A Secret Isn't Secret When You Tell Everyone

Devin’s bad day, turned into a series of bad days. After being arrested, he then was put in the cell where he had to wait for them to process him. They took as much time as they possibly could. He was in so much pain that he threw up twice. Once he was finally processed, he was allowed a phone call. He honestly had no clue whom to call but he knew Chris would always answer. He just hoped that the tall man wouldn’t hang up on him.

Chris did answer, and Devin was thankful for that.

“Please just whatever you do, don’t hang up. I’m only allowed one phone call.”

“Okayyy…” Chris said with weary.

“I came home last night to find Kendall pregnant. It’s not my kid man, its not my kid. She’s been cheating on me the entire time we’ve been together. Anyways, apparently someone called the cops because they thought we were arguing. The cops that arrived treated me like shit. I would never ever raise a hand to her. They…they arrested me because she made it out that I verbally abused her. I never did that Chris, never. The cops hit me a bunch of times with their batons because they thought I was resisting. They then used the stun gun on me. When they put me in the car, they hit my head on the door very hard. Everything hurts Chris. I don’t know what I did to deserve this. I…I work hard and now this is what I get in response man. I…I don’t know what to do.”

“That fucking sucks man. Are you at the police station?” Chris asked.

“Yeah. I don’t know if they’ll let me go or actually try to charge me with something. Oh god, if they do then I have to go to jail or some shit. Fucccck. Then I lose my spot in the band and then I lose everything. Oh God. Everything’s over.” Devin said as he started to cry. He’d felt so many emotions in the last 24 hours that he had no idea what to feel.

“Ghost, don’t cry. It’s all going to be okay. I’m on my way, I’ll help you figure this all out.” Chris said.

In all honesty, Chris hated Kendall from the start. She seemed off and now he knew why. He felt bad for the other man. He was one of the few people who knew that Devin struggled to make ends meet. When he slept beneath Devin’s bunk, he realized how late he stayed up every night working on things. He’d seen the dark circles under his eyes and the bags that seemed to never go away anymore. Devin was tired but never complained.

He did everything he had to do for the band, which a lot of the times was demanding and time consuming. He then ran his business in all other times of the day. Chris had done the math once and realized that there was no possible way for Devin to afford his rent, utility bill, and electricity bills and not be struggling a lot. He’d also seen how the man had barely ever ate when they went out to eat and when he did, he got the cheapest thing he could find. Most times he never went out to eat with them. He found it odd until he realized the real reason.

Chris himself often struggled to make ends meet at times but when he saw how bad Devin struggled and somehow found ways to make it, he knew Devin was strong. He never once asked for money or anything and Chris found that to be another odd thing. Devin never once asked for help.

But when Kendall posted about these new shoes she got or some random bullshit that cost A LOT of money, it made Chris shake his head. He could see that she was using Devin. When Devin asked him to go ring shopping with him, he could only hope that he saw the true her before she sucked him dry and left him for dead.

When Chris got the call from Devin, he knew things had to have gone bad. Devin barely ever calls, he only texts or face times. So when he found out what happened, he couldn’t help but feel bad. Devin was a strong person that had gone through a lot already and to find out that his girlfriend was cheating on him for their entire relationship as well as pregnant and already had another kid; it was just the cherry on the shit Sundae.

Chris got in his car and was at the station within 15 minutes. He was going to bail Devin out.

The police tried to say that Devin couldn’t post bail because he was a ‘flight hazard’ and a ‘hazard to his girlfriend.’

Chris said, “ In all the years I have known Mr. Sola, I have known him to be a calm level headed man. He has given some difficult life situations and he’s made it through them. He would never in a million years hurt a woman. That violates all that he stands for. He grew up watching his Mom be beaten in front of him. As a child he was verbally abused. He would never do that to someone because he knows how it feels. He may get annoyed and upset and raise his voice, but so does everyone else. He never hurt her. She’s a liar. He’s paid everything for her for the past 2 years because he’s loved her and thought she loved him back. He has worked so hard to make ends meet and she’s coming around to ruin everything. Please just see that he’s not a risk to anyone. He’s a very quiet man. He harmless.”

It took some debating between the officers and the person in charge but Devin was allowed to post bail on terms that he: 1) did not contact Ms. Kendall Behringer 2) did not show up to her place of residency 3) did not leave town 4) showed up to court on his given day of court.

Devin agreed to all the terms. He had no reason to want to contact her. He’d gone home and his apartment was basically empty. She took everything. The only thing she didn’t take was his CDs, she left a note saying, “You can keep this shit it fucking sucks.”

Devin slept on the floor that night. He would have slept on the couch but she took that too. She’d also taken all the blankets, all the towels and all the kitchen stuff. She literally cleared out the house. All that was left was his CDS, Makeup and Clothes.

He spent the first night crying himself to sleep on the floor. He’d lost a lot but he hoped he wouldn’t lose anything more. If he lost the band, he’d basically have nothing. Music was the one thing in life that he loved most. Disneyland and Tim Burton were high on his list of things he loved but music was the top.

He didn’t sleep the second or the third night. He had been distraught. He sold what last of his stage stuff that he had to the highest bidder. He sold 5 things and only made a total of 1,000 dollars for all of it. It wasn’t enough but it would help him pay for a good lawyer.

Within 3 days, his now ex had gone to Alternate Press and gave an interview about Devin and spoke all about his legal issues. Devin had been the prime newsworthy topic for the past two weeks now.

People believed Her story and he became the most hated person in the music scene. People hated him more than Dahvie from BOTDF. He got an insane amount of hate mail and hate on the Internet. Chris tried to talk to Devin but Devin didn’t want to talk anymore. Devin just wanted to disappear off the face of the planet and never have to face this stuff again.

He logged out of all social media and blocked most calls. The only person he answered the phone for was Chris and even then he didn’t talk. Everything was falling down around him where he stood.

His landlord found out and told him he had 30 days to vacate because they did not want a person who harmed ‘his beautiful and lovely girlfriend’.

He packed up all that he owned, which fit in two boxes now because Kendall took EVERYTHING and put it in his car. He left the landlord his keys and tried to find a place to stay. Everyone turned him down. He had no desire to turn to Chris. Chris had already paid for his bail and that was far too much already. So for the next week or so, he slept in his car.

Things had gone from bad to worse, and Devin hoped things would mellow out and slowly get better.

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