Let Me Go by Willow Rose

Author:Willow Rose [Rose, Willow]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BUOY MEDIA
Published: 2019-11-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 57

Skyler sighed and looked at Austin, who continued to text and take snaps and send them. What was it about those girls that made them so important that Austin forgot everyone else around him? Skyler didn’t get it. He didn’t understand why Austin was always on his phone, either. Skyler always left his in his backpack and never took it out if he didn’t need to use it. But then again, Skyler didn’t have any friends on Snapchat, and he didn’t use any social media, so there was no need to be looking continually at his phone. No one would be texting him either, except for his family.

“You want some candy?” Skyler asked and showed him the twenty-dollar-bill his dad had given him when driving him to the lounge. He nodded toward the vending machine by the end wall.

“Sure,” Austin said with a shrug.

Skyler rose to his feet. He didn’t even notice that his phone was lighting up in the front compartment of his backpack or that he had received more than thirty calls and texts. Instead, he walked to the vending machine and pressed the numbers to get a packet of Skittles and two Hershey bars, one for him and one for Austin. He knew how much Austin liked chocolate.

He looked back toward him when the phone by the counter rang, and the guy managing the store picked it up.

“Hello?”

Skyler opened the bag of Skittles and poured out a handful that he put in his mouth and chewed. The guy behind the counter looked paler than usual. He had a ton of piercings and a long beard that he was now fiddling with as he listened. Then his eyes grew wide.

“Really? What the…?”

The guy grew quiet as the other person spoke before he said:

“Yes, yes, of course. Right away, ma’am.”

He hung up the phone and seemed to be gathering himself for a few seconds before he looked at all the kids in the lounge.

“Uh, guys. Listen up. I need to get you all out of here. As in right now. I just spoke to someone who said there was a bomb inside the store.”

The guy’s eyes grew even wider as he spoke the words like the realization was just now sinking in. Skyler was still chewing his Skittles, wondering if it was some sort of joke or if he had actually heard him right.

“I mean it,” the guy said. He grabbed his phone and a hoodie, then looked at all the kids who were staring at him, eyes wide. “There’s a bomb in here. Get out!”

And just then, panic set in. The few kids that had actually heard him because they weren’t wearing a headset threw everything they had in their hands and stormed for the doors. Seeing this, the other kids took off their headsets and stared at the guy who kept yelling at them to get the heck out of his store before the bomb exploded.

Skyler had only one focus, and that was Austin. Austin was in the middle of playing Counterstrike and hadn’t heard a thing.

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