Princess Love - Chapter 24
 
        The group sat near the back of the courtroom and waited for the judge to come out.  The all looked at the twins; James and John, wondering who did what and why.
         "Are you going to be okay?" Nick asked Jen carefully and she nodded.  He put his hand on her leg and looked at her and smiled.
         "What happened?" Brian smiled and whispered in Elizabeth's ear, who shrugged her shoulders.
         "I'm not sure if we WANT to know." She laughed and he nodded and turned back to the front of the court.
         "ALL RISE!"  The balif said, he wore a beige suit and looked tired.
         Everyone stood up and the judge came in and took his seat at the front of the court.
         "I just want to start of and say that we will be trying both men, neither will admit to either crime so they will both the tried at the same time.  The jury has been selected and we are ready for the opening arguments.
         You may start first Mr. Washington." He said to the defense attorney.
         Mr. Washington stood in front of the courtroom with a plain grey suit and thin-wired glasses.  He held a few papers in his hand and walked over to the jury.
         "I am here representing these two poor souls who have been wrongfully accused of murdering two people.  No one knows that they did it, no one saw them..."
         "What the heck is he talking about?" Jen asked Nick who shrugged his shoulders.
         "Boy, I think they got a bad lawyer." Nick said and Jen agreed.
         "The young eyes of Jen Thompson thought she saw what was going on, but in reality this wasn't reality.  What she saw came from months of torment and abuse from her mother."
         "What the hell!?" Jen said and the judge gave her a warning glance.
         "The mother was a drunk who didn't know what was going on, she had tried to stab her husband, Mr. James Thompson, but he hit her in self-defense.  I hope that the jury will listen carefully to the following days, or weeks, that help support my evidence on this matter.
         "As for the prince, they had no motive to try to kill him.  Why would they kill a perfect stranger with as much power as the prince? They wouldn't.
         I rest.." The lawyer said and gave the other lawyer a nasty look.
         "You make go now Mr. Jeremy Robertson." The judge said and the lawyer stood.  He was young and look slightly nervous.  When he finally reached the stand where all of the jurors sat he looked more confident.
         "Jennifer Anne Thompson saw her mother kill her father... She was seventeen when she saw this and her young eyes would have made no such thing up.  She knew the constant fighting that went on, heard it everyday.  She knew who drank and who didn't.  The drinker in the family was James.  But who was James?
         "This is a lie that we all need to wonder.  Was Mrs. Thompson actually married to James or John? No one is certain, but we are certain that one of them killed the helpless woman.
         "The Thompson Twins had motive to kill the prince.  The prince was happily married to a beautiful woman and was known all around the world for his good looks and his kindnes.  The twins had business dealings within the royal family and Prince Sean out.  The only way that the twins could be sure of not getting caught was to murder him and now that is why we are all here." He nodded and sat back down.
         "That was good." Brian said and everyone nodded.  Brian was sitting in the aisle and looked up at a figure that stood next to him. "AJ? What are you doing here?" He asked and looked at Jasmine.
         "Long story; but I wanted to help my friends out." He whispered and sat down.
         "This court will go for a recess until tomorrow at noon." The judge said and stood up.
         "Man, bad timing!" AJ groaned and everyone stood and left the courtroom.  They drove to the hotel and went to Brian's room to talk.
         "So... what is happening with you guys?" Brian asked curiously as he sat on the floor and put his arm around Elizabeth.
         "Well, this is going to come as a shock..." Jasmine said as she stood up and looked down at everyone.
         AJ sat in a chair, with Kevin sitting in a chair next to him with Kim.  Valerie and Howie sat on the bed, with Nick and Jen sitting on the bed.
         "Tell..." Valerie said and looked up at Jasmine.
         "Well... I just couldn't understand that I had HIV.  Everynight I relived the day when I thought I stuck myself with the needle and I seriously didn't think I pricked myself.  I remember that I had my glove on and I stood there, put my hand in the box and threw the needle away, my glove had bunched up and that was the only thing I remembered.  So right after AJ and I seperated I went to another doctor.  I got the test done and a few days ago I found out that it was really negative, not positive.  To be extra positive I had it done twice the second time that I went to the doctor.  They both came back negative. So I am HIV free, 100% positive." She said and sat down.  AJ put his arm around Jasmine and looked around the room.
         "Thank god!" Valerie said and stood up and hugged Jasmine tightly.
         They all got up and hugged her.  "We are so happy for you, we knew that AJ would never be able to live without you." Brian said.
         "I would never be able to live without him." She said and smiled up at him.
         "Okay, we are going to stay here for another week, we need to re-arrange the rooms.  Do you want to have my room and share it with Jasmine?" Brian asked AJ and he nodded.
         "Sure, but where are you going to go?" AJ asked and Brian shrugged his shoulders.
         "I will go down and get another room."  Brian said and stood up.  Ten minutes later he was back with a key.
         "All set." He said and smiled at the group.
         "I want to go clubbing!" Howie said and stood up, taking Valerie's hand in his.
         "Me too!" She smiled up at him.
         "I want to, are you to tired to?" AJ asked Jasmine and she shook her head.
         "No! Let's go!" Jasmine laughed and stood up.
         "I want to go to!" Kevin and Kim said.
         In the end, everyone but Brian and Elizabeth wanted to go.  Brian didn't like to go clubbing to much and Elizabeth decided to keep him company.
         They went in her room and turned on the television.
         "Turn it off." Brian said and looked at Elizabeth from across the room.
         "Why?"
         "Because all they are going to talk about is the case and I think that we are going to get enough of that soon enough. Not that I mind or anything, but the press lies a lot."
         "I agree, but we can just skip over the basic channels." She said and he nodded.  She flipped through the stations and there wasn't anything on. She put on channel two news; because she was curious to what people were saying.
         "That Elizabeth girl, where is she in all of this!?" A lady from the street said.  The went to a clip of another man.
         "Did you see Princess Elizabeth!? She has been masquerading all over down with that dumb-" the picture turned black and Elizabeth watched it in amazement.
         "I-" She started but Brian came over to her.
         "I told you... the press tells lies..." He said and came over to her.
         He leaned over and kissed her, she put his hand on his neck and kissed him back.  He got on top of her and kissed her more passionatly.
         "What about your new room? Isn't it a waste of money?" She said breathlessly.
         "Don't worry about it." He backed away and took the key from his pocket.  "This is the key to your room." He said and smiled down at her and kissed her again.  She laughed and kissed him back and they continued throughout the night...