Rock The World
Chapter III: The Start of Rise to Power
Some years later Henry Gowin was just starting out in York, Nebraska as a police officer. He was the son of Patrick Gowin Sr. He and his mom moved out to Nebraska after Patrick Jr. moved out of the house and found a house in Chicago. He was born years before Patrick Sr. died. So he never knew his real dad, his mom remarried when he was five and called the new man in the house dad. Now Henry was 23 years old, with a sturdy lifestyle, he was the king for his school, and was scholar of the year from the University of Nebraska; he graduated from his high school with honors. Later in his college career he would go from a teacher major to a cop, and he was brought into the academy, where he demonstrated some high quality skills with taking down criminals, using guns, and having a search dog search for the right things. When it came for the week of graduation he almost failed the final exam, but since he was the last person out and administer for the exam was gone for a little break. So Henry went up to the administers desk and took the last exam from the bottom of the stack of papers and erase the name of the student that score the best on the test, and replace it with his name. He put the name of the student on his paper and put them in the pile, his original copy on the bottom and his new on top of the pile and walked out. Later that week he graduated from the academy with the high overall rating in the exam. He was assigned to his hometown of York, Nebraska by chief officer Dwayne Roil, there he became a street patrolman, this is where his first break came, and he met many people on the streets, but there was never any crime and started to get bored of patrolling the streets. So about 1:35 he would go to a coffee shop and leave the directed the traffic by its self. He didn't seem to turn around whenever he heard a chunks behind and tires screeching around the cement. He entered the coffee shop he notice two men sitting with a map on their table and the waitress telling them that they need to get that off of the table if they want their meal. These men looked like people who came from the street and didn't have any money to pay for anything. But one thing that Henry didn't understand how they got a map of Oklahoma, if they were from Nebraska? So Henry went over to them and asked them "So where are guys from" The guys didn't speak up.
"I asked you guys where are you from, do you understand me, if you do answer me."
"We-we-we are from Lincoln, Nebraska officer."
"So do you own a car?"
"N-n-no, sir, we came here with a friend"
"So where did you get the map then?"
"My friend had it, he wanted to go to Oklahoma, but I said no, sir"
"Then may I ask why is fort Nile highlighted for?"
"That-t'-'s where my friend want to go see, Sir."
"Well, where he at right now?"
"Well, sir, if you are referring to my friend?"
"Yes, him, do you know where he is?"
"No, he took off about forty to fifty minutes ago."
"Well what's your name then?"
"My name sir is Bill Devault and this is my brother Will Devault."
"Well Will and Bill can you please tell your friend that if he thinks he can get into Fort Nile, tell him that it is not a pedestrian area. It's only for the government and anyone near it could be charged with a fine that could reach up to a million dollars, and three months in jail, so when you see your friend that much time and how much he could spending."
"Well officer, we will tell him, because nothing gets past us."
Just as they started to ended some more officers came in, and they looked mad, mad at Henry for leaving his position without permission. The other officers cuffed him and brought him to headquarters, there he had to talk to his boss chief Dwayne Roil, now the chief was kind of a overweight police that has been on the force since 1997 when he joined the York City police department. Back then he was the best traffic officer till a red ford win-star van speeding down the road and hit him, almost crippling him in the process of getting away with stolen money. He was in the hospital for two months; they had to remove his left leg, because of infection. So the police department found a suitable spot as a dispatcher, and was employee of the month for a year, and was promoted as chief of police, when his former mentor and head of police retired at the age of seventy-one. Henry was now face to face with his mentor and his boss.
"Well I heard that we had a little mishap this morning, I am correct about this?"
"Sir, I am sorry about leaving post without permission, I should of have never left my position, but sir, my throat was dry; and I had to get something to drink, sir."
"I don't give a damn about your throat; with you leaving position you cause three wrecks; and you violated an order, and I have to go by the book, I can't let anyone slip, so Henry I giving you a warning, but the next time you don't follow an order you will be suspended." Henry was dismissed after the conversation. He went back to his job of being a traffic director; other officers were crossing the street looking at him in disgrace. They knew that he was in trouble not in short run, but in the long run. He knew that if he moved a muscle that he would be suspended for over a month, and then the chief would properly fire him from his job. On his radio he could here reports about burglaries, car crashes, an officer wounded in a gun fight, about people being arrested, and 10-4 out. So he called in "Um, sir, do you want me to assist someone that is calling for back-up?"
"No, I want you to stay in your area, unless there is one not that far from you, if you disobey, you will be suspended for a month or more, do you understand me, Henry?"
"Ok, sir, I will stay in my area." Just after he got his orders and blue 1998 win-star van came stopped right beside him. It was Bill and Will in their van that had rust spots, and one half of the window was cracked by a rock. "Hello Henry, how are you doing?"
"Will and Bill what are you guys going, don't you know it's illegal to park in the middle of the street?"
"We were wondering what kind of trouble you got into now." asked Bill as he was overlooking Will; who was driving the win-star van.
