The break up

Case 5 on the 20th October 2004

Justice Uvan

This is the retelling of my very first case. I joined this office in 1991 and ascended on the high chair only after 14 years of steady work in all departments. I promised myself to be completely impartial, and mete out judgement on the guilty, even if it were me. I entered into the truth chamber, and a sweet breeze hit the sweat on my forehead, reminding me of my nervousness.
The audience rose in respect, as I took my place on the high chair. I studied the audience frowning. Why weren’t they sitting down? I, then realized that they were waiting for my permission. I quickly nodded, and looked down to study my first case. Anything to move on from that embarrassment.

Advocate Norah

I sat down nervously. This new judge could be trouble. He seemed far more strict and if Leah didn’t hold her temper… this could all go awry very easily. It also didn’t help that her opposing council was a cheeky son of an ass. He would surely try to provoke the judge with his jokes and sarcastic comments. This was going to be one hell of a trial.

Lawrence

The fatso finally nodded and asked us to take our seats. I gladly sat down. “Let’s get this over with” I said to Nick, my lawyer. He grinned back slyly. This was going to be a piece of cake. After that, Leah would be his. Without responsibility. Ah heaven! Heat started radiating between my thighs, and I started counting the hair in the justice’s nose to cool myself down.

Leah

This judge has to side with me. I will not yield to law’s ruthless demands! I mean who gets over a break up with, with… I punched the table in frustration. Norah quickly caught my arm on the rebound and started soothing it. It felt nice. But her eyes was livid, and I glanced to the high chair to see the justice frown at me over his spectacles. I pursued my lips immediately. The pervert was checking me out! I opened my mouth to tell Norah, but instead winced in pain. Her hand had stopped soothing me and now her nails were digging into them, harvesting blood. I looked at her. She shook her head slightly in a look that shouted ‘Don’t lose your temper now. Please.’ Alright. For Norah.

Advocate Nicholas

The fatso was already frowning at Leah! This was going to be so easy. Ofcourse, simply completing a case wasn’t fun. Finishing it with style was fun. This is going to be easier than saying masochistic! I stood up, and addressed Justice nose-hair.
“Your Honor, My client here – ”
“Aw shurrup bitch. I have the case right here in front of me. Don’t need one of your performances here. Keep the joker’s cape at home.”
Oh, so that’s how he wanted to play this, did he? Alright old friend, Lets duel.

* * *

“Alright. Will both Lawrence and Leah stand up?” The justice said. Norah took her seat immediately, as the two petitioners stood up to face him. Justice Uvan sure didn’t seem in a great mood. It was best not to provoke him. That idiot Nicholas remained standing, smiling knowingly. He was going to die here. If he managed to survive, she was definitely going to give him a piece of his mind tonight.
“So you two kids got broke up by mutual consent?” The judge asked. Lawrence nodded brightly, this was something he had manipulated Leah into, so she would not be able to blame the break up on him. She muttered something that sounded vaguely like “Like I had a choice!” He turned to her, and flashed teeth. Her face started to go crimson when she realized he had heard. Or maybe she was getting angry. Either way, Lawrence turned back, a happy man. Her temper was one of the only good qualities she possessed. Made her fun at bed. Leah nodded slowly, and Lawrence coughed a laugh – she was clearly trying to deny it!

“And now you, Leah, are proposing friendship, while he is claiming that you owe him – ” The judge intoned when Leah screeched, “I don’t owe that sum bitch nothing. He left my ass. How can he now demand it?”

Nick broke into a wide grin. This was the best lawsuit ever. Uvan was going red in the face trying to sound regal and still put Leah to her place. You have issues with me undermining you, old friend, now you got Leah too. Enjoy.

“You will speak when you are spoken to, child!” Uvan tried saying as calmly as possible. This was his first case, and he was not getting any respect! He shifted his eyes to the right as Nick walked past the mahogany table and said, “I believe you were speaking to her, as far as the definition of speaking to someone goes, your highness.” All with a silly grin on his face. The gall!

“Whose advocate are you, Nicholas?” Uvan asked, and had the satisfaction of seeing that smile slacken. Nicholas didn’t like his name. Wanted to be called Nick. “He may not be my advocate but he is still right. You were talking to me.” Leah said, suddenly more confident. Uvan groaned. This was to be his day. and now, his day was ruined. By kids!

“But you do owe me.” Lawrence said. He had to join this fiasco! Where there was confusion, there was an opportunity for profit, and lawrence never missed opportunities. NEVER. “And what is it that she owes you?” The judge asked, hanging to the question like a to a lifejacket in the middle of the ocean. “She got me, well… hot and wet on many occasions, and then, just left me. It is not fair. I deserve compensation for leaving me in such… distress” “You son of an owl! All I wanted is to be friends with you. But no, you won’t have that! You want – ”

“Quiet, girl!” Uvan shouted, clearly frustrated at the girl’s wide mouth. “Let the men talk!” It was clearly a sexist comment, and it would get him into potential trouble. And with Nicholas standing right here, made potential to almost certain. But he didn’t care. He wanted to get out. He wanted the day to end. But he would show the world he was impartial. The women both stared at him, mouths open, faces aghast. He ignored them, and glared at Lawrence instead. “And what is it that you demand in compensation, young man?”

