red like rust

And this is when I start moving again, with a grim expression set onto my face and my heart bouncing between my throat and its rightful place in my chest. "It's too late now. Too late. We have to keep moving." I do, somehow, pushing past the pit in my stomach and also past Livi. "No point in stopping."

"Too late if we want the money," Livi says.

***

Six teenagers walk into a ripoff Chuck-E-Cheese, ready to accept an easy job, good payment, and free junk food.