Wait, What?

𝗧 𝗪 𝗘 𝗡 𝗧 𝗬 𝗘 𝗜 𝗚 𝗛 𝗧

𝔹𝕖𝕣𝕜𝕝𝕖𝕪 𝔽𝕖𝕝𝕥

You know that moment when everything feels slow? Yeah, that's me right now.

The McDonald's was surrounded by people carrying signs. People were pounding on the glass, some windows shattering. They were screaming and shouting.

"What's the fuck is going on?" Annie whispered to me.

"It's a riot." Dixie said.

"Hey everyone! There's an exit in the back. Just follow me and be careful from any glass!" A worker came out and shouted. We did as he said. Annie's hand never left mine as we ran to the back.

A rock was thrown through a window, making it shatter into a million pieces. The sharp rock hit Charli in the head. She let out a cry as she fell to the ground in pain.

Dixie picked up Charli and ran to the back room. We all escaped without any more injuries. We made it outside and the streets were full of people, and was clearly a riot.

"What the fuck is happening?" Annie questioned the worker.

"This is the 'Black Lives Matter' protest. Clearly not peaceful anymore." The boy sighed.

"We need to get Charli to the hotel. I doubt the E.R.s are taking anyone right now." Dixie said, leading all of us girls down the road.

Everywhere we went, people were with rocks in their hands and signs held high.

Don't get me wrong, I would love to join their riot, but Charli is hurt and needs help.

"Griffin is a nurse! He can help!" Madi suggested.

"Yes! But how are we going to get back with no Uber?" Avani asked.

"We walk." Annie shrugged.

We listened to the depressed Annie and all stayed close together as we walked quickly to the hotel. No one else was hurt but Charli passed out from the lack of blood in her system.

"What room is Griffin in, though?" Madi asked.

"He's with Payton, meaning room 307." I say.

Avani, Madi, Indiana, and Annie went to go inform Bryant about the whole thing, while Dixie and I took Charli to Griffin.

When we got to the room, Griffin immediately did work on Charli. Payton wasn't in the room, so I sat with Dixie on the couch.

"Is she going to be ok?" Dixie wondered. I grab her hand, showing that I care.

"It's a deep cut and she's going to need stitches, but I'm sure the hotel has a paramedic or someone that can help with that." Griffin said, washing of Charli's forehead.

"Why isn't she awake yet?" Dixie asked, concerned for her baby sister.

"She might of passed out from the fear, or she lost a bit of blood." Griffin explained.

"Griffin! I can't find Berk. I'm losing my shits right-." Payton bursted through the door.

How do they open the door so quietly?!

"Berkley! You're ok." Payton ran to me and hugged me tightly.

"Uh, yeah I am. Why are you so freaked?" I questioned.

"I couldn't find you! And you weren't answering your texts or calls." Payton held me tightly, not letting go any time soon.

"I'm ok. Everyone is ok." I hug him back.

"Good." He finally let go of my body.

"Dixie text me if anything else happens. I'm going to go lay down." I sigh, leaving the people.

I go to my room, which is shared with Madi. She told me I had the room to myself because she was going to be with Christopher tonight.

After a while of scrolling through Instagram, I got a text.

★☆★☆★

TOUR GC

Dixie
Hey everyone! Charli is awake and Grif and I took her to the hospital a town over. I don't know if Bryant told anyone, but Minneapolis Tour has been cancelled. We are staying in the hotel for the night then heading straight to Florida tomorrow morning.

Avani
Is it getting bad outside?

Griffin
It's just riots. It was supposed to be a peaceful march but some people came to be harmful. I believe we should all join the peaceful march. No destroying things please.

Anthony
I'm down. Bryce, Josh, Tayler, and I can make some signs.

Bryce
FUCK YEAH BITCHES.

Josh
Yessir.

Madi
Chris and I will march!

Annie
What time?

Dixie
6:30pm.

Hayden
I will march.

Berkley
Make me a sign!!!

Payton
Me too!

Griffin
Make everyone a sign, and everyone join. It can be good to support the tour. And it's good to support black lives.

Tayler
Ok daddy nurse.

Indiana
What the fuck Tayler?

Tayler
He is DADDY and he's a NURSE. Daddy nurse.

Bryce
Hell yes!

Jackson
Dumbasses.

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I glance at the time and it's 5:47pm. I decided to get up and do some research on this marching. Thank god I did, because it opened my eyes to how fucked up our country is.

It doesn't matter the pigment of someone's skin it. It doesn't matter if they are different looking. White privilege is such a bad thing to me.

So what if I got pale skin? I'm still human. I bleed red, just like colored people.

"This country is shit." I mumble to myself as I change into jean shorts and a grey loose shirt.

I tie my hair back into a pony tail, and add a red bandanna as a pretty way to keep baby hairs out of my face. I leave my face all natural, not wanting to worry about makeup.

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"Ready?" Annie asked me.

We both held signs, ready to join the march. My sign said 'Black Lives Matter' while Annie's said 'I may be white, but I will stand with you'.

This is going to be epic.

☆★☆★☆

𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚛?! 𝚈𝚎𝚙!

𝙷𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚖𝚊𝚣𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚍𝚊𝚢. 𝚆𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚐𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚗 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍, 𝙸 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚟𝚎𝚜.

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