Black Rose (#Wattys2016)

Chapter 20: All eyes

April

I noticed how people eyed me suspiciously as I walked inside the train station.

Maybe because I was wearing all black or because of the hood and mask that I had on my face. I admit, I was intimidating, but they had nothing on me and they don't have the right to judge.

I went to the locker area and started my search for locker B45. It was a bottom locker so I had to crouch down to reach it.

I got the key out of my pocket and hoped to God that it wouldn't explode upon opening.

I inserted the key inside the key hole and slowly opened the locker door.

I tilted my head to the side as I looked inside.

It was another envelope, similar to the one that Brandon gave me but this one looked fuller.

I reached out for it and held in my hand, assessing it.

It was way heavier than Brandon's folder and its sides bulged out from whatever big thing that was inside.

I closed the locker door back and was about to get up when someone bumped into me half way through, making me drop the folder.

"I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to bump into you." The man apologised almost too quickly as he crouched in front of me.

He was wearing a long, beige trench coat and a cowboy hat that covered almost all of his face.

He grabbed the folder and gave it to me along with a folded paper.

I looked up at him in confusion and his eyes met mine.

His grey eyes looked oddly familiar and he was looking all me in a knowing sort of way. Like he was trying to tell me something.

I opened the folded note that he gave me and furrowed my eyebrows in confusion.

'They're coming. Run ' Was all the note said.

I quickly snapped my head up to where the man was but he wasn't there.

I turned my head all around in search for him but nada. It was as if he vanished into thin air.

My searching was brought to a halt when Hugh's urgent voice echoed in my ear.

"April! You have to leave right now. This was an ambush and about ten men are approaching you from all sides!" He warned.

I quickly placed the folder in my backpack as I ran to the station's entrance.

"It wasn't an ambush Hugh. I found a folder. I guess they were waiting for me to open the locker so that they can get what's inside through me." I told him as I continued dodging people.

"Don't grow all tough April and just run away. Don't fight them." Hugh warned pleadingly.

"I will if I have no choice. Just keep watch on those surveillance cameras you hacked and tell me exactly where each man is." I spoke.

"April you've got-" Hugh started.

"One right in front of me." I finished for him as I stopped dead in my tracks.

The man was very easy to identify with his black suit and his searching eyes.

His head snapped in my direction and when his eyes met mine they widened and he quickly started running towards me.

"Woah...The other way, the other way." I chanted as I turned to the side and started running.

The man was about over six foot nine or something. He was huge and I wasn't ready to indulge myself in a fist fight with him. I'm still very young.
This train station was filled with people, making it hard to run fast without bumping into someone.