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Chapter 64: Danger

Roni POV
Aaron left last week and it's already been difficult. Nessa's about to pop and she's been having Braxton Hicks so I advised her to go home. The baby will be here any minute and I'm sure doesn't want her to have her in the store. No matter how much she loves that store, I'm sure she doesn't want to give birth in there.

I'm working alone in the store. I'm not totally alone, I do have two other employees but they have lunch and often breaks because we know how hard it is having a job with no breaks. This means that I'm working the store by myself for most of the day. It is difficult but it's worth it.

From doing all that work during the day and by the time I pick up the twins from mom and dad's house, I'm exhausted. The twins have a lot of energy because of their grandparents. Don't get me wrong, I'm super glad that mom and dad have offered to keep the twins while I'm at work, but they get wired on sugar and take a nap so by the timed their handed over to me it's crazy. They're buck wild and it's not helping with how I'm tired I am.

I get Taco Bell because I'm way to tired to cook. After the twins and I eat I just watch tv until they get some energy out. Once they're off the sugar high and even just a little tired, I bathe them and get them in pajamas. I let them sit in their bed, which is kind of walled in and watch a movie until they fall asleep. This is when I finally get a break.

The break is the best. I take a shower and get ready for bed. Just watching tv and laying down makes me relax. I keep an eye on the baby monitor just to make sure the twins aren't doing anything crazy. I do have to get up after 15 minutes to put Vinny back in his bed because he managed to get out.

By the time I start relaxing, I realize that I need to edit and do the review of my first couple of weeks at the job for my managers. I feel hlike crying. You have no idea how tired and overwhelmed I am. It's just to much going on. I feel bad leaving the twins with mom and dad, I miss Aaron and worry about him, I worry about work and Nessa, and I try to spend as much time with the twins as I can. It's so much at one time and it's so hard to balance. I'm just overwhelmed and I just need rest. It's only 8:00 and I have to be up at 6:00. That's ten hours to sleep and that should be a good amount of rest.

I wake up and the first thing I do is call Aaron. He knows how to calm me down. When I call he's getting hair and makeup done and they excuse him so he can talk. He manages to tell me that everything was going to be ok and that he was there to talk at anytime. I can sense something in his voice. He must just be busy and had to hang up. I won't hold him up any longer and I let him go. I get dressed and leave for work.

The day goes by fast, as usual. When I say fast I mean that we have a lot of business so everything is always happening at once. I should say business as fast and the day goes by slow. We finally have a stopping point right before lunch. Right before I let the employees go we hear gunshots.

Gunshots are usually not what you hear in this part of town, but that's definitely what we heard. I duck down under the front desk. I pull the employees under with me. There's multiple at one time. They don't sound close or far. We hear on shutter through the glass farthest away from us. We could die right here and right now. We look outside after we think we're safe. It was a shoot out between the police and someone. We advert our eyes away before we see something that will traumatize us for life.

"I was so scared" Jen, one of my employees says. I can see her tear stained cheeks.

"I'm just glad we're safe" Lisa, another one of my employees sighs.

"Me too. Let's just lay low until the police come and get us. I don't want any of you walking into a dangerous situation." I tell them. They nod and we just sit back behind the register in shock.

Finally the police come and say it's safe. They let us grab our stuff and the lead us to our car. They have another officer directing people To go out the opposite way of the scene. When I get to a safe spot or at home, I will text my employees and let them know that they have tomorrow off.

I make it home and pick up my phone and realize that I have like thirty missed calls. The news had the shoot out on camera and the covered it. Everyone was worried since you can see the Trueimg store in the background. I tweet out that everyone from our store is ok. I let Nessa and Kian know what happened and they give me a big hug. I'm so glad that Nessa wasn't there at that time. She's heavily pregnant so she wouldn't be able to move fast enough. I give the twins a hug because I could've lost them forever. Lastly I call Aaron. He apologizes for hanging up so fast this morning and that moment rang through his head all day since Nessa and Kian told him that I could be in danger. I tell him that it's ok. Never will I ever complain about another day at work because it will never be like this one.