A time to remember

Miguel Fachez

       Brooke and I both wake up at the same time, and I look to my left to see Damon and Jade snuggled up next to each other. Brooke leans up and plants a kiss on my right cheek and smiles at me.
- "Wanna go get some pizza?"
- "Sure babe, I'm pretty sure there's a pizzeria just down the street." Brooke said.

       We leave the other two, Damon and Jade, where they were when we left due to them sleeping. Brooke and I were almost to the pizzeria when I saw a police car in front of it, with two police men walking out from their car. Before I could even tell Brooke that we should go to a different pizzeria, the two officers stop us.
- "Hi, I'm officer Leo Bennet and this is officer Marcus Avery. Are you Damon Merellie?"
- "Uh, no. My name is Miguel Fachez."
- "Well is their by any chance you know who Damon Merellie is?" Officer Bennet said.
- "Miguel what's going on?"
- "Brooke don't worry about it. Sir, I do know who Damon is. But is there a reason your looking for him?" I ask.
- "Yes. You see, just last night, a man named Damien Poole was shot in the neck. And we checked security cameras, and we saw four kids leaving the crime seen. The only two kids that were identified were Damon Merellie, and the victims younger sister; Brooke Poole. And you, Miguel, was it?" Officer Avery asked. I nod my head in agreement.
- "Well Miguel, the four kids that were seen leaving the house, you look exactly like one of them. And so do you Brooke. So we're going to have to take all four of you in for questioning. Where uh, are the other two?"
- "I can take you to them if you want. Their not that far away sir." The officer named Leo nodded his head, and we led the two officers to where Damon and Jade were.

     We finally arrive at the alley, and Damon and Jade were still sleeping, just like how we left them. I walk over to Damon and shake him a little, causing him to wake up. Jade lifts her body up and spots the two officers and instantly freezes.
- "What are you staring at?" Damon asked her. He follows her gaze to the two officers standing in front of them.
- "Oh shit!" Damon jumps up immediately and reaches for his bag.
- "He's got a gun!" Officer Bennet yelled as he reaches for his own, then pointing it at Damon.
- "Hey! Stop!" I yell at the officers.
- "The fuck? I don't have a gun! Man, put your gun away."
- "Damon Merellie, Brooke Poole, and you other two, are coming with us for questioning about the murder of Damien Poole." The two officers lead all of in the direction of the police car, but before we were even on the block, Damon took off running down the street.
- "Come on!" He yelled. The rest of us followed after him with the police right after us.
- "Damon Merellie! Brooke Poole! Jaden Wilson! Miguel Fachez! Freeze!" I heard from far away. Damon turns into an alley, as do the rest of us. He's frantically looking around for somewhere to go, and he spots a ladder leading to a roof of some building.
- "Follow me." He said to us. We do as he says and follow him up to the roof. I look behind me and I notice Brooke is struggling to run, so I do what's right and pick her up bridal style and carry her the rest of the way.
        We all managed to climb down the roof carefully, and we continue our path before Damon freezes where he is.
- "What is it?" Jade asked.
In front of Damon, is standing a big brown dog, growling at us from a few feet away.
- "Uh, what do we do." I say, looking at Damon. He walks up to the dog and pretends to punch it, expecting it to flinch. But it did the entire opposite; the brown dog bit Damon's hand and wouldn't let go.
- "AGHAA! Get him off me! Get him off me!" Damon screamed. I charged at the dog but before I could get any closer a hand pulls my left shoulder back and I turn around to see who it is. There's three men standing there, the other two holding Brooke and Jade with a gun to their head. The one who grabbed my shoulder was about the same height as me, but about two inches shorter than me, and I'm 6'2.
- "What you doin' in our part of town nigga?"
- "Uh__"
- "I asked you a question. And usually when people ask questions, they expect answers. So start talkin." He pressed his gun harder to my head. The dog that was attacking Damon's hand, eventually let go at some point and was now sitting next to the man who had a gun to my head, who I guess is his master.
- "We__ We didn't know it was yours. Please forgive us." I say stuttering.
- "Damon?" The man in front of me asked.
- "Tino? Ayye! Buddy! How you been?" Damon said, running up to the man whose name is Tino and giving him a big hug. The brown dog that was sitting next to Tino started to growl at Damon when he got close.
- "Man, shut the fuck up Rodger." Tino said to the dog.
- "Tino, we didn't mean to cross your path today. We was just escaping the cops. You feel me?"
Tino nods his head and waves to the other two men as a signal to let Brooke and Jade go.
- "Aye there pretty mama, you busy tonight?" Tino said while Jade walked past him. She rolled her eyes and flipped her hair before walking over to Damon and planting a kiss on his lips.
- "Actually, yes. With him." She replied.
- "Damn Damon, you got yourself a Carmel girl! Man, I would've thought you'd be with this white rabbit over here." He said, pointing at Brooke. There's an awkward silence before Tino speaks up then.
- "Well aight man, you get outta here now. And remember, if you need anything, just come back down here and ask for Tino."
- "Actually man, we do kinda need something. My friends and I are looking for a place to stay until everything settles down. You know any place?"
- "Yeah yeah yeah, uh, past the pizzeria on Main Street, turn left and there's like this small shelter thing where I found Rodger. No one ever goes down there, so you should be safe. But aye I gotta go man. It was nice seeing you again."
Damon nods his head and they give each other a quick half hug, and Tino nods to me before him, the dog, and his boys leave in the other direction.
- "Whose Tino?" I ask.
- "An old friend of mine." He replied. Before we could leave the alley, Brooke stops in front of us and turns around to face us.
- "Okay, I want answers, and I want them now. Who shot my brother?"
Me and Damon exchange looks and no one answers.
- "Damon, did you shoot him?"
- "Brooke, no. Miguel did."
I snap my head at him and and Brooke looks at me.
- "What?" I scream at him.
- "Miguel, is he lying?"
- "No! I mean, yes! I mean__ I didn't shoot him!"
- "Yes you did! You took the gun out of his hands and shot him in the neck!"
- "Why are you blaming me?! I could never shoot anybody! I don't even know how to shoot a gun! It was Jade god damn it! She shit him!" I scream.
- "Excuse me?" Jade yells.
- "Brooke, who do you believe?" Damon asked.
- "I don't know. But one of you did it, and I'm not talking to any of you until you come clean."

Brooke walks away from us and leave me and Damon and Jade in the alley alone.
- "Are you seriously out of your mind?"
- "Well Miguel, I didn't shoot him." He said with a smile on his face.
- "Oh really, then who did? The magical murder fairy? OF COURSE YOU SHOT HIM!"
- "I agree with Miguel Damon. I think it was you."
Damon laughs at us and walks away following behind Brooke. I sigh and follow behind all three of them then, hearing the bickering of Brooke and Jade the entire way to our new place.