my friday
well. that was a terrifying experience.
let me start with this morning, waiting outside for work this morning. it would have been 1:50am-2am. it was dark, quiet and drizzleing. i heard voices in the park next door. thinking it might be drunken guys, i was silent, i sat down and brought my legs up close to me. the seconds ticked past, and the voices became clearer. i heard movement, and watched as a guy half ran half staggered up the road. he was clearly drunk. a chick ran after him. she was yelling at him to come back, and "no, no, come back and talk to me!"
they continued up the road, with him trying to get away from her, her trying to get to him, and me just praying that stan would arrive and i would be fine. she finally yelled out "i want to know why you are breaking up with me when im pregnant". pieces fit in my mind and i resolved it was a domestic in the middle of the night, in the middle of the street.
i was still a trifle scared, i will admit. the adrenalin rush, and that sick feeling in your stomach.
the rest of the day was fine. worked. slept. handed in journal. kids klub. youth. all fine.
standing out the front of church after youth, would have been 10ish. we were the last ones left. kelsey, andrew (kels's dad and our youth worker), pearl, david and i. dave and andrew were talking. cathy and brad (who had left just before) came back into the car park and told dave and andrew that chris and ryan were fighting in the main street of mount ev, and that she had called the police.
dave jumped into his car and shot off, while the rest of us got into andrews car and drove up there. a couple of minutes before we had heard some shouting, but didnt pay much attnetion to it. my church is right near the main street of mount ev. driving past there was a crowd of guys, one had no top and had something in his hand. andrew parked and told us to stay in the car. we did.
pearl, kels and i prayed, and the police turned up blinding the scene with high beams. the guys, drunk, had fled.
finally, dave came back, turned off his car and we all got out. then we got the full story.
melanie, jasmine, ryan and chris (chris and jaz were in my class at school. mel and ryan are jaz's younger siblings. they were all at youth) had stopped in main street so that mel could go get some cash from the ATM.
the guys had called some drunken obscene comments at her, but she ignored them. chris got out of the car, to just be a presence to ward off any trouble, and to sort of protect mel. instead the guys came to attack him. they got in a few punches and ryan got out of the car quick to be there too. when dave had arrived, chris and them were all in the car again, and they rushed at dave. when cathy had driven past they kicked her doors, and were kicking jaz's cars doors too.
the police arrived then, and the guys had gone.
this is all good and well. chris went to the hospital to make sure he was all ok. the police got lots of statements. and we (dave, pearl and i) were the last ones to leave the scene to go home. (my sister and dave know a few of the local youths thanks to doing youth shack for all those years) unfortunatly, my sisters boyfriend saw someone he recognised, obviously smashed, and he pulled up. and there were some of the other guys. he got out of the car even though my sister and i told him not to. it was 5 or so very tense moments for pearl and i sitting there watching the scene unfold before us.
nothing happened, but the possibility that something could have, and that david was putting himself into that situation. i mean, he is a big guy, and he knows them, and he was being friendly, and everything. and apparently they werent involved, but turned up later. but still it shook me up a little.
oh, i forgot to say that one of the guys had a knife...
