"PUNCH ME" PART SIX
PART ONE | PART TWO | PART THREE | PART FOUR | PART FIVE Michael told me to forget about them, so I let Jen and Cassie follow me across the cracked and debris-strew parking lot. The place must have been popular a long time ago; the tall part of the “L” had maybe a dozen stores, and at the corner of the “L” stood a huge building that looked like it had once been a movie theater. If you peered through the slats of some of the boarded-up windows, you could tell what some of the small stores had been: a yogurt store, a bank, a shoe store, and a video store. The video store even had video TAPES on the shelves, so you can imagine how long the mall had been closed. Just as we passed the video store, Jen asked again, “Where are you going?” This time, I tried to ignore her completely. I was almost there. Just keep going. The wooden boards covering the last storefront before the movie theater hid a walkway between the buildings. Unless you knew it ...
