"Where are you? Where are you?" Nick screamed, looking from store to
store. "Where?"
"I guess you'll never know!" Nick could hear him talk from the intercom.
"Show your face!" Nick screamed. "You aren't scared, are you?"
"Sure not." Paul said. "But I'm not going to show."
"Bawk!" Nick screamed, putting pressure on her shot wound.
"I'm not a chicken." Paul screamed from the intercom.
"Sure you are! You won't show your face! Bawk! Bawk!" Nick kept bawking
at him.
"Bawk yourself!" Paul screamed. "I'm no chicken!"
"Really? Is that why you had to shoot Jennifer?" Nick asked.
"No! I wanted to shoot her!" Paul said.
"Why?" Brian said, coming out from behind a bench that he was hiding
behind.
"Because! Great...two of you now." Paul said, through the intercom.
AJ came out from cover, but remained silent.
"Three?" Paul said.
"He's got to be in a store near by. AJ didn't say anything." Nick
whispered.
Silently, Howie came out, too.
"All four of you now!" Paul said.
"He's got to be real close," Nick said, putting as much pressure on her
wound as possible. "Go look around, but, stay low, and safe."
"We will." They said. They all walked into a store, and grabbed some sort
of heavy material for Paul to shoot at, instead of shooting them.
"Jennifer? Can you hear me?" Nick asked, shaking her gently. "Jennifer?"
Jennifer didn't give a reply.
"Why don't you show your face? Show it!" Nick screamed. "I thought you
weren't scared! Bawk, bawk!" Nick screamed from his lungs.
"Fine!" Paul said, stepping out from behind 'Tape World'.
"Oh! So there's where you were...'hiding'." Nick said.
"I wasn't hiding." Paul said. "I was just staying in there."
"Sure...that's what they all say." Nick said.
"What? Are you questioning my abilities to stay in a store?" Paul asked.
"What?" Nick asked, thinking that the question made no sense.
"Nothing. I showed you I wasn't scared. So now you show me that you
aren't scared." Paul said.
"What else do you want me to do? I mean, I stayed here, even though you
were...'hiding'! I challenged you to come out from you little...'place', or
whatever you want to call it! What else could I do?" Nick asked.
"Leave your girlfriend there." Paul said, pointing to Jennifer.
"No!" Nick screamed. "I am not going to leave her here!"
"Why not? I left my, what you call, 'hiding place'!" Paul said.
"Well, you aren't injured in any sort, either!" Nick said.
"Neither are you!" Paul said.
"But Jennifer is!" Nick said.
"So? She's strong, isn't she?" Paul asked.
"Yeah, but, I am not going to take any chances." Nick said, putting more
and more pressure on the shot wound.
"Bawk, bawk." Paul said.
"I don't care! You can bawk me all you want!" Nick said, the bawking
having no effect on him. "Bawk-bawk."
Paul looked at him in disgust. There was hardly any way to get him away
from Jennifer. But, suddenly, he thought of one.
Boom!
"What was that?" Nick asked.
"I shot." Paul said.
"What?" Nick asked.
"You'll have to see yourself." Paul said. "I'm not going to tell you."
Nick saw his face, and he had a guilty look on it. Did he shoot Brian? Or
Howie, AJ?
"Did you shoot one of them?" Nick asked, a pale white look on his face.
"Go look." Paul said.
Nick looked at Jennifer's wound. It seemed to have stopped bleeding.
Nick slowly stood up, and started to walk where Paul had shot.
'Just how I planned it.' Paul thought to himself. 'Just like bread and
butter.'