Part Five - Discovery House - “After 4....1, 2, 3, 4”
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“Lisa,” cried the voice. Lisa looked round, it was her friend, Jackie.
“Oh Lisa, you must see Eradicator, it’s brilliant,” said Jackie being far too animated with her arm movements.
Lisa and Sam unlinked so that Lisa would converse with her friend but she failed to notice Sam carry on walking.
“The part where one of the bad guys is sliced in half with a sheet of glass was fantastic,” said Jackie
“We saw the Jane Austin film,” said Lisa.
“Jane who? Isn’t it for old women?”
“No, it was beautiful, pure magic. It seemed boring at first and I didn’t really want to see it but it was Sam’s idea to go.”
Sam kept on walking, mumbling to himself over and over. “Oh god, please no! Don’t tell me I have just done that. Oh God no way, shit, god no, oh no I can’t believe it, that’s it, finished.”
Jackie and Lisa were laughing behind him. Sam carried on walking. The two girls stood outside the cinema, laughing, spoiling each other’s enjoyment and removing the need for any of them to see each other’s film. Sam was still walking away from the cinema.
“Oh God no way, shit, god no, oh no I can’t believe it, that’s it, finish, gone.”
There was a bustle of bodies outside the main entrance of the cinema, teenagers waiting to be picked up, dad’s, with a trail of young children, trying desperately to remember where he’d parked the car, all huddled on the pavement avoiding the main road. Jackie and Lisa hugged each other and said good-bye, it was then Lisa noticed Sam was missing. She quickly looked around her but the mass of people and the poor light made it very difficult to focus on anyone’s face. She cried out his name getting the attention of the people around her, still no Sam. Jackie came running out of the crowd, “What? What’s the matter?”
“I’ve lost Sam.”
“Lost him?”
“We came out of the cinema together, then I stopped to talk to you and now he is gone.”
Jackie looked around “he can’t be far away.”
“He was acting a little strange when we left, he kept staring into space.”
The two girls looked through the crowd, looking at everyone as they passed. Out of the corner of her eye Lisa recognised Sam’s jacket. People walked in front of her as she focused her attention on him. As Sam passed under a street light Lisa shouted his name again.
“Sam,” her voice pierced the night air as she noticed him walking towards the main road.
He kept walking, mumbling to himself, “I can’t believe it, that’s it, finish, gone, shit, shit, what can I do, what have I done?, what have I done?” He walked, passed people without giving them a glance, bumping into pedestrians without apology, what had he done? Kissing a man he never knew and he enjoyed it. Like a pinball machine his thoughts bounced around his head all of them coming at once. ‘It gave me an erection as well’ he thought as he stepped into the main road.
Lisa cried out his name at the top of her voice but it was too late. The oncoming car swerved left to avoid the young man. It clipped his back legs knocking him forward onto the other side of the road. The vehicle sped out of control and rammed straight into the side of the cinema. The bonnet crunched into a quarter its original size and the female passenger lunged head first into the windscreen shattering blood stained glass over the smoking engine. Sam felt his legs go numb but he managed to scramble on all fours just as a car coming the other way met him head on. A crowd soon developed around the twisted body of the young man. They waited for the ambulance, but it was too late, Sam was already dead.
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