Chapter 28 - As what been planned

FRANCIS' POV:

Alone in the middle of a certain road in this kind of hour at night, I was standing strong in waiting for a certain bad guy--- or guys, trying to get a hold of myself as I was secretly trembling for being scared and tensed up. Inside my mind, I was quietly pressured in trying to remember everything that we had planned together with my bro Hanzaki but...

"Huhuhu, bro Hanzaki~ Isn't there any other way aside this?" I mumbled, being the only soul present in the area.

After a few moments later, three suspicious guys wearing hoodies were sighted from a distance as they were seemingly walking towards me with haste.

[Let's assume first that we won't be facing just one person for this. If you see two or three people with him, don't panic and just stay calm. Try to observe them at the least.]

As soon as the suspicious people got closer to me, I was immediately being surrounded by them.

"Hey Kid, so you're alone 'er eh?"

"What you're holding is ours kiddo!"

Trying to scare and pressure the hell out of me as expected, the criminals then took out their knives that they seemingly brought on purpose to threaten me.

[Don't do anything unnecessary that might make them suspicious about you just being here alone. Moreover, if they have some tricks up their sleeves, for example if they have brought themselves a weapon to threaten you, once again just stay calm and don't panic. Most likely they won't attack directly because they are being wary of you. To kill some time, start some talks about something to give some distraction]

"Give me back my bag just like with what we agreed about!" I exclaimed, my legs clearly shaking a bit down below as I can't bare myself not to be intimadated by them.

"Hey look! It looks like the kid is trembling. Haha! Did you just pissed yourself just now huh, Mr. Scaredy-pants?"

"HAHAHA are you being serious here kid? You really got guts facing us alone here."

"Hey, are we really just the people here in this place?"

"It would better be just like what we had agreed, or else, this kid is going to get himself killed early."

"Here kid." said one of the guys that was holding my bag and has thrown it to me.

Catching my bag using my left arm, I then took a peek inside and have gladly seen that my things were still there.

"And here, this is yours." Accordingly, I threw the heavy bag towards them onto the ground. "Now, this completes everything. Leave me alone now!"

"Huuuuuh!? What are you talking about, kid?"

[Don't assume that you'll be safe in the end. Since they're criminals, don't expect that they would just let you off the hook. They would resort into all kinds of methods that they could possibly do just to put away the hindrance, especially witnesses]

"Kiddo..."

"You're going to die right here and right now!"

[And don't worry. Leave the rest of the things to me. Just try to distract them as long as you can]

"Now you're going to have it kid! Now you have seen our faces, you're not going anywhere!"

"Wait! Please! Have mercy!" I begged with my right hand raised in front to keep my distance away from the jerks.

"Hahaha! This kid is naïve!"

"You don't know what the word is like kiddo"

"Let me do this, guys. I'll be sure to cut all of his---"

*KLAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG!*

"ARRGGHH!"

It took quite some time, but on other hand, Hanzaki has successfully sneaked behind at one of the bad guys. With a metal pipe he picked somewhere and brought, he quickly swung it using the both of his hands aimed at the head of the person. Meanwhile, the bad guy got hit hard and had his head down on the ground with his hands holding on it, resisting the painful impact he received.

"Come on! Run for it!" Hanzaki yelled at me as he started initiating our retreat.

Looking back while running away, the other criminals were helping their fallen companion.

"You'll pay for this you brat!"

"Let's go catch these fools!"

But unfortunately, they made a chase to us when the person that got knockdown has recovered with just seconds. Getting intense, the bad guys behind us were trying to catch up with their knives that were ready to strike at the two of us youngsters who were running away for our lives.

"Just follow me!" Hanzaki yelled again because of how slow I was running and also because the people behind me were quickly catching up due as well to this slow pace of mine.

"This one is slow. Now you're a dead boy!"

"Just keep running!"

"Momma! I don't want to die yet!"

We kept on running and running, and at some point, the criminals were just an inch close in capturing me. But as I noticed the person ahead of me, Hanzaki was ready still while carrying a large garbage can above his head that he had likely picked up at somewhere.

"EHH!? What are you doing bro!?"

"DUCK FRANCIS!"

*SWOOOOSH*

"Yow! Watch out for---"

"Arrrghhh!"

"Quickly! Avoid the--- Gaaaah!"

I successfully evaded the throw and the people behind me tried stopping in avoiding it as well, but they were kind of too late as the person on their lead was hit, causing a domino effect afterwards that made them collide with each other and were trip down to the ground.

Meanwhile in our side, the collision of the unlucky bastards has given us more time to escape.

"AHA! LOSERS! BLEEEH!" Looking back at the bad guys, I teased them with my tongue showing out.

"Don't look back Francis! And just keep on running!"

"Don't worry bro! I'll be-- Aahh..."

Because of being careless, I haven't noticed that there was a can on the ground ahead, and as a result, I accidentally stepped on it which made me to lose my balance and fall on the ground as well, and the worst, I twisted my ankle on my landing.

