" asked a detective.

''Ya Think ?????Look around....You don't come up here by yourself.. There is a puddle of what looks like semen on the floor." said a detective..

"Maybe he was calling someone to meet him here and was uh taking care of himself until she got here."said a uniformed policeman...

''No...somebody was here.... There's a pair of panties and a bra underneath the passenger seat... I think someone was here and they left in a hurry...probably after the shooting or a little before.."said another detective.

Two Homicide Detectives on the scene, Detectives Reed and Malloy used their latex gloves to examine the body and to lift the phone off the floor..

"Yeah , he was definitely calling somebody, but he never finished the number." said Detective Reed..

"His trousers are on the back seat..........He had a guest here last night." said Hazel...

"This is after  all a lovers lane..." said Dr. Marcy Martin.....Looking at the pool of blood and brain matter that splashed on the back seat of the car..."Put those panties and that bra in  seperate bag....Tag it." she said.

Two Police Cars drove up ,facing opposite directions...

An Unmarked police car also drove up.... Six Uniformed officer waiting for him to get out of the unmarked car and then followed him on to the scene..

"Awwwwwwww Hell!" said Dr. Hazel Baylor.. She despised Lt. Tragg with a passion..

"What have we got here? Whoooooooo looks like ole boy had himself quite a wing ding before he got popped." he said.  It was as though he was auditioning for a TV show... It was quite obvious it was a Homicide...

"We got a Homicide Lieutenant... He took three to the back of the head..."said Detective Malloy. "We found him in just his boxers...Found a pair of panties and a bra underneath the passenger seat... Spunk on the floor in front of the vehicle... "Looks like he had company and they left abruptly...We don't know if they left before the shooting ot right after it." said another detective..

"Hmmmmmmm , As the superior officer here...I am taking over this investigation... " he said.  Unlike Lt. Sissy Van Buren and Lt. Danny Ho..

He actually was these detectives superior and they couldn't buck him....

Hazel sighed heavily in disgust... The Tension in the air was thick...

Lt. Tragg walked over to her..

''Did you have something you wanted to add Dr. Baylor.?" he asked..

"I don't have have a damn thing to say to you... GET OUT OF MY FACE!" said Hazel icily...

"Doc Gibbons is going to hear about your attitude...and I may have to talk to Duke about you too"said Lt. Tragg..

Hazel pulled out her phone and passed it to him..

''Go Ahead..Call either one of them... It makes me no difference." she said cooly...

Lt. Tragg turned from her..."Wrap him up and get him out of here if you're finished wiping for prints and DNA."he said... 

As they wrapped the body of the unknown black male up....strapped him to a gurney and prepared him for transport....

"Marcy, get me the Autopsy reports as soon as possible..." he said, totally ignoring the fact that Hazel was the Senior Coroner...

''Yes sir" said Marcy meekly...

And far away , in our building...

we all sat in our conference room...

"This is soo nice... I should have given you all the day off,,,We have absolutely nothing to do today."said Ms. Yvette,.

"That's okay....Having nothing to do is kinda fun ." I said.

I had Bee Bee on my lap...I was hugging her gently....

Likewise, Sofia was sitting on Kahlil's lap with her head resting on his shoulders...

He smiled serenely....

"Tomorrow is Friday,,,You can give us that day off." said Jade....

Bagels and Doughnuts arrived

Ms. Virginia smiled...

"Dig in... Personally I'm glad to have you all to myself again."she said, smiling. She did miss us being downstairs in the conference room most of the day.

A FEW HOURS LATER!

An Elderly woman walked into the office... She smiled and looked around..

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU....OH MY GOODNESSS ,This is Yvette, My Yvette!" said the woman.

''May I help you?"asked Office Manager, Virginia Shaw....

"Yes...Is Yvette Jones here...Tell her an old friend of hers is here.." said the woman..

This woman was old enough to be Yvette's mother...but who knows? Thought Virginia... She called Yvette on the intercom...

Yvette walked out...Her eyes got as large as saucers...

"Mrs. Foster? Mrs. Foster??OH MY GOD!!!! I haven't seen you since that day in front of the school, How are you doin?" she said and hugged the woman..."Oh My God, Mrs. Foster...How are you?" said Yvette.

