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There was no heartbeat, no pulse, no body heat, and no doubt about it. He was dead. His eyes were just glazed over and stared up at nothing and his jaw was hanging open. Tay started to shake violently. "Oh god," she breathed.
"Tay, relax. It's going to be okay,"
"What the hell are we going to tell Mom and Dad?"
"Nothing. And if you give me a hand here, they won't need an explanation.
They carried the body outside and stuffed it in a port-a-potty. Tay was shaking so hard, they almost dropped it on the way.
"Now what," Tay asked. "We can't just close down the port-a-potty,"
"I'll go get Fabio. The juggling act ought to be over by now. He'll no what to do. You watch the port-a-potty,"
"No!" Tay grabbed Raimundo's arm. "What if he tells someone? Raimundo, I could get arrested!"
"Tay, calm down. Fabio won't squeal without a plan of how you won't get arrested. Fabio won't let anything happen to you and neither will I. Everything's going to be okay. Just wait here,"
Tay nodded and sat down in front of the port-a-potty, still shaking.
"I promise, I'll get back as soon as I can. Try to stop shaking or people are going to sense an earthquake," and he ran off to the tent as fast as he did after Grandpa Eric slapped him.
When he came back with Fabio, Tay was still shaking. After Raimundo and Fabio got her to stop, Ri and Tay told Fabio everything. After Fabio peeked inside the port-a-potty, he said "I'm gone for a few hours and find a dead guy in the port-a-potty. If I didn't know the know the whole story, I'd think he'd had some major problems in the basement.
"This isn't funny Fabio!" yelled Raimundo.
"I know it's not. But I wouldn't worry too much. It was self-defense. Though it could cause some bad publicity for the circus. Not many people are going to want to go to a circus with a murdered in it. I know you didn't mean to Tay and that you aren't performing yet, but you know how the paparazzi sometimes twist things around to make a good story. And although it was self-defense, the police are going to be bugging us for awhile,"
Raimundo growled. "Great! Even when he's dead he finds a way to ruin our lives! Why couldn't he have just killed himself instead of coming after us?" he paused for a moment, then asked "Fabio, do you think we could make it look like he killed himself?"
"That's going to be hard to do. How do you think he could purposely crack the back of his head open by himself in a place like this?"
After a moment of thinking, Raimundo said "Well, nobody but the police care that he's gone, and they won't care after a few months because they'll think he killed himself and no one ever found the body. We just have to destroy it somehow. We can't hide it in this city without anyone finding it eventually,"
Then his eyes got wide, and he grinned. "Fabio, do you still have that key to Carlos's food vendor?"
"Yeah, Why?"
Ghost-like or not, I threw up several times while they did it. I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it. In fact, I still wasn't sure I believed it. They actually barbecued Raimundo's dad. Tay didn't puke, but she sure looked like she was. When they were done Fabio said he would take care of the rest, and it was morning now, so Ri and Tay sat at a picnic table and read the funnies like they always did in the morning so no one would get suspicious. A person we didn't know came to the vendor, placed his order, and Fabio gave him something. We didn't take any notice of it until we heard the guy say to Fabio "This is the best darn barbecue I've ever had,"
We all looked over to see him eating Raimundo's dad. As Fabio walked by us to refill the napkin holder on a table, Ri and Tay gave him a wide-eyed 'Are you insane?' look. Fabio smiled and shrugged at them. They looked once more at the man eating the barbecue, and held the funnies in front of their faces so no one could see them giggling.
When Tay's parent's started to come over, the man called them over. After a few minutes of talking to him, they started over to Raimundo and Tay's table with worried expressions on their faces, but then Fabio called to them. After they went over to the trailer lot, Tay asked Raimundo "What do you think is going to happen?"
"After we go to our next stop, our lives are going to go back to the way they were before we saw my dad. You're not going anywhere Tay, and neither am I," and he smiled at her, and she smiled back.
Then Tay's dad came over. He looked more worried than before. "Guys, lets go back to the trailer. We need to talk,"
The next chapter is coming up soon. Until then!