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- Story Listed as: Fiction For Adults
- Theme: Action & Adventure
- Subject: Action
- Published: 05/04/2021
The day started like any other. Deshawn was getting ready for the day with his fiance Nicole when he realized that there isn’t any milk for their cereal. Deshawn grabbed his keys and wallet off the dresser. He went into the bathroom to tell his fiance, who was in the shower, “Hey baby we are out of milk I’m going to run to the gas station to get some more,” he said.
“Okay boo I should be ready by the time you get back.” she replied.
Deshawn just smiled and said, ”okay”. He had a feeling he was forgetting something but he couldn’t remember what it was. So he left it alone and proceeded to get in his car. He drove a few blocks to the local gas station, parked and walked inside. He walked in and saw that the gas station was surprisingly empty.
“Hey G where’s everybody today?” he asked the cashier/owner.
“Well it’s about 11 0’clock on a saturday morning in the middle of summer, everyone’s out at the beach or something of that nature, which you need to be apart of.” G replied.
“Yea yea yea I hear you old man. Nicole and I we have something planned next week. So it’s not like we’re no fun.”
“Whew that Nicole she’s too good for you, needs to be with a real man.” G said laughingly.
“You know what? I ain’t got time to be playing with you. I need some milk then I’m out of here.” Deshawn said laughing back at him,
“It’s in the back, you know where it is doncha?”
Deshawn nodded and proceeded to the back of the gas station. A woman walks into the gas station to pay for her gas. The bell rings when someone else walks in, says hi to G and goes to the snacks. Deshawn is in the back looking at all the milk, making sure to check for all the expiration dates. He finds one that is to his liking and turns to walk to the register. As he’s walking all of a sudden three people come rushing into the gas station and shoot the camera in front of the door down. Everyone is shocked and they immediately look over to see what was the problem.
“Get down on the motherf***ing floor right the f*ck now or you die!” screamed one of them as they fired a shotgun into the ceiling.
Everyone looks over and sees two people with shotguns and one with a semi automatic pistol. They see the guns and they do as they are told. Everyone gets down on their hands and knees so no one gets hurt. One of the robbers goes over to G at the counter and jumps on it pointing the gun at him telling him to empty the register.
“Hey Red make sure you check the store to make sure no one is hiding in the back or something,” yelled the person wearing a black bandana around their face to the one wearing a red one. “Blue you go to the other side and make sure nobody can come at us from either side."
Both of them nodded and separated so that they could cover more ground. Meanwhile Black was covering both G and the woman at the front. Blue found the guy that was on the two isles over from Deshawn.
“Aye get up man I see you over there.” Blue said pointing his shotgun at him. “Now you heard our dear friend Black over there, just give me all your money and we won’t have a problem here.”
The gentleman gave Blue all that he had, his wallet, phone and keys. “Here man this is all I have please don’t hurt me,” the guy said frantically.
“Ni**a did I say I was gonna hurt you?”
The man shook his head.
“Ard then get yo punkass up and get to the front before I do.”
The guy gets up very slowly while Blue has the shotgun pointed at him and follows him up to the front. Blue then uses the shotgun to hit him in the back of the head and knocks him unconscious. Blue laughed at him saying that was too easy, that he couldn’t even take a love tap.
Black laughed with Blue and they both turned their attention to the lady and G. As G is opening the register, the lady has her purse snatched by Black and emptied. The woman had all types of makeup, cards and even tampons in her purse. Black looked at everything, saw the tampons and picked them up. The woman looked a little confused.
Black told Red to watch the old man make sure he doesn’t have any guns behind the counter, then knelt down to the woman’s ear, took down her mask to whisper in the woman’s ear, “I kinda needed some thanks.”
The woman said nothing and stayed quiet, a little shocked, but stayed quiet. As Black got back to stood back up she heard Blue.
"Aye you over there don’t think you slick run yo sh*t cuz!” Blue had found Deshawn and was pointing the shotgun at him. “Boy don’t make me ask you twice.”
Deshawn hurried and emptied all his pockets, he took out his phone, keys and wallet and gave them to Blue. Blue took the wallet and looked into it to see if it had any money in it. When he saw that it was empty, he got upset.
