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stepped
closer to the door. She spotted the broken glass on the floor and saw a large
shard that she could use as a weapon. If only she could reach it...
     
    “No one deserves to be butchered
the way you and your friends killed my friends.” Melissa said. Mark had turned
towards her now and he was carefully watching her movements.
     
    “Friends?” Mark scoffed.
     
    Melissa felt a rush of anger inside
her. He knew that she didn’t have any friends apart from Jennifer, but did he
really have to rub it in? She turned around and started to walk away when Mark
grabbed her arm. She let out a scream and lost her balance.
     
    “You are not leaving!” Mark said.
     
    Melissa winced as a small piece of
glass pierced her skin and drew a trickle of blood. She scrambled on the floor
and her hands closed around a glass shard. “Let me go!” she cried, but Mark
dragged her towards him. Melissa drew the shard in her hand and thrust it into
Mark’s thigh.
     
    Mark let out a howl and Melissa
shoved him away. She ran out the broken door and ran outside when a thought
occurred to her. The fence couldn’t possibly be all around the shops could it?
Her mind hoped like crazy that she was right. Would they really take the
trouble to put a large fence and block this whole area?
     
    She ran as fast as she could
through the passageway between the restaurant and the theatre. She turned back
once to see if Mark was following her. She sighed with relief when she didn’t
spot him and ran as fast as she could, before finding herself being pushed back
roughly.
     
    Melissa gasped as she tumbled on
the ground. She looked up to see that she had been thrown back by the fence.
She stared at it as her eyes welled with tears. Her ankle hurt and her hands
were grazed by the metal fence and there was still no way out. She was alone
and she was trapped and the sun was scorching her arms. She pushed herself in
the shadows and sobbed into her hands.
     
    She cowered when she heard a noise.
She got up slowly and pressed herself against the wall. Mark was inside and her
friends were missing, so where were the rest of the riders?
     
    Just then she saw four men walking
towards the restaurant with their helmets on. Melissa wiped her tears away with
the palm of her hands and lowered herself behind the bins.
     
    Don’t let them see you, her mind
screamed. If they do, they’ll kill you and you’ll never be able to do the
things you wished for last night. You’ll never see your family again and never
find out where Jennifer is.
     
    She heard the four riders walk into
the restaurant and listened as they whispered softly amongst them
     
    Melissa pressed her ear against the
walls, hoping to find out what they had done with her best friend.
     
    “Did you find Melissa?” one of them
asked.
     
    “Yeah and she stabbed me!” she
heard Mark say. “Didn’t even give me chance...”
     
    “Were her friends with her?”
someone else asked.
     
    “Wouldn’t say.” Mark replied. “She
barely gave me a chance to say anything. Just stabbed me and ran away
somewhere.”
     
    “We have to find her.” Melissa
heard one of the riders say. “We have to kill them all!”

Chapter Nine
     
    The theatre wasn’t as small as it
had looked from the outside. There were posters of upcoming movies plastered on
the walls and Melissa found herself thinking if the movies would actually be
coming soon here anytime, considering what was happening around her. The
theatre was deserted, just like the restaurant had been, but the fact that
nothing looked in disarray or broken made her realize something that should
have caught her attention sooner.
     
    The theatre was closed, the snack
counter was closed, but nothing looked as if it was still was in the process of
running before it had to be shut down in a hurry after the incident occurred.
     
    Melissa walked through the lobby in
a daze. She came to the ticket booth and frowned. Everything was put away
neatly here too. No