it was a Friday night, you’d just finished your last day in school. You only have one year left after. Thinking nothing of it, you decide to take a short cut. Through the alley close to your block. It shouldn’t be that bad.

you almost laugh at yourself for being wary of walls close together, it’s just an alley. You aren’t in a film. you reminded yourself. Shaking your head.

it’s calm, until you notice three guys. Maybe just a year older than you. Lingering at the end of the alley.