the store

It was going to be an average day. Or so I thought…….

I was walking along, as usual, to one of my friends houses. I was going to ask Rob if he had any money on him so that way we could go shopping. Me and him always have fun shopping. He may not talk much but he is a cool guy to talk to. He listens like a charmed snake listens to its master. I knocked on the door to his house…..no answer…… I walked behind his house and knocked on his window. He opened his window and yelled ‘was sup guy?’ ‘yo dude open your door’ ‘ok’. I walked back to his door and walked into his house. He shut and locked the door. The couch was right there in front of me so I jumped on it and sat down. ‘say Rob, how much money you got on you?’ ‘ I think only about 195 dollars. Give me a sec to check’ ‘ok cool’ I turned on his computer(that thing kicks ass) and went on to you tube. I watched naruto ep 101(again) and laughed and laughed and laughed. Once Rob told me to shut up out there and that he had lost count. I laughed even harder. He sucks at math. But when it comes to writing, he is topdog. He towers my grades like they were a puddle and his are a giant lake. I still kick his ass at math and science though.

‘I got 198 dollars here’ ‘sweet I got 194 bucks’ ‘cool.’ ’do you think ur mom will let us go shoppin?’ ‘yeah let me ask her real fast. Hey mom. Me and jes are going shopping okay?’ ‘OK!!’ I heard her reply pretty loudly. She must have been doing laundry and could barely her him.

We walked outside. The store was only down the street about 3 miles. We walked bye Mo’s house but he asleep. At about 1:30 in the afternoon…… what an idiot. ‘hey rob I know who we can get to come with us’ ‘who?’ ‘a friend of mine. U haven’t met her yet. Her house is about a block past the store’ ‘ok’ we walked another two miles and reached the store. But we kept walking to her house. I knocked on the door and she frowned when she knew it was me. ‘what do u want this time?’ ‘wanna go shoppin nix?’ ‘……really? Ur going shopping? Wow that doesn’t sound like you at all. R u on drugs or something?’ ‘no I just wanna buy sumthing. So r u gonna come with us or not?’ ’ fine I will…but first who is he?’ ’this is rob. Rob Pheonix pheonix Rob.’ ‘hi…’ rob replied shyly. He isn’t used to hanging out with girls. th only friend thats a girl he has is probably brittany, but shes friends with about vry guy in schol, so not like it matters. ‘hi rob’ nix stupidly waved at him. I glared at her. She took a step back but she followed us toward the store nonetheless. ‘jes what r u gonna buy?’ ‘ill know it when I see it’

In reality I didn’t know what I wanted to buy, but I woke up this morning with a feeling that something at th store was…waiting for me….I just couldn’t stop the feeling. Besides it was good excuse to hang out with my friends.

We walked up to the store……(not gonna tell store name till later). And as always the sliding door opened as we approached. I just started waling in. ‘jes slow down!’ I had forgotten that nix and rob were behind me. I looked back and rob was still at the entrance with his eyes glued on a sign. Nix was pointing at him. I walked back toward rob. ‘dude what r u looking at?’….rob just stayed silent. He stood there, frozen almost. I looked at the sign and saw it. Then nix saw it. ‘oh’ ‘my’ ‘god’. the sign said in big black letters

SORRY FOR THE INCONVIENCE,

NO MORE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES,

CIGARETTES,

MOVIES,

VIDEO GAMES,

OR FIREWORKS,

WILL BE SOLD INSIDE ‘THE STORE’ UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

WE ARE SORRY FOR THE INCONVIENCE.

HAVE A GOOD DAY!

Rob probably would have fainted if I hadn’t slapped him to move. ‘what the hell happened that would make them stop doing that?’ ‘I don’t know nix’ the sign had a date on it…It was yesterday‘s date. ‘something happened yesterday that must have caused this but what?’ ‘dude, jes, no more video games…..but I love playing video games.’ ‘I know you do rob but apparently your going to have to go intown for that kind of stuff now. And fireworks? And movies? But what about fourth of July? Or what about people that wanna watch movies? This is seriously gonna cut them back a couple of years’ ‘ummm jes’ nix tapped me on the shoulder. ‘what?’ I turned around and there was a mob. Headed straight for us. We rushed right in the store, but I stopped and grabbed rob and dragged him in. the store automatically locked the door and we were stuck inside the store. We were trapped inside a store with all ways blocked. Surrounded by a mob of people that wanted inside. Carrying signs that said “sell fireworks” “admit movies” and etc….

Rob lay in a ball over where the games used to be. Now occupied by bananas. Nix tried running toward the other exit but there were people there too blocking that exit. She yelled to see if there were other people but there was no sound except for rob whimpering and thousands of people yelling. All I could do was sit near the freezer and suck my thumb.

There was no way out of this one……..