"That's none of your guys business, its police business and no one should know."
"Well…" said Bill, "there been rumors being swirled around the area that you almost fired."
"That's not even one bit true, but I'm going to give you guys one warning to get out of the middle street, so people can pass and get to their destination, if you don't move I'm going to have to arrest you guys, and I don't want to do that."
"Ok, Henry we will move away from the middle of the street." So William pulled the car around to a side street, which he parked the car, and waited. Soon it was five in the evening and time for Henry to get off; when he noticed a rusty red ford ranger coming down the road at a mile a minute. The rusty ranger was aiming for Henry and Henry knew it. That's when the blue rusty win-star van came in and made the rusty red ranger go off track; the Ranger went to the other side of the street and hit another car. Henry rushed over to the wreck and calling on the radio that there has been a wreck and that they need ambulance down where he was. Will pulled the van over to where Henry was and asked "Is there anything that we can do?"
"Yeah, get out of your car, and lay down on the ground."
"What, why, we didn't do anything."
"Yeah you did, you made that ranger crash into the car on the other side of the street, so get out of your car, and put your hands up in the air, because you are under arrest."
"Ok, Officer." Just as Will was attempting to open the door to get out, he turned on the engine and took off down the road, but not for that long. Police cars swarmed the area, making it hard for Will and Bill to escape from them. Henry rushed over to the cars to see if everyone was okay. As he could see from the wreck that it had been a head on collision and he called out. "Sir, are you okay, if you are please do not move, because you just been a wreck. He went over to the other car, and discovered the sick reality that he found that the other person in the car was dead. The ambulance was finally their and asked "Have you checked on everyone's condition?"
"Yes I have, the one in the truck has some scrapes and open gash on his head. But the other driver is dead."
"Ok, thanks for telling us."
He could see they were trying to open the door, and get the dead body out. Another ambulance crew was opening the ranger's driver side door, and getting the man out of the car. He walked down to where the police were. It was quite of ways from the scene of the wreck. He first ran into Lutentient Alex Mauberry, and then Detective Johnson. The Detective stopped him and asked some questions. "So Mr. Gowin, what happen here?"
"Well…" "The ranger came down the road and was out of control, when the blue win-star over there came out of nowhere and made the truck skid into the other land and crash."
"So you're telling that the blue van is responsible for all this?"
"Yes sir, and when I tried to arrest them they tried to make an escape."
"Ok, I will talk to them…"
"First sir, can you let me arrest them."
"Sure, if they are the ones responsible for all this, then I don't see why not." So Henry went over to where Will and Bill where standing and got his pair of hand cuffs out and said "Will and Bill you being arrest for reckless driving and a failure to follow instructions of a police officer." Henry put both men in handcuffs and put them in a police car. He noticed that the blue van had tons of papers in it, but he left it alone, He was a cop and knew that he had reason to search the van for anything illegal. He got into a police car with Officer weens and went to headquarters to fill out papers. When he walked into the front lobby, everyone was congratulating him for his first arrest ever. Even the chief of police came down and congratulated him and pulled him over to the side. "Well, I'm impressed that you got an arrest within three months of starting, I'm taking you off of street patrol, I'm now going assign you to real life chasing and catching criminals, So how about Henry, do you like this offer or do you preferred to be a traffic person still?"
"Well sir, this is one of the many things that my dad would go for, but I don't know yet, if I want to be assigned to a car with a partner. I mean yeah I did get into trouble today."
"Yeah, but this is a lifetime opportunity, Henry, this is a chance that every officer is will to take this job, if you don't want the job I'll understand, but also this is one of the chances you'll ever get.
"I know sir, but it is better than street patrol, right."
"Oh course, because you go anywhere they need assistants, or you can stop someone for a crime."
"Ok, I've made up my mind; I'm going to take the job."
"Good, welcome aboard of the real job, now tomorrow I'll assign you to squad car, and that will be your assigned car for a year, but right now I want you to go home and get some sleep, and no party."
"Ok, sir, will do, and thank you for the opportunity." It was about seven o'clock at night now, and Henry could feel that the warm welcoming he had was fading fast. He went into one of the empty rooms and started to fill out papers about what he saw and what the charges were for the twins. He noticed that the twins haven't been arrested for anything in their whole life. He found it odd, why would a pair of twins want to get into trouble, and found that he better out more. He went down to the holding cell to ask why what they did. When he went down there he told the guard that it was ok, the guard quickly open the door and followed Henry. Henry demanded that he open cell 11, and the guard did. "Hello Will and Bill."
"Hello Officer Goo-win, did you come down here to set us free?"
"No, and its Gowin, not goo-win"
"So then what did you come down for then?"
"Hey watch it Bill, just because you're in jail doesn't mean that you think can talk to me like that, The reason why I came down here for, is to find some answers from you two guys."
"Ok, Officer whatever you say."Will, Bill, and Henry went down to the discussion room that was down the hall way. "Ok, I want you tell me why you pulled out of the street and caused that wreck?"
