Not As They Seem-Short Story 1

They pretended to be customers.
They browsed the shelves and checked the prices like they were about to buy a video-game for their son or daughter, but no they just had to start waving guns and knives around like they were actually in the game.
I'm a cashier and they came up to me demanding all the money form the machines. I calmly explained that I'm a new employee and didn't know how to open them all.
This obviously pissed them off because they pointed the gun at my head saying that I better figure out real quick. I rolled my eyes and pretended like I didn't know what I was doing and then opened it up. We're trained to say this unless our lives are threatened.
I dumped the money into their waiting, greedy hands which promptly was plopped into a gym bag on the ground. Then they yelled at the me to go with everyone else in the middle of the store. I already had my plan ready to take these sorry people down.
Once they weren't paying attention,  I would activate one of the webcams on the laptops and have it record everything occurring, then I would sneak over to the ladder and get in the bins of extra stock. I would have a perfect bird's eye view of the entire store.
One of the true customers was sitting there with her toddler who wouldn't sit still. One of the men who had on a clown mask bent down and scared the kid and made him cry.
"You better shut the fuck up or I'll shut you up forever," clown mask guy said with a lisp.
"He's just a kid, leave him alone," the mother said promptly.
There was about 40 of us sitting in the middle of all the gleaming new laptops. That's when I think the leader stood in front of us and began talking.
"It's most unfortunate that you all happened to be in here when we got here," he said with a smirk. "We'll be holding you all until the company gives us some money. You all will be here for awhile."
Everyone got in a stir. This can't be happening. Why not take the corporate office hostage. Can I take this camera. That's all that went through people's minds. Thankfully we were about 45 minutes from closing so there weren't many people in there. It was mainly me, that woman and her kid, along with a bunch of teenagers and some college students.
"Hey, loser. I have finals this week so let me go," a random college kid said.
"Looks like you'll be failing! Have fun," one of the men said while starting to laugh.
No one could identify the men. They were completely covered in black clothes and had pulled ski masks over their faces when they started to shoot up the store.
The leader again stood up to say something and that's when he told us that the building was laced with C4. The mom with the toddler started crying.
"Don't worry though! We won't blow you guys away unless the demands are met," the leader cackled.
We could see that one of the other guys was playing with the remote that was tied to the explosives. He was tossing it back and forth between his hands and that's when he dropped it. I saw my chance to make it out of there while their attention was distracted. I ran faster than I ever had in my entire life and I made it out the doors just when the explosion happened, I was lifted off my feet by the force, but I was alive.