Chapter 14

"Getting arrested can be a very humbling experience. Getting told your being arrested, even though your not and getting dragged to a police station to answerer questions without a parent or guardian present can be outright terrifying. Lucky for me I could sense the police's motives when the squad car pulled in beside me. I was cooperative as they cuffed me and attempted to humiliate me because I was only in my boxers. Once we arrived at the station I was placed in a small, probably deliberately, cold room. They refused to let me call my mom, and told me I would not get a blanket unless I cooperated.

What happens when you try to take a stubborn animal and shove them into a small cage? They rebel, doing everything they can not to cooperate. I sensed the frustration from the police also. It seems Hope would not tell them anything about what happened in the woods. So here I was trapped, nowhere to go and no way to call home. I was badgered for four and a half hours about what went on. They started by asking if I did anything to Hope. Why was I in the woods? Where were my cloths? They even went as far to say they knew what I had done and asked me who my accomplices were. I refused to answerer any of their questions because I knew Hope hadn't name me as one of the persons who attacked her. They were just trying to scare me but it backfired.