"We saw that the ranger was after you and it was swirling all over the road, that's why we started to move out of the street for, we try to make sure you didn't get killed or injured."
"Then why did you guys didn't stop when I asked you to, and get out of the vehicle when asked to?"
"Listen man, we are sorry about that, we thought you want to arrest us for anything that we did right in protecting you from getting hit by that truck."
"So it was to protect me, how do you know the car was aiming for me, the car could of had its own brakes cut, did you think about that."
"If the car had its brakes cut, don't you think that we would know, and tell you that the ranger had cut brakes, this car was aiming right for you, and it was speeding like a bat out of hell."
"Ok, I'm going to talk to the man that was driving the Ranger, if he was aiming for me or did he have his brakes cut and if I find out that he is telling the truth, you guys are going to be in front of a judge, pronto, you understand me??" Both men shook their heads, in agreement and Henry order the guard to put them back in their cell. While the guard was doing what he was told to do? Henry was going up the stairs into the main lobby; there were some cops there that were filing out papers. He went over to Officer Dwayne Trile, who was an old man, and has been on the force more than anything one. Officer Trile was most wises cop on the force and was named officer of the year by the chief of police in 1997.
"Hey Dwayne, I was wondering if you can have a cop go over to the hospital and talk to the guy that was in the wreck today and tell them to ask if the brakes were cut or not."
"I will get a man over there, but I got a report about that rusty red Ranger, and the report said that the brakes were not cut."
"WHAT? How come this wasn't on my desk?"
"Sorry, but you weren't at your desk, and they gave it to me, and told me to keep it until you come up here, I was about to walk over to your desk when you came up, but I can see that you were coming to my desk for a favor, right?"
"Yeah, but I want someone over at the hospital for a watchful eye on the suspect, can you please do that for me because I'm tired and the chief says I need some sleep before being assigned tomorrow."
"Sure thing Henry, I'll get to that right now."
So Henry walked away, while officer Trile was asking around for someone to go to the hospital and watch the man till Henry gets over there in the morning. Henry walked out of headquarters at a quarter to ten o'clock at night. He saw that his car was wrapped in police colors and plastic wrapping. He could see that the daytime shift people had fun with decoration the car. So he took his pocket knife and started to cut the plastic wrapping and the streamers from the car. Henry just started to cut the streamers and started to laugh about the whole thing, he thought the guys got him good this time. It was like his first day in headquarters, when some of the officers put a fake snake in his desk, which scared the living crap out of him. The second day was funnier, because someone made Henry follows him and the other officers into a cell, which they called the rookie hangout. He remembered everything that happen to him on his first three days and now here he was cutting the wrapper from his car. He finally got to his car door and took the wrapper and streamers into the garbage. He got into his car and took off for his house. Henry didn't live by himself, but he did live with his mom in their apartment on Blurry Street in York. The apartments maintenance were the best that anyone has ever seen, the walls were repainted every other year. The apartments were huge, having two rooms upstairs and the living room, kitchen, and the bathroom downstairs. What Henry always noticed that just off of the bathroom, there was another door, Henry always thought that it was a closet, but it wasn't. "Mom, you left the light in the closet on again."
"Henry, I will get it, I was the last one in there, so I Will turn off the light." Henry's mom from her room using her cane and holding the banister, Henry helped his mom down the last step, and she went into the closet to turn off the light. She was in there for ten minutes looking at everything in the closet, but when Henry tried to look into the closet, the door was locked. Henry shook the doorknob, furiously, then trying to break the door, when he was eighteen he tried to get into the closet, but his mom always told him that it was stuff for Christmas, Easter, and other holidays, but no matter what his mom told him, he wouldn't believe that it was Christmas stuff, because he knew where the Christmas stuff was, it was in his mom's room far back inside her closet. He couldn't be tricked that easily, he knew his mom was hiding something inside of this closet, something bigger than his and Patrick Junior's presents. There was another thing that he never figured out, why his brother was a junior. When his mom's last name was Divvy, it didn't make any sense, but he knew he still had the last name of Gowin. Once he was sixteen, he was going through the family album book, and he saw this man that looked like him and his older brother. He would ask his mother about the man, but she never said anything, she always wanted Henry to think her last name was Gowin, not divvy, when she found Richard Divvy, and married him in 2000. But at this time Richard was at work, So Henry yelled at the door "MOM, come on you been in there for the last ten minutes, it doesn't take that long to turn off a light in a closet." There was no response; he knew he had to get in there to make sure his mom was ok, But he thought about and it, and thought it threw, He would wait until his stepfather came and knocked the door, because if Henry couldn't knock that door down he knew that his stepfather could. So it was almost eleven at night before his stepfather step into the doorway of the apartment. "Mom is the closet by the bathroom, and I can't get the door open at all, dad"
"Henry, if your mom is in that closet and can't get out, call me early, because, there wasn't that much business tonight." So Mr. Divvy went over to the closet door, and tried to twist the knob, it was still locked; he yelled "Honey, are you ok, if you are can you please unlocked this door." There was complete silence inside the closet, so Mr. Divvy knocked on the door, and yelled out "Honey, if you're in there can you please unlock the door and come out!!" Still there was utterly silence, it scare both men, because when ever this happen before, his mom would come out. Mr. Divvy tried to plow the door down the first time in his life; he failed first, and the second time it cracked at the doorknob. He took one last hit at the bottom of the door, and the door collapse on him and hit Henry in head, knocking him down the ground. When Henry got up from the being hit by the door, he looked at the room, but all he could see is the dark, and things that were shining from the light in the living room, Mr. Divvy went slowly went to the room, trying to not step on his wife, who was in the room, He went for the light when he noticed something out of the usual, He got the light he noticed that there was an metal object, he thought it might been his wife's cane, but it was a metal drum stick, so he laid it back down. He turned on the light, and found his wife Marie Mae Divvy's body lying in the middle of the floor, He ordered Henry to get up and call the ambulance. Henry got up from the rubble and got to the phone where he called the ambulance. "Hello this 911…" Came a voice
"Yes, This officer Gowin, and my mom is laying in the closet and she very pale, and…"
"Ok, sir, please stay calm, do you need an ambulance?" came the operator voice
"Yes, we do, she seems to not responding or moving."
