Day 5

I SAW HIM LOOKING AROUND

It was like he was looking for someone else to take. He reached in his pocket and took out another gun. It was smaller; it was like a little pistol looking thing. He held it up to her held and then took the other gun in his other hand and started pointing it at the crowd. Eager to see what he was going to do, of course he pointed it at me. He gestured for me to come over towards him. I stared at him dead in the eyes, and then stared at her. Her smirked turned into almost a concerned look. With his gun, he screamed for me to come over there. I moved walked towards him slowly, and I think in the background I hear the cops and everyone telling me to stay put. But I didn’t listen. He whispered “closer”. So I moved closer, and he kept telling me to come closer. So I decided to walk straight into his gun so it was me at gunpoint and her at gunpoint. I remember feeling the barrel pressed to my head and the sweat starting to form on my forehead. “Yes?” I said to him directly with not an ounce of fear in my tone. He looked puzzled but said “I want you to take this gun, and I want you to kill her with it. Go. Now!” He flipped the gun over and handed it to me. I took the gun in my hand and pointed it at her. Now everyone had guns pointing every which way. And most of them were pointed at me, from her people anyway. I was a threat I guess. I thought to myself- well, this is my chance right here, right now. I was just handed a gun and now I can kill her. She’s held down and she’s at gunpoint and I can do what I wanted to do and just kill her. Right now. Interrupting my thought, he spoke. “Take the gun to her head, with your arms, go around her and take any weapons off her. Now!” I did just that. She was looking at me dead in the eyes the hole time. I walked to her, pointed the gun to her head and took a deep breath. It was like I saw into her soul that moment. It was like a hint of trust just fell over the both of us. I reached around and grabbed any guns she had stashed behind her. I bent down with my gun still at her head and took out her ankle gun. But I saw a gun behind her that was there before. I took it and put it inside my sleeve so he wouldn’t see. I went back up and looked at her in the eyes one more time. And I gave a slight wink. She looked back like she was almost in shock. I reached around her one more time and slipped the gun into her pants. “That’s all she had,” I said. “Good. Now move,” he commanded. He told her to get on her knees. She looked up at her people and gave a wink to them as a hint that I hinted her. He walked behind her and pointed the gun to the back of her head. The dumbass forgot I had the gun so I pointed it at him and shot one dead in the forehead. The second he fell she flew up reached behind her to grab the gun pointed it at me and shot. But she didn’t shoot me; she shot 4 people in the sea of cops and everyone else. They dropped like flies. Her people went running over to her and the cops went running over to the people that got shot.

They looked around and started talking to her. I couldn’t hear what they were saying but she seemed okay. While they were talking to her, she was staring at me. Almost like a thank you stare. That’s how I took it anyway. They gave her gun back and they started to walk away. They talked to the cops and whoever else and five minutes later it was like nothing was going to happen to them. I was a bit confused but I just watched. They went to leave but she walked towards me. “I didn’t need your help,” she said. “But thanks.” And gave me my gun back. She gave me a smirk and went to turn around and walk away. But I wouldn’t let her. Not this time. She saw I didn’t want to let her leave. So she stood there in mid turn like she was waiting for me to say something. I shrugged my shoulders at her as if I were saying, “What would you like me to say, I have no idea what to say to you.” She gave me a shrug of the head as if she was saying, “Well, are you gunna say anything or am I just standing here for my health.” “I’ll see you around,” I just told her. And I did the walking away that time.