I looked from right to left trying to find a glimpse of blonde hair.  It was getting dark but the crowd wasn’t as heavy.  My heart was beating really hard.  More so now that the sirens had stopped directly in front of the house.

Some guy was next to me.  He was tall and muscular.  But in all the madness I couldn’t place were I saw him.  He reached behind himself for who knows what reason.  I didn’t stop to watch.

“Ashleyyy!”  My name was called and I jerked towards it.  Spencer was standing in the darkness of a bush on the edge of Randell’s property.  I couldn’t see Glen or Aiden but figured they were hiding in the cover.

I sighed out in relief.  I willed my feet to move faster.  So close.  I was so close to her.  Seven maybe five feet away.  Then BAM.

I fell to the ground with an oomph.  The air was knocked out of me and something hard was poking me in my back.  A heavy weight held my body down.  I couldn’t see anything.  My shirt caked with mud and grass in my mouth.  Every time I tried to move I was held down tighter.  To the point where I could barley take a breath into my crushed lungs.  The weight was taken off but metal cuffs were soon placed on my wrist.

“Fuck!”  I shouted loudly and clearly at who ever the hell just apprehended me.

“Ashley we have to stop meeting like this.”  A voice responded to my outburst.  A chill not caused by the cold air ran up my spine.  

“Officer Carlin.”  I breathed out mutually.  

“You are under arrest any thing you-”  He started to tell me my rights and I drowned them out.  I heard this before.  My pulse was just now starting to return to normal.  I just hoped that Kyla and Jacob were ok in the truck.

Officer Carlin -as I prefer to call him right now- helped me to my feet.  I was being led towards the front yard when a tiny voice broke the mutual silence.  

“Hi daddy”  Came a kitten like squeak from the bushes.  He stopped dead, his grip on my arm tightened to the point of pain.  He shifted his body towards the bushes were three teens padded out in a single file line.  They walked out with their heads down.  Aiden offered a small wave in his direction while Glen helped a slightly tipsy Spencer.