Authors note: Sorry about not posting for a while I'm out of school now and will be posting more regularly so enjoy!
Chapter Three
TWO WEEKS LATER
It was after closing hours and dark already. I stayed behind to help clean up, it took longer than I thought it would. There has been more suspicious people hanging around this town lately Abriana's and Beatrix's husbands have been picking them up from work just to be safe and Dante would walk with Lidia since they live near each other. I have never pictures Italy to be a place where bad things happen, I know that sounds childish and bad things happen everywhere but this is just one fantasy that I thought was real. I turned a corner to cut between two buildings and saw that form of two people standing in the shadows. I was just going to walk right past then without saying anything that was went they stepped out in front of me. "Looks like we got ourselves a musician. What instrument do you play?" One of the men asked reaching for my violin. I jerked it out of his reach. And saw the other guy move behind me blocking the only other way of escape
"Why would you want to know?" I asked bracing myself to put up a fight.
"We are just fellow music lovers fallen on hard times just let us have a look at the instrument. What is it a guitar?" The other man asked grabbing the violin case and started pulling on it. I could hear the case separating from the strap.
"Stop! The case is getting…" I started to yell when the guy in front punched me in the stomach knocking the wind out of me. I fell to my knees held back from falling to the ground by the strap catching me tightening painfully around my chest with more tearing sounds coming from my case. My first instinct was to get back to my feet and fight but my legs would not move how I wanted them to so I had to fight from where I was. I reached back quickly and grabbed the guy behind me his ankle and pulled as hard as I could throwing him off balance. He fell backwards with his grip still on my violin case pulled me backwards also which got me out of the way in time to dodge a right hook from the guy in front of me before the strap ripped off completely and I fell to the ground. I heard quick footsteps hurrying away from me.
"Hurry up Rock!" The guy who took my violin yelled to the other guy. I got to my knees to get my bearings on what was going on when I saw a foot flying towards my face and then a lot of pain shoot from my nose into the rest of my face. I immediately doubled over clutching my face with one hand and holding myself up with the other feeling my blood seep through my fingers. My violin I cannot just let them get away with it and kicking me in the face. I stumbled to my feet in a haze of pain and gave chase. I finally found them in another ally just… waiting. One had opened the case and was looking at my violin while that other faced me.
"You're a persistent little buggar," He yelled at me making my nose throb.
"When you take some else's property you think they won't try to get it back?" I said thinking how stupid these people could be.
"Well no because most of the people we steal from are hospitalized or pass out long enough for us to get away. Though there are some people that come after to get their stuff back," The guy explained to me like I would really care. I started stumbling towards the guy though my movements were uncoordinated and jerky.
"Oh we can't have you getting this violin back now," The guy said sweeping his leg around and easily knocking my legs out from under me. I fell onto my side not sure if anything broke or not. I tried getting up but again the guy kicked me this time in the stomach. I felt the world going darker than it already was as I lost consciousness.