Chapter # 1

(The Crime)

It's Tuesday afternoon, I'm supposed to be at school, but I decided not to show. Marrie was smoking outside and Gary was sleeping off his hangover from the night before, he would for another two or three hours. I was sitting on the dining room table next to 3 dozen bags marijuana, or as Marrie and Gary liked to call it stress melters. I was eating some cereal; there wasn't anything else in the house so I was going to steal a sandwich or something for dinner. I was thinking of a store to crash, I didn't want to go to Mega Mart again, they would be expecting me. Police sirens interrupted my thoughts, which didn't bother me they would come down this neighborhood at least twice a month, guess you get use to it. I didn't worry too much about them it's not like I have 3 dozen bags of marijuana next to me….. Oh, wait I do……Dam! With that last thought I got up and put my cereal bowl in the sink. Then I noticed that the sirens were getting closer, and then I couldn't hear them anymore. I walked to the living room window and took a peek outside. The cop's car was in front of our house and one of the cops was talking to Marrie another one with sunglasses was snooping around the front yard.

I decided to go wake Gary up just in case this got serious. I walked down the hallway and entered the last room and walked toward the man lying on the bed sleeping of a hangover.

Hey, wake up, Gary. I said pushing his body back and forth.

Leave me alone, kid! He roared as he turned his back to me.

The cops are here. I whispered in his ear. He shoots up into a sitting position.

What?!He yelled / asked.

You heard me, now, get dressed and go help Marrie. I said getting up and exiting his room.

I went to the living room and sat on the brown, dirty old couch, and waited. A couple of minutes later Gary came running out into the living room.

Where? Gary asked.

I pointed towards the front door, without saying anything.

Gary nodded and walked out the front door.

About 15 minutes later I heard a couple of footsteps coming closer, the door slightly opened and I heard Gary yell.

You can't go in there!! We have rights!! He yelled aggressively.

We have a warrant, sir. I heard a man's voice say, I guess one of the cops, maybe sunglasses cop. The door started to open some more, I put my feet on the table top and got comfortable. Show time. The door opened and sunglasses cop came in.

Oh…. Hey. Sunglasses said.

What?? I asked, he looked a bit surprised at my question, maybe he was expecting something like "Hi or Hello"; he is defiantly not from around here.

Well, I'm just going to take a look around, is that okay? He asked politely.

Can I say no? I asked looking out the window to see the other cop holding Gary's hands behind their back.

Well….um. He started looking uncomfortable.

Go ahead. I finally said letting sunglasses of the hock.

He nodded and walked into the house.

He walked around the couch and lifted a pillow, to check under it. He only found dust making both of us cough. Then he walked to the hallways leading to the bedroom. A couple of minutes later he came back to the living room, he then went to the kitchen/ dining room...

He spotted the stress melters, I watched him break a piece of plastic and put some of the white substance in his finger and sniff it. He made a face of I-knew-it.

Fluk look at this! Sunglasses yelled and a couple of minutes later the other cop came into the house.

I was still in the same position when he walked in. He had a confused look on his face when he saw me.

In the kitchen. I said pointing to the door to my right.

He nodded and walked into the kitchen.

When they started talking I got up and looked out the window. Gary and Marrie where sitting in the cop's car, looked like they were handcuffed. I went into the kitchen and decided to fish for information.

Hey. I said as I walked into the kitchen.

Hello, can we ask you some questions? The cop named…Fluk asked.

Whatever. I said sitting on top of one of the cabinets.

What's this? Fluk asked I guess to figure out if I knew what Gary and Marrie were doing.

Marijuana…..aka: stress melters. I answered playing with the hole in my jean, it was right on my knee from when I jumped of the school gate. I kept messing with it so now it was pretty big.

Do you know what your parents do with it? Fluk asked carefully, like I was a five year old.

Can I see that warrant? I answered with another question. Fluk looked at sunglasses with a why-would-she-need-to-see-it-? look.

Um…sure. Sunglasses answered handing me the piece of paper. I looked over it.

This just says you can snoop around the bedroom and the car, doesn't say anything about the kitchen. I stated after a minute.

What of course it does. Fluk said snatching the paper out of my hands. He looked over the paper and a disappointed wet pissed look covered his face.

She' right. Fluk said looking at sunglasses.

Keep looking around it's not like they can understand any of that crap. I said playing with my jeans hole refering to Gary and Marrie.

Can you come with us? Sunglasses asked me. I thought about this for a moment, I have nothing better to do...I tought.

Alright. I answered. Me and sunglasses walked to the car Fluk stayed behind to guard the marijuana, I guess. I opened the passengers door and sat down, waited for sunglasses to get in the car, so Gary would stop hitting the glass behind me. When he got into the car Gary stopped hitting the glass and sunglasses started driving. When we got out of my neighborhood I fell asleep, I had a long night on Monday. I had to find Gary at the Crick Bar at midnight and then I had to take him back home, give him some coffee, and put him to bed. By the time I was in my room it was already 6:22 am, and I woke up at 9:57 am and the cops were at home around 10:34, so yeah I was tired. I slept the whole ride to the station, I woke up to someone shaking me back and forth. I opened my eyes to see sunglasses shaking my body, I looked around to see we were at the police station.