Red on the Cement

“Oh my god, oh my god…OH MY GOD!” a faint, faded and feminine voice echoed out around me. Her voice was full of tremor and fear, and desperation for someone to save me.

A piece of glass shattered, but I couldn't tell, or see where.

“You get the hell off of him, right now!” Andrea threw herself onto the man who were roughly man-handling LJ. He retorted by pushing her back against the wall of the garage.

My head was spinning, and I felt my weight being harshly carried by someone else. My arms were locked into a position, and this heavy weight stayed lumining above me. A few other voices were coming in and out around me. Other voices overpowered them.

‘I SAID DON'T MOVE!”

“Trey!” The voice.. it was Andrea's. She sounded heavily distressed, calling out to me, hoping I'd open my eyes to show her I was okay. I tried.

Something was going on. It was so sudden. I was just holding my guitar a bit ago..and now Andrea seems to be begging for my life.

It was the gang..I could hear another male voice cursing heavily at someone.

“Trey!” I could clearly hear my name that time, but I felt too weak to turn in their direction.

“This'll stop you…”

When I did open my eyes.. I saw a man aiming something metallic at LJ. I then realized how even more dangerous what was going on.. was actually happening. I looked around the garage. This time.. I was able to see Andrea's face completely. She seemed choked, and frozen. She looked over and realized I had come to consciousness. Her breath halted, and she had tightly gripped her T-shirt. She pleaded to me silently with her eyes, to not move. Her hair was disheveled, and she was backed against the wooden plank of the wall.

A flash blue flared pants dashed in front of me. Each step fell heavy on the cement floors. It was Kody.

Kody was sprinting to get in front of LJ, in the middle of the standoff between the two men.

With the voice I somehow managed to conjure, even as I felt breathless just a few moments ago, I shouted “DON’T!”

A rang filled the small garage. It felt as if we watched Kody fall down in slow motion.

Tiki and Andrea's combined screams fell shortly after.

The room began to sit still. The girls rocked back and forth, slowly.

Blood began to pour from Kody's body, staining his pants and the cement beneath them. The armed man stepped back. LJ was frozen in place.

Just as quickly as it came.. my voice fell down my throat. I was calling for Kody, but I couldn't hear it leave my lips. The girls started to fade from my vision.The room began to spiral, and I felt like I was being pulled away.

I kept calling their names, until I started to drift off again.

The fluorescent lights flickered above the streetlamp ahead of me. I leaned against the white fence of Dad's lot. I held onto my cold cup of Cola, that was nearly empty. I took the last few sips between the straw, the ice cluttering about as I reach the bottom of the drink. Every five minutes, it felt like I was checking the time. I started to scan every car that had been driven by. Alas, the familiar sound of a certain someone's 1998 runner engine, Kody and the others just pulled in. The engine sputtered, sounding relieved that it had finally been placed in park.

“About time,” I chuckled to myself, although I'm sure they could've read my lips through the glass. Tiki was making a face at me, I could see her in the backseat.

A final hiss from the truck, and the engine came to a halt. First to step out were a pair of blue pants, covering his white sneakers: Kody. His blonde hair somehow fitted neatly underneath his cap. He leaned out of the car, he was so tall.

Next, out of the passenger side, Tiki. She was the second “geek” of the group. She always carried her messenger bag, stuffed with her 3 most used notebooks. She were as half of the size of Kody, but don't let her appearance fool you. She wore her oval glasses that sat on her small nose. Her polka dot dressed fluttered against her figure as the wind picked up at the frills of her skirt. The last two to exit were LJ and Andrea. Andrea had her small keyboard tucked under her arm, and tossed another bag to LJ. The group finally made their way forward.

“Gee, I was starting to think you all chicked out!”

‘Oh, please,”

Andrea purposely brushed to the side of me, with a smirk on her face.

In a bowing motion, I opened the white fence, and lead everyone across the white stone steps into the garage.

–---

Within an two hours of our step up, Kody and LJ started to argue.

“I told you, I'm not doing this without the proper cut!”

“This isn't even your equipment, I’ve been putting in my work here!”

“Hey..guys?” Tiki’s voice fell on nobody's ears. Andrea was trying to get the boys to settle down. In the corner of my eye, I had turned towards Tiki to actually hear her.

“Guys!!”

We all dropped our attention and turned towards Tiki, who were standing at the window frozen. There were three black SUV's parked on the side of the street, trapping Kody's car.

‘What's-”

“Lock the door!”

We all fell silent among ourselves, then rushed to barricade the door.

I were sprawled against the floor, searching for the latch that led to the tunnel underneath. It wasn’t where it were last time. I could see my sweat hitting the cement.

“This can’t be happening, you said the thing wasn't bugged!”

The girls moved to the corner, attempting to shrink themselves as the figures got closer to the door.

The men entered forcefully, knocking the hinges off of the door.

I felt a familiar sickening feeling in the pit of my stomach, and I instinctively shied towards the girls.

“Don't nobody move!”