"Hello?" the voice on the other end of the line was calm and tired, but that's not suprising for calling someone at 2am.
"There gone," I said trying my hardest not to start crying hystarically again " someone shot them, And I wasent even home to TRY and save them". At this point there was no possible way to hold the tears back any longer.
"Carter? Is that you? What's going on!" it's clear I had grabbed their attention complety because the tone of there voice was no longer soft but alert and concerned.
" I was out and...when I came home..." I reached up with my right hand to wipe the tears from under my eyes, the side of my hand was black from wiping the eyeliner and mascara under my eyes so often. " I came through the back door and they were there...dead"
" Okay, I'm coming to get you" I could hear slight talking in the background and it was clear my phone call had woken up the rest of the house. " Oh and Carter, it's important you leave everything the way it is now do not touch anything, understand?" "Mhm" i said wipeing my eyes again " Ill be there in an hour tops, are the police there yet?" she asked " Should be any minute, thanks Jen"
" no problem just stay put" and with that the line went dead and I hung up the phone just in time to hear police sirens screaching up my street.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ " So that is your car out front?" the red headed police officer asked looking up from his lined note pad.
" it's my dad's, he let's me use it though" I said arms crossed arcoss my chest trying to understand how questions like these are going to help.
" I see, so that means they didn't go out tonight?" he said staring down as he scribbled something down on the paper " Uh, well we have another car so I really don't know...they might of? They never mentioned anything" I said thinking back to today, trying to remember if anybody had said something while I was pre ocupied.
" Okay, if you remember anythig at all just give me a call down at the station any information helps" he said handing me a small buisness card he pulled out from his back pocket. " Um.. Yea of course.." I said taking the piece of paper from him. " And your sister is picking you up?" the officer asked " My cousin, Jennifer, I don't have a sister" He just nodded and kept looking down.
"Understood, and your name again?"
" Carter" I said shaking "Okay," he wrote my name down "last name?" he looked up at me.
I looked him right in the eye and told him my last name.
Jereau.
