A/N: Enjoy kids!
Disclaimer : I do not own 'Locked Up' by Akon, or anything else copyrighted throughout this chapter.
The Edge
Chapter 9: Locked Up
I'm locked up, they won't let me out.
"Wait... Roma and Robbie are not related?" Beck asked, shocked. He, Andre, Jade, Cat, and Tori currently sat in a diner down the street from the hospital. "That's what Trina said. I asked her to tell me more and she said apparently Mr. and Mrs. Shapiro adopted Roma as a toddler because they thought they couldn't conceive. Then miraculously, Robbie happened."
"That's a happy story." Cat smiled, her voice was heavy from all her sobbing. "Yeah...wait, shouldn't Rob be here by now?" Jade asked, looking around for the curly headed kid. "Yeah...he should. He just went to visit his mom while she was at work... is that him?" Andre asked, pointing out the window to a figure standing in an alleyway. "Yeah... isn't that Daniel too? With a crow bar?" Beck asked, standing up quickly, running out of the dinner. Andre quick on his heels. The girls sat shocked for a moment. Jade grabbed Cat's hand, running out, Tori following as well.
"What is going on now? !" Beck asked, as he and Andre arrived at the scene. Robbie stood staring Daniel down. "We're just having fun." Daniel smiled, menacingly. Andre stepped in, standing between Robbie and Daniel. "You have a crow bar in your hand. There is no possible way that, that, is fun."
"Guys, just stay out of it. This is between..." Robbie was interrupted by a sudden blow to the stomach by a guy coming out of nowhere. The hit caused Rob to drop to his knees. Andre and Beck ran to his side, "What was that!" Beck screamed. The big strange guy stood next to Daniel, laughing at the pain he had just inflicted on Rob. "Fun, I told you." Daniel smiled again. The girls came and stood by the guys' side. Cat crouched down next to Robbie. "What do you want?" Andre asked.
"I want her." Daniel pointed to Cat. "And... I want him." He then pointed to Robbie. "Dead."
"Dead! ? ! Why?" Tori asked, stunned that all this drama happened in one day. "That little punk broke into my house. Touched my stuff. Ratted me out and caused me bad rep with his parents."
Robbie stood to his feet with help from his friends. He took a step closer. "You almost killed my sister."
"About that... yeah, she's not your sister. Your parents adopted her, and then you came into the world by surprise."
"Look, I don't want to fight you. I just want you to leave me, my family, my friends, and definitely my girlfriend, alone."
"You started this Robert, and i'm going to finish it. I'm going to finish you."
"I didn't start anything."
"You had to open your fucking mouth! Your parents loved me, probably more than you."
"That's a lie. Sure they loved you. Sure they probably trusted you, too. They never loved you more than me, however."
"Keep telling yourself that, kid." Another one of Daniel's friends came up from the back way of the alley. "Let's play a game, Shapiro. Just like old times, when we actually liked each other. Its called 'Death'. Let's have a fair fight." Daniel dropped the crow bar. "Loser... dies."
"I'm not going to become a murderer."
"If you're lucky, it'll be manslaughter."
"It's still murder."
"Look, do you want to play or not?" Daniel asked, taking steps closer. Robbie continued to walk forward as well. Beck and Andre quickly stood behind Robbie, as Daniel's friends did the same gesture. They six males were now face to face. "I don't want to play your stupid game."
Daniel didn't care,he swung the crow bar and scraped some of the flesh off of Robbie's face. Daniel then attempted to do the same to Andre and Beck, but missed.
Robbie laid on the floor with his head pounding and his face burning. He then received an adrenaline rush as the anger boiled inside of him. He stood to his feet, grabbing Daniel by the shirt and taking a swing, punching him in the face. All the boys then attacked each other like savages. Daniel and crew were down and as Robbie turned his back,Daniel grabbed the crow bar. Whoop Whoop! Cop cars surrounded the scene. "Put your hands up where we can see them." A cop said, hopping out of his car, and looking at the six boys. The girls stood in the background, horrified, and totally invisible to the cops who only saw the six bloodied teen boys. Robbie, Beck, and Andre's hands flew up while Daniel and his crew ran away. The other two cops didn't bother to chase them. "You're not going to go after them?" Tori asked, as she came into sight, noticing that the cops were friends of her father. "Fine... Carl, Jake, go on." One officer said, watching the other two get back into their cars, driving off in search for Daniel and company. "What are you kids doing in an alley? at..." The officer looked at his watch, "Ten at night?"
"We were just walking past, Officer Delgado." Beck said, reading the name tag. Delgado meant thin in Spanish, funny since Officer D was on the heavy side. "Then do you want to explain his face?" Officer Delgado pointed to the slash across Robbie's cheek. "Daniel and his group started it."
"Save it for the judge, kid. Based on what my partners and I saw, you three were pummeling the others. Hands behind your backs please."
Robbie, Beck, and Andre stood in a waiting cell of the LA County Jail. "We're so dead." Beck said, his head in his hands. Andre sat on the cold floor, his feet pulled into his chest like a fetal position. "I'm scared." He squeaked, looking as if he was about to cry.
"We'll be fine. Its not that bad. I mean, it could be a lot worst." Robbie said, inhaling deeply. "Here come some officers." Beck said, standing up. "Seems like you boys will be staying overnight. Follow me, we'll give you some clean clothes, and then you can eat."
Ten minutes later the three teenagers were wearing ugly orange jumpsuits and sitting in the cafeteria. They looked down at their trays were some disgusting gray meat sat covered in what they took to be gravy. The meat seemed to have eyes that stared at them. "It just got a lot worse." Robbie commented as he took his plastic spork (spoon and fork thingy) and poked at the mystery meat/animal.
A/N: Next one is called 'The Mess I Made'. :)