Ray was still posted up on the sidewalk, camera aimed at his face while he pretended to look confused as hell. His right cheek was still burning and throbbing like crazy. Inside the restaurant you could hear SMACK! SMACK! loud and clear through the wide-open glass door. Everyone in there was still smiling big like nothing was wrong at all.
But outside… shit was already going off the rails.
The crowd on the sidewalk was blowing up. Started with like a dozen people, now it was dozens. Some filming on their phones, some whispering with their eyes bugged out, others laughing nervously like "This gotta be some crazy prank video." A few even got bold and walked right up to the glass door, peeked inside, then backed up looking pale as fuck.
Out of nowhere somebody in the back of the crowd started yelling.
"This shit's insane! Somebody call the cops! This could get dangerous!"
A bunch of people immediately started pulling out their phones and calling. Others joined in shouting.
