“What do you think your doing!?” Betty shouted.
As the warm air drifted into the store, the man pulled out a gun.
“Open the safe,” he said emotionless.
Everyone put their hands up and stood still as a brick.
“I said open the safe, now!” he shouted.
Betty left the traumatized old lady and went behind the cashier desk. The man had the gun raised at her head as she loaded the money into a post bag. A little boy, must’ve only been about 5, was sobbing in the corner with his caring mother. As she handed him the bag he fled quickly, almost breaking the door as he stormed out. The old lady looked pale and was standing very still. She was trembling and seemed very frail. Suddenly she collapsed, taking the Pringles stand with her.
“Call 999!” Betty screamed at the mother, still holding her confused son.
The mother ran to the phone and son the ambulance was on her way. Betty checked the old lady’s pulse but she had no heartbeat.
Finally, the ambulance arrived and tried to resuscitate her. They tried for what seemed like hours but she was not coming back.
“I’m very sorry, she’s had a heart attack and we could do nothing to bring her back,” the tall paramedic exclaimed.
Betty broke down in tears. How could all this evil happen on one perfect summer’s day?
A week later everyone was in black, head bowed and in tears at her funeral. Everyone was silent and walked away slowly after the man in robes had spoken his turn. All went back into the church except the lady’s son, who crouched by the gravestone in tears. He was a short, fat, unintelligent boy; he didn’t really have much going for him.
“Why did you have to go?” he sobbed. “You were all I ever had,”
He then grasped a knife out of his pocket and plunged it into his chest, falling right onto the ground, bleeding everywhere. He lay unconscious, but with his mother, on his way to the better place.
As news spread of his death, everyone was confused and in disbelief. It seems that he had a gang leader on his back after not paying back drugs money he had borrowed form him. This came about when the leader foolishly went to police over the lost money and cases bumped into each other. He was arrested along with his gang and sent to prison, saving hundreds of others from suffering and getting caught up in the wrong crowd.