"Ok, Sir, we need to know where you guys live. So we can get an ambulance over there immediately, ok, sir."
"We live on 165 North Blurry Street, and my mom's name is Marie Mae Divvy."
"Ok, we also need the age, and what apartment you're in?"
"She is only fifty-one years old, and we're in apartment eleven."
"Can you tell me how she fell unconscious?"
"I wasn't there when she fell unconscious."
"Ok, the ambulance is one the way, it should be there in five minutes."
Five minutes went by faster than a speeding bullet and the ambulance crew was there by five minutes to midnight. EMTs told Henry to stay back, so the place wasn't so crowded, Henry could hear them asking his stepfather questions after questions, than one or two men came in next with a black bag. Henry knew it wasn't a body bag, because a body bag was bigger than this one, this one, he could see, that it had tools in there. Soon more people came in bringing a back board, so they can move his mom's almost lifeless body, on the back board. He saw his dad walking behind her, while the EMTs were holding the back board to move his mom and he decided to call his older brother Patrick who was living in Chicago.
"Hey This Patrick Gowin Jr. if I'm not here then leave an awesome drum tone or a message."
"Hey Patrick, its Henry, listen man, Mom is going to the hospital so if your there pick up the damn phone, because something is seriously wrong." Patrick answer machine beeped and Patrick walked into his dome room, with his college girlfriend. She noticed that the answer machine was blinking. Then she said "Now are we going to that awesome party that you promise that you promise, or are we going to stay here all night and kiss and make out, Patrick?"
"Hold on, can I check my messages, Katelyn"
"I suppose, but I sure you got nothing important"
"You might never know." So Katelyn sat on the couch while Patrick was going to answer machine.
"Friday 12 at 2:31, beep"
"Hey Patrick" came a man's voice from the machine "Are you coming to the practice after tonight's party, we might need you because, the other drummer is the worst drummer, especially when he's drunk, give me a call, at 142 – 5642, see ya at the party man, woo uh." The machine beeped and said
"Friday 12, at 12:04 PM Beep"
"Hey Patrick" came a familiar voice, "Listen man, mom is going to the hospital so your there pick up the damn phone, because something is seriously" the message was cut off by a beep and answering machine went quiet again. Katelyn turned to Patrick who was looking confused "You have a brother, how come you never told me this Patrick?"
"Listen Katelyn, I'm going to York, Nebraska to be with my stepfather, my little brother, and my mom, because if my brother, Henry said there was something seriously wrong with mom, then go, because he wouldn't tell a lie, because he's a cop."
"So you were going to blow off the biggest party this year, which your friend is throwing."
"Yes, because it's family and family comes first before parting, and you can go or you can stay here, right now, I need to pack and get going, because next call isn't going to be that good of a call."
"Well, make sure you call Jake, to make sure he knows if you're going to York, Nebraska."
"Why in the world would he have to know, Jake, is nothing but a drunken loser anyways, He probably have another party on New Year's Eve, bigger than this one, and then again he be arrested the next day for selling beer to minors."
"Well I can't believe this, you expect that he is going to choose you as drummer in his band, but you blow off his own parties, especially this party, when is going to announce his new drummer."
"You know you can't make confess that yeah, maybe, just maybe he going to announce his new drummer, because he rather has someone who can learn just in seconds, without having to learn the whole song in the recording studio."
"So you're going to York?"
"Yep, and don't try to stop me, because family comes first, sorry honey, but if you want to go, then go, because I ain't going to slow you down." Patrick left his dorm, leaving his girlfriend behind in his dome, the expression on her face was shocked that he actually blew off a party.
