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Chapter 12 - Shane
I look around the small grey room. How did I end up here?
Oh, yeah. My idiot friend Chris is the one that got me here. If only I didn’t listen to him that day, I wouldn’t have been pulled from my apartment and shoved into a black van, while all my neighbors watch. The worse part of it all is that the van has big gold letters on the side of it saying royal police. No one can miss it.
I can only imagine what everyone thinks of me now. I’m sure that I’ll find out when I go back home tonight.
Wait. I will be able to go back home tonight. Right? The royal guards wouldn’t hold me over night in jail. Or would they?
As my eyes dart around the room, my focus first stops on the clock hanging on the back wall. It is 9am. I have been in here for over an hour so far, but no one has come in.
How much longer do I have to wait?
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