Kick It Up A Notch - Starkid

The American Way

Was she kidding? Did she know who we were? Was she a fan?

"May, huh?" I tried to say it coolly but I suspect failure.

"Yeah, May, why?" She started to seem genuinely confused so I shook my head and said, "Nothing."

"What happened? Earlier, when you were trying to 'save me'?" I had been dreading this.

"You got pulled into the alley and me and Walker stopped some guy from attacking you, but he took your bag"

"My bag?" You looked like she was about to go crazy, "my bag. I can't live without my bag, oh my god, what am I going to do? Without my bag I can't do anything, I can't go anywhere. Because my bag has my-" She had stood up and started pacing but suddenly she stopped and looked round, as if suddenly remembering that we were here.

"You're bag has your what?"

"Nothing."

"We can go and get something for you? If you need it?"

"Wait", Walker started speaking, "I thought we were taking her to the Police station."

"Police station? I can't go to the police."

"No, look, I understand your pain but we have to be out for Dylan tonight, we can't afford bad publicity."

She started taking off her jacket, this was getting out of hand, "look, here's your jacket, thank you for saving me. Goodbye", she made her way for the door but just as she got there Dylan opened the door and gave her a light tap on the shoulder to push her back into the room.

"You're not going anywhere, if you won't go to the police then we'll look after you", Walker was about to interrupt when Dylan started speaking again, "Walker, this is a kid streets. She needs our help and so we'll give in to her because it's America and we're American and in America we do what's right." At this point we all started laughing, Dylan knew how to form us back into a team and it was working.

"What?" May was still standing, "it's just some show we watch." This made the other's laugh harder.