My blood ran cold. Frigid chills crawled up my spine as I saw the man begin to shudder. He had a hand pressed behind him, underneath his stubby fingers I saw the red button on his part of the cracked neon walls. The realization dawned on me as Atsu knocked me down.  I fell onto the tiles with a hollow thump. My vision spiralled at the impact. He grabbed the pistol easily from my sweaty hands.

Through tunnel like vision, I saw him point the pistol at the man. Too scared to do anything, I watched the scene in slow motion. The bullets left the pistol with a loud boom. My body froze, my heart and pulse being the only thing that quickened. The man sputtered, the bullet making contact with his stomach.

  I gasped, a hole in his chest, fresh and reeling from the blow. He made a gutteral noise as he began to tilt. His white shirt was stained by the blood that splattered onto the floor. Dots enveloped my vision again. I sucked in two or three breaths, each shakily escaping my chest before bringing any sort of relief. A shiver crawled through me as the consequence piled down to my belly.

  The sirens grew louder as the scent of blood flooded my nostrils. My heart raced as my world spun. I could feel my blood pressure rise as everything around me quaked. A bitter feeling filled my mouth as the darkness grew down towards me, dots growing larger, hollowing out the world around me.

I let him kill someone.

  Before the darkness swallowed me, I felt a sting on my cheek. I sat upright, my chest rising and falling in a fast rhythm. Everything came back to a quick realization, the smell of blood tugging at my heart strings. Atsu pulled me by the collar of my very smelly jumpsuit.

"Small thing you dey do like say it be you I kill." His angry tone was almost masked by the growing sirens. He grabbed my hand before swinging me over his shoulder. My gut churned with queasiness as he began to run. He sped away from the original door as if knowing the police would come from that side.

  I took notice of the tiled floors, his boots smearing it with dirt. All the pent up disgust and sadness twisted inside me. My throat constricted, my world being overrun by dots once again. The adrenaline that swam through me kept me away from vomiting my guts out. Like before, a single mantra swam around my head but this one held a darker presence.

I am an accomplice to a murder.

  Panic rushed through me. I registered a loud crash before I heard the parade of footsteps.

This was even worse than escaping prison.

We were going to get caught and be killed in the worst way possible.

  I tried to gauge all this as my world spiralled. Atsu continued turning corners, rushing down aisles. I could hear the sound of his grunts entwined with the falling of cans.
Behind him, I saw cans and bottles topple to the floor. The cans exploded on hitting the tiled floor, foam coming out of openings.

  The floor behind us turned to a disarray of spilled contents, broken chips...