Make Them Pay

Chapter 1- Alleyway

"Don't let him get away!" Screamed a guy while running with three other people behind him. "Wait Joshua." Said another voice who was behind him which made Joshua stop running and letting his friends catch up with him near a dark alleyway. "What is Ryan? I want to catch that fool before I go home." Said Joshua ready to take off again to find Pj. "Dude let's quit for today and get something to eat. Pj took off once it hit four." Said Ryan. "You saw him leave?" Asked Joshua wondering if he just let Pj slip away. "Me and Jazmine were heading back to class as Jazmine forgot here bag when Jazmine pointed out to me that Pj was legging it." Said Ryan "Yeah we saw him run off from the second-floor window." Said Jazmine which made Joshua sigh in disappointment as he really wanted to catch Pj and beat him up. "If that's the case why didn't you say anything?" Asked Joshua now walking in the opposite way he was running. "We did try." Said Ryan. "Yeah but you were like oh where's that little bug at. Oh what's that you saw him five minutes ago bolting out of the uni, let's go chase him." Said Jazmine mocking him which made both Ryan and Joshua laugh. "My bad." Said Joshua with Jazmine and Ryan walking behind him.

"Penn, what's wrong? Penn?" Said Joshua turning back to see that Penn was looking at the dark alleyway where they had stopped pursing Pj. Penn continued to stare at the alleyway, while random strangers walked past him. He then saw one of the dumpster in the alley slightly open and then close quickly. "Penn what's wrong?" Asked Jazmine who went back to see what Penn was looking at. "It's nothing I thought I saw something interesting but it must have been my imagination." Said Penn walking off in the same direction as the Joshua and Ryan with Jazmine behind him. "Oh my little punching bag, you found yourself a great spot but it looks like I found it." Penn said to himself with a smile on his face and his eyes filled with joy. "Guys let's go to a club." Said Jazmine in a happy tone of voice as they walked. "Don't you think it's too early to go to a club? It's only 6." Said Ryan. "No this is the perfect time to go to a club. When the day is starting to fade away and a new night is fullied with adventure ready to start." Said Jazmine sounding somewhat poetic. "If we're going to go to a club let's go to Space and then we can also bump into Haven as she's working their tonight." Said Ryan.

Meanwhile, in the dark alleyway the dumpster which Penn was looking at open up fully and Pj pop his head out slowly, coughing from the rotten smell. "That was close I was nearly got caught." He said to himself throwing his bag out of the dumpster and climbing out of it. He then open up his bag and pulled a bottle of water before he lifted up his shirt and pour water onto the freshly, new large cut on his stomach. "Fuck." He said quietly still pouring water on the large cut before he got some tissue and dabbed the tissue in the cut. The tissue absorbed the blood well until the whole tissue was full of blood. Pj then threw the bloody tissue across from him and looked at his surroundings. "Fuck, Fuck, Fuck... FUCK!!!" He screamed wondering why he was actually getting bullied. "Why, Why, Why Wh..." Pj said banging the back of his head on the dumpster which he hid before broke and started to cry. "Just please someone, anyone help me." He said desperately out loud hoping someone would come to his aid but no one did. After an hour he wiped his tears from his eyes using his shirt and looked up towards the sky. "I need to sort myself out before I head home. I can't let them see me in this state." Pj said to himself. "Hey mister are you okay?" Pj turned his head to his left to see a girl sitting on top of one of the two dumpsters wearing dirty and tore clothes. "I'm fine" Said Pj lying to himself.

"You sure I don't think someone who was doing okay would sitting in dark and gloomy alleyway like this if they were okay. They would be hanging out with friends, enjoying this warm weather. Enjoying each other company and having fun." Said the girl. "Yeah pretty much. Unfortunately, I don't have any friends to enjoy this weather or to have fun with. I do have a little sister and brother but it's not the same. This is the best my life is ever going to get in this alleyway. Alone and forgotten about." Said Pj in sad tone voice. "I don't see why you can't make any friends, you seem decent to me." Said the girl. "Thanks but it doesn't work like how you may think it does. No offence I don't want make it seem like I know more than you, it's just... Nevermind." Said Pj realizing that there's no point in explaining why he had no friends. "Don't worry I didn't take offence." Said the girl with a smile. "So uh I guess this area huh?" Asked Pj as the girl seemed homeless. "No, not really. I don't really have an area to call my own, I just float about. Going from here to there without really setting up a fort or place to call my own. It's more interesting that way." Said the girl.

"I see Sounds interesting but kinda sad." Said Pj. "Eeeeeeh kinda of but it doesn't matter to me, as long as I'm still living I don't mind if it does getting boring sometimes." Said the girl now looking up towards the sky while Pj stared at her. "You know it's not nice to stare at people." Said the girl. "You're right sorry." Said Pj looking in front of him which made the girl giggle. "I don't mind though." Said the girl. Suddenly Pj phone vibrated in his pocket, he pulled out his phone to see that he had two messages from his sister. Before he could look at the messages his phone started to ring. "Hello, yes I'm coming home now. Yes, no I'm not lying I'll be thirty minutes. Okay, okay bye." Said Pj before hanging and sighing while the girl giggled. "Sounds like you have your hands full." Said the girl. "Ah no, it's not that bad. It looks like I do have to go though." Said Pj using the dumpster to get up. "Ah okay, I had fun talking to you." Said the girl kinda sad that they had to end their conversation. "Me too." Said Pj before taking two steps away from the girl before turning around to face her. "Oh forgot." After he said that he pulled out four sandwiches and gave it to the girl. "Don't you want them?" Asked the girl. "No it's fine you can have them. You need them more than me especially if you're living out here on the street." Said Pj which made the girl happy. "Well thank you." Said the girl. "No problem. See you around." Said Pj leaving the dark alleyway feeling like he done something good by giving the sandwiches.