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My stomach sank.
If Costas’s people were involved with this…
“How do you know?” I whispered.
“I heard them talking,” he said. “When we came in and paid. They were buying food. But I really like this movie, so I decided to come anyway. So fuckin’ stupid.”
I looked at the man who wasn’t really a man.
He was more of a kid.
The weird stage between full adult and still teen.
“It’s not like you knew a different gang was going to show and start firing off shots in the middle of a movie theater,” I said as I tried the door that would lead us to the exit.
Locked.
“Goddammit,” I grumbled darkly, looking back at the door we’d entered through.
“The equipment,” my companion said. “Let’s…”
More shots, and then the kid/man went down.
I cursed and pulled him out of the way of the huge rolling speaker, then moved the speaker into the spot between the door and the shelf.
I locked the wheels, then hurried back to the man, placing my hand on the seeping wound in his left shoulder. “We’ll get out of here.”
The kid looked terrified. “I just wanted to escape.”
I knew the feeling. “Same.”
“I want to call my mom,” he whispered. “We had a fight.”
I helped him pull his phone out of his pocket, then supported him as he propped himself up against the far wall.
Then I followed suit.
I desperately dialed the number that I knew by heart.
It rang and it rang and it rang.
He didn’t answer.
Not that I expected him to after I’d been ignoring his phone calls all day.
Then, remembering that I’d gotten a call from his house earlier, I’d desperately hit redial on that and waited.
It didn’t take long for the phone to be answered.
However, who I expected to answer the phone wasn’t who answered it.
“Hello?”
“Quinn,” I whispered, unable to get my voice to go any higher. “I need Quinn.”
“Sorry, you have the wrong number,” Elliette quipped before hanging up the phone.
A loud bang sounded beside my ear, and I felt warm wetness start to seep into my pants around my waist.