“Aye y’all this ni**a over here ain’t got no money.” Blue yelled to the others.
“What you mean he ain’t got no money?!?” Black asked.
“I mean this broke motherf***er wallet empty.”
“Red go see what he over there hollering about I got these ni**as.”
Red nodded his head and walked over to Blue. When Red reached Blue he took the wallet from Blue and saw that there was no money in the wallet. Red laughed talking about how broke Deshawn was. That only made Deshawn feel worse about his situation, he said nothing. Blue got angry, he punched Deshawn in the face to get the anger out. Then one more time because of how Red was laughing. They picked him up and carried him to the front with the others.
“Ah sh*t man his teeth strong as hell my damn hand hurt.” Blue said shaking his right hand.
“That’s what you get for being a b**ch”, said Black.
Blue started to shake it off but it still hurt. Deshawn saw that Red put his gun away and pulled out Deshawn’s phone. Trying to unlock it, but he didn’t know the password, nor did he have Deshawn’s fingerprint. Red handed Deshawn the phone and told him to unlock it. Hesitantly he did so, as soon as he opened the phone Blue saw Deshawn’s fiance Nicole.
“Oooo weeeee what do we have here?” Red said when he looked over at the phone. Aye yo come look at this girl this ni**a got on his phone.
Red turned the phone to both Black and Blue and they all started talking about Nicole, what they would do if they saw her and they kept talking and talking. This only made Deshawn angry, he didn’t care what they did to him he just wanted to keep Nicole out of it.
“Aye my man lemme holla at you for a second.” Red says as he put his arm around Deshawn, “Aye if you bring shawty around town we gonna leave this whole thing alone how’s that sound?”
Deshawn couldn’t take it anymore, he’s had enough, it’s bad enough they punched him but now they are talking about Nicole that way?!? Deshawn clenched his fist and waited for the right moment. While Red was still laughing he turned away to look at the others just when he needed them to. Deshawn punched Red as hard as he could. Red fell back tripping over the unconscious guy the gun he had and Deshawn’s phone fell.
Deshawn hurried up and grabbed both. He hurried up and ran to the other side and posted. He made sure the gun’s safety was off and that it was cocked. Though he had never fired a gun before, to protect himself and G he’d do anything. Black Blue and Red were all stunned, they took a second to get themselves together and tried to go after Deshawn. First, Red went around the side and tried to rush him with a few shots from Blue’s shotgun who went to the other side.
Deshawn saw what they were trying to do and went for Red. Deshawn rushed after Red as Blue tried to shoot him. Since Blue was on the other side of the isle he saw Dashawn rush Red so Blue lifted and aimed the shotgun. Deshawn ran toward Red and slid on the floor right as Blue was firing.
They all heard a loud crack. There’s broken glass, ruptured bags of bread chips, candy etc everywhere. As Deshawn slid, he got up faster than Blue could pump for the next shot and punched Blue knocking him into the fridge and knocking him out. Black saw and went to shoot Deshawn. He ducked but Black fired three times. Blue fired two more times as Deshawn made his way around the other isles to get a better clearer shot at Black.
Once he realised that Black couldn’t find him, he rose up to see the door and located Black. When he did, Black was standing near the door. So, Deshawn went to fire at the door, but Blue was ready for him aiming. Blue tried to shoot Deshawn, he missed. Deshawn Ducked, rose up again, shot back at Blue. Then shot at Black so he would go for cover.
Now that both Black and Blue are hiding in similar locations, Deshawn makes a break straight for the door and runs. He remembers that his car keys are still inside so he keeps running. Black sees Deshawn running, Shaked Red awake and gives him another handgun.
“Here don’t lose this one, now go get his ass.” Black says to Red.
Blue takes the gun and nods. Then he proceeds to chase after Deshawn. Red sees Deshawn and fires three shots. The first shot hits a windshield, the second hits a car door, the third a car window. Deshawn is running and starts jumping over cars for cover. In the street, there are cars everywhere with people driving and people walking. The first chance Red gets, he fires at Deshawn and misses. Deshawn takes cover and sees Red running toward him so he fires back. Deshawn also misses and this goes on for about three to four more blocks.
