Vanessa nodded feeling a lump of emotion build up in her. She was aware of what Scotty was up to. A year after she had moved away Jalissa told her that he'd gotten busted selling drugs at Walnut Hills. And because it was a school zone he had gotten sent to juvie until the age of eighteen. After his release he had evidently gone back to it and for the last two years had been making a lucrative business from being a drug dealer. Jalissa had said that Scotty and his partners kept a tight reign on the drug trade in Winton Terrace. They had it all wrapped up and did whatever it took to keep it that way.
It had crushed Vanessa to learn that Scotty had followed in his brother's—their brother's footsteps. It had ended a fantasy in which she dreamed of marrying the solemn, blond haired boy and li
