Breaking Rules

36.

There was an eerie silence before anyone spoke up, yet I was the first.

"Amie, what do you mean you filmed it?"

"Well... They were targeting you and Jason weren't they. I don't think they even noticed me in the back so I made the most of it and began filming when I noticed how they were acting."

I couldn't take in what I was hearing, J and I being targeted and then me literally being shot was on a video? I didn't listen to people as they kept talking.

"Harper..." I heard Thalia snap me out of my daze, and my head turned towards her.

"I'm sorry I didn't tell you earlier, Harper. I just didn't think it was necessary until today, and it's not exactly something you want to watch-"

"Have you watched it then?" I asked Amie as she shuffled in her seat.

"Yeah."

"Show me it."

"Baby I really don't know if that's a good idea, how about I watch it first?" Thalia offered from beside me.

"Yeah, Harp. How about we look over it and just explain it if you still want to understand?" Jason agreed in a careful tone.

"No, just show me." I spoke to Amie firmly but noticed my friends giving each other looks from my peripheral vision.

"Okay." Thalia said. I got up from next to her and we all gathered round Amie as she got her phone out.

Deep down, I was shitting it.

I obviously had an idea what I was about to see and to some people it might not be a big deal but I had been suffering in silence since it happened.

Loud noises made me jump out of my skin and more often than not I woke up sweating from nightmares of Officer Jackson's face looking down on me as I laid in a pool of blood.

Sometimes I had the nightmares at Thalia's but she was an extremely deep sleeper so I usually sorted myself out in her bathroom and shuffled back into bed and watched her sleep.

But now, as Amie let the video on her phone load, I was feeling very vulnerable watching it surrounded by everyone.

The video began, and you could hear the muffled sound of Officer Jackson talking to J, his voice sent a strong shiver down my spine.

I took Jason's hand from off my shoulder and took it in my own as we listened more to the video and heard Jason's voice cracking with nerves.

The talking got louder as Amie moved her phone and the Officer was visible, his ratchet ass face glowing in the blue and red lights.

We got to the part of the video where Jason was taken out of the car and I squinted my eyes and took the phone into my own hands to watch since from this moment, everything was blurry.

I heard myself on tape, which is never a good experience, and the voices of my friends behind me faded.

My leg bounced as I listened to my voice get louder and I felt the anger, I felt at the time, rise within me.

I was pulled out of the car and the camera moved to the window, I could hear Amie's rapid breathing behind the camera.

Officer Jackson stood back and I felt like I was watching in slow motion as the gun was pulled up and I moved in front of Jason.

The video showed me falling to the ground after the loud gunshot messed up the phone's sound for a few seconds. After the shot, the video went black from Amie dropping the phone.