'This needs to stop at some point, one or both of us will fire a bullet that hits someone.' He thought to himself.
Neither one of them wants to stop. One is just trying to get away from the other and the other is just trying to catch one for the simple reason of pride letting him get out in the first place.
Someone finally calls the police for the gunshots fired at the gas station. The police arrive and overpower Black and Blue. They get caught and taken into custody. Now all that’s left is to get Red.
The police find out that there is a gun battle a few blocks away and more squad cars are sent to head them off before someone gets hurt. Neither Deshawn nor Red realizes there are cop cars both in front of and the back cutting them both off. Deshawn sees the police and immediately stops running and drops to his knees. The police order him to get face down and he does as he’s told. Red, on the other hand, wants to fight the police. Not much time passes before they finally get surrounded and things finally settle down for Deshawn.
Who knew that a simple ride to the store could turn into a fight for survival. The incident makes it to the news; there are choppers and news vans everywhere. As Deshawn finishes making his statement, he walks with a police officer who offers to take him home. All of a sudden there were these girls who show up to try and take pictures with the police officer.
“Hey hey can you take a picture with us we love heroes.” one of the girls giggled.
“I’m not the one you should want a picture with, it’s him.” said the police officer. He looked over to Deshawn and smiled.
“Oh, is he the hero of The Bowery?” the one girl asked. She smiled as she turned over to him.
“Yes that’s him now be careful with him girls he’s still a little shaken.” the cop said putting his arm around Deshawn.
Deshawn smiled, took pictures with the girls, and sat down on a nearby hill just sitting and relaxing, just waiting until he could go home. He glanced over and saw Red now getting put into a police car. Even though Deshawn knows Red and his gang are going to prison, he still has this uneasy feeling. He couldn’t hear Red inside the car but he saw that his lips were moving and they mouthed words "we’re gonna find and kill you”.
Deshawn knew then that he’d have to find a way to fight back because there’s never just a gang of three people. He looked to the sky and asked himself, when will it end??
The Bowery(Tey Kins)
The day started like any other. Deshawn was getting ready for the day with his fiance Nicole when he realized that there isn’t any milk for their cereal. Deshawn grabbed his keys and wallet off the dresser. He went into the bathroom to tell his fiance, who was in the shower, “Hey baby we are out of milk I’m going to run to the gas station to get some more,” he said.
“Okay boo I should be ready by the time you get back.” she replied.
Deshawn just smiled and said, ”okay”. He had a feeling he was forgetting something but he couldn’t remember what it was. So he left it alone and proceeded to get in his car. He drove a few blocks to the local gas station, parked and walked inside. He walked in and saw that the gas station was surprisingly empty.
“Hey G where’s everybody today?” he asked the cashier/owner.
“Well it’s about 11 0’clock on a saturday morning in the middle of summer, everyone’s out at the beach or something of that nature, which you need to be apart of.” G replied.
“Yea yea yea I hear you old man. Nicole and I we have something planned next week. So it’s not like we’re no fun.”
“Whew that Nicole she’s too good for you, needs to be with a real man.” G said laughingly.
“You know what? I ain’t got time to be playing with you. I need some milk then I’m out of here.” Deshawn said laughing back at him,
“It’s in the back, you know where it is doncha?”
Deshawn nodded and proceeded to the back of the gas station. A woman walks into the gas station to pay for her gas. The bell rings when someone else walks in, says hi to G and goes to the snacks. Deshawn is in the back looking at all the milk, making sure to check for all the expiration dates. He finds one that is to his liking and turns to walk to the register. As he’s walking all of a sudden three people come rushing into the gas station and shoot the camera in front of the door down. Everyone is shocked and they immediately look over to see what was the problem.
“Get down on the motherf***ing floor right the f*ck now or you die!” screamed one of them as they fired a shotgun into the ceiling.
Everyone looks over and sees two people with shotguns and one with a semi automatic pistol. They see the guns and they do as they are told. Everyone gets down on their hands and knees so no one gets hurt. One of the robbers goes over to G at the counter and jumps on it pointing the gun at him telling him to empty the register.
