AN: I have absolutely no idea if allegations of assault can cost you a scholarship but let's just pretend it can for the sake of my stories continuity.
Michael Palermo shuffled some files at his desk before handing them off to his secretary. It had been a bad financial year for his company and business was suffering. Walking over to the tea room for a drink and maybe a few biscuits he passed by Kevin Mongooses office. It sounded like world war three in there. That Mongoose had become a bit of a loose cannon lately, he was treading on very thin ice.
"What's going on in here?" Michael asked sternly. He had no place for such outbursts in his office.
"That Fowley bastard," spitted Kevin like a rabid dog, "is actually taking that lying bitch seriously."
"I'm sorry?" Michael replied apalled.
"That Stratford bitch and her slut daughter," Kevin howled, "have lost my son his baseball scholarship to college."
"Mr Mongoose, I'll have you know you are talking about my youngest daughter's best friend. A girl I know well and happen to think is a fine young lady and her mother is one of the dearest, kindest and hard working women I have ever met and a true credit to her sex. Now I don't know what reason they would have to complain about your son but I can only surmise that it must be true."
"They are both a couple of lying, diseased whores," Kevin roared back.
"Mr Mongoose leave this office immidiately," Michael said in a low and serious voice, "and don't ever bother coming back."
Kevin was in a state of insanity, muttering to himself as he paced from room to room taking stock of his posessions.
"What's going on?" Peter ventured to ask.
"We're leaving," Kevin replied shortly. "Pack a bag, I expect to see you in the car in an hour."
He rushed out of the room leaving his wife and son shocked.
"Is he serious?" Peter asked.
Olivia didn't care, she would be glad to leave this town behind that had caused her nothing but heartache. There was a chance for a new start.
"Go pack," she said firmly, "we might not be back for a while."
Every gossip in Castle Rock was buzzing the next day at the news that the Mongoose family had up and moved overnight. Some claimed they had skipped town to avoid heavy debt or either Olivia or Kevin embroiled in a passionate love affair that was discovered by their spouse. Other less scandalous stories had them relocated to Vermont and living with relatives.
Ace leaned on the hood of his car and lit a cigarette. He had heard the news all over town. He hadn't cared to much for the specifics but concerntrated on one indisputable fact alone. Mongoose was gone and if there was no more Mongoose, then there was no more problem.
Officer Brown swore as he punched the door. He regretted it instantly as pain shot up his arm forcing him to sit down where he continued swearing a bit more. With the Mongooses gone so to went their complaints against the Cobras. He had planned to bring another one in today but now he had no grounds.
"Are you alright?" Fowley asked him.
"Fantastic," he muttered back.
Fowley grinned as he headed toward his car. His colleague would be feeling the dissapointment of losing his only chance to bully some teenagers for a while. But he for one couldn't care less. He was glad to be out of the station on back on the road where there were plenty of pretty girls to pull over.
