Jon put his ear up to his door. He didn't hear anyone, but that didn't mean they were gone. Zoe could have been waiting for him to come out and then BLAST! Normal Jon becomes Goth Jon. Well, sorry Zoe, Jon thought. I'm not falling for it.
About a minute later, he heard the front door close shut. He ran to his window, which faced the street, and saw two girls dressed in black walking towards downtown. It was Zoe and Karyn. It didn't look like Karyn was resisting. That made Jon sad and sick at the same time. He had lost a friend. And he wasn't sure if he could change her back.
He sat on his bed, thinking. There was only one place that was near downtown that would have a lot of "targets" for Zoe to shoot at. The mall. It was an inside mall and it had only one floor, but it was big. Big enough to have a food court.
A lot of people shop there. Jon wondered how he would be able to find Zoe if she just blended into the crowd. Then a thought occured to him. How many Goth girls were at the mall, anyway? It might be easier than he first thought.
But then he had another thought. By the time he got there, there may be a lot of Goth girls. That made him having to get there all the more urgent. Zoe had already destroyed Karyn's life. He wasn't about to let her do the same with everyone else.
He got up off the bed, ran downstairs, and out the door. He didn't see them.
He ran.
