Home Sweet Home (REVISED)

Chapter 53

Back at the party, people was starting to notice that Vince and Axl weren't around. Some of them had already started looking. "I can't find them anywhere", Duff said, coming back from the bathroom after checking if they were there. "Oh my god...", Nikki said, starting to get really worried, like only he can, "What if they've been kidnapped!?" Tommy laughed. "Yeah, I don't think so, Nikki", he said, "You can calm down, they're probably fine". Duff continued looking around Vince's house, not finding the two of them anywhere. "I think we should go outside to look for them", he suggested, "It's so typical Axl to just run away with someone like that, to do something that he thinks is 'badass'". So the gang of seven went out to look for the two morons who had just bailed the party. They walked for a while, and then Izzy noticed an enlightened store at the other side of the road. "What's that?", he asked, making Tommy turn as well, only to see the same thing. "Oh, it's only Kroger", he said, "But I thought everything would be closed by now?" Slash looked down on his watch, seeing that it was far over midnight. And Kroger wasn't open until over midnight. "Should be", he informed. "Well, let's go!", Nikki complained impatiently, gesturing everyone to follow him over the road.

When they came closer, they saw that Kroger was indeed awake – and with people still working there. "I thought Kroger closed at ten?", Nikki asked, turning to Tommy. "It does...", Tommy answered, looking up at the tall building, "Maybe someone's robbing it?" Nikki gasped, making everybody turn to him. "Oh my god, what if they're huge guys with enormous muscles!?", he exclaimed, making the others laugh a little. "Nikki, you could just smack their heads together or something", Tommy said, "If they're dumb enough to rob a grocery store, that should do the trick". Nikki calmed down again, but was still kind of worried that it would be guys similar to the ones on the football team back at school, years ago. "We should call the police", Mick suggested, being the only one coming up with possible solutions. Then Slash came bouncing into the picture. "No!", he yelled, jumping in front of Mick to stop him from walking to the closest payphone, "I've got illegal drugs on me right now!" Mick just rolled his eyes, pushing Slash aside. "I'm calling anyway", he said.

The police car stopped in front of the seven rock stars, and two officers walked out. "You called us?", one of them asked, as if rockers couldn't call the police, "Then this must be pretty bad". Nikki was all worried, scared of what was going to happen, or who the intruders were. He was about to cry over the entire situation, but managed to hold it in. Slash was freaking out, sweating through his black leather jacket; he had cocaine in his pockets. Luckily for him, the officers didn't bring dogs. The rest of the gang was calm, just carefully explaining the situation to the policemen. "We'll go check it out", one of them said, taking the other one with him and walking towards Kroger with a flashlight and a gun. Tommy, Nikki and Duff followed, just out of pure curiosity. And where were Axl and Vince anyway?