The building wasn’t any building… it was an elementary school. He gripped the steering wheel with the force of his anger, and for a moment, he swore he saw red. What if it really had been Kevin who did this? Martin would never forgive the man for putting innocent people- innocent children - and if he caught the man again, he would be delivering a corpse instead of a man to the FBI.
Martin managed to sneak through the mess of traffic and pulled to a stop just outside the school's grounds, far away from the fire trucks and the commotion. Anita was already out of the car. They both stood on the sidewalk with their hands gripping the chain link fence. The school was going up in flames, but that wasn’t the worst part of the entire ordeal. It was midday on a Wednesday. School would have been in session. They both hoped that everyone was able to make it safely outside; it appeared too late to save anyone who might be left inside.
"Do you think, Kevin...?" Anita asked, and tugging at his arm. He didn’t first understand what she was trying to do, but he allowed her to pull him along anyway.
"It's possible," he gulped. If it was Kevin, it was his fault. All of this was his fault.
The flames were prominent on the other side of the school. He realized then that Anita wanted to see what was going on. They tried to break through the crowd that piled at the front of the school. Martin stopped dead when he saw the flames. They shot up through the ceiling on the one side of the building, hot orange tendrils licking at the building’s walls. Black smoke poured through the remnant of the building’s west wing, suffocating everything that was in its path.
Martin scanned the area, looking through the crowd to try and find Kevin, but had no luck. He roamed further into the crowd with Anita behind, moving closer to the school and the teacher’s parking lot. But then on the far end of the nearby lot, he noticed a poorly parked red truck; he was positive that it was the vehicle Kevin stole from their attackers and drove off with earlier that day.
He clenched his fists when he again thought it may have been Kevin responsible for the fire. Anita, however, wasn't content to just stand around. She went to the front of the crowd of the chatty onlookers, questioning them on what happened. Martin was close enough to catch some of their conversation and the responses that Anita received, but it was more than enough.
(To Be Continued Tomorrow...)
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