CHAPTER 44
It's not like they needed my fingerprints to solve the crime. I was wearing gloves both times I held the sketchbook so there were no prints and, super important point, I didn't do it. No matter, my fingerprints were taken by a woman who manipulated my hands and fingers like I was a Claymation figure in her YouTube video. It took less than five minutes and Captain Ramones waited for me.
When it was over I told him, "I can't reach my attorney, I need a public defender."
He nodded. "I'll let them know."
We had arrived at the mug shot area and I prepared to be humiliated. Even if you aren't convicted of a crime, a mug shot lives forever in the public record and follows you everywhere. For the first time I was glad my mother wasn't alive to see this. The photographer told me to s
