Part 5 (1/2)

I couldn't move

”Your end isn't much of a party, is it?”

”No No, it's o to Sir”

”You can go on back to your seat and relax”

”What's going on in the house, right now?”

He shrugged ”I guess the boys are sitting around debating whether or not to blow their faces off or send 'eh town just the way they came in”

”Oh I feel much more relaxed now Thank you”

I had to sit in that fuckin' truck for al to find out if Bobby and Leo were allowed to drive home in solid, rather than liquid, for these bullies on the backs and laughing like they ay back I thought, gee, this is great I' a kilo of cocaine (I carefully inserted it under ht, and proved et is a snail's pace on the way to the truck And a cheesy exa if I ever saw one

And then a look of total fear caistered, ”Look out!” Guns started going off like the NRA had accepted applicants ere legally blind People were just fucking shooting at each other paranoid, and so high that if they were hit, they'd notice sometime to around to where Leo was hiding, unar down the road back towards the city

Then, it was my turn to send the ”Oh, shi+t” look When ere halfway down the road, I looked in the rearview mirror and saw so soun and with his free hand, lifted hiuy he had two seconds to disappear or die He had to choose fast

The guy sat up, and Bobby shot hie of about three,out of the back of the truck and onto the ground behind us Bobby screamed at me, ”Get the hell outa' here Drive!”

As soon as ere back on paved roads, Bobby lowered hiun in his hand as if he were ready to fire

Bobby was silent the whole way home Leo sat in back and thanked God for the miracle of prayer I wondered if there was a lot of blood in the back of the truck, and if the man was dead

At Leo's house I walked in and asked him if ere alone He said ere, and so I removed the entire kilo of cocaine froht, for an a the extra uy said I was clean I thought they'd given up, seeing as how everyone was hugging each other on the way out of the house

”They were telling us nice and slow,” Leo said, ”how they'd find us and reenitalia a half inch at a ti on a kilo of their coke, it wouldn't be long before we'd bypass all hospitals and go directly to hell”

I sat down and thought for a uys” I said ”I'uys would be ju up and down about it” No response

”I'o at all, remember?”

A smile from both of theot yourself quite a party in that bag”

Bobby turned and looked at ular Bonnie and Clyde's”

That drama ended and yet there was another to co the stuff up our noses in quantities never before accepted by the human body If the bullets didn't kill us, the mountain of cocaine would coet out I wanted some stuff from the Cash and Carry Neither of the the couch

They were into the television, and evenin front of afro

Both of the eyes and dilated pupils and said, do you ? I was a little pissed at Bobby for not offering to escort his own girlfriend, the very one who had risked her life, however worthless at the ured screw 'em and decided I could handle a two-block drive down the road to the store, without breaking into the sweats or experiencing an emotional breakdown

I drove off, and as I passed the only two other ho on the floor of the truck that I hadn't noticed earlier Fleshworld Magazine

My azine that could perhaps teach ht of myself and BAM!

I pulled over to the side of the road, and before I got out of the truck to see what I had hit, I saw irl, awakened by the noise, caan to slow as she saw the animal in the road

She looked at it and took one step closer, still not going within fifteen feet of it, as if to spare herself the reality

I turned and saw Jupiter A cat identical to the one I considered a best friend before soht, cared ht be crossing the road

I couldn't help but begin to cry Then I couldn't stop I was the person years later I had hated for taking my cat away froirl I would do whatever she thought was best If she wanted a new cat, I would be happy to buy it She looked at me - and tried to cheer -ups, and she's trying to make me feel better

She ca I was unable to face her

I felt such tre”

Jesus, she even sounded like me

”Why are you so sad? I didn't mean to make you feel so bad”

I looked down at her and saw soive Such a big heart; this one girl could love all of these United States and leave no one feeling lonely

”When I was just about your age, I had a cat who looked just like yours I called him Jupiter, and he was probably the best friend around Someone hit hi to help him I remember I was so ary”

There was a

Then she looked up at ive the person who hit your cat?”

I crouched down beside her and told her that Jupiter was killed by soured she was in heaven, but I ave her death, but I don't think I ever forgot that someone hit my cat, but didn't stop to say they were sorry

She held up her hand, and her nightgown flannel, ht

”My na and she wrapped her arms around me, warm ”It's very nice to meet you, Danielle” I stood ”It takes an awfully special person to forgive so easily”