A Moral Decision

Synopsis

While making a quick trip to the store for some coffee, Andrew Michaels is standing line at the grocery store when someone comes up behind him and pulls out a gun and holds the entire store hostage. Will Andrew’s quick thinking save him and the rest of the hostages from the crazed gunman?

Chapter 1

“Andrew, we’re out of coffee and creamer.” Andrew’s wife, Jessie tells him. “Can you go get some real quick?”

“Sure, love.” Andrew said as he flew out the door and got in his Mazda Protégé. Andrew knew how desperately Jessie needed her morning coffee to start her day as daycare owner of 12 children in their home.

Andrew arrived at the store. It should have been a quick trip—coffee and creamer—he should have been in and out within minutes, but he was delayed when a crazed gunman came into the front of the store waving his gun. “Alright!” the gunman yelled. “Everyone put up your hands!”

Everyone screamed in panic as they waved their hands in the air. The gunman grabbed a little old lady who was beyond scared. The manager is new and doesn’t know what to do. Andrew, standing in the checkout line, is contemplating what he should and how to subdue the gunman so as to protect everyone in the store.

The gunman suddenly lets the little old lady go and grabs Andrew from the checkout lane and pulls him to the front of the store. “Don’t do anything heroic, or I will shoot you!”
the gunman warns.

Andrew isn’t scared, but he is looking for a way to defuse the hostage situation as checkers are putting the money from their tills into the bag that the gunman handed them.

Back at Andrew’s home, Jessie is getting worried that Andrew isn’t home with her coffee. She texts him but she gets no reply. After getting baby Jillian out of her crib, Jessie turns on the television to find that there is a hostage situation at the store. She shrieks in terror when she sees that gunman has a gun pointed at Andrew’s back.

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