The London Case

Chapter 3 - Busted

June 21st 2018

It was the night after I managed to buy beer for my dad and as you may recall... I am poor. It's that time again, I got my sun glasses and bandana and hat and set off into the dead of night to find a rough store to raid again.
I found one a couple of miles away from the new avengers compound. That place looks wicked! It's all high tech and has security there 24/7. Mad. Any way, I was at the store and I did the usual, you know "Give me your money!" And "Someone is gonna get stabbed!"and then the fleeing down a back ally way with cop siren a few miles off and all that. But this time it was different.
I went into the shop and walked round to the back near the crisps and pop and pulled out my pocket knife. There was a small hand full of people there, didn't really take any notice though, I'm not there to people watch.
There was one lady who was stood over my shoulder and seemed to take an interest in me since I stepped in. I mean I did have sunglasses on in the middle of then night and I looked 9 years old, so yeah, maybe not so weird now I think of it. She was in all black and had a hood up with a baseball cap on. Maybe she was planning to rob the shop as well?
Enough of that though. I was going to rob the store not her! I don't give a shit about her. So I got my knife at the ready and pulled up my bandana and was about to go for the till, until...
I stand up and as I do I make direct eye contact with the blond bitch in spandex from the other night. Now I know I said I wouldn't listen to him and I didn't, obviously, because I was in a store. About to rob it. In front of him. Yeah.
But I did think about what he said and I dwelled on the thought from time to time so ideally when I saw his face I should have thought, "This is the wrong thing to do, just imagine all the stress you will put there people through if you do this. I should turn around and go home."
I didn't, lol. What I actually thought was, "Shit! It's the blondie in spandex. RUN."
And I did. I turned and ran strait into the woman who was behind me and as I did she grabbed me and my hand with my knife in and spun me round, twisting my arm causing me to drop my knife. As she did I looked at blondie again and he was sprinting towards me from the other side of the shop. I knew I needed to get out of there, ASAP.
I looked around to see if I could use anything to get make this woman let go of me but it was no use because my hands were trapped in her extremely tight grasp. Blondie was almost here. So I spun back round and kicked the woman very hard in her shin causing her to loosen her grip just enough for me to twist back out of it and make my escape. I darted for the shop door but the woman grabbed my backpack and pulled me back, I almost fell over but I grabbed the shelf next to me and thrusted myself forward and out the door. I could hear police sirens in the distance, the shop keeper must have called them.
Not my problem. I had just been harassed! So blondie and his friend were the ones who needed to be worried. They were right behind me so I ran as fast a so could down the street, dodging any one in my way. It was easier to run without my bag because it wasn't weighing me down like usual but I have tiny legs... and I'm being chased by some one who has very long legs... so as you can imagine, it didn't end well. I turned a corner to go down a street and as I did one of them grabbed my hood and pulled it back so I was swept off my feet and flung backwards onto the concrete. I smashed my head on the floor and everything went fuzzy. My ears were ringing and my eye sight was warped and cloudy. It began to focus again slowly and as it did I could se the two adults that has chased me. One was blondie, we had already established that, but the other one I didn't know.
"Did you really have to grab her hood?" Blondie said to the woman.
"She was getting away, I saw an opportunity." Said the woman.
I attempted to get away be speedily pushing my self of the floor, grabbing my bag and running past blondie. He put his arm out so I would run into him but because he is so tall and I'm so small I just ran under it. I got about 3 meters away from them until I had to stop and I fell sideways and put my hand on a bin to keep my self up right. I was so fucking dizzy that my legs gave way and I fell into the woman's arms and she lifted me up. I was still kicking and attempting to get away but I couldn't because my head hurt so much and my eyes kept blurring.
"What now?" Said the woman.
"I think we should sit her down somewhere and just make sure she's ok. I think she might have a concussion." Said blondie.
The woman had me hanging over her shoulder and her arms round my ankles so I didn't fall and we began to walk back to the street.
