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the gun in his pocket. Before they could all rush back to the
car to get their firearms he had pointed the gun at
them.
    “ Don’t try anything foolish. I know how to use this
thing.”
    They all
froze as Natalie, Matt and Byron rushed to the car.
    “ You can’t run away from us. We’ll come for you,” Russ
screamed.
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    “ We can lose them in traffic?” Natalie said.
    “ They have a faster car,” Matt said.
    “ So what do we do?” Byron asked.
    “ Let’s hope they don’t get carried away with being Clint
Eastwood.”
    “ Let’s hope so because I’m very good at using this,” Byron said
brandishing the gun.
    “ I hate guns,” Natalie said chiding Byron for the trigger happy
way he waved it..
    ” And I hope I don’t have to use it.” He groaned as he looked
back. “He’s coming very fast. If they start shooting I’ll have to
shoot back.”
    “ Don’t hit anyone,” Natalie pleaded.
    “ I’ll shoot them all between the eyes,” Byron said. She gasped.
“No I’m just joking. I’ll shoot their tires but only if they shoot
at us.”
    Matt used
the brake without slamming it on.
    “ Oh my God. He’s going to rear end us,” Natalie
screamed.
    “ Can you guys let me drive? He’s got a faster car. Please trust
me,” Matt bristled.
    He
swerved violently into the next lane just as Russ’s car was within
inches. That took them in the opposite direction.
    Russ
slammed on his brake violently and he almost lost control as he
followed them.
    His car
was fast approaching at much greater speed. He was trying to put
the front quarter of his car to the rear quarter of Matt’s car.
Russ assumed that Matt was not familiar with this
maneuver.
    What he
didn’t know was that Matt had deliberately got himself in this
situation. Russ’s vehicle was a little faster than Matt’s and made
a swerve. Too late. Russ was slow in hitting Matt’s back end. He
tried to straighten the car but he lost control and it landed into
a ditch.
    They were
preoccupied with their own thoughts. It had been a very dramatic
day and it seemed as if the worst was still to come.
    “ Let’s go somewhere for a while to think things through.
They’ll probably try to get us at our homes.”
    “ I’m okay with that. I’ll tell mum I’ll be late
home.”
    “ That’s okay with me. I’ll ring my grand dad and tell him I’ll
be delayed,” Matt said.
    Byron
knew his dad was hardly home so he wouldn’t be missed. But out of
consideration for Juanita who was like a mother to him, he rang to
say he would be quite late home.
    “ There’s a mansion in Franklin Hills that a good friend of my
dad owns. I’ve been there so many times. He’s hardly ever there.
Let’s go and talk there for a while and then think through what we
have to do.”
    “ What if someone is in the mansion?” Natalie asked.
    “ I’m sure he wouldn’t mind a trio of law abiding American teens
stopping by for constructive discussions.”
    Matt
shrugged as he took directions from Byron.
    They were
all quiet each lost in their own thoughts.
    Then
Natalie’s Galaxy rang.
    It was
Russ’s number and Buzz one of his sleazy friends on the line. She
put the call on the speaker.
    “ Nat you really have to come. Russ is injured and wants to see
you. He just wants to see you before he goes.”
    “ He’s faking it. He thinks he’s some kind of a dying star,”
Byron warned.
    “ He thinks you’re his supernova to complete his fall.” Matt
said wittily.
    “ Stop it,” Natalie protested feebly. She thought about it for a
while. “If he’s injured, there’s nothing much we can do as the
medics will have taken him by now. We’ll report this
later.”
    Byron’s
Iphone buzzed. He put the call on the speaker. It was
Quentin.
    “ Hi Byron. Is everything okay? I saw that commotion in the car
park.”
    “ Everything’s fine at the moment. We managed to evade
Russ.”
    “ Where are they?”
    “ At the moment in a ditch.”
    “ We’re just going to Franklin