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Blamed: A Short Story

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Blamed Once upon a time in a neighborhood 10 minutes away from school, Joey a tall kid with black hair and green eyes and his friends Chris, Bill, and Hayley were hanging by the skate park when they heard kids starting to laugh. They looked toward the street and saw a group of high school kids. They were carrying plastic bags Joey was wondering what they were laughing about and what was in the bag. So he said “see you guys later “ and left. He skated over to them except they stopped and said “ready”, “ready”. They started throwing the plastic bags at people 's houses. The cops showed up and they skated away so Joey ran to but the cop saw me. Joey skated back home and he didn’t come that day. The next day Joey went to school. He skipped out

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