Ally's heart was pounding almost out of her chest as she raced down the beach. She could barely hear the pounding surf over her own breathing. This was certainly not the way she had pictured her day when she woke up that morning. She had been taking out the trash that morning right before opening the store when she saw, what turned out to be the son of a local crime boss, named Sonny Carstairs, gun down a guy he was having a fight with and run.
She hadn't found out until she talked to police later that he had seen her. The police had moved her to a safe house at an undisclosed location in south beach. It was from there that she was currently running. She had been up in the upstairs bedroom when she happened to glance out the window and see three men headed for the house with automatic weapons in their hands. She guessed that they worked for the crime boss and why they were here. She had grabbed her book and raced into the upstairs bathroom. Climbing out the bathroom window on to the backside of the roof the crossed the roof and jumped to a nearby sand dune.
No sooner had she hit the ground than a hand grenade went off and blew a hole in the opposite side of the house. It was at this point that she took off. Ally had amazed herself at how fast she had covered that first half mile down the beach from the safe house.
She knew she couldn't just keep running indefinitely, she had to find a place to hide because it was only a matter of time until those goons figured out that she had gotten out of the house before the explosion, if they didn't know already.
Ally Dawson had to disappear.
Austin, Dez, and Trish watched the morning news in a state of shock. The headline story was about a small house that had apparently been bombed killing two cops. What had really blindsided them was when the news reporter displayed pictures of the slain police officers and Trish recognized them as the ones that had come earlier to take Ally to the safe house.
Austin jumped up and in a blind rage started throwing anything he could get his hands on at the T.V.
"I'll kill that animal," he shouted, "I'll kill him with my bare hands." Dez and Trish had to tackle Austin to calm him down, they all sat there in a crumpled heap of the floor of the practice room holding Austin as his body shook with sobs and mixing in a few of their own tears.
After they had gotten control of their emotions, they joined Ally's parents at the police station demanding answers. The police had formed a special taskforce to deal with the Carstairs organization. Currently they were stunned. The safe house bombed and their star witness gone. They couldn't explain how it happened either. That didn't do much to pacify Ally's friends and Family.
After Mr. Dawson had left to take Ally's mother home the three friends walked over to a nearby burger joint. They didn't feel much like eating but they knew they needed to keep up their strength to get through this ordeal. Austin had just half heartedly bitten into his burger when he saw something that made him stop short.
A tall dark haired guy in a white biker's jacket had just walked by him headed for the door.
"Guys did you see that guy in the white jacket!" he hissed
"What about him," said Trish giving Austin and odd look.
"Did you see what he was carrying in his right hand?!" said Austin. Trish looked at the guy again he had paused by the door to check his phone. In his right hand was Ally's songbook!"
TO BE CONTINUED….:)
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