Chapter 14: Overnight
The next night Danny was walking around town by himself. He decided to not follow around Alex for a day. He had hung out with Alex the entire day, but Alex wanted to relax at the building. He even suggested that Danny walk around town. He said it would get some of the stress off of him. Danny agreed; he was a little stressed.
As he was walking, he saw someone familiar in the corner of his eye. Before he could find out who is was, a car rolled up next to him. This car was familiar too. It was the car of the guys who he and Alex beat at basketball yesterday. Before one of the guys inside the car could reach out of the window and grab Danny, he took off running.
Danny was running full speed. The car was keeping up real good. He knew he didn't really have a chance of evading it so he cut into an alley. The car stopped for a quick second and then sped around the corner. They thought that Danny was trying to cut through the alley and they were gonna block him on the outside.
But Danny was wiser than that. He anticipated this and checked out of the alley. Right next to him there was another telephone booth. The urge to talk to someone again, so he called Houston again.
The phone rang and rang.
"Pick up Houston," Danny said quietly.
The phone rang and then…
"Hello. This is Houston Curtis and I'm unavailable right now. Please leave a name and number and I will call you back. Bye."
His voicemail. 'Dang' thought Danny. 'Where could he be?' Danny didn't have time to think about that because the car was pulling up to him again. Danny took off running and ran down into the park. The car stopped and about five people ran after Danny.
Danny kept running. One of the guys was fast and was catching up to Danny. Danny ran through the swings and threw one of them back at the guy. It hit the guy in the face and he fell onto his back clutching his face.
Danny ran past the garbage dumpster and ran into the street. He jumped back just in time to dodge a speeding car and went back to running. He had to try to make it back to the where the Brumly Boys. Man, trouble seems to follow him everywhere he went.
As he was running he got more tired. He looked back and saw that the guys weren't chasing him anymore. There was a lot of traffic in the street so that must have slowed them down. He slowed down to a jog. He ran so hard, that he felt like he was going to faint. He had never ran like that ever in his life. Even when his dad had gotten arrested…
His dad. He was starting to miss him. He now felt guilty about the way he treated his dad. He wanted to go back home but he had to protect Alex. He didn't want his best friend to get killed.
He went into an alley and found a broken up house. It was deserted and Danny needed somewhere to rest real quick. Danny laid down inside the building and took a quick nap. It was only 8:30 and Danny would most likely wake up around 10:00. When Danny woke up he looked at his watch. It was 7:50.
"Close enough," he said stretching. As he got up the urge to talk to someone again. Houston always kept his phone on so Danny thought it would be a real bad idea to call him. He decided to call Maria. She had her own phone so he knew she would pick up if she was home.
He walked into a local store and asked to use the phone. The man picked up a telephone and put it on the counter. Danny dialed Maria's number. The phone rang once and Maria picked up.
"Hello."
"Maria."
"Danny?"
"Yeah."
"Where are you. Everyone's worried sick!"
"I know."
"You should come home!"
"Calm down. I can't come back now."
"Why not?"
"I'm watching Alex right now."
"…"
"Hello?"
"…"
"Maria?"
"…I'm sorry Danny."
She hung up. 'I'm sorry.' What the heck did she mean. Danny then froze. She was gonna tell someone where he was. She had caller ID on her phone and could tell where he was.
Danny ran out of the store ignoring the people looking at him as he darted out of the door. He had to get back to the building and tell Alex what was going to happen. He had to get them out of there.
Danny reached the building and froze when he was at the doorway. All the Brumly Boys were on the floor groaning and crawling towards the wall. It looked like they had been fighting and just got beaten.
"Please no," said Danny.
