DOWN BY LAW // WHEN THEY SEE US *DISCONTINUED*

Chapter 3

They put fear into us.

We turned on ourselves.

If only we had never went.

Megan Mc'Coy

It was cold and I wanted to go see my big brother. It's his birthday today and he was turning 19, maybe I'll see him when I get out.

The front office was hectic, Dmirikel played tic-tac-toe with herself while Lyric was asleep on Korey's shoulder. She was scared & I've never seen her this scared before.

I hope Rose & Monica are okay. I started messing with my nails. Truthfully, I wish we weren't here, they could get us easily since we were in the park. All I knew was that I wanted to go home. And when the guys first started coming around, everyone turned into a straight ding-a-ling.

Straight retarded and stupid. They always treated them like they were family. I yanked my lollipop from outta my hair & started eating it.

When could I go home?
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Rose Smith

"Momma?" I muttered with blurry vision, I knew by now my eye was busted and my head was about ta' burst. 24 hours, I couldn't go to the bathroom, they didn't feed us, or even give us water. I didn't do anything, why'd he hit me?

"Que le hiciste mi bebe?!" My mom rubbed my face, I knew she was worried, and it probably took her hours to find where I was even at. "I'll be suing, we're pressing charges, ASSAULT ON A MINOR! And questioning a minor without an adult present, let's go baby," she grabbed my hand pulling me out of the interrogation room where the blonde lady stood in shock.

"You okay?" She hugged me, "I was so scared Mija, I didn't know where you were," I felt her tears on my shirt. I looked down at her, my mother was fragile, she couldn't handle pain very well but she acted as if she was strong.

"I'm fine mommy," I sighed, "have you seen Yusef? Is he okay? What about the girls?" The veins in my neck thumped in excitement. I didn't want my girls here nor did I want Yusef to be apart of this.

"STOP HANGING WITH THOSE DAMN HOODLUMS! You think they care about you Rose? They're the reason you're here now!" I flinched, she never raised her voice at me. That's how I knew she was mad as hell. Her brown eyes swam in her pissed off thoughts. She never liked Monica. To her Monica was only bad news, but I couldn't just cut her off.

"Let's go home baby," she smiled, tugging my hand while I tugged onto my last bit of sanity.

"Whatever they said I did, I didn't"

Lyric Jackson

"Wake up," I felt someone push me hard on my shoulder, "you're coming with me," the white man grabbed my arm, tugging me away while the black woman took Dmirikel & Megan. Korey was already gone.

"Where we going?" He closed the door behind him, walking towards me, "you raped that white woman huh?" He punched me in my nose, gripping my neck. The moment he woke me out of my sleep I should've known. The scent of chocolate and cherry blossom lingered while he continued slapping me.

"I didn't do nothing to nobody," I tried squirming out of his grasp while he grabbed the hem of my shirt.

The blood dripped down my chin onto my chest, I started swinging and kicking him in the balls. He fell over, and I spun around to the door. He grabbed my shoe while my hand was on the door handle, trying to pull me back down.

"You can have it!" I slipped my shoe off, running to the front desk where 4 police officers were. Rushing to my aid.

The lady shuffled behind from behind the desk. She pulled out a bottle of peroxide, shaking her head and frowning.

They already knew what just happened. I just wish the same didn't happen to Dmirikel.

Dmirikel Jackson

"You wish to say something?" The Lederer fake smiled while the guy sat beside her. Megan waited in the back, she was as scared as me.

"We hurt her," I swallowed confusingly, the guy told me if I confessed I'd be let go, all of us would. And my sister was scared, mom still didn't know where we were so I'd rather go home.

"Whose We?"

"He told me, if I say this I go home," I pointed to the guy sitting in the corner, causing the lady to glare at him. "That's not how this works sweetie," she hugged me, turning off the camera, "I just- I just wanna go home," tears fell onto her shoulder.

Lyric walked in with a bandaid on her nose and cheek, her eyes bloodshot red. The Lederer looked at both of us. As if she really cared.

"What happened to you? Sweetheart?" She blinked while my sister grabbed my hand.

"Don't sweetheart me, you're the reason I'm like this, you guys are trying to frame a rape on us, and WE DON'T EVEN LIKE GIRLS! Ask your detective, he's the reason I'm like this," she glared yanking my arm away from the office.

We left Megan.

Megan Mc'Coy

They had each other. But now I'm the only one left.

"Do this for me Joe, I need to get some coffee," the black white lady said rubbing her hands into her face, taking her container and leaving me with Joe.

"Just say what you did, and you leave," he shrugged while I fiddled with my hands. I didn't do good on cameras. Or anything for that matter.

"But I didn't do anything a-"

"It's always you lying niggers, you lie you lie you lie, just say you did it and we can go!" He slammed his hands on the desk, I bit my lip, I wish they hadn't left me by myself.

"We did it just like Dmirikel said, Monica thought she was cute so she," He lowered his gaze at me, I shifted uncomfortably in my seat, he obviously didn't move but his gaze was enough to make me move.

I'm scared big bro. Come save me. Please.

"So she, she hit the lady with a bat, multiple times, and she tased her with the taser we had found-the lady started running, real fast, I saw blood ," I moved my hands, why did this feel so wrong? "Monica hit her in the back of her head again- she wouldn't stop screamin' so Lyric picked up a rock and slammed it into her rib cage like 5 times-"

"How did the boys get there?" I raised my eyebrows. Was he talking about Yusef and the rest of them.

"Rose ran and got them-they-they wasn't too far away from us, Dmirikel started kicking her rib cage and she stepped on her arm-"

"What did you do in all of this?"

"Well- I hit her, I stepped on her ankles so she couldn't move, Rose came back with the boys and started-"

"I told her to stop doing that, but she kept, touching her-"

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