Unexplained

🛫》17 - Bank《🛫

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    Me and mama are walking down the street. We just came from Aunt Evie's house. Mama was playing a card game with Evie's mom and I was doing a puzzle with Evie's dad. Mama likes going there. I just like going wherever mama goes. That's when mama stops and the pounding headache comes back, with each new calling the headache becomes worse and worse. I don't know why, but I don't want to have these headaches anymore. Everything is going super slow though. It's kinda cool. It would be cooler if I didn't have a headache. Once mama is done looking around we walk towards this bank. "Is this where we're supposed to go mama?" I ask her and she nods. "I think so." Mama says and we walk into the bank. She looks around the bank a bit.

    "Zeke." Mama says and Zeke turns around and looks at us. He walks over to us. "What are you doing here?" Mama asks Zeke and that is when I realize we shouldn't be here. I start to pull on mama's hand so we can get out of the bank. "Vi, what is it? What's wrong?" Mama asks, holding on to my hand tighter. "We have to go, we can't be here." I say to mama and I keep pulling her hand more.

    "Everybody down!" A man says and I hear a gunshot. I go to put my hands on my ears, but I can only do one of them. Mama pulls me down to the floor putting her arm over my back. "Shh, shh. It's ok, you're ok, I'm ok." Mama whispers in my ear and tears start to roll down my cheeks. I want to go home. Please let me go home. I want this to be a dream. The guy keeps making orders of everyone around us. "I'm gonna stand up. You stay on the ground, ok?" Mama says to me and I nod. She stands up and approaches the man with the gun. "Hey." Mama says and the pain points the gun at her. I whimper feeling that fuzzy feeling. My brain is foggy and my heart is pounding in my chest. That night flashes in my head over and over like an awful ad to a tv show. "I can tell that you haven't done this before." Mama says, but it's like she is talking through syrup or glass. Everything is so quiet and all I can hear is me crying the night mama got shot. "I said no talking." The man says still pointing the gun at mama.

    "You don't want anyone to get hurt, right? How about we get him some money out of the drawers." Mama says to a guy who is near where all the people in the bank stand. "No, I don't care about money. I need to get into the vault." He says pointing the gun at the man mama is looking at. "The vault is locked. It shuts down automatically whenever the silent alarm is triggered." The banker guy says

    "Buddy, you're better off just getting money from the register." Mama says and the robber turns around quickly pointing the gun back at mama. "You're not listening to me. I don't care about money. I need to get into the vault." The robber says turning around and when his eyes are off us, Zeke gets up and runs over to the guy and tackles him. When he does that I get up and I run over to mama hugging her. She hugs me back and strokes my hair.

    "You were on 828...so was I." Mama says to the man who is the robber. "I was on the plane too. My name's Michaela. This is my daughter Violet." Mama says and I look at the man a bit. I'm still scared. He has a gun in his hand.

    "I'm Logan." The robber says and I keep holding on to Mama.

    "Logan, look, I understand, okay? Coming back was hard for all of us." Zeke says sitting up and holding his head.

    "I felt confused and isolated. No one understood-" Mama says before she is cut off my Logan.

    "I can't believe you were on 828. Why the hell are we at the same bank together?" Logan asks, he looks like he is about to cry.

    "We're trying to figure that out." Zeke says and Logan looks at Zeke.

    "You're another one of us?" Logan asks and I look up at Mama and she smiles down at me a bit to try and calm me down.