Carter Lee

Um,

He hasn't been able to leave.

And the dude, you know, we get the tablet back or he passed the tablet back to the other dude.

And, you know, the dude, Michael's crazy, too.

He's telling us that he's he's he's like starting some business.

like counseling thing.

And he's like, you know, this guy's a nut too, right?

He's just, he's blabbing off to us.

And this guy ends up like, he would call us like every day and we can't hear from my brother.

Cause they wouldn't give him a tablet to call home.

Cause I think he's going to break it or something.

So we would call, you know, this guy would call us and rant to us and let us talk to my brother.

Um, either way, um, at this point, like I'm, I'm in 11th grade.

i'm 17 now and what just happened like is really it it starts to affect me you know um by this time i've actually got off probation i'm sorry i kind of skimmed over that but i got off probation and you know i'm i'm i'm trying to do good but like i still you know i have all this pain from like what just happened with my brother you know i'm trying to process that like some guy that i grew you know i grew up with him i knew you know and then

you know, all this is going on.

Uh, so I started to do drugs again and I started to drink a lot.

Um, and this is when like Xanax started to get introduced into my life.

Um, and you know, a lot of days I'm, I'm doing the Xanax, I'm drinking alcohol.

Um, and 17 was the first time I did cocaine as well.

I was hanging out with a buddy of mine and I remember he was like, uh, what do you, what do you want to do?