Liz watched Lonnie go
and then walked over to Ava and Zan. "We should get him up to my
room. He could rest on my bed."
"Good idea. I need
to get back to work too. So, would you watch him for me?" She
bent down and both she and Liz lifted Zan up onto his feet. Ava heard
him mutter something but she couldn't make out what it was. Probably
from being knocked out. "Yeah that's fine." Liz helped walk
him to the door and she opened it. She and Ava take him up the stairs
slowly and up to her room. While Ava held him she pushed her books
and things off her bed. Once it was cleared they lay him down. Ava
stared down at Zan for a couple of minute before turning on her heals
and walking out of Liz's bedroom and back down to the Crashdown. She
couldn't stand looking at how helpless he looked just laying there on
Liz's bed. She had to do something to take her mind off of what had
happened. And working was the perfect solution.
The minute
Maria saw Ava come out from the back she quickly made her way over to
her. "Where have you been? You cannot just take off whenever you
feel like it. I had to cover all the tables you ditched." Why
did it always seem like she was covering for either Liz or Ava these
days?
Barely making it through the door and already she was
getting yelled at. This wasn't something she needed right now. Ava
stared at Maria for a moment, waiting for her to finish. "I had
something to take care of with Liz... Sorry. I'll take one of your
sifts next week if that makes up for it."
"And what
exactly was it that couldn't wait till after the mad rush of people?"
She asked a little annoyed. Everything today seemed to annoy
her.
Ava let the tip of her tongue play with her lip ring for
a moment before talking. "It was life or Death. That's all you
need to know right now."
"Life or death?" She
rolled her eyes. "I'll find out what happened sooner or later."
Hopefully Maria would find out sooner rather then later. It had to be
something if Ava was holding back. But what was it?
"Lonnie
is back in town. And she just about killed us in the Alley. Happy
now?"
All she could do was stare. Maria wasn't expecting
to hear that come out of Ava's mouth and now she felt so stupid for
being a bitch. "I-I didn't know. I'm sorry. What is she doing
here? Do you even know?"
"Don't worry about it,
Maria. Sorry I bit your head off. I think she is back to find the
Granilith. At least that's what I think by the way she was
talking."
Lonnie was back looking for the Granilith, that
couldn't be a good thing. "Does she even know where to start
looking?" Maria curiously asked. Ava shakes her head slowly. "I
don't think so. But we need to warn the others. I am sure she will
start to follow them. Try and get them to lead her out there."
Ava
was right; they needed to warn the others. "I'll go in the back
and start calling everybody down here." Maria said, as she
started for the back. A meeting was in order and what better place
then here. She opened her locker, took out her cell phone then
started dialing up numbers.
