"She's
got a pretty smile
it
covers up the poison
that
she hides"
"Only
One" - Lifehouse
When Jules saw the man wearing the brown long leather coat was walking in her direction, she decided she was going to avoid engaging him at all costs.
As he got closer to her, he began giving her a curious but suspicious look.
When he passed her by, Jules looked away from him. She was not in the mood to deal with him at the moment.
As Jules opened the chain link gate to leave, she immediately noticed that a black Mustang had parked next to her pick-up truck. A black dude was sitting in the passenger side.
"Hey beautiful! What is someone like you doing in here?" he said.
Jules thought it was too much of a coincidence: the black Mustang, Billy Darley having just walked by and a Black tattooed dude waiting outside Bones' shop. Right-hand man Bodie was talking to her and opportunity was knocking at her door.
Jules offered him a nice warm smile. She walked up to the driver's window and leaned forward to talk to him. As she rested her arms on the Mustang's car door, Jules could tell he was appreciating her "assets." She didn't care at all if he could see beyond her cleavage as she leaned over the window. She needed to make this particular transaction happen so she was willing to use anything to help her cause.
"Hi there," she said in a playful tone. "Do you know this Bones guy well?"
"You could say that," he responded with great interest.
"Do you work for him?"
"Indirectly."
"Well, maybe you can enlighten me a little bit. He just refused to sell me stuff. Have any idea of why? He didn't seem to like me. Does he not like women buyers or is just me and my bad luck?" she asked trying to sound as helpless as possible.
The black man left out a hearty laugh.
"He's just a very particular man and he doesn't know you. If I was him, I would have made damn sure we would have agreed to a mutually satisfying arrangement," he said openly flirting with her. "I can think of a few things that could seal a deal between us."
Jules smiled in her mind. Bodie was game and so was she.
"Well, I'd be very interested in working out a loophole with you. I think we should go for it." Jules responded flirting back to him.
"Let's see what you need baby."
"Not much. Here's my list."
"Damn girl. In what kind of trouble are you?"
"There are two things you need to know about me. I am a very accommodating person and I don't like questions to be asked about my business," Jules stated firmly.
Jules demeanor had turned serious. Bodie picked up on it immediately.
"Look, my problem is not with you or anyone in this Rockside neighborhood. Oh, I almost forgot to tell you, you should also know that I pay well and in cash," she added in a more relaxed tone.
"Sweetening the pot huh? I'll see what I can do."
"Here's my number," she said while she gave him a piece of paper with her cell phone number. "I'm Jules by the way."
"I'm Bodie."
Jules smiled out of amusement. He had no clue that she already knew a lot about him. She was completely confident that Bodie was waiting in there for Billy to turn in the night shift's money and to get marching orders from that son of a bitch of Bones.
All of the sudden, Jules detected the scent of nicotine near by. Someone who happened to be smoking was getting close to them. The scent made her turn around right away. Someone was about to join them and that someone was Billy Darley. He was puffing away and was now standing right behind her. It looked like he was done with his meeting with Bones. Jules had completely busted him checking her ass.
Jules figured he had to be the driver of the Mustang so she stepped away from the window to give him room to get in the car. Since he didn't say a thing, she didn't really didn't acknowledge him either.
"Well Bodie, let's make this a win-win okay?" Jules said as she took a step back. "Call me."
"Excuse me," she said as she accidentally bumped into Billy. Again he didn't say a word to her so Jules continued walking to her car. She got in her truck and sped off to the main road.
Billy opened up his car's door and sat in the driver's seat.
"So what you do Bodie? Did you fucking cry to get her attention?" he teased him.
"Fuck you Billy! What? You don't think I can't land a piece of ass like that?"
Billy began laughing loudly as he started the car. His meeting with Bones had been decent for a change. That was a good thing on its own. What had been even better was to find a woman like that wearing a pair of low-cut tight jeans leaning on his car door with her ass sticking out. It didn't look like she was wearing any underwear either. He could think real quickly of 3 or 4 things he wanted to do to her while she was standing in that position.
"That was a damn fine piece of ass indeed," he said. "What the fuck she wanted with you?"
Bodie felt strongly that, on occasion, somebody needed to give Billy a hard time to keep him in check. With all the shit he had to put up from him on a regular basis, he enjoyed taking up that job whenever the timing was right. Timing was perfect right now. Billy seemed to be in a good mood so it was time to push some buttons. Just for fun, Bodie was laughing with Billy but was not planning on responding to his question.
"Dick head, when I ask a fucking question, I want a fucking answer!" Billy yelled angrily at him. "Next time, you decide to be a fucking wise guy with me, I will fuck with your money. You got that Bodie? "
Bodie nodded yes but deep down was annoyed at Billy's ever present short fuse.
"Relax dude," Bodie responded in a calm manner. "She had a shopping list that Bones refused to supply for her."
"Aren't you being such a fucking Einstein today? Bones already fucking told me that."
"She wanted to know if Bones had a problem with women in general or if it was just with her. She also gave me her list to see if I could do something about it."
Billy chuckled at the comment. That sounded like Bones indeed.
"So what the fuck happened to her? Did she find her man fucking someone else and now she's pissed off? And where's the fucking list?"
As Bodie handed off the list, Billy began looking at it while driving. "Lemme see….. Fuck! This bitch is crazy. Did she say what she was going to do?"
"Negative, dog."
"And you didn't fucking ask her what she was up to, did you?" Billy said in a irritated manner. "Well, she did have that look like her shit don't stink. No wonder Bones turned her ass down. "
Bodie had to laugh at that comment.
"You're just saying that coz the hot mamma hardly bothered in checking you out dog!" he said getting back harshly at Billy. Bodie knew that had to be eating him up, that wasn't the usual reaction that Billy got from women.
Bodie noticed that Billy was now giving him a furious stare and decided to back up and fast.
"She did ask if we could work out a little loop hole to get pass Bones. The list is not that big Billy. Except for the semi-automatic, everything else is manageable. It appeared that she could also cough up the money easily. Looks like a little side job for us, if you fucking ask me."
Bodie noticed that Billy's expression had suddenly changed again and that he now had a grin on his face.
"You truly are a fucking entrepreneur Bodie," Billy said. "Well, fucking look into it then. We got our own stash of guns but I'm sure we could figure out a way to tap somehow into Bones' supply without him knowing. I need to recoup the money Heco made me loose with that last bad batch."
"I'll get into it right away Billy."
As Billy drove them to a place that the crew called "the Office", Billy began thinking of Bones and how he distrusted women in general. Unlike his father, he didn't distrust or shied away from women. In his eyes, women were both a necessary evil and a disposable commodity. He knew well that his opinion sounded like a contradiction but he wasn't interested in reconciling a compromise with both of his extreme views. He just opted for the practical path: he used women until he got what he needed from them (sex) and then he set them free when he felt like it. Again, unlike his father, landing a woman he liked to get what he wanted was never a problem for him.
As he sped up, the image of that particular tight ass in the low cut jeans was still on his mind. Billy began thinking of ways to work that loop hole to his advantage beyond the financial benefits of the deal. He knew he would figure out a way to work this out to his personal gain.