He got into his car that he got for graduation and took off, Jake was a couple feet away from Patrick's car, and both men stare at each other. Jake holding a beer bottle, and then throws it right at Patrick's car, it misses by what seem a mile, and Katelyn comes out of the dorms. Jake gives her a dirtier look, and goes chasing after her, Patrick gets out and runs after Jake. Patrick tackles Jake, and both men start throwing punches at each other. Katelyn came back and shoved Jake off of Patrick. Patrick got up and grabbed an empty beer bottle, and when Jake got up, and started to run and try to tackle Patrick. Patrick raised the glass bottle and brought it down on Jake's head. Patrick and the bottle caused Jake to hit the ground hard with pieces of beer bottle just flying on top of the ground and Jake. As Patrick could see, he hit Jake, and made part of Jake's head started to bleed. Katelyn quickly grabbed and told him to get in the car and get going so he wouldn't get into any trouble. Katelyn took the rest of the broken beer bottle and grabbed it the wrong way and it cut her on the palm of her hand. Patrick got back in his car, and strolled off, hitting I-95 in two hours. From there he went to I- 29 and made to Omaha, where he stayed for the night, he forgotten his cell phone at the dorm, and his computer at the dorm too. He was in such a hurry that he forgot all about, so when morning came, he would take off again, to go ninety miles to York, but something stopped him. "Katelyn what are you doing here?"
"I went into your dorm and found that you forgot some of your stuff, and the police told me to the ambulance to have my palm check, the ambulance crew said it wasn't that bad, but Jake he was arrested for being drunk in the public, and not following orders, and once they started to talk to me, I couldn't tell them that you did. So I told the officers that I hit Jake with bottle because he tried to beat me up."
"So you told them a lie?"
"Yes I couldn't let officers come after you, especially your brother. So I had to, I had to protect you, because well Patrick, I love you." Patrick put his arms Katelyn to show her that he loved her too.
"You know we are only like ninety miles away from where my brother is, right."
"We are, so this must be."
"This is Omaha, Nebraska, this is the biggest city in Nebraska, and you go north, you'll be in Sioux City, IA."
"What about if you go south for two hours then where we be, because I'm from New York, and you know that, and I've never seen such scenery?"
"Well South there's Kansas, and Missouri, Oklahoma, and there is Texas. That's what south of us, including York."
"You mean New York City, right."
"No, honey York, Nebraska, not New York City…"
Ninety miles from where Patrick Jr. and his girlfriend Katelyn was, Henry was now looking in the room that his mom was in just seven hours ago, he noticed it wasn't a closet it was a room, an extra room, where The Naturals merchandise was all around, and a disc keep repeating one song, all night long, Henry couldn't believe that the room was filled with The Naturals merchandise, and decided to walk out the room, when he noticed a poster of the band, with their signature. He noticed that the drummer looked like his older and party-hard brother. He noticed he kind of looked like the man, too, but he wanted to find out what his name was, to see if he was related to Him or Patrick Jr. He looked all around the room, until he found a picture of a drummer and looked at it very closely. Then he picked it up and something fell from the back of the picture it was a note, and very old. He picked it up and read it. "To My Dear Marie Mae Gowin, I know that I've been on the road for a month now, and I wanted to know how you're doing, because without you here, it's very lonely, but the guys are always trying to cheer me up, How are Patrick Gowin Jr. and little Henry Allan doing? I Will be home in another two weeks, Love you… Patrick Curtis Gowin, Sr." Henry was shocked that his man, the man name Patrick Curtis Gowin, Sr. knew who Henry was, he found the date of note and it read December 1, 2001. Henry knew he was only three years old at the time, and he didn't know anything about his real father. Suddenly there was knock on the front door, He went out the room, throwing the note and the picture down the ground. He went into the living room where the door was, and noticed it was his older brother, Patrick Jr. "Patrick, how's it going?"
"In the hospital, why, where do you think she was?"
"Man, I didn't know if she came home or not, how I am supposed to know, I live a hundred miles from York, and I got here in two days, gee Henry, I don't know what's going on around here."
"Sorry bro, I thought my message told you where mom was."
"That's ok, but next time this happens tell me, where mom is so I know." As soon as Patrick was done Mr. Divvy came in, he had a sorrowful look on his face, but the two brothers didn't say a thing to him, because they feared that something bad has happen.
"Hey Patrick I got to show this room to."
"Do you mean that room that looks like a closet but is really a room?"
"How did you know, that the closet door was another room."
"Because I helped mom set it all up, when you were at work."
"Oh, but did you know we are related to a famous drummer of The Naturals?"
"Yeah, I knew that, and he wasn't just a relative, he was our father."
"What, how come no one told me this!"
"Because you were so little, that mom wanted to make you believe that your father was Richard, not Patrick Gowin Sr., Who I was named after."
"Wait a minute, so our father was the drummer, then how come he isn't here today?"
"Because he died when you were only three years old, that's why you don't remember dad, that much, I remember him all the time."
"What did he died of, let me guess drugs, and is because he had a drug problem."
