Chapter Five

"Shit, are you okay Destin?" I whispered.

"I'm fine, Mi, but, I don't know for how much longer." He said looking up at the robbers.

I looked up and saw a group of males all wearing clown masks with automatic machine guns. They were all walking around and grabbing the other patrons of the bank, hauling them up to their feet. I felt a rough tug on my arm.

"Come on, sweetcheeks, you too!" a low voice said yanking me up off the ground.

He pushed me to the center of the room and I saw another goon do the same with Destin. They sat us back to back and demanded us not to move all the while aiming their guns at us. A goon with a sad looking clown mask and a garish purple suit on kept his eyes trained at me the entire while, seeming to ignore everything that was going on and the other bank patrons in the area.

Just then I saw movement out of the corner of my eye and saw one of the robbers carry a box while another pulled something out. When they got to me my heart stopped, they were passing out live grenades.

The one grabbed my hands and positioned them around the handle, keeping it from exploding. I never held anything so tight in my life.

"Why is the boss making us hand these out, all it takes is one klutz and we're all done." A robber with a red and purple clown mask said to one with a green and blue mask.

"I don't know man he's nuts." Was the response.

I sensed a pair of eyes on me and saw the sad faced clown staring at me again. That is until there was a load bang and two people with numerous canvas bags came from the area that the safe was in. There was some commotion with a brave security officer that somehow managed to hide behind the bar without any of the robbers seeing him.

"Well we would like to thank you all for the cash and we will be out of your hair!" One of the robbers said before he put bullets into two of the other robbers, except the one that was staring at me. "You, bozo, get the bags ready!"

Just then a school bus crashed into the wall of the bank making half of us almost drop our grenades. The three remaining robbers loaded up the bags, one of them remarking that he couldn't believe how much money the three of them were making before the other shot him too.

I stared in disbelief how these people could care so little for the lives of others, but, to hold the greed of money so high. I saw the two last remaining at almost a stand off until the one with the purple suit shot the other. He slowly took off his mask and the sounds of the others around me scared me more than anything.

"Good God, it's the Joker!" a woman beside me whispered in disbelief.

I whipped my head back at the man in question and once again saw him starting at me. It unnerved me that he was doing so even more now that I knew who he was.

"I hate to leave the party so soon, but, you know crime calls!" He cackled an awful crazed laugh. He looked back at me. "I'll see you soon Sweets."

With that he jumped in the bus and crashed it back through the walls and away just as we heard the sound of police cars. I looked at Destin and saw the look of fear and pity on his face.

*Sorry that I haven't updated I'm in college and my schedule has been crazy! But, yay they finally met!