CHAPTER 13

After our little recon mission I dropped Val back at home so she could pick the girls up from school.

I went home for a nap.

If I had to go to this college party, with college guys, and perky college girls with their perky college boobs then I was most definitely going to need some beauty sleep

Like we had planned, Val and I would have dinner at home with mom and whoever she had conned into having dinner with her unmarried daughters then we would head over to the college campus.

I was in toned down slut/badass wear for tonight's adventure. Tight jeans and a nice black tank top with one of those cool racing backs, you know the ones cut like a T that sits between the shoulder blades. It showed off my newly toned arms ( I had bought some hand weights to use when I ran on my new treadmill) It had sequences it was nighttime!

Val on the other hand had gone the with the sophisticated cocktail dress. Barry Morgenstern seemed to like it, but I sent her back upstairs to change reminding her that we there to pick up skips, not pick up.

Dinner was pork chops and green beans, mashed potatoes with banana cake for dessert.

Barry looked sad to see us go, But our mother looked like she might just spend the rest of the night ironing the wallpaper.

Over dinner she had mentioned at least 3 times to both Valerie and me that there were positions open at the button and tampon factories.

I suppose I was lucky that grandma was at a seniors social otherwise she would've wanted to come too

We rolled up about 8:30 I wanted to be there earlier enough that most of the house members would be there but not too many others.

If I remembered correctly these things didn't really start to 10 at the earliest.

That was when it hit

I was going to need back up!

If all went to plan I was going to have 15 FTA's to return to the judicial system tonight.

I called Ranger, who said he would send some of his men around.

Then I called Lula, Connie and Mary Lou.

I made Valerie wait in the car while I had a quick look around. The music had just been turned up, but there didn't seem to be too many people arriving just yet.

It was a large house, and god only knew how many exits it had. I could see into the main living room from one of the downstairs windows, there looked to be some kind of drinking game in progress.

I was having some serious second thoughts about this.

I had just slunk back to the car to tell Val that it was off, when my reinforcements arrived

Maybe it would all work out okay.

Ranger had sent Tank

He stood 6'5 high and 4' wide. All muscle, and he had been trained to use it.

And they called him Tank.

At first I thought it was just because of his size.

Don't get me wrong size counts, but it's all in the name

Thomas Sherman AKA tank, and yes he had heard them all before. He had first picked up the nickname when he joined the army and some bright spark had pointed out his uncanny resemblance to the Sherman tank.

Then they found out his first name was Thomas, as in Thomas the tank engine.

Oh Boy.

Tank had stuck.

I had known him for a year before I even knew he had a real name. Everyone called him Tank.

And Tank had brought some friends with him. All equally as skilled I'm sure. Six big strong intimidating men in all.

But more terrifying were the girls

Lula was in badass black tonight. Black cargo pants, black t'shirt, black beret, black boots and a black 9mm glock.

Connie, who had come from the bowling alley was in her league shirt , which was a beautiful shade of tangerine , with her name in big script across the back and the tightest stone washed jeans I think I had ever seen. I had no idea how a woman of her size could breathe let alone bend in pants that tight. I couldn't see a weapon on Connie, beside her 1 inch acrylic nails, but I was positive she had one stashed somewhere, she usually did.

Mary Lou, god bless her looked like she had been dragged out of bed, She probably had, it was a school night after all. Flannel pyjama pants with smiley clown faces partially hidden under a purple trench coat, her feet stuffed into ankle boots with 3inch stiletto heels. But it was the hair that did her in. Mary Lou had bed head.