daylight || harlan briggs

6

Spencer's Pov:

We are sitting in the police car, it's dead silent in this car. I shift uncomfortably between Blake and Everett while Harlan and Luna are in the front. "Why are they here?" Everett says in a shaky voice. "I don't know. I don't care." Blake says, I scoff as I sense Everett's anxiety rising as he thinks of the worst things possible. "They were at the hospital. I saw them." I whisper to Blake. "Please shut up, both of you." She exclaims, looking at us. "Oh. W-what are they doing here?" Everett starts shaking uncontrollably. "Ev, it's okay. Don't focus on the bad things. Just breathe." I saw looking at him, trying to comfort him. "Everett. you need to shut up. Stop talking, Stop moving, stop everything!" Blake says, leaning over me to look at him. "Blake, can you stop being a bitch please! He's trying his best." I whisper now in frustration with her attitude. I see Luna slightly looking at us. Now Harlan turns around in his seat, "Keep your fucking mouth shut." We all just look at him. I put my head in my hands as I start getting pissed off and stressing out because of everything going on. The cop bangs on the cage with something as we all jump, looking at the man, "No talking." he says in a cocky tone. I just roll my eyes. This bitch. I look to Everett as I feel/hear his anxiety get worse as time goes by. "It's still the full moon." Blake now looks over, "What's his problem anyway?" Harlan whispers to Luna, "I think he's got anxiety." He scoffs, "He's got somethin." "What if they're still trying to kill us? What if they killed Connor? He was bitten too." "Who's Connor?" Luna cuts in, before I could speak, the cop hits the cage again, "Whispering is talking." "I'm sorry, but are we under arrest?" Luna asks in worry. "Don't say that." Harlan and I say in unison. We look at each other. "Why not?" She asks us both, "because then they will arrest us." Harlan said with sass, "It's a few questions, guys. We're just trying to clear up timelines and stuff like that." Yeah okay, I roll my eyes for the hundredth time today. "Nobody's getting arrested." She finishes. "Well, then how about you call our parents?" Blake says leaning forward over me. "Oh shit, my parents. Oh no." "Everett, calm down just breath! It's okay." I try my best to comfort him. "Once we get there, how about you call them youselves?" "They're gonna kill me." he freaks out even more. "Look, Everett, take this." Blake leans over me, Is it a pill?" Everett questions. "No. Try it" "Blake, switch. I'm not having you lean over me to the point I'm uncomforable." I state. She nods and I move to where she was sitting before. I look to them, Everett almost crushing the fidget cube. Oh jesus. "No, no, no. No." Blake exclaims, stopping him before he completely breaks it. "No. Like this." She takes his and helps show him what he's supposed to do with it. I see out the corner of my eyes that Harlan and Luna turning to see what's happening. I see Everett start to calm down as Harlan looks at me and I just shrug. I hear the cage bang, once again. "We're here." the cop says before pulling to a stop. I sigh before getting ready to get out of this car. The cop opens mine and Harlan's side of the door as we get out. I bite the inside of my cheek, crossing my arms. Feeling my own anxiety start up. My heart beat starts to pick up, I think Harlan knew somehow because he looks at me with reassurance, letting me know it's ok. I nod at him with a slight smile as I follow him and the rest. I stick with Harlan, for some reason I feel safe with him. Like he's my protector. I look up at him to see him listening to something. I look forward to see Tia and her mom walk by while being screamed at by her mom as Harlan and I watch them walk by in sync. I raise my brow but ignore it and continue walking. We walk up some stairs to see more people getting questioned as well. Holy shit. I look around, it's hella crowded in here. I inch a bit closer to Harlan so I don't get lost in this crowd. I always hated crowds, made me wanna throw up. "Follow me." The cop said to us. We look at each other, Harlan looking at me lastly as I look back as we start walking to follow him. I see another cop eyeing Harlan and I glare at him without him seeing me. I look a head to see Cyrus on the phone, leaning against the pole. I wave at him, he nods his head at me in response. I knew Cyrus from school, we would talk when we were in the classes we had together. He was really cool and I liked talking to him. "Keep movin'." The cop behing Harlan says. Next thing we know, he shoves him. I turn to him, "What the fuck is your problem?" I exclaim, really pissed off. Harlan looks annoyed, "You got a problem?" He looks at him, "Just you. Sit down." He forces Harlan to sit down. I scoff at this shit. I sit between the Twins while Everett and Blake sat in the chairs behind us. I turn to ask them if they're okay. Blake nods, "yeah, thanks for trying to calm me down earlier." He smiles at me slightly, "Ofc." I saw quietly, smiling back. I put my hand on Blake's shoulder before turning around, sighing and leaning forward, putting my head in my hands. I sit up to Blake walking to Phoebe. That isn't gonna end up well. I watched the convo but couldn't hear. Blake starts walking over to us, "What happened?" I question, raising my eyebrow turning to where she was sitting before. "She told them that she thought it was me that started the fires." "Oh, that bitch! I wanna kick her stupid ass." I roll my eyes, turning around. I hear Harlan chuckle at what I said. I look at him, smiling as I know I meant what I said but I'll probably not get the chance. "We should ask for a lawyer." "You know what happened when we do that?" Harlan said, "They arrest us." "I am not getting arrested. Sorry, but if I have to, I'm telling them everything they want to know." "B, you can't do that. We should just make a story." "Yeah, something simple, we all stick to it." Harlan agreeing with me "Like we were working on a school project or something?" Luna says. "No. Jesus Luna." Harlan says, shaking his head. "Like we were smoking weed." I say. "That's a crime." Everett says. "Which makes it sound like were telling the truth. I nod, "Nobody gives a shut about a couple of kids smoking in the woods." I say. "I don't smoke weed. I tried edibles once, all it did was make my anxiety worse." Everett explains. I raise a brow with a grin with amusement, turning to him. "So, you're that guy?" Harlan says behind me. "Pretty much." he admits, looking away. I look away to see Austin walk out and past us. Everett gets up quickly, asking him something. I can sense Luna's emotions and they seem flusted. I turn to her and see her eyes following Austin, I smirk knowningly. "Why is your heart beating so fast?" Harlan says also smirking looking at her. I turn to him, "I think she likes him." Still grinning. He looks at me with the same grin, "That guy? That's your type?" seeing who she was looking at and what I'm also meaning. She looks at us annoyed, "fuck off!" I chuckle. "Everett Lang. You're up." I look up and see the asshole cop calling for Everett. I roll my eyes, he's bad news. You can read it all over him. "Let's go!"