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“But my feet hurt,” I said

“Beauty is-”

“-pain, yeah, yeah, I get it,” I gru her off

Jane lit another cigarette, and alked in silence I knew she was sulking about the club and trying to plot so me into, but I wouldn’t fall for it this time

The sound of the traffic froh where I could hear the footfalls echo behind us Jane see followed

Then the footsteps behind us started to hurry up, becoed breathing and hushed male voices

Jane looked over at me, and the panic in her eyes meant that she heard them too Out of the two of us, she was braver and stole a look back over her shoulder at them

I was about to ask her what she sahen she started sprinting forward, and that was answer enough for me I tried to catch up to her, but she wasn’t about to slon fora few steps ahead

The street ended with a parking garage, and Jane ran into it, and rather dumbly, I followed her There had to be other places with crowds, but her first choice had been a die

I allowed myself a look back for the first time In the darkness, I could see little eat them, one of them started to cat call

I ran forward, only to realize Jane wasn’t in front of ht reflex, so I just froze when I didn’t see her

“Over here!” Jane hissed, but the acoustics in the garage were awful I couldn’t tell where her voice was co yellow light and hoped that my death would be quick and painless

“Hey little girl,” one of the guys purred in a voice that sounded anything but friendly

I turned to face the, so had they, and they strolled over to me

“Do you always run froood time?” another one asked For soht that was hilarious, and their laughter filled the garage

The hair on the back of ,caht above ood

Closinganything they did toperverted jokes, and I kneas going to die

Somewhere behind me, I heard the screech of tires, but I just squeezed hter

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“Hey! What are you doing?” a voice shouted to the side ofto the group of guys closing in on me, and I opened my eyes

“What’s it to you?” a large tattooed guy growled, but he started taking a step back A car had pulled in the parking space to hts past me

“I think you should just back off,” the new voice said

I peeked over to the side at hihts hid hi out, except his pink tee shirt