"Alright kid what's your name?" Asked to woman.
"Why should I tell you?" I shouted trying to wriggle out of her grasp but she just hugged my legs even more.
"Because if you don't," Blondie said, "we will hand you to the cops and they will tell us your name and then you'll end up in juvie."
Fuck sake.
"Er... Belle." I lied obviously, I don't know these guys. I'm not telling then anything.
"Haha, you sure?" Scoffed the woman.
"Yes!" I snapped, "what's your name?"
"Why should I tell you?"
"Ha... funny?"
I got a sharp pain through my head causing me to jolt tense up. I was hoping they didn't notice but they did.
"What's wrong?" Asked the woman.
Blondie moved behind the woman so he could see me, "How many fingers am i holding up?" He said holding up his hand.
I raised my hear and squinted my eyes, "errrrr... 6."
"On one hand?" He asked and the woman laughed at me.
I went quiet for a minute and said...
"Yes?"
The man sighed then held up both hands and stared at me.
"14?"
"No," he sighed again, "you gave the kid a concussion!"
"Well it was either this or she ran away," Said the lady, spinning round swiftly and making me feel sick. "Which do you prefer."
"We are almost twice the night of this kid we would have caught up with her easily."
"Excuse me you are most certainly not twice my height!" I interrupted.
It went quiet. "At most your a third taller."
"Right." Said the woman.
That was the end of our conversation, we kept walking down the street in the dark. We pretty much blended in seen that it was late and the only people out were homeless people or dodgy drug dealers and there two looked like they had kidnapped me. Will they kinda did so we blended in perfectly. It was about one in the morning now and I was really tired but we were still walking and I didn't want to fall asleep because I didn't know these guys and I did not trust them.
"Where are we going?" I asked
"Right here." Said Blondie
"Where's here?"
The woman bent overt and set me down in the pavement and I wobbled so she gripped my shoulder very tightly.
There was a black Ferrari parked next to us and Blondie had the keys.
"Haha did you steal this car like you did me." I joked.
"Just get in." He said opening the door.
"Why?"
"Because we told you before if you carried on robbing stores you would be taken in for questioning." Said the woman.
I looked up at her. This was the first time I saw her face, she was really pretty with red hair and dark green eyes similar to one of mine. Oh yeah forgot to mention, i have heterochromia. Forgot about that lol. Any way she noticed to, "you have Heterochromia?" She said curiously.
"Really?" I said acting shocked.
She pushed me back towards the car and because I was still dizzy I tripped and landed in the seat and blondie and his friend got in the front and drove away.
"You guys are gonna be in deep shit when my dad finds me missing." Was my attempt to scare them. Didn't work.
"Oh really? Because we could say the same to you when we tell him you have been sneaking out and holding people to knife point demanding money."
I sunk into the back seat and didn't talk. I was really nervous, if dad did find out I don't know how he would react. It really depends how drink he is or how hung over he is, I some times think he is bipolar. I don't want the, to tell my dad. I don't think it will end well for any of us.
We had been in the car for a couple of minutes and my head began to really hurt like really hurt. I pulled my knees up into my chest and placed my hand on my head, blondie saw.
"Belle are you ok?" He asked me.
I wasn't listening also I had forgot I said my name was belle and I looked up in confusion. Blondie laughed I think he knew I was Lying about my name.
"Oh... oh yeah. Just hurts." I said after the penny had dropped, "can I have some water, please?"
"I don't think we have any?" He said.
"There is some in my bag." I told him.
The woman had my bag and I didn't want her going through it but I though and decided that I needed water or I was gonna be sick, either from the pain or the concussion.
"Here." She said handing me my bottle.
"So if your names not belle, is it Ej?" She proceeded to ask me.
"What? No. W-why Ej?"I said.
"Your book." She held up my drawing book that had a leather cover and the letters EJ stamped on the cover in golden writing. The padlock next to it rattled. I kept it locked and wore the key around my neck on a piece on black string. I was annoyed she went through my bag but I was to exhausted to try and stop her. I just sighed and drink the water.
"Well? If Ej isn't your name, what is it." She asked.
"I don't trust you enough to tell you."
"Well, my names Nat. How about now?"
I remained silent.
"Don't worry, we'll find it out eventually." She turned round and gave me a small smile. I ignored it and turned away.