What Lies Beneath
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Chapter 3
Flashback to the Day We Met
**Flashback to six years ago in front of a Denver police station**
A tall policeman is dragging a struggling 8-year-old girl out of the police car and into the station. She is kicking and pulling against the policeman's grip, long black hair blowing in her face. "Keep still, you!" the policeman shouted.
"NO!" she screamed back.
"Yes!" he yelled, pulling her onto the steps by the wrist.
"NOOOOOO!!" she screamed again, pulling her wrist out of the officer's hand. She turned quickly, ducking under the officer's grabbing arms, and sprinted as fast as she could in the other direction.
"Come back here, you little-" the officer shouted but the girl was already out of earshot. She ducked under the fence in front of the park and continued to run. She passed several buildings before turning into the alley. She looked behind her to make sure she wasn't being followed. Before she knew it, she had ran into something solid and been thrown to the ground. She let out a painful moan and rubbed her head.
"Hey, you outta watch where you're goin'!" a voice said from above her. She looked up at a girl, about her age, chocolate brown hair pulled back into a ponytail, wearing a small red baseball cap. She offered the girl a hand to help her up. "You could hurt yourself!"
"As if I haven't already." she muttered.
"So, where's the fire?"
"Running from the cops. You tell anyone that and I swear-"
"I won't, I won't. Trust me. I'm in the same situation!"
"Really?"
"Yeah!"
"I'm Tamika Toshi."
"Taylor MartÃnez."
"Nice to meet ya!"
"Same here. You know what? We'd better get out of here before the grow brains."
"I'm for that, Taylor."
"Come on, let's go!"
The two girls run out of the alley as two cop cars head down the street.
**End flashback. Return to mess hall.**
"And that's how I met Taylor. We had gotten caught more times than I can count before getting sent here." Tami said, grabbing Twitch's bread.
"HEY!" Twitch shouted. Tami stuck her tongue at him and took a large bite out of the bread.
"Got caught doing what exactly?" Stanley asked.
She laughed and said, "Now that, Caveman, you're gonna have to find out for yourself. And I'd like to see Pendanski make Taylor talk. She hardly talks to me anymore, and I've been her best friend since we were 8! Pendanski's not gonna get her to talk, and he's not gonna get me to talk neither!"
"You guys got a code or something?" Twitch asked.
"Now, come on, Twitch. If they had a code, would they tell us?" Magnet asked.
"Never thought of it that way."
Tami laughed and walked away. She waved to the boys from the door and ran off to find Taylor.
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