She didnt look up from the cracks in the sidewalk, nor did she turn down her street to go home. Instead, she just kept walking. Rain thundered down from gray heavens above in the mid afternoon. She splashed her sneakers against the soaked concrete, trying not to concintrate on anyone else. Cars whizzed by, spewing water from the wheels. Everyone was in a hurry now. Even mother Earth.

In her head, The voices from earlyer began to claw back through her mind. . .

"What did you do!?"

"Now you'll regret it!"

"You should be expelled!"

"We are calling your parents! We will discuss it with them!"

"How could you!?"

"What kind of monster are you!?"

"Im sure they are going to press charges!"

Each phrase hit her like a bullet to the chest. She just wanted to sink deeper and deeper into the ground until no one could see her. The feeling of shame was unbearable. How could she go from genuinely liked to genuinely loathed in the mattwr of minutes!? She hadn't felt deceptive, or vindictive... she was just... just...

Defending herself. And if Holly, a scummy popular girl who loved to walk all over her peers, hadnt have punched her square in the face, then maybe she wouldnt have pushed Holly down the stairs. Maybe Holly wouldnt have been rushed to the hospital today. Maybe Holly shares some of this blame...

Of course, No one else saw it that way. No one at all, since there was no one else in the stairway to see it happen. What they saw was a girl with twisted broken limbs screaming her death scream while another girl stood at the top of the steps looking down in shock.

'It was instinctive.' She thought to herself as she walked further on away from her home. 'I didnt think, temporary insanity... It was just a reaction.'

The flicker of red abd blue lights against the sidewalk came into her view and she lifted her eyes up to see. A police car had a man pulled over, and the officer was leaning into the window of the offender's vehicle. She stopped dead in her tracks, frozen with sudden fear. Maybe the police were looking for her! The officer pulled back from the window and looked down the street directly at her.

For a moment both of them just stared at eachother. Then the officer turned back to the car and held up his index finger to indicate the universal sign of 'Hang on a minute'. At this She turned and started to run back down the street.

She heard the officer shout out "Hey! Hold Up!" But she was not going to stop. She broke into a full sprint now. She rounded the corner and started down that street when she heard the chirp of the siren behind her. Then came the megaphone: "STOP RIGHT NOW!"

Her feet could no longer move on command. She tried to escape, anyway she could, but another side of her crumbed to acceptance at the officer's command. After all, she was never a rule breaker. She turned, bursting into hysterics. "Im sorry! I didnt mean to! It was an accident!"

The officer stopped his car, and flew out of it qhickly approaching her. He had his gun drawn. "Hands on your head NOW!"

She obeyed, sobbing all the while. This was it... This was how her life would turn downhill forever.