“Hey Red make sure you check the store to make sure no one is hiding in the back or something,” yelled the person wearing a black bandana around their face to the one wearing a red one. “Blue you go to the other side and make sure nobody can come at us from either side."
Both of them nodded and separated so that they could cover more ground. Meanwhile Black was covering both G and the woman at the front. Blue found the guy that was on the two isles over from Deshawn.
“Aye get up man I see you over there.” Blue said pointing his shotgun at him. “Now you heard our dear friend Black over there, just give me all your money and we won’t have a problem here.”
The gentleman gave Blue all that he had, his wallet, phone and keys. “Here man this is all I have please don’t hurt me,” the guy said frantically.
“Ni**a did I say I was gonna hurt you?”
The man shook his head.
“Ard then get yo punkass up and get to the front before I do.”
The guy gets up very slowly while Blue has the shotgun pointed at him and follows him up to the front. Blue then uses the shotgun to hit him in the back of the head and knocks him unconscious. Blue laughed at him saying that was too easy, that he couldn’t even take a love tap.
Black laughed with Blue and they both turned their attention to the lady and G. As G is opening the register, the lady has her purse snatched by Black and emptied. The woman had all types of makeup, cards and even tampons in her purse. Black looked at everything, saw the tampons and picked them up. The woman looked a little confused.
Black told Red to watch the old man make sure he doesn’t have any guns behind the counter, then knelt down to the woman’s ear, took down her mask to whisper in the woman’s ear, “I kinda needed some thanks.”
The woman said nothing and stayed quiet, a little shocked, but stayed quiet. As Black got back to stood back up she heard Blue.
"Aye you over there don’t think you slick run yo sh*t cuz!” Blue had found Deshawn and was pointing the shotgun at him. “Boy don’t make me ask you twice.”
Deshawn hurried and emptied all his pockets, he took out his phone, keys and wallet and gave them to Blue. Blue took the wallet and looked into it to see if it had any money in it. When he saw that it was empty, he got upset.
“Aye y’all this ni**a over here ain’t got no money.” Blue yelled to the others.
“What you mean he ain’t got no money?!?” Black asked.
“I mean this broke motherf***er wallet empty.”
“Red go see what he over there hollering about I got these ni**as.”
Red nodded his head and walked over to Blue. When Red reached Blue he took the wallet from Blue and saw that there was no money in the wallet. Red laughed talking about how broke Deshawn was. That only made Deshawn feel worse about his situation, he said nothing. Blue got angry, he punched Deshawn in the face to get the anger out. Then one more time because of how Red was laughing. They picked him up and carried him to the front with the others.
“Ah sh*t man his teeth strong as hell my damn hand hurt.” Blue said shaking his right hand.
“That’s what you get for being a b**ch”, said Black.
Blue started to shake it off but it still hurt. Deshawn saw that Red put his gun away and pulled out Deshawn’s phone. Trying to unlock it, but he didn’t know the password, nor did he have Deshawn’s fingerprint. Red handed Deshawn the phone and told him to unlock it. Hesitantly he did so, as soon as he opened the phone Blue saw Deshawn’s fiance Nicole.
“Oooo weeeee what do we have here?” Red said when he looked over at the phone. Aye yo come look at this girl this ni**a got on his phone.
Red turned the phone to both Black and Blue and they all started talking about Nicole, what they would do if they saw her and they kept talking and talking. This only made Deshawn angry, he didn’t care what they did to him he just wanted to keep Nicole out of it.
“Aye my man lemme holla at you for a second.” Red says as he put his arm around Deshawn, “Aye if you bring shawty around town we gonna leave this whole thing alone how’s that sound?”
Deshawn couldn’t take it anymore, he’s had enough, it’s bad enough they punched him but now they are talking about Nicole that way?!? Deshawn clenched his fist and waited for the right moment. While Red was still laughing he turned away to look at the others just when he needed them to. Deshawn punched Red as hard as he could. Red fell back tripping over the unconscious guy the gun he had and Deshawn’s phone fell.
Deshawn hurried up and grabbed both. He hurried up and ran to the other side and posted. He made sure the gun’s safety was off and that it was cocked. Though he had never fired a gun before, to protect himself and G he’d do anything. Black Blue and Red were all stunned, they took a second to get themselves together and tried to go after Deshawn. First, Red went around the side and tried to rush him with a few shots from Blue’s shotgun who went to the other side.
