High School Never Ends

“I need your help.” I breathed
“What makes you think I’m going to help you?”
“My sister supplied you, don’t you think you owe her?”
“You’re sister is dead.”
“I’m fully aware of that.” I spat. “Look, this dealer guy, I need to know where to find him. He has got one of my friends. Please, I’m begging you.”
“What’s in it for me?”
“I-I don’t know.” I sighed
“Drugs?”
“What? NO. I’m not getting into any more debt. This is the reason Vic has been taken.”
“Vic? You mean Paige’s little boyfriend?” He asked
“Yeh.”
“He’s a good kid.”
“Wh-what?”
“We didn’t start off on the right foot, Aria. I’m not all bad. After Vic threw me off of you he came back to apologise. Didn’t realise it was me: simple mistake.”
“So you guys… you’re friends?” I asked, baffled
“Guess you could call it that.”
“So are you willing to help me?”
“Sure. You’ll find the dealer at the old warehouse on the water front.”
“That’s a pretty open location.”
“Limits suspicion.”
I nodded. “Thanks…”
“Colin.” He offered
“Thanks, Colin.” I smiled
Hurriedly, I rushed back to the car and directed Mike to the old warehouse. We parked up a street away.
“What now?” Tony asked
“We could go in there and beat the shit out of them.” Mike suggested
“There are so many flaws in that plan that I can’t be bothered to point out.” I yawned
“Fine. What’s your plan?” Mike huffed
“We need to negotiate with them. Make them give us some time to get the money to pay off the debt.”
“They’re not the reasoning type.” Tony sighed
“Vic said that the dealer was close to Paige: too close for his liking. So, if he liked Paige he might give us some time as a favour to her.”
“He can’t have liked her that much if he killed her.” Mike muttered”
“Maybe he didn’t kill her…”
Nervously, we walked the street towards the warehouse in the hopes that we wouldn’t be brutally murdered. When we reached the doors of the warehouse, I knocked gently.
“Yeh because they’re really going to hear that.” Mike rolled his eyes before banging on the door
“Shit Mike, do you want them to kill us!?” I hissed
“Seriously, all I did wa…”
Mike was cut off by a large man swinging the door open.
“Children aren’t welcome.” The man said sternly
“We… We’re here to see the dealer.” I stuttered
“Ah, you must be wanting your little friend back.” He grinned
“Please.”
“Things don’t work like that sweetheart.”
“Could we at least speak with the dealer?” I asked
“No. Nobody speaks to ‘the dealer’ unless they are worthy.”
“I’m Paige’s sister.”
“Paige.” The man echoed. “You can come on through.”
He stood out of the way and allowed me to enter. However, he pushed Mike and Tony back.
“The girl goes on her own.”
“No way!” Mike protested
“Mike, please. I’ll be fine.”
“You’re not going i…”
The man slammed the door in Mikes face, and locked it behind him.
“That way.” He commanded, pointing straight ahead.

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