Dark Alley

Chapter 31

     Our Wednesday was earlier for me and Tracy when we got to wake up and beg Calvin that we have to rush in school three hours before our classes. Though what Tracy told me was that it wasn't really our plan to be early in school, instead she told me we are going to spend the whole three hours in a police station.

     I don't know why we have to go to a police station, but as soon as Tracy and I got in Calvin's car, we started whispering our conversation.

     "The twins got arrested," Tracy tell me, nearly whispering to keep away Calvin from hearing it. My heart almost stopped, arrest is a serious word added with Tracy's terrified face - I suddenly got scared, for Q and R. "They said the cops need some guardian to sign the papers to release them for school purposes."

     "Tracy, what did they do?" I ask her. I clenched both my fist.

     "I don't know," Tracy says shaking. Then I realize how important those twins where for her, "Foster they don't have either a guardian or their parents."

     "Why?" I asked out of sympathy.

     "Long story," she says, "what we have to think right now is on what we can do that can help them get out of there."

     "How?" I ask. Then I realized there are a lot of things I really don’t know about the twins. They were supposed to be the one whom I am really looking forward on seeing today. I'm supposed to tell them how things are back with me and Tracy.

     "There's this close friend of the two of them whom I hope is still living in his old apartment where I last saw him," she says, "he's an adult. He can help them get away from prison, from that sick place." I wonder what a jail looks like, Tracy mentioned it a sick place as much as I mentioned the alley a sick place.

O god.

     "Well if this friend of theirs is our only hope then let’s goes find him," I tell her. I look at where we are right now, we are just a turn away from school. Calvin slows the car as he turns left entering our school.

     "Here we are," he says, "too much of the rush to be excited. But why do you really want to be so early?"

     Tracy and I both looked at each other, looking for an answer to agree at. Until again I remember Tracy was good at fabricating, "we are doing an unfinished group project that is due, today."

     "Hmm," Calvin pauses, "ok, good luck rushing things!"

     Both of us quickly left Calvin's car as Tracy reaches for the Calvin's window side. Calvin rolls the window down, "thanks dad!"

    "Ok," that's what Calvin said in return. I slammed the back door as Calvin speeds up and left.

    As soon as Calvin was gone, we quickly walked out of the school to find this apartment where a friend of Q and R is staying.

     "I never really knew Q and R have adult friends," I say to Tracy, trying to make a conversation.

     "Well, besides the fact that you just met them for a week and I just met them a year ago. The twins don’t really talk much about themselves and about him," Tracy says.

     "You're really best friends," I whisper to myself, but Tracy turned her head on me, giving me a look.

     "Why?"

     "I don't know," I say, "maybe it's because the three of you don't really talk about your personal life much."

     "We stick to the future Foster," she says, "and their personal life they're not telling me was their past that I am not interested in knowing, also that friend of theirs."