"See this is why nobody told you, because you'll consider that dad died of drugs, when it's not the truth."
"Well, Patrick I'm going to shut down your music, and make sure that you or anyone can't listen to it." Just as Henry was saying that Patrick tackled him, both men were throwing fist at each other. Patrick was landing the most punches, while Henry was trying to protect himself, from his brother's hard left punches. Richard came in broke up the fight and held Henry back from fighting, "YOUR MOM IS IN THE HOSPITAL, WHILE YOU TWO ARE FIGHTING OVER FACTS, THAT REAL DAD IS DEAD, YOU TWO NEED TO GROW UP, AND PATRICK YOU GOT TO ADMIT THAT YOUR DAD DIED OF DRUGS." Patrick was really mad now, because he knew he's own father didn't die of drugs. So went after Richard. Henry tried to stop him by standing in front of Patrick, but Patrick knocked him down, Then Richard and Patrick were in each other's faces "You got to admit that your real father was a low life after the band's spilt, and he took pills to get rid of the facts that he was nothing but a low life, like you are. Both of you are the same, in your future you're probably going to take drugs to get rid of the fact that you're a low life just like your father was." Patrick hit Richard across the face, which knocked him down, Mr. Divvy hit the floor, with his head hitting the wall, "That's what you get for saying that my dad was a low life, he did more than you tried to, and he gave me an opportunity, unlike my little brother. You're the one that is the low life around do you understand me." Barked Patrick, as he was standing over Mr. Divvy moving body, and Mr. Divvy was trying to get up from the knockdown. Mr. Divvy was shocked that Patrick actually hit him across the face and Henry was looking furious that his own brother hit his stepfather. So he ran over to Patrick and asked him "Why did you do that for, you just think you can punch someone and leave."
"Let's see why Henry, because he called me a low life and I got mad at him for disrespecting our father." Henry didn't have anything to say, but instead walked away. Patrick went into the extra room, when he overheard that his mom had just passed away. Patrick sat on the floor, realizing that the person that he care most about, had just died; he went to Henry and asked "Where are the boxes?"
"You ain't taking thing, just because mom died."
"Yes, I am, do you want to stop, try, because all your going to do is throw everything that said The Naturals on it."
"All that crap deserves to tossed away; mom couldn't get over the fact that our real dad is really dead."
"No it doesn't Henry, You have to remember this, and mom would want them to go with me, instead of having them thrown away by you."
"Fine, the boxes are in the upstairs."
"Thank you, little bro!"
"Don't call me little, Patrick.
So Patrick went up stairs to get the boxes while Richard and Henry got into the blue 2009 jeep, that Richard had a accident in, The car still worked although it was damaged by a semi-truck. Patrick found twelve boxes in the closet, and took three trips up and down the stairs. He finally had the boxes in spare room, and Henry came in, "Patrick, you know where the hospital is right?"
"I think so, because all you have to do is look for the blue light sign that says `Hospital' I know."
"All right, I see you there."
"Actually I'm going home, and I'll be back for the funeral."
"You can't Patrick, mom is dead, stay with me and Richard. So you know what's in the deeds."
"I wouldn't even stay here, because of Richard, Do they have any hotels in this town."
"Yeah they do, it's just north of here."
"Ok, I'll go over there and get a room for Katelyn and me."
"Since, when did you have a girlfriend?"
"Since, I was a sophomore in College."
"Well, I am going to the hospital with Richard, to say final goodbyes."
"Ok, see you tomorrow then." Patrick was moving all the stuff off of the self and packed it all away and stuffed everything in the car, Katelyn was in the car, and asked Patrick "What is all that stuff, that's in the back."
"It's some of my mom's stuff and we are going to take it with us, when we leave this Thursday."
"Does this mean will be staying until Thursday; I have classes that I have to take?"
"Hey, you came with your car and you left it in Omaha, remember?"
"Well, I really don't like going to funerals, especially with people like your brother, he sounds very evil."
"He's really not that evil, he doesn't like me that much, because since I left, and whatever I left here, he destroyed it, Drums included, also if you want to go to Omaha, I will take you, so you can go back the dorms, but make sure that idiot Jake is not around."
"Ok, I will go back to college. Will you are ok, here by you self?"
"I think so, if I don't not back by Thursday night, then come down to York, ok?"
"Alright, I will take a bus that will take me up to Omaha."
"Ok, see you Thursday night at the dorms."
As soon as Patrick pulled up to the gray-hound register station, Katelyn got out and went up to the register center and bought her tickets. Patrick left there around noon and went to the hotels that were just a couple blocks from where the grey-hound buses were. This hotel had just been remodeled, to make it look nicer, and Patrick thought it was descend enough to spend a couple of nights, so he went up to the office and got a room. When he entered the room that he was assigned to, he noticed it was an excellent room. The first thing he did was turned the TV on, and watched TV for a while, there was a knock on the door, and it was the manager of the place. "So, how do you like it so far?"
"It's all good; say where the kitchen at?"
