After Dark

RUN!

That's what I'm good at, running, I'm decent at fighting, but I'm bad at hiding. Claustrophobia will do that for ya.

Bullets were zipping by my ear.

They have fricken GUNS! I thought. My legs were moving like the roadrunner, BEEP BEEP, You know the one.

I came to a T in the road, only three directions, left, right, and backward, toward the crazy dude with guns? No thanks.

I turned left and ran.

CRAP! Dead end, what now? I forgot to mention before, another thing I'm good at. Parcour.

Not like what you play in the waiting area on Hypixel though, like those YouTube videos where people are hopping from building to building.

I jumped up and grabbed a storage container and used it to pull myself up.

A bullet flew by me. Thank God they were a little drunk, and bad shots too.

I started hopping across the canisters. I'd be safe when I left the docs. More running, bullets whizzing past. Then a bullet landed by my foot. Hot shrapnel hit my leg and I fell over.

The shrapnel was burning my skin. I got up and tried to run. I wasn't as fast as I was but I could still get away. The men were yelling, the guns were popping, and I was running, on the other side of town from the police department, so my only hope was a semi-nice stranger with a gun or a car since those crazies had blown up my car. Okay, maybe I should explain how I got into this situation...

Chapter two

So basically how I got here (I promised an explanation earlier...) Is I just drove in. You'd think that Gangsters (or whatever these guys are) Would protect a place like this better. Anyway, I just drove in... to cry off the fact that I just got stood up by the most beautiful girl at my school, you know what... never mind I never said that. I drove in because real men hang out at the docks... ignore I said that too

Anyway... back to me getting shot at. So I was still just running the shrapnel still was burning in my leg, and then well... I ran out of crates (basically I was using crates to run across the dockyard. You know, those crates that are on those really big ships.

Anyway back on track (guess my ADHD affects my writing side too huh) and there was no way I could jump off these crates and be fine, man gangsters don't like having any intruders.

Good thing I have real skills in stuff like this because I was in cross country. I grabbed the crates and quickly lowered my body and let go. The fall didn't even hurt. I kept running, now I was only a few yards from the exit but these guys did not like me, but come on... I am sixteen! Is this really needed! I mean...I'm no snitch! Lets just chill! But no three guys cut me off. I had nowhere to run. My heart quickened and my adrenalin rushed like Jason was behind it, him, them, her it's 2022 my adrenalin can be what it, him, they, her wants to be. Anyway, this guy walked up to me, he seemed to be an authority figure among these guys.

"We caught the kid." one guy said.

"Kill him... quietly," The boss guy said

That's not good...

One guy took out a silenced pistol and pulled the trigger.

Chapter three

Then time stopped. Not like 'Oh my gosh I am dead!' type frozen, like I was not frozen but everything else was, of course I had to open my eyes to figure that out. Yes, I closed my eyes and cover my face when that one guy drew that gun, anyway I opened my eyes and the bullet stopped moving! Like, not even slow motion, time had completely stopped! I stood there for like forty seconds just processing. When I was done processing this like a blubbering idiot, I ran... no more to it, nothing to go in detail about. To be fair, I had no idea how long I had until whatever this was wore off.

I actually didn't know if it would ever wear off. But it did, in a secluded alley. I know it did because a cat was leaping from a dumpster and it went flying across my view. That scared the absolute heck out of me! To be fair, I did scare the cat too! It hissed and growled at me for a second then ran away. I continued my way home but my mind was somewhere else. What is the H-E-double Hawkey sticks was that!

I finally got home at ten o'clock I desperately needed a shower, and new clothes considering my pants had been burnt up by shrapnel from bullets, no biggie, just another Tuesday. Seriously I could tell the girls at school that! My mom and dad didn't even notice I had come in. Yep... they were like that. Never really looked out for me and my little sister, unless it was money-related. Dad was more than happy to show off all his cash. So I don't need to work, I do because I am not going to live off of my parents you know?

I ran upstairs and took a shower the warm water would have felt nice if I was focused enough to feel it. I got out of the shower and checked on my little sister Beth.

Luckily she was fast asleep so I could lock my door and research what had happened to me.

Nothing showed up on my computer so I just gave up and laid down on my bed. I sighed and closed my eyes thinking about what had happened that night my mind was spinning like a top, what happened to me I rolled over, why me?