~The Forbidden Fruit~

~The Forbidden Fruit~ Chapter Ten

Andy pov

While I sat at my normal spot, at my favorite bistro, with my little brother, I recieved a text from Naiomi. I frowned at what it said, not fully understanding the message.

~Go behind the counter and dump water in the outlets once the commotion starts.~

"What?" I mumbled to myself, creating a reply.

"Don't make me check you into a crazy home, talking to yourself is seriously creepy." My brother chided in a whisper.

I pursed my lips at him.

"I'm texting and it doesn't make sense, here read it." I pushed my cell at his face.

He squinted and mouthed the words.

"Naiomi has something planned, obviously, and she wants you to kill all the power by pouring water in the outlets, duh. I thought you were at least kind of smart." He made a face at me.

I lifted my hand to smack him in the head, but the door to the bistro flung open accompanied by screams. A woman in a long baggy paisley dress, a head scarf and sunglasses, attracted all the eyes in the room including the attention of the employees. The woman was speaking in a foreign language and looked oddly familiar...

"Theres una emergencia! Por favor me ayude! No sé qué hacer! Prisa, prisa no hay mucho tiempo! Alguien a nadie mi primo se está muriendo!" She hollered histerically and pointed out the window past us, there was yet another familiar woman lying in the street convulsing.

A chorus of gasps and murmurs erupted and everyone rushed outside behind the terrified woman, the place was bare as the cries could still be heard outside. The group swarmed around the two women while I stayed glued to my seat gawking at the scene. Nick snapped his fingers in my face.

"Hello! This is the commotion, hurry up and go back there while I keep watch!"

Hesitating a moment, I scrambled out of my seat and ran behind the counter to the back, I frantically searched for every outlet and filled a cup with water. I splashed some of the liquid into every visible plug in and watched them spark up, on the last outlet I dumped, the lights flickered three times and all the power went off.

"Andy! Get out here, they're coming back!" I heard Nick call, but there was no way I could make it back out there without getting caught. I did the only thing I could do, which was sneak into the bathrooms.

When I heard the people return I feigned confusion and stepped out of the bathroom.

"What happened to the lights?" I asked the round man with dark hair.

He was holding his head with an astonished look on his face.

"I don't have a clue, every circuit in the kitchen is blown. How could this happen? How will we serve?"

An outbreak of displeased murmurs filled the silent -now dark- bistro that was only lit by the light from the windows. Once the noise level rose, I made my way back over to Nick and gathered my drinks, thankfully I had finished my sandwich and Nick polished off his cinnamon roll.

"I'm sorry everyone but we are having difficulties, I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience, you will be compensated as soon as we handle this. If you could all file out in an orderly manner it would be greatly appreciated, again I apologize for this." I heard the round man instruct everyone as Nick and I snuck out the door.

The two of us trodded through the parking lot to my car, when we were startled by two figures jumping out at us. Nick and I had our fists up, ready to fight if necessary.