"I'm sorry, but we don't have a kitchen, you're going to have to go to the diner log which is across town."
"Ok, thank you for telling me, that because I thought you would have a lounge area or a kitchen."
"Nope, we are planning to build a kitchen, but how are we going to hire anyone, when you're a small hotel."
"I know what you mean; I've been trying out for different bands for the last five years."
"So you're a drummer?"
"Yep, my father was a drummer, so I decided to follow his footsteps."
"Oh, what band did he play for?"
"Well his band didn't make it that far." A car pulled up by the office. "Well I got to get going because it looks I got some costumers." The manager ran to his office and started to take orders from the people. So Patrick just return to the TV and another knock came from the door, but this time it was Henry.
"Henry, what are you doing here, I thought you're and Richard was going to the hospital?"
"We already did, but they wouldn't let us see mom, but her lawyer that she assigned when she filed for bankruptcy in 2013 came and said that we should go to his office, and find out what our mom left as a last testament, so I told him to wait till I come get you, because your name is in the testament, I bet."
"Do you need a ride then, Henry, or did Richard bring you here."
"No, I have my own car, well actually it's moms old car, but there is another car in the back, properly a 2008 Ford Mustang, because it looked like a Mustang, but there was so much dust on it, so I couldn't tell what color or the make or the model of the car, so I left it alone."
"A 2008 ford Mustang, I'm impressed, but anyways don't we should get to the lawyers office?"
"Yeah, before Richard takes all the assets from us."
"What do you mean by that Henry, do you think that Richard would take everything from us?"
"Yes, I think he will keep that apartment to himself and everything that's either mine or moms!"
"Well, let's get going then, I Will follow you, because I don't know where this guy's office is."
"Ok, just stay behind me then." So the boys got into their cars and followed each other to the lawyer's office, which was located by the grocery store on main-street and by the bakery, which was on Miles Lanes. When they came there Richard was just sitting on the steps smoking a cigar, and trying to look like he was cool. A small man came out and shook Richard's hand; he had to be at least five foot and five inches, wearing a suit and a polka-dot tie, he also had a cigar, but his face look uglier than what Richard's face. This guy had a scar on his forehead, one by his chin, and one by his right eye. But the worst part was that the guy was missing part of his ear, it looked like someone or something mauled or tried to maul his ear off, because of the jagged edges on his ear.
The small guy waved his hand, to let Henry and Patrick to come in. Richard was staring at them with his cold evil eyes, but the boys past him, and went inside and Richard followed them in, and closed the door behind them. The small lawyer went to the black desk and pulled out a piece of paper, and then once again wave to invite them over to the desk, Richard was the first one to sit down, while the other two just stood there looking at this man who looked more like a monster than a normal human being. Richard yanked on Henry's sleeve and told him to sit down and quit staring at the man's face. Finally Patrick sat down, behind Richard and Henry. The man spook some words and then went quiet again, he poured himself a glass of cold water that came from his assistant, who was leaving the room before he could start reading the deeds or another word of the testament. "I-I have here wit-h-h me, the last Will and testament of Marilyn (Marie) Mae Divvy." All three of the guys were quiet still and just listen to the man "To my husband Richard, I leave you with, the apartment and 100 bucks, Patrick Curtis Gowin Jr. I hereby leave you with a black 2008 Ford Mustang, and the house that we used to live in Chicago that is on 185 North Blake Avenue. Which I made payments on for eighteen years another thing I leave you with is: three thousand dollars, from my bank account so you can pay the rest of the bills off when and if you would take that house. To Henry I leave you a house in Northern York, Nebraska worth of one hundred and fifty thousand dollar. So you won't have to live with Richard, and I leave you the other three thousand dollars that is in my bank account." The boys were celebrating when the lawyer said "Wait, there is one more part to the deed, is there a Patrick Curtis Gowin Sr." Everyone went quiet, Henry was thinking how did his real father get into the deed when he's been dead for the last some years.
When the lawyer got up and sat down and this put his glasses on his nose, "I hereby leave Patrick Sr. all of silverware, my stove, and my valuables till the day the kids become old enough." The lawyer read it over and over again, till he looked into a drawer and pulled out the family history. He looked at Patrick Sr.'s profile to see if he was still alive or did he die. It said on the profile picture that he had died some years prior to Marie's death. Henry and Patrick look at each other, they were shocked that their father's name was on the deed, Henry broke the peace, "That's impossible he been dead for the last some years, how can be on the deed when his body has been rotting in that same grave."
"Well, that kind of odd, how can his name be on here, when the papers were signed not even a month ago…?" Henry and Patrick Jr. were shocked that their real father wasn't dead, he was actually alive. Patrick tried to go for the door, but the lawyer said wait again, "…Have you forgotten about something?"
"Oh, the papers, don't worry Mr. Yeri, I sign them before I go." So Patrick signed his name on the papers and was off to his car, to get the mustang and to go back to Chicago. But before he could do that, there was a rusted, beaten up limo out by his car, he couldn't pull out of the parking lot, and he ran up to the limo's window and knocked on the window, and extremely old man came out "Ma-y-y I-I hel-p-p you, s-i-ir."
