Spring board

[Shit, I fucked up.]

He stood up and is dusting his body, while the other two looked worried and scanned for scratches on his body.

"Boss, we will take care of this. No need to hurry. If anything happens to you, then things won't be good for us."

"We will bring him to you that why you stay here. I already pinged the others our location, he can't escape."

[Is he some kind of big shot or something? And what does a guy like him want from me? Wait, I remember watching a scene like this in a tv show. A rich boy does some bad thing and to deceive the police and to close the case, they scapegoat an innocent individual like me... This is looking bad... He just said something about more people coming; I have to run away before I get completely surrounded.]

I turned behind to run, but there are already 2 guys standing there. I am late. I have no route left to escape, except for the playground.

"Catch him" The guy in black hair ordered.

Dashing into the entrance of the playground, I ran at my highest speed straight to the opposite side of the playground, from where I can jump across the fence and head straight to the police station a few meters ahead.

I made it halfway across the playground. Just a little more. A masculine figure popped out from behind the tree in front of me. I applied immediate brakes and changed my direction, but no matter which direction I went, I am getting blocked by a guy.

I am completely surrounded by nine guys at the center of the playground. Some of their faces I remember seeing somewhere, but I am unable to recall them. Their boss stood at the entrance and watched it like a live performance.

*blink*blink*

The street lights and lampposts light on.

"Knock him out, and if he struggles. I don't mind hurting him for what he did." The boss paused for a moment. "Leave the hurting part, don't let even a scratch come on him."

They are closing their distance. I still have the melting ice-cream and chocolates on me. There is no way I can bargain with them for it.

[But I got an idea, which had very less chance of success, but it's now or never.]

I observed all the guys surrounding me; among them, the person to my straight right looked the weakest. I charged straight towards him, placing my hand inside the polythene bag. He stopped walking and positioned himself to catch hold of me.

*splash*

I splashed the opened ice-cream on his face. He tried to dodge it, but half of it still struck his face.

"Ahh, I can't see anything, It stings..." He kneeled low on the ground, covering his face with his palms, trying to get the ice-cream off his eyes.

At once, all the surrounding guys except for the one who yelled in pain charged towards me, causing the distance between us to shrink. There is not enough space to go beside the kneeling guy; so using his back as a springboard, I stepped on him and took a long jump to a few meters ahead.

Four of them tripped and stumbled on each other while the other four chased me.

"You fools!, what are you doing? Hurry up and catch him...." Their boss is yelling at them from the entrance of the park.

He is also yelling something else, but I can listen with 4 guys on my trail. Even I want to yell for 'help' but I am afraid it may reduce my running speed and also I am not sure it will be audible to anyone on the streets. Just a few more meters, I have to cross the trees and jump out of the fence and then I will be out of the park.

"Aniki, Duck!!!"