"I need some air. Call me if you need anything."

Baka kissed his teeth. He lit a cigarette inside and smoked it out the window blocking Dave's view. 

Dave didn't make a fuss at all just moved a little back. He couldn't leave the phone un-attended.

Keith took the back staircase, liked...

The  Seaside Rest was quiet. Jade thought too quiet. She saw where the kid had gone. Writing it all down, in sprawling notes, in between tourist's questions. 

She hated the tourists. They only seemed to do two things. They were either interested in everything, poking their noses around, and taking...

The kid ran as fast as he could toward the pier. His lungs burned and his legs were sour from the speed. 
He stopped behind a break wall, and took his breathe. His heart pounded in his chest. 

His plan was to make it to the pier. There there were...

The guys pulled the blinds shut, and brought out more guns than Blayne had ever seen. 

"All in working order, and all capable of inflicting intense damage."

The large man's voice when on the microphone was light and charming, in contrast to his grotesque figure. It seemed like he enjoyed his...

They pulled up to the metal gate, and it just started opening. 

"Don't worry, they'll help. We don't have to find him ourselves. We just need to describe him to them."

A loud voice erupted over a speaker. 

"Dannny's arrived! and looks like he's not alone."

Four men were surrounding the car....

"What do you mean he left?" Danny said. He could feel his face getting hot, he'd been prepping all night. Didn't have time do deal with another fire. Recently that was all he was doing, is putting out fires.

"He, I don't know man, just took off. He ran. He,...

There wasn't any music playing through the headphones. The lady heard it all. 

It was interesting how calm Blayne was she thought, until the last second, he got spilling a cup and just leaving. Why would someone care that much if the boy is quitting let him quit. 

The thought...

"Im turning in my notice." The kid said. Blayne was sitting behind his desk and he was in earshot of the woman.

"What uh..." Blayne sat looking at him, waiting for his face to crack into a smile. "Oh. Hahaha, yeah if you're out then im out."

"Im serious, I wrote it...

"You see them. The guys that checked in." Blayne said, slightly out of breathe he texted the kid. To meet at the spot. 

"Barely I was cleaning, with the linens." The kid said. 

It was weird Blayne thought he checked there before, and didn't see anyone. 

"They shouldn't be here."...

He liked to think of himself as the center. Not like the center of attention, but more, he tried to describe this to Blayne once.

"I feel like Im at the center of it all you know. Like everything must flow through me." 

"Like your the main character." 

"No different, more...