Deshawn saw what they were trying to do and went for Red. Deshawn rushed after Red as Blue tried to shoot him. Since Blue was on the other side of the isle he saw Dashawn rush Red so Blue lifted and aimed the shotgun. Deshawn ran toward Red and slid on the floor right as Blue was firing.
They all heard a loud crack. There’s broken glass, ruptured bags of bread chips, candy etc everywhere. As Deshawn slid, he got up faster than Blue could pump for the next shot and punched Blue knocking him into the fridge and knocking him out. Black saw and went to shoot Deshawn. He ducked but Black fired three times. Blue fired two more times as Deshawn made his way around the other isles to get a better clearer shot at Black.
Once he realised that Black couldn’t find him, he rose up to see the door and located Black. When he did, Black was standing near the door. So, Deshawn went to fire at the door, but Blue was ready for him aiming. Blue tried to shoot Deshawn, he missed. Deshawn Ducked, rose up again, shot back at Blue. Then shot at Black so he would go for cover.
Now that both Black and Blue are hiding in similar locations, Deshawn makes a break straight for the door and runs. He remembers that his car keys are still inside so he keeps running. Black sees Deshawn running, Shaked Red awake and gives him another handgun.
“Here don’t lose this one, now go get his ass.” Black says to Red.
Blue takes the gun and nods. Then he proceeds to chase after Deshawn. Red sees Deshawn and fires three shots. The first shot hits a windshield, the second hits a car door, the third a car window. Deshawn is running and starts jumping over cars for cover. In the street, there are cars everywhere with people driving and people walking. The first chance Red gets, he fires at Deshawn and misses. Deshawn takes cover and sees Red running toward him so he fires back. Deshawn also misses and this goes on for about three to four more blocks.
'This needs to stop at some point, one or both of us will fire a bullet that hits someone.' He thought to himself.
Neither one of them wants to stop. One is just trying to get away from the other and the other is just trying to catch one for the simple reason of pride letting him get out in the first place.
Someone finally calls the police for the gunshots fired at the gas station. The police arrive and overpower Black and Blue. They get caught and taken into custody. Now all that’s left is to get Red.
The police find out that there is a gun battle a few blocks away and more squad cars are sent to head them off before someone gets hurt. Neither Deshawn nor Red realizes there are cop cars both in front of and the back cutting them both off. Deshawn sees the police and immediately stops running and drops to his knees. The police order him to get face down and he does as he’s told. Red, on the other hand, wants to fight the police. Not much time passes before they finally get surrounded and things finally settle down for Deshawn.
Who knew that a simple ride to the store could turn into a fight for survival. The incident makes it to the news; there are choppers and news vans everywhere. As Deshawn finishes making his statement, he walks with a police officer who offers to take him home. All of a sudden there were these girls who show up to try and take pictures with the police officer.
“Hey hey can you take a picture with us we love heroes.” one of the girls giggled.
“I’m not the one you should want a picture with, it’s him.” said the police officer. He looked over to Deshawn and smiled.
“Oh, is he the hero of The Bowery?” the one girl asked. She smiled as she turned over to him.
“Yes that’s him now be careful with him girls he’s still a little shaken.” the cop said putting his arm around Deshawn.
Deshawn smiled, took pictures with the girls, and sat down on a nearby hill just sitting and relaxing, just waiting until he could go home. He glanced over and saw Red now getting put into a police car. Even though Deshawn knows Red and his gang are going to prison, he still has this uneasy feeling. He couldn’t hear Red inside the car but he saw that his lips were moving and they mouthed words "we’re gonna find and kill you”.
Deshawn knew then that he’d have to find a way to fight back because there’s never just a gang of three people. He looked to the sky and asked himself, when will it end??
JD
05/04/2021I'm afraid for Deshawn now... it doesn't look good for him down the road. Your question, When will it end?, is definitely a good one to end your story with. Well done action crime story, Tey. Thanks for sharing your short story on Storystar.
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Tey Kins
05/06/2021Thank you for the feedback JD. I am a little more confident in sharing my work on this site.
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