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Chapter 7: Burn

Ava woke the next morning with her head on Michael's chest; she felt her head gently move up and down with his slow, calm breaths. She slowly moved her head to look at him, he was staring straight ahead at the wall, she grew slightly worried when she saw the hint of worry in his eyes;

' Michael what's wrong?' she asked, her voice husky from sleep

' Nothing…nothing we should get going' she sat up so he could stand, he wasn't telling her something, she could feel it.

She left before him to drive to the diner, he said it would be better if they arrived separately so she drove away looking at him standing my the police car he had "acquired" the night before, she hadn't asked how. She drove and parked in the diner parking lot to see Charlie outside smoking and talking to a man, she walked past them with a wave and went into the diner. There were more people than usual in there for once, a couple sat arguing in a booth, they kept looking at the young girl by the jukebox so she assumed that she must be their daughter. Charlie and the man walked in and the man asked Bob if he could use the office phone after slipping him $20 Bob agreed. By the time Ava had put her apron on and come back out Bob was angrily slamming his fist on the TV and muttering swear words, but the screen stuck, it was the sort of screen you get when the company had technical difficulties,

' Percy try your radio' Bob shouted, Percy fiddled with the radio muttering again about how Bob should have got cable, the radio had nothing but static and Percy looked up at Bob, confusion etched all over his face. The couple in the booth began to mutter and people looked at each other with the same look of confusion.

The minutes passed and Ava found herself silently praying for Michael to show up, she didn't think it was a coincidence that nothing was working, even the phone had stopped working. The door opened and she looked up hopefully, praying it was Michael, instead a little, frail old lady walked in, she smiled at everyone and sat down. Charlie walked over to serve her,

' I already know what I want, I'll have a water and a steak, rare'

' Ok' Charlie said smiling

' Charlie is it?'

' Yeah'

' Unusual name for a girl?'

' Yeah, I'll be back in a minute with your order'

Ava watched the woman as she talked to the couple in the booth, a few minutes later Charlie took the woman's order over,

' Thank you dear, how far along are you?'

' Oh just about there'

'The father must be very proud?'

' Nah I wouldn't know'

' He's?'

' Out of sight, out of mind'

' I see, so I take it you're not married?'

' No'

' That's too bad'

' No. Yeah I prefer it that way. I don't need a man telling me what to do'

' But what about the baby?'

' I got it under control'

' But it's gonna burn'

' What did you just say?'

'I said your fucking baby's gonna burn' the whole diner was gaping in shocked silence at the scene,

' Go to hell lady' Charlie said angrily and stormed away

' Fucking Jesus freak!' she said as she went out the back

' What happened?' Bob said coming out from the office

' All those little babies are gonna burn' the old woman said chewing hungrily on her steak, the diner went into uproar as she screamed at the couple as the woman tried to calm her down, the man offended stood up and began talking sternly to her when the woman jumped up and bit him. Everyone recoiled in shock as the man fell down, a huge piece of his neck missing and blood pouring from the wound onto the floor, his wife was screaming in shock. The old woman jumped and to everyone's shock climbed the walls, Ava could barely breath from shock as the old woman jumped down and made a bee line for Jeep who pointed a gun at her. Jeep's hands shook and he looked terrified, she lunged at him and a loud bang echoed round the room, but it wasn't Jeep that pulled the trigger, the man from the parking lot was standing up pointing a handgun at the woman.

No one moved for a moment, then Bob took charge, they wrapped the woman up in some plastic sheeting from the garage and he, Jeep, Percy and the man, who they now knew was called Kyle, carried the body outside. Ava helped bandage the man's wound and told his wife to keep pressure on it until the guys got back to take him to hospital. She wished she could call Michael to tell him what was happening, she stayed with Charlie and both of them looked up when they heard the guys shouting outside. They both got up and ran outside, Ava's heart leapt up into her throat when she saw the police car and suddenly she felt safe.

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