UNEXPECTED TURN

WRITER'S POV

“Your hands at the back of your head!”

Zach's gleeful laughter was booming in the room when the door burst open and a team of policemen barged in. Instantly it seized. Pistols aimed at their faces.

Alarmed, Collins sat up. Hunter and Zach frightfully pushed away the girl who looked half dead from the drugs she had been made to shove down.

“Who called the cops?” Collins gritted, shooting glares at Zach and Hunter.

“We should be asking you that!” Zach slammed back.

“Your hands at the back of your head!” The officer repeated his warning.

Collins could feel his shirt soak with sudden perspiration as he looked around in utmost disbelief and fear inside. He had been arrested for a lot of things but had never been caught right in the act and why in this place of all places. “Shit!”

Detective Defoe stepped forward, a victorious smirk lingering in his lip. “Is there a need for us to read your Miranda rights…this wouldn't be your first rodeo,” he said and pressed the cuff firml