"Yes, you can Mr. Yawer, is that correct."
"Yes, it is Mr. Yawer, and I thank you for looking at my nametag, in-instead of calling me an old man."
"Who limo's is this, because it is blocking my way from getting out of the parking lot, so I can go up to Chicago."
"This limo belongs to Mr. Patrick…" the driver rolled up the window, as he started to cough. Patrick Jr. knocked on the window.
"Are you ok, because I know where the hospital is?"
"No, I will have Mr. Patrick Goo." A man stepped in, and he was as tall as Patrick Jr. was, "Excuse me, but I wonder if that your car?"
"Yes, it is sir." The man that was about forty or older, wearing silk shirts, leather pants, and new Addis shoes. As Patrick Jr. could see he had a tattoo of a drum set.
"You know I used to have a car, like that, but I left it with my wife and my wife gave it to my oldest son."
"Well sir, can you please tell you limo driver to move the limo so I can get out of here."
"Sure I Will, but what's your rush, I mean, you just came out here, tell me where you're going and I can drive you there."
"I don't think you want a normal person riding with you, I'll bore you to death."
"No you won't, because I know everything about Chicago, York, and other cities I've been to."
"Do you have a pulley, so I can pull my two cars?"
"Well no, but we can get a trailer to carry on."
"Well I heading up to Chicago, but first I have to go over to my mom's gauge to get my other car that she gave me, that was also my dad's car, and his favorite and he order it before the 2008 cars came out."
"Well, let's go find a trailer, so we can handle the cars and have they come with us."
"My younger brother said there is already a trailer with the Mustang, so how about you meet me by mom's apartment." The other man agreed, and Patrick Jr. got into his car, and took off, the limo was trialing him about twenty-five feet, until they came to a garage by the apartments. The guy in the limo got out and looked around and asked "Is this the place?"
"Yep, this the place, let me see here, now Henry said it was in garage thirteen, and all that I see is one though twelve." The man that was in the limo yelled "Hey it's over here." Patrick Jr. turned around and saw that this Patrick Goo had already found the garage, and urged him to rush over where he was. Both men pushed the door, upwards to get into the small garage, there it was a black 2008 Ford Mustang that was all nothing but dust. Patrick Jr. found the keys on the self in the back and got into the car. The car came alive as the engine as it roared in that garage, and the limo backed into the garage. Patrick Jr. got out of the car, as the limo was backing in, and got to where the jack was for the trailer. He got the trailer on the back of the limo and limo pulled ahead just by a couple feet and Patrick got into his car and ran the car up the trailer. He got out of his car and hop into the back of the limo and they were off to Chicago. They pulled onto the highway and drove hundred miles from York to Omaha to Chicago.
But just hours from where Mr. Goo… and Patrick Gowin Jr. were, Henry was angry about having to splitting money with his older brother. So he decided to go to the police department, when he noticed everyone around the offices where holding a special meeting. Henry knocked on one of the doors and one of the officers let him in. The news was going around that the chief was retiring from his position and how he wanted Henry to take over for the rest of his life until he retires. Henry was happy about being pushed from just being a traffic officer to head of the police, but he knew there was rules, and that there was always a person that was above him. So he went up to the chief's old desk and talk to his former mentor.
"Well Henry, my boy, here is your new office."
"Well Thank you sir, but yesterday you said I would be riding in a car with my new partner?"
"I know I did but kid I'm getting too old for this, I'm almost sixty-five years old, and I rather spend some time with my wife and family than do this, so when I decided last night, I figured that you're the man for the job. So what do you think?"
"Well, I can't say enough, I'll take it." Dwayne Roll shook Henry's and handed him the keys to the office. Everyone downstairs threw a retirement party. The party ended when there was a report of a robbery in place. And everyone rushed out to the scene; except for Henry who was sitting his office up to what he wanted it to be. After he was done with decorating the place, he went downstairs and went to see Will and Bill.
"Hey Billy, looky at what we have here we have the new chief of police, Henry Go-win."
"It's Gowin, you two, and you know what you both are released, guard can you please release these two." The guards quickly got up from his seat, and got his keys from his drawer, and unlocked the cell. Will and Bill came out with a funny expression on their faces. Both twins ran up to the main floor and Henry following them. "Hey, guys before you leave; you guys have to give me your fingerprints, so the police will know that you're in trouble, and have to be back in jail."
"Alright, Henry, but it better be quick, we got stuff to do and places to go."
"All we need is your fingerprints; we don't need your footprints, so it quick and you don't have to wash your feet."
"Bill, will you please go first, before I go." So Will went first and place his palm in the ink and then on to different slots on the paper. Bill did it, next and did the same thing as Will, now Henry send it threw the computer and put their names on it. He called them his friends and assistants. Now the twins knew that couldn't get into any trouble, because Will and Bill were on Henry's side.
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