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I stared out of the window at the dimly lit street, all was quiet. Living on this street for a few years, you knew when things went to schedule. Mr Johnson walking his dog around 5pm. The old lady three doors down taking out the trash at 6pm. The flashing light from the Anderson's tv from 7pm. And then... A police car pulling up down the street opposite Robyn's house. What the... I scrambled down the stairs, and my mom calling my name from the kitchen.



"Jared! Jared, where are you going?"



"Uh, across the street, I think something's happened to my friend, there's a police car..." I breathed, my pulse going a mile a minute from almost falling down the stairs. She poked her haed around the door, frowning.



"Friends?" she seemed to think about it for a minute, and then said firmly, "Well, all right, but back by nine o'clock, no wandering around in the street, and don't trouble those cops, honey, they're doing their job."

I nodded, and went outside. I walked over to the house, but no one was in. The police car was parked outside, waiting. I stopped and stared at the house, and the cop called to me from the car,



"Don't go onto the property, please, kid, we're waiting for some one to return so we can make an arrest."

A guy in the garden next door to her house looked up from the plants he was watering, and then said,



"The girl, I don't know her name, she's over at Gerard's house." he pointed with his watering can in the direction of Gerard's, his curly afro waving in the slight breeze.



"Uh, thanks." I nodded at him. I nodded at the police officers and headed over to Gerard and Mikey's house. Knocking on the door, and moments later a very grave looking Gerard answered, and said,



"Jared, I think you'd better come in."