“One night with her, for all the nights she didn’t let me sleep. Ofcourse, with no strings attached” He smiled genially. He thought he was doing her a favor, eh?

Norah stood up, knees shaking. It was now or never. She had to get over her fear and try to help the poor girl. Her temper had gotten her into a soup far worse than she had anticipated. “If I may, your Honor, It must be –”

The judge broke in, “you may, woman.”

Leah gurgled in anger and opened her mouth to say something, but Norah caught her arm, and motioned her to keep quiet. This was no time to fight a sexist. “thank you, your honor. As I was saying, It must be taken into account that Leah did not leave him in any of the situations on purpose or in spite. Each occasion was interrupted by a calamity which both of them mutually accepted was potentially harmful, and hence did not proceed with the *cough* loving.”

The judge looked at each one of them for a long time, longest at Nick. Lawrence started feeling anxious for the first time. He opened his mouth to strengthen his plea, but Nick beat him to it.
“Keep in mind, your honor, that your judgement must be impartial. Kindly forget all the differences you have with a certain council in your judgement. Otherwise you know what the world will speak of you.” Uvan sputtered, and stuttered, but couldn’t say a word. Nick smiled, and returned to his seat. The balance had tipped over to their side. The judge took a few more minutes writing his judgement, and then intoned. Lawrence sat down, while Leah and her attorney remained standing, each face a painting of anticipation. Norah would shout at him tonight, but he knew how to convert them into screams of passion. All would be forgiven then.

“This case is not very simple. The couple in question separated by mutual consent, and hence all responsibilities between them stand perforated. However I must keep in mind that the loss which the petitioner is referring to was caused by the defendant, and so, legally, she is bound to pay compensation” There were gasps from half the audience, as Norah fell into her chair. Leah stood there, unable to move. The judge breathed, and then resumed, “One must also consider that the situations that incurred the said losses were of external origin, and hence tying responsibility to the girl would be wrong.” Leah looked up in hope, but Norah didn’t. She knew she had lost the case. Sentences were hardly changed. The Judge resumed, but Norah stopped listening. How could she have lost the case… “however, In this case it must be seen that as a couple these both had undertaken the responsibility to each other, and hence it was still your fault to have shown him the cake but keeping it from him.”

Leah fell back to her chair as well just as Lawrence jumped up, ecstatic. Nick stood up with that knowing smile of his, knowing well that he had manipulated another case into his purse.
It had been a good plan, to take up both sides of a case, to get double the payment. But the internal competition between them had risen to levels that to defeat her, he had resorted to manipulating the judge himself. She would definitely speak to him tonight, Norah decided. Leah turned to her, and and whispered through the tears that had finally broken through, “You know, I should never have agreed to the break up. Then atleast I could have blamed it on him. Do you realize how hard it is to get over him? Do you realise how hard it will be to get over him after… Tonight?”

Norah gasped. Why had she not thought of this earlier! It was so obvious. She clasped Leah’s face with both her hands and kissed her full on the lips. All was not lost yet. All three men were now staring at them. as were the audience. Norah didn’t care. She could win this. She could defeat her husband. She turned, got up, leaving behind an astonished and confused Leah, and said to the judge, “Before you pass judgement your honor, I would like you to consider this. Both of them separated by mutual consent, and it is accepted that the break up was requested by Lawrence.”

“So?” Lawrence asked. Nick just frowned at her. She grinned at him and turned back to the justice.

“So, Leah had been in a position of repaying anything that Lawrence had lost. The break up was initiated by him, and hence he himself is responsible for the fact that he has not been satiated!”

The fatso smiled at Norah, very gratefully, Leah thought, but she couldn’t think anything else. She even forgave Norah for smooching her, for she had turned it all around. The judge coughed, and said: “In light of that… piece of logic, it must be presumed that the fault lies with lawrence. Thus this is my judgement.

One: Either you just forget all of this, and accept her as a friend as she demands.
Two: Or you make out with her and then she leaves you, just to be friends, again.

And get into more heat than I am already? No thank you!!! Lawrence thought, and accepted the first option.

Norah hugged Leah, and they both walked out of the courtroom. Lawrence muttered to himself and sulked all his way out. The audience went out satisfied, they’d need more popcorn next case. Uvan was happy. The day had not started well, and it had far from ended well. But he had been impartial. And he had screwed Nicholas. He just smiled at Nik, as he turned to go, and caught him muttering:
“The sex is going to be horrid tonight!”

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