Red Light

20

Now, 5:30pm
Brandon's perspective

BANG.

We kick down the door and flood into the house.

I run up the stairs.

SLAM.

I burst open the door of the nearest bedroom. A girl shouts, but it's not Zanisha's voice.

Kmt.

These man have time to be beating next gyal like say they're not wanted yutes. If it's Reaps I'll chop off his ting.

It's dark so I can't see clearly who it is.

"GET THE FUCK OUT THE BED! WHERE'S ZANISHA?!"

I switch on the light then run over to the bed, I hold my strap against the head of the guy, who I can now see is Patch.

"WHERE THE FUCK IS SHE?!"

He kisses his teeth "I ain't saying SHIT!"

I shoot his foot.

"FUUUCK!"

The sound triggers some of the others to come in the room.

I slap his head with the strap. "WHERE IS SHE?!"

He quivers, now shaking like a leaf. I don't have time for his seizure though, he better speak up before I buss him in his head.

"She-she's n...not he-here!"

I slap him with the strap "WHERE IS SHE THEN?!"

He's fully sweating now, pussio.

"She's g-gone."

"WHERE?!"

He starts crying like a bitch, "They didn't tell me! L-Low me fam, p-please! I didn't wanna do this! I'm not inv-"

BANG.

Useless. That guy was pissing me off.

He deserved to die anyway, he's still an opp.

The girl screams and scrambles off of the bed. She trips and falls onto the floor.

I frown, she looks familiar.

"OI! GET UP!"

She gets up slowly, shaking with her back turned to us.

"TURN AROUND!"

She turns slowly, hiding her face in her hands. When she removes them, I kiss my teeth.

"Ay who is she?!" Trip asks.

"Felicia."

Kyrah's perspective

It's been an hour since the guys left to find Zanisha. We haven't heard anything back. We've just been pacing the floors, waiting in expectation.

We've cried, screamed, prayed and now we're just angry.

Where is she?!

All Tasharn's cousins and friends have gone home or are riding out with the others. Now it's just us lots parents downstairs, consoling Auntie Chan. Uncle Max, Uncle G and Uncle Pete have gone out searching everywhere. I'm now in Tasharn's room with Nia, Javon, Shantae, Justine and Danielle.

My phone vibrates on the desk table. Maybe it's one of the guys, I storm over to it.

When I turn the phone over, it's not a message from the guys, it's from Zanisha.