The silence was driving her away and then old man spoke.<br/><br/>He looked so afraid. So pale. She was about to ask is she could use the phone when the noise filled the air.<br/><br/>Her bones trembled as the bikes rolled up. The lights shone bright on the small rundown town. She narrowed her eyes as it attempted to blind her.<br/><br/>She took an involuntary step back as the man spoke then steadied herself. She would not back down to these punks. She had come to far and been through a hell of lot more in the last months and this was not going to be one of them.<br/><br/>She hoped she wasn’t biting off more than she could chew but she took a breath and spoke loudly and clear. “No. I was just leaving.”<br/><br/>She knew that it wasn’t going to be this easy. Nothing ever was when it came to her luck.<br/><br/>She had heard the laughter in the background as the apparent leader had addressed her.<br/><br/>She had a gun on her, but it wasn’t going to help that much when there were so many.<br/><br/>She wondered what the old man had meant by, “ Tonight of all nights.” She tried to keep her face blank but knew the fear would seep into her emerald eyes eventually.<br/><br/>The tree line was in sight still. If she ran she could make it. There was the possibility that if she ran they would shoot her. But they might anyways. She kept a steady pace.<br/>