The red haired boy cautiously took a step forward, his black and white shoes barely making a sound. The two of them had to be at least 20, if not older. The toothpick in his mouth barely moved as he spoke in a soft but threatening tone, "Well, look who we got here Eyeball, fresh meat." The boy next to him chuckled, "I think I'll enjoy this", he said flipping open his switchblade.
Lily's breathing became heavy and shallow; she could feel the air escaping her lungs with every breath she took. After a few seconds that seemed like hours, she finally had the courage to speak. "Look guys, I don't want any trouble", her voice just above a whisper.
"Aw, did you hear that Ace? The little whore is trying to stick up for herself", snickered Eyeball. Ace laughed and took a few more steps forward, his piercing blue eyes not leaving Lily's for a second making her shiver all over. Ace smiled, "what? Are you scared of us or something? Come on, we won't hurt you, that much." The two boys then looked at each other, nodded and began towards Lily.
Reacting quickly Lily turned around, still carrying the Lard in her hands, and descended down an alleyway to her left, running as fats as she could. Once down the dark and narrow alley way she turned to see if the boys followed her. They were nowhere in sight. Filled with relief, Lily then proceeded out of the alleyway.
All of a sudden she came to a screeching halt. Appearing at the end of the alley, were four more boys, each of them carrying some type of object that could kill a person. Hyperventilating now, Lily turned around to run the other way unfortunately she ran right into Ace and Eyeball.
Ace grabbed Lily's left arm and pulled it up to his face. The Lard dropped to the ground, shattering into a million pieces. Lily tried to break free but Ace held her firmly, so firmly that Lily had noticed a tattoo of a snake entitled Cobra on his right forearm. This had to be his gang's name.
All of a sudden Ace held up his switch blade to her face, "You scream of any kind and I slit your throat, you got that?" Lily tightened underneath his intense grip, gulped and nodded. Ace smiled a half menacingly smile, "good, now me and my boys here are gonna have a little fun with you, you're gonna stay still until were done, got it?" The Cobra's smiled.
Lily grew angry, she wasn't going to be man handled by some no good feebs, that' when she let out a blood curdling scream. The rest of the members covered their ears while Ace turned red with anger. He then grabbed pushed Lily onto the ground and got on top of her holding his knife to her neck. "Now, you're gonna get it", he said.
Lily closed her eyes and thought of her parents. What were they going to say? I mean, she hadn't even been in Castle Rock for a day an already she's gone and gotten herself killed!
All of a sudden a voice shouted out in the distance, "Hey! Leave her alone, Ace!"
Ace pushed off of Lily and went over to the voice, his gang followed. Watching from the corner of her eyes, Lily listened in closely to the conversation.
"What are you doing here Chambers? I thought I told you I never wanted to see you're gay ass near me ever again? Do you want to die?"
"You don't scare me Ace", said the boy. He looked young, maybe 15 or so.
"Go home, Chris", said Eyeball worriedly.
Ace snapped his fingers at Eyeball, "No, Eyeball, let him stay that way, we'll have even more fun today!"
"I'll hurt you Ace, I swear to god I will", said the boy firmly.
"Oh yeah Chambers, you and what army?" Ace said chuckling.
"I don't have an army Ace, but I do have evidence that you and your boys here boosted a car to drive to the back Harlow Road, just so you could go fishing." He said smugly.
"You're bluffing," said Ace sounding a bit nervous.
"Try me."
Ace turned around and looked at Lily. Eyeball touched Ace's shoulder, " Come on man, she's not worth it." Ace sneered and snapped his fingers at the gang. They then headed out of the alleyway hitting the boy as they passed.
Lily breathed a sigh of relief and closed her eyes, all the while remembering how to breathe again.
She then felt a figure standing over top of her. She slightly opened her eyes and that's when she saw him.