"I'm doing just fine, but not as good as you're doing....This is your office huh?  Your Mother told me this is where you work...  You made Partner... You're the Managing Partner huh.....WOWWW Vettie girl..  " she said.. She looked at Virginia.. "Vettie was my baby, my favorite student... I was her English teacher when she was in High school...and head of the Debate team...Vettie made straight A's..and was the Captain of the debate team..She was brilliant..She was a shy girl, who wore big coke bottle glasses..Around 11th Grade, her hips began developing, her little breasts grew like mellons and her cousin took those glasses off of her and lawd...The boys swarmed around her like bees to honey...but she never took her eyes off the prize..She graduated  Valedictorian from her class...I was so proud of my Vettie... I lost track of her after she graduated from Lasalle University, but I knew she'd do good...she Went to PENN LAW SCHOOL, passed the bar...and look at her, married, made partner...Ohhhhhh I just love her..."Said Mrs. Foster, hugging Yvette and rocking her back and forth..

"Awwww Vettie." said Ms. Virginia, laughing...

Yvette blushed something crazy...Having her life story told like this...She was miles away from that shy unsure girl with the Coke Bottle glasses .....She was built like a brickhouse....dressed to the nines and had guys heads turning and necks breaking when she walked into a room...She was also wildly successful..

"This is my office manager and consultant...Mrs. Virginia Shaw-Dukes...."said Yvette.,.

"Pleased to meet you mam...We all think the world of our Boss Lady, Ms. Yvette....Take her to the conference room, introduce her to the staff." said Virginia..

"Yes Ms. Foster...Come in the conference room and meet the Attorneys ,who I supervise and my investigator."said Ms. Yvette.

They walked into the conference room...

"Everybody, come meet Mrs. Lorraine Foster....She was my English Teacher and I was Captain of The Debate Team, which she chaired....She started me on my way to being an Attorney..."said Ms. Yvette.

"Oh Vettie, I didn't know you were going to become a lawyer...But I knew you were going to be successful..." said Mrs. Foster.

"This is Attorney Keith Jones...My Right hand man..." said Yvette,

"Pleased to meet you..."I said..

"This is one of my two"daughters", His wife, Attorney Beatrice "Bee Bee" Evans.

"Hello, Pleased to meet you mam."said Bee Bee..

"And my other daughter, We call her little Mamasita...Attorney Sofia Garcia-Ahmed...These two ladies keep everybody straight."

"Hola...Pleased to meet you."said Sofia..

"And my other son...her her husband, Attorney Kahlil Ahmed."

"Pleased to meet you mam!" said Kahlil...

''And my investigator, the architect of all of our success, Attorney  Jade Lee Ho.." said Yvette.

"Pleased to meet you." said Jade.

''It's a pleasure to meet you all...Your staff is just lovely Yvette....I am sooo proud of you.. I'm glad you all are here." said Mrs. Foster.. She passed Yvette an envelope with two thousand dollars in it... "That's a retainer... I'll have more... The reason why I'm here is because my idiot son has gotten himself in a bit of trouble.. He was arrested earlier today and charged with murder.. You may have heard of him...He's a record Producer  and a D.J.now and has a Podcast... Mitchell Foster , better known as "Pop Tart" she said...

"Yeahhh, I know Pop Tart... He is a D.J. too.... And I listen to his Podcast...He has all of the latest people in the Hip Hop world who come through Philly on his show..Athletes and Comedians too!"said Kahlil..

"He was at Josie's, Aqua Bar and The Roller Skating Rink in Bayside with four other D.J.'s spinning about a month ago..."said Bee Bee.

"He Produced Spanish Jim's last album and Sleek Miller's too.Shame they left his label as soon as they blew up!  No loyalty at all." said Sofia..

''Not to mention Sloppy Joe, he produced him too and he bounced to L.A. ...Pop Tart has got that Sneaker deal and that deal with Gato's Liquor...he's making crazy money now, he don't care! Yeah, That's your son?? He's a baller." I said.

"He thinks he is.Yes, my son has uh done quite well for himself...He has a Masters in Communications/Journalism from Temple... He parlayed it into his music career.. I wasn't about it at first...but he's made a go of it..

He's accused of killing a man...A man he knew....They were both seeing the same woman...Some tramp.. My son is a lot of things..but he's no killer..I need your help Vettie..." said Mrs. Foster.

"Of course we will help you Mrs. Foster" said Yvette...She kissed Mrs. Foster on the cheek and passed her , her envelope back...

