Excerpt

So i decided to give you guys a small excerpt from chapter 1, let me know what you think, criticism too please!

I stepped into a dark alley trying to avoid the fight across the street. A scream erupted from someone and my hands flew up over my ears. I heard a gunshot go off and they were silenced. It’s been 6 months and I still haven’t gotten used to the violence around here, even though I grew up on the rougher side of town. Two shadows loomed in the distance and I knew almost instantly who it was, Trench coat and Shorty. They follow me practically everywhere, though I have learned to get used to it, it still freaks me out from time to time. I walked farther into the ally, when I heard some sort of commotion going on inside a building. It was probably a stupid idea, but my curiosity got the best of me. I ran up the fire exit and slowly opened up the door, only to see a fight going on in an arena. Looking on with interest I felt something behind me and someone whispered in my ear. "It’s the underground, an organized place for street fighters." I turned my head to come face to face with shorty "Why organized?" he smirked "They get thousands for each fight." My mouth dropped open and I gulped. "You could make a living off of this" he chuckled quietly "some actually do, those ones normally don’t have family or have abandoned them a long while back.  Otherwise they normally put all of it toward their families." I held my breath and watched for a little bit. There was one in red and one in blue. Red threw and uppercut hitting blue in the chin so hard he flew backwards into the cage. Red ran forward and sailed in the air with a sidekick, but Blue grabbed his ankle twisting it so Red fell straight on his face. I snickered to myself, but when Red lifted his head unfortunately he was facing my way. Our eyes met and I could feel him staring me down, there was a scar on his forehead tracing down through his right eyebrow, and right down past his eye.
~Lonestar