Innocently

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5 year old Michael sits in his kindergarten  classroom amongst his other classmates drawing pictures.

Mrs. Briggs, their teacher, walks around the room looking at each student's drawing.

"Look! Look at my drawing Mrs. Briggs!" Michael's classmate, Monae, says excitedly raising up her hand, waving it in the air

Mrs. Briggs smiles. "That's very nice Monae. I love your rainbow!" she compliments and Monae smiles proudly. She turns her head to look at Michael. "But Michael didn't follow the rules. He didn't draw a happy picture like you said." She snobbishly tattles

She walks over to Michael who's right next to Monae. "What did you draw Michael?" she politely asks

Michael puts down his red crayon and lifts up his picture to show her. Mrs. Briggs examines it and immediately feels discomfort.

It was a pretty bloody, gruesome picture. Not something a 5 year old should draw.

"Michael why did you draw this picture?" she scolds having a hand on her hip

He just smiles. That cynical smile.

Feeling proud.

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Hayden~

I'm currently at Naia's house with Aliyah and Alexia. Her dad bought us donuts and we're all just in her big kitchen eating them while watching TV talking about random stuff

Naia is currently doing Aliyah's hair, putting it back to her signature 2 big braids. "Aliyah why ain't yo ass just ask Peaches to do it fo you?" Naia asks thoroughly combing through Aliyah's long, curly, thick hair.

"'Cause Peaches ain't have time. Plus I could always come to you for free." she shrugs

"Aliyah this is the 3rd time this month you've changed your hairstyle." Alexia laughs stuffing a donut into her mouth shaking her head while looking at her phone. "Now why you lyin' huh?" Aliyah scoffs propping her feet up onto the table

"Aliyah you betta get yo feet off my table!" Naia's mom (my aunt) calls on her way up the stairs, glaring at everyone. "Sorry auntie!" Aliyah hollers back as we all snicker under our breaths

I'm not as crazy as Aliyah when it comes to hair, but I like changing up my style every once in a while. But usually I'm too lazy to come up with a hairstyle so I usually stick with my natural hair just like right now.

Aliyah's the one who always gets the braids or straightens her hair every other week. Anyway, Michael's at some family thing so I was bored and decided to hang out at Naia's place with them.

I'm not really sure what the "family thing" is but I sure hope he's not lying about where he actually is. I also realized I haven't even met his parents yet...it makes me terrified...

Suddenly, Aliyah hollers and almost jumps out of her seat making Naia drop the comb she was holding "Aliyah what the hell?" she kisses her teeth, picking it up off of the floor and Aliyah points to her phone-

"I got a text from Damien sayin' that they caught a guy who had somethin' to do wit Scott's disappearance!" she exclaims

I snap my attention away from my strawberry donut and over to her as I tooka small bite from it. "What?" I instantly ask leaning in as we all huddle around her to see her phone. "You gotta be lyin'." Naia says reaching out for Aliyah's phone but she swipes it away and holds up a finger, beginning to read the screen

"Iss a guy named Tony Anderson." she says and furrowed her brows along with the rest of us. I don't think I've ever heard of him. "Who the fuck is that?" Alexia squeaks as I took another bite of my donut and nodded. "Yeah. Who's that?" I asked

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