Point of view: Zach
Zach looked around and saw Lily walking toward the house. "Hey Lily! Wanna ride to town with me? I've gotta get a new radiator hose before the store closes."
She hesitated, "Um, all right."
The auto-parts shop was two doors down from the movie theater. As he pulled in to the front parking spot, he saw the five or six white men standing by the ticket booth. Must be here for Jack Palance and the colored girl. He started drumming his fingers on the steering wheel and sighed.
The two of them sat in silence for a minute, the sounds around them magnified. The squeak of the seat, the drumming of his fingers, Lily's breathing.
Then one of the men yelled, spooking Lily. He looked across the street and yelled, "What are you staring at over there!"
Zack and Lily turned around and looked through the back window of the truck. Three teenaged colored boys stood on the sidewalk, drinking and staring at the men by the ticket booth.
"Let's come back later," Lily whispered to Zach.
"It'll be okay, wait here," and he slid out of the truck.
It'll be okay, it'll be okay…
The boys crossed the street and came over to the truck, "Who ya got in there?" they asked playfully. Lily looked nervously at them, trying to smile. Zach and the boys looked around at the men while Jackson yelled across the street, "You gotta be real dumb to believe Palance is comin' to Tiburon." All of the boys laughed, including Zach.
One of the men walked up to the boys, "What did you say?" Zach looked around, everything had suddenly become quiet. Jackson raised his R.C. Cola bottle over his head, and threw it.
Zach closed his eyes, and opened them just in time to see the man drop his bat and raise his hand to his nose. The man turned back to his friends, "He busted my nose."
The men came over to the boys, who had clustered by the truck's door, and formed a semi-circle around them. "Who threw it?" No one talked. Jackson did it.
"Just tell us which one it was, and the other three can go."
Nothing. Zach turned his head and looked at Lily, he shrugged his shoulders slightly. I'm sorry, Lily, but, they're my friends.