His dad was already asleep, when he left, if fact he hadn't seen much of his dad. Not that he was trying to avoid, just sotra, worked out that way. If he dad was asleep when JD walked out of the house, he was sure his Harley woke him up, but JD wasn't worried. His dad didn't care where he went as long as he came back. When JD got to the clearing of the woods, Shane and Reese (Fairy) were already there.
Reese was sitting by the fire, trying to make it more impressive for Shane. While Shane smoked a joint, he looked at JD, his back against the tree and his eyes half open.
"You bring your bike?" Shane asked, his eyes were away from JD's looking at the fire, but JD never took his eyes off Shane.
"Yeah,"
"Lets go." Shane said, never once looking up. He knew JD had questions, but they would all be answered in good time, right now Shane wanted his answers from the questions he had sense the first time he saw JD in the hallway. Reese got up and started to come along when Shane turned around and looked at him. "Your not coming. Stay here and watch the fire." The little guy started to protest but Shane slapped him on the side of his head, just once, and Reese sat by the fire, like a sad lost puppy. JD somehow felt nothing for him, not pity, no justice, no happiness, just plain nothing, he wondered if Shane felt the same way too. If it was possible to share the same emotion with someone that you can feel beside you all the time.
They walked out to his bike, JD got on first, and it was obvious that Shane didn't know how to drive a motorcycle; this was JDs first night to the perichareia group known as The Black circle Boys. Shane got on behind, and told JD which way to go. It was a 40 min drive, but JD wanted the silence. He needed to get things in his head sorted out, and Shane never said a word, until they reached it. He told JD to park and they walked into the wood, and down a hill to a disserted old saw mill. They was gravel everywhere on the ground, some old machines left behind, JD doubted they worked. One or two trees were cut down, just lying in the field that surrounded them. It was a half a mile in any direction to any standing tree around. JD looked at Shane, "Why are we here?"
Shane looked around, almost ignoring JDs question, he was about to ask again when he heard Shane take in a deep breath, and started his mataeology. "Back in the olden days my dad was one of those guys that putts the tree on the trucks at mills, still is when there is work around. I used to go up with him, when they needed extra people," Shane smiled, "It was really cool man, wish you could've seen it." He looked at JD before continuing; "There was this big old chain, that you had to wrap around the tree before they would take off and slice off your hand." Shane sighed, "Yeah, now my father just stays in the house, damn drunk. He never goes out anymore." Shane looked at JD as if to say now it's your turn. JD looked out into the distance and then started his story about his father.
"My father works in construction, yep, Big Bud Dean. Bringing every state to a higher state," Shane smiled, he knew those ads. JD was glad he didn't interrupt with that old-line saying 'it must be rough moving around all the time', JD hated that. "I have been to seven different states, seven different schools, and the only thing different is my locker combination. But, I don't know any different, I don't call anywhere home because I won't be there long enough to really get to know the place. Some times I don't even unpack my boxes, but really I don't care. I like moving around, that way I am never caught." JD stopped, he almost let his secret out, Shane heard it though. He knew something was up, but he also knew JD would tell when he is ready so he didn't push him at all.
Shane walked up to JD, "JD, remember that long story? Tell it, now." Shane looked at him and JD felt compelled to do what he asked, so they went over to one of the fallen trees and sat on it, as JD begun to tell his story, Shane watched him patiently, internally gawking at the similarities between their lives.
"When I was living in Texas my mother killed herself by walking into a building 5 seconds before my dad blew it up. She waved at me as the building went down, as I stood there, not believing what she just had done. After that I was moved again for a while before landing in Ohio, before coming here. In the school I went to call Western burg High there was a group called The Heathers. The three most popular girls where in that group, all named Heather, but there was one that didn't belong, her name was Veronica. Automatically Veronica liked me, and one thing turned into another and when I killed her best friend/ worst enemy and too other "friends" of hers, she didn't like me anymore. So I, after trying to blow up the whole school, I faked my own death in front of her, and left town and came here with my dad. That's all she wrote." JD looked at Shane expecting some half-ass look saying he didn't believe him but all he saw was understanding. "What about you?" He watched Shane sit up and readjust before getting into his life story.
"Well, I guess, it all started with Ronnie, my little brother. Ronnie and me were inseperatable, he was the guy who balanced me out you know? Like when it got warm enough me and Ronnie would camp out in the back yard and I would go and want to egg houses, and he's just sit there, wanting to listen to the crickets. So I'd sit there with him, and when I awoke it would be the next morning, you know, whenever I did something bad he would just look at you like he didn't get it, not like he was mad or anything, just he didn't get it. But somewhere Ronnie lost himself, he was my brother and he was breaking the brotherhood, he started to break away from me. He died, later. Then just last year, in my school, this kid came by, called Kyle. Kyle Sullivan, he reminded me so much of my brother. He became one of the black circle boys, along with my old friends, Munn and the old Fairy, Rory. But he couldn't handle the brotherhood, the SCARED brotherhood, so what I did is I killed Fairy, right in front of them. You know what he did; he went and told the cops, damn fuck. I wanted us to be together, all of us, together forever, and he fucked that up. So if we could be bound on earth, we would be bound together in hell, so I killed Munn. And when it came Kyle's turn to die, he tried to kill me, he cut me up pretty badly. I knew he would've killed me so I laired there dead, the next day I heard his family moved back to California, and no one knew what had happened. My father moved two towns over, where everyone knew who I was, but no one heard that they thought I was dead. Everyone back there, cops, teachers, old friends, think I am dead." JD looked at him, it was like looking at your trapped self in another body. JD fully understood Shane, and he knew it was reciprocated back. They just sat there, letting everything sink in, when the beeping of Shane's alarm on the watch went of, it was 1:30am, Shane got up to leave. If they left now they would get back to the circle at 2:10. JD understood this and walked behind Shane, thinking over and over about what he said. Then it hit him; he must have killed his brother. He didn't ask though, for Shane never asked about him. They got on the bike and rode away.
When they got back to the circle fairy was sleeping and the fire was dull, Shane screamed in his ear, and laughed when he woke up with a start. He didn't' hit him or yell at him after that, instead asked if they all wanted to see a late night movie or something. Just then they heard foot steps in the woods. Shane reached into his pocket, where JD was sure he kept some sort of weapon. The bushes parted and in walked Lynn, accompanied by a girl they never saw before, she was blind folded as Lynn had a huge smile on her face from the look of theirs.