"Oh no. FRANCIS! You son of a gun!"

"Arrgh! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! It hurts!"

Without being able to stand up because of bearing the ridiculous pain, my bro Hanzaki went back running towards me. Being on the ground helplessly, I tried crawling away while panting from my somewhat bad luck, but it was just worsening my pain so I stopped.

Unfortunately on the other hand, the criminals behind were quickly running in nearing towards us again.

"Oh no! No no no no no no." I panicked.

Because of my current situation, I lost my consciousness to think and was crawling very fast while being rattled.

Luckily, Hanzaki was there and have stepped in front of me, making himself as a shield as he covered up for me who was currently injured. Not a few seconds has gone by, the bad guys seemed to be satisfied of the situation that they have gotten as they finally caught up, slowly nearing while pointing their sharp knives towards us with an evil, laughing face.

"HAHAHA! Now you won't be able to run now, little mice!"

"Tsk! Francis! Brace yourself!"

"Okaaaay!"

"You gave us a hard time. Now that this pig isn't capable of standing anymore, I guess this is the end of your lives---"

VROOOOOOOOOOM!

Out of nowhere on this quiet place, vehicles have suddenly appeared and were fast approaching towards our direction with their lights being shunned upon us even from a distance.

*SCREEEEEEEEECH!*

"Huh?"

"What are these?"

"What's going on?"

"Put your weapons down on the ground and then your hands up in the air!"

Unbelievably looking speechless, the police have arrived in the nick of time and the criminals in front of us were just wondering in confusion about their current situation for being surrounded, and while without knowing that they fell into our trap.

"Hey! Why are the police here? Didn't that brat not call them?"

"Did they already found out about us? But how?"

"It was too quick for them to notice us. Someone saw us, maybe? No, it can't be. We were the only people in the---"

One of the bad guys somewhat realized and has looked at Hanzaki furiously.

"You BRAT! You're the one who called the cops, aren't you!?"

"You guess that right, sir."

[If they would arrive at the meeting place, that'll be the time I'll call the police in advance. We need to get an actual evidence to convince the cops that we are just not playing around. Try to distract them as long as you can, and if it won't last until they get here, then we'll make a run for it and try to cross paths with them. As what I've known, there is a police station nearby, so this should be our way---]

"So all this time, we were just playing along with his script."

"This cheeky kid got us. TSK!"

"Don't move! I said don't move!"

BACK TO HANZAKI'S POV:

It didn't take a while for the cops to take care of the situation especially regarding with the captured bad guys, and an ambulance has arrived not a while ago at our current location.

Also, the drugs were taken into custody, and I was the only one that had been asked by the police officers to go with them to answer some questions since Francis would be going to the hospital tonight to check on his badly twisted ankle.

"I thought I was really going to die over there." said Francis as he was being helped to put himself over on top of a stretcher.

Jeez, just how bad did he got tripped and landed with just because of a can anyways?

"I'm the same too." I said to Francis who was then being carried inside the ambulance.

"Thanks bro, you saved my life today."

"Heh~ Don't be cheesy bro, it's disgusting. But anyways, that's not a problem. Furthermost, I'll be calling your parents to let them know of your situation."

"Okay broo, I'll leave that to you."

"Hey Francis."

"What, bro?"

"What a way to end the school year, huh?" When the ambulance was ready to go, I called out to Francis for the last time.

"HAHAHA, you bettya--- "

The doors have been shut closed, and Francis was being brought to the hospital as the vehicle started moving forward.

Meanwhile after several minutes at the police station, I was being interrogated for what had happened. I spent the night settling with all of these problems, and have gotten the chance to call Francis' parents as promised to let them know what happened.

When the interrogation was done, I safely got back to my board room.

I quickly dove onto my bed and have instantly gotten asleep as if nothing happened, and because of how exhausted I was during the whole night.

Later that morning, I decided to visit Francis who was continuing to heal his injured ankle at the hospital. As I opened the door of his room, I saw his parents who were crying worried inside and they instantly noticed me as I got in. The news has spread to my other buddies as well and even to the rest of my school. Mostly likely, Francis would not be attending the ceremony this Tuesday and would be given an exemption since it seemed that it needs more time for his injury to be healed.

At noon on the same day, while I was busy talking with Francis who's on bed, Romeo, Kenneth and Kevin suddenly came inside the room. Surprisingly, it seems that they decided to visit this care-free guy as well.

Jeez, I can feel the brotherhood vibes because of this. Although it really sounds cheesy to me, I guess this isn't that bad after all. It gives me quite the comforting feeling at the least.

Meanwhile inside the room, Francis was very energetic in talking about what had happened last night despite him as a victim and his current condition.

"Really, I would be dead by now if it wasn't for bro Zaki. He's like John Wick!" Francis remarked.

"Dude, you're just exaggerating. I literally just ran away and did nothing else."

With the help of my friends, it made and changed the gloomy atmosphere into laughter and full of humour.