"Miss, is something happening here?" I heard. The crack of his voice was like any other older man's, but the smoothness of his tone was jarring. He was not curious in the least. Instead, he was fishing for information… talking to Evie to catch her attention.
I could hear Evie take pause. The slight shuffling of her feet as her sneakers scraped against the road. I imagined the wheels turning in her head as she put the dots together.
She recognized him.
"I don't know. I'm just standing around waiting to find out myself," she said with a chuckle. It was strained but I could sense that she was not looking directly at him. This was probably when she sent out the text. She would try to keep him in that place until the officers came out.
Possibly take him in as a witness and get him to speak in an interrogation.
"Young lady, you shouldn't stand in abandoned places like this. There are lots of dangerous people walking around the streets these days."
