Officer Stone leaves me, then comes back with a thick file folder. "So tell me, Salazar. Do you have gang ties?"
"No. Just because I'm Mexican doesn't mean I'm a gangbanger."
"I know that. But troublemakers like you look for trouble. You need to stay clean, Salazar," he says. "Or you'll find yourself locked up for more than a couple of hours, especially since your father wasn't too keen on picking you up. I think his exact words were 'let him walk home.'"
Officer Stone escorts me to the front, where he says I'm free to go. When I'm released into the lobby, my friends are there waiting for me.
"What happened?" Ashtyn asks frantically. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah," I answer, not wanting to talk about it.
Sullivan pats me on the back. "You scared the s**t out of me, man."
Kierra is standing