"Your money is no good here." she whispered to her.

We had just finished a landmark case.. The City of Philadelphia had paid us handsomely...That and other cases had brought in lots of revenue...We could afford to take a case Pro Bono..

Plus Mitchell "Pop Tart" Foster wasn't hardly a hard luck case...He had money...big money...He could pay us.

IV-

THE OFFICE OF ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY ANITA SCOTT-

She poured him and herself a hot steaming cup of cofffee...

ADA James " Jumpshot Jim" Taylor was having coffee with ADA Anita Scott..

"You're up next ....You 're prosecuting Mitchell Foster.....Better known as Pop Tart, you know of him?" asked Jumpshot Jim..He's  A D.J. , record producer, Got a Podcast....I keep up with the culture." he laughed..

"I know him quite well..." said Anita Scott. Thinking back to a time several years ago...

BOTTOM OF THE C RESTAURANT

"Mitchell...you've got your Masters now...I'm sure there are some good jobs in Broadcasting at Radio Stations or Television Stations around...If not here in Philly, certainly New York, Atlanta... I just don't want to see you waste your potential..This rap stuff was cool in High school and even in college...but we've graduated now.. You have your Masters and I just passed the bar....We could be that power couple.  " said Anita Scott..

"Baby you gotta have vision...I just signed a record deal....I'm about to blow up....You cn be my lawyer and my agent..We can still make it... And Puffy was here last week...He's thinking about giving my label a distribution deal...You just can't see what I see...Come on Neet, you said Where I go, you go..You said you wanted to build with me.." said Mitchell Foster..

"I did, but I thought by now you'd have this dream of being a rapper out of your system...Do you realize how many guys around here want to be, wanted to be rappers and are still standing on the street corners mumbling ?? and they don't have your education....Your intelligence...What does your mama think about all of this?" asked Anita.

"My Mama means well, but she says the same thing you say and my dad thinks I'm a fool..Everybody is against me... What these other busters lack is a business plan baby...I planned this whole thing out... I planned it...I'm going to be big, like Jay-Z...you watch!" said Mitchell..

"I'm sorry Mitchell....but I have plans too...I have dreams too and being another struggle story aint part of my plans...I have student loans to pay....as do you....So I'm going to have to give you this engagement ring back..." said Anita Scott..

She passed him his ring back....

He sat there in tears...Not saying anything...

"I'm sorry Mitchell...Good Luck to you....and goodbye." she said as she walked out of the restaurant...

Puffy never showed up and his record deal fell through.......He lost his apartment and spent the next two years crashing at  friends homes and sleeping on the sofa...

Then things turned around... He found steady work ,being the house D.J. at Josies and Aqua Bar... he made enough money to get an apartment...a cheap used car and pay off some of his student loans...Then he began producing local artists,  Spanish Jim, Sloppy Joe, Sleek Mills...He started a small label... A label that was bought up by a larger record company and his artists were taken from him... but he kept going on.. His D.J.ing skills and his Podcast caught fire.. He got major sponsers and a sneaker sponsership and a liquor sponsership....at the end of five more years...He was a millionaire, living in a Tony Condo and his own crew of D.J.'s who worked for him at Josie's, Aqua Bar, Stoleys and the Bayside Roller Skating Rink...He had paid off all of his student loans and was as he used to say "On top of the world..."  Now he had gotten himself in some kind of trouble.. big trouble..A Murder rap....She hadn't seen him in 7 years...and now she'd be prosecuting him...She hoped with his money he would be able to secure some good lawyers..

''So, you down to prosecute him or you want to fall back?" asked James "Jumpshot Jim" Taylor.

Anita Scott sighed.. "No...I can handle it." she said.

And at our office...

"We've got a Judge all lined up Ms. Yvette..."said Bee Bee.

"Judge Percy Reynolds.."said Sofia...

"Excellent.....Guys did you find charactor witnesses?" asked Ms. Yvette.

"We found some charactors alright." I laughed..

"Yeah, we found eight witnesses,,, A lot of em are rappers or from that world...Not the most credible, but it was the best we could do on such short notice..."said Kahlil..

''They can be prepped and prepared..."said Jade..

"Okay.....Good.. Tomorrow We got to Central Booking and give Lt. Tragg a heart attack."laughed Ms. Yvette.

(TO BE CONTINUED)