Secret Fields

Chapter 6

Due to my energy drain from my previous night of anger and the next day spent laughing hysterically, it was not an exaggeration to say that I passed out right when I got off the phone with Kik. I slumbered on my couch, giggling through the night until the sun shone in through the window. With a snort of annoyance, I rolled over to get it out of my eyes. But just as I got comfortable again, I remembered Kik's voice, "…tomorrow at nine meet me at the diner…" My eyes shot open to look at the clock which said ten thirty.

"Fuck!" I shouted as I ran for the door. That's when I saw that it was open with a cane leaning up against it. Cautious, I looked outside and saw that my car's door was open while it was still running. Slowly I walked over to it and looked around inside. Nothing was unusual, until my CD player started playing. Of course it was another Sting song, and it said:

Sister moon will be my guide
In your blue blue shadows I would hide
All good people asleep tonight
I'm all by myself in your silver light
I would gaze at your face the whole night through
I'd go out of my mind, but for you

"English bastard," I said as I shut the car off and walked back to my house. I stood there staring at the cane that was propped on the open door. It was black and had a gold cobra head at the top of it. I picked it up and noticed how the balance was. As I observed the head of the cane, I realized that it unscrewed to hide a sword inside.

After screwing the sword back in, I grabbed it, closed the door and drove away.

I pulled into the diner and walked in, carrying the cane in my hand. I looked around the place to see if I could see Kik waiting for me.

"Have you seen anyone looking for me?" I asked the waitress as I walked over to the counter.

"Nope," was her reply.

I ordered a coffee and sat and waited there at the counter for a little while. I noticed a kid stocking the cigarette container with Marlboro cigarettes. He looked over at me, wondering why I was staring at them.

"Wanna pack?" he asked, holding one out.

I snatched it from his hand almost before he could blink. "You bet your preteen ass I do!"

Ten cigarettes later, I decided to head back home. On the road to my house, I passed a gas station. However it wasn't the gas station that caught my attention, it was who was pumping gas into his car. I pulled in to get a better view of the guy, and it was exactly who I thought it was.

"What the hell do you want, Orlando?" I yelled getting out of my car.

"I think you know why I'm here," he said back to me, straightening. He lifted an eyebrow and tried to stare me down, but it basically looked like he'd spotted a half-dozen pirate zombies milling about.

"Maybe I do…" I walked up to him and looked him straight in the eye.

Suddenly he smiled, and lifted his hands to elaborate his tale. "Ok, so there I was, surrounded by a whole army of orcs-"

"No!" I cut him off. "I don't think you came up here just to tell me one of your three hour 'Bored of the Rings' stories. I think you came up here to intimidate me."

"Well it's not my fault if the story is grandiose, blockbuster, and has a musical track by Enya!" he said. "Anyone would be intimidated by a project of that scale!"

"We both know this whole thing is your fault." I poked him in the chest, forcing him to back up. "But you see Orlando, I don't like intimidation. It makes me feel…like I just read four yaoi stories." With that I pushed him. When he got his balance back, he started to take a swing at me. That's when I took an arrow, stabbed him in the eye, pulled it out again and shot him with it!

He rolled around on the ground like … aw hell, I'm running out of orc jokes …

"Bummer Bloom," I said as I walked over to my car and drove away.

When I finally got back to my house, I sat there for awhile. I looked back at the clock and it told me that it was quarter after twelve.

"Well, Kik said that they were delivering my story at three, so I guess I have some time to kill," I said out loud to myself. That's when I figured that I would take a walk.

As I walked down my usual trail, I realized that I was just about to pass the bench that I saw Sting sitting the last time I walked this way. Something was different. Mr. Bo-Jangles' truck was sitting on the side of the road.

Curiously, I walked over to it. I saw Mr. Bo-Jangles sitting in the driver's seat and Kik Yoas in the back. Relieved, I walked over.

"Hey, I'm sorry I missed you guys at the diner…" I trailed off after seeing the horrible sight inside the car. They were both duct taped to there seats and there eyes held open with duct tape as well. Pages upon pages of yaoi were sitting in front of them. My vision started to get blurry after witnessing the carnage. Stumbling a bit, I fainted.

Hello readers,

Some of you may be wondering how I came across a bow and arrow in this chapter.

Yeah…about that…well…goodnight folks!