Goodbye David

My son came home from school yesterday looking like he'd just lost his best friend. He did lose one of them; his deaf friend David. He told me that they'd caught David smoking pot and the police took him away in handcuffs from school. Now Ryan had told me that David smoked cigarettes and that he and the rest of the guys were trying to tell David that just wasn't cool, but Ry had no idea he also smoked pot.

He came home today and the news was even worse than we thought and David is still in juvy. They searched his locker and found a bag of pot, but that wasn't the worst thing. They also found a letter that he'd written that was in his binder saying how he was gonna kill his parents. His current foster parents are the High School Coach and his wife. I guess David has tendencies towards violence and he's been in this kind of trouble before. Now we're told that David has to go back to his foster parents in Wyoming and we'll never see him again. I was just stupified and I got all choked up.

He was always such a sweet and funny kid when he was here. It just breaks my heart to see such a young life go down the drain, and the reason I think it will is because if he's going back to the foster home in Wyoming, why did they let him come here in the first place........because they couldn't handle him? Is he getting the obvious mental help he needs? I'm full of questions yet I have no answers. For some reason this one just really rocked me. Whenever I close my eyes I see David's beautiful eyes and face full of laughter and teasing me in sign. I feel so helpless to do anything earthly for him......so I pray. Goodbye David, may God be with you. We'll never forget you.