Joy
slowly turned around and right there in front of her was a young man
that looked like in his late teens, wearing a black shirt with a
skull on it, black jeans, looks strong, has brown hair with blond
streaks, and his eyes are blue. Joy looked him up and down and then
her mind kicked in, now she knows why he looked familiar.
"Mike?"
she asked softly.
"Yes, Joy it's me Mike your boyfriend,"
he said.
But I thought you, were died. We saw you at the funeral
being buried," Joy said.
"Yes, you did, but it was someone
else who looks like me but it wasn't. His name was John Johnson, he
was a Scotsman and died of a gun wound."
"Then what happened
to you?" she said.
"Well, better start with the accident. The
accident was bad, but long before the ambulance came, my friends were
driving by and saw my car so they stopped and see if I was all right.
I was all right other then a broken leg and a few cuts and bruises.
Then all of a sudden a black ford came by and saw the car in the
ditch (my friend's car on the side) and the guy had a cell phone so
he called the ambulance and then came to see if I was all right. He
Didn't see my friends and he thought I was unconscious but he saw
that there was a bag of money with $50 000 so he took it before the
ambulance got there and put it in his car and came back to check up
on me he never saw my friends but my friends saw the whole thing from
where they were hiding and told me the whole thing when I woke up,
but I'm getting ahead of myself."
"The ambulance came and
took me to the hospital and I stayed there for a couple of weeks,
then my friends came alone to get me out. They came in with John, but
they did a good job on covering the wound up and came in with him as
a good friend of mine. When the nurse and the doctor left, we quickly
switched. John had on my hospital gown and I had on his clothes. "
"We finished 2 min before the nurse and the doctor came back in
and told us that I should get some sleep. So we left and went on to
the car and they found a hideout where nobody goes and left me there
with food, water, clothes, and blench (so I can blench my hair, so no
one can recognize me when I was well enough)."
"They brought
me food once a week so I won't die of starvation. When I was well
enough I went to get a job nobody recognized me. I was working at a
restaurant where you guys go there everyday, mostly Joy and Andrew."
He paused and looked at Joy and said "Do you remember that kid
with long blond hair and who smells really bad?"
"Yes, I
remember. You mean your him?" she said.
"Yes it was when I
forgot to go to the stream to bathe in."
"I thought you
looked familiar in the face I mean but I couldn't place it."
There was silence for a few minutes then Andrew broke the
silence. "Why did you kill the guy in the black ford?"
"Because
he owed me $50 000," answered Mike.
"But your friends killed
John Johnson wasn't he the one that took the money."
"Oh
no, he didn't take the money my friends just picked him up on the
street. The guy in the black ford was actually an enemy of mine he
know that was my car and he know the job that I worked at paid $10
000 a year and I have enough money to buy a house and other stuff for
me and Joy when we finished school. I was actually on my way to Joy's
house when the crash happened."
Joy looked at Mike with a
surprise a look on her face and said, " So that's why you
cancelled the dates."
"Yes, that's why."
They looked
at each others eyes and everything was gone the only sound they heard
was the sound of their beating hearts and the howling of the wind
outside against the house.
Then Mike said "Joy come with me so
we and get married and have kids of our own."
"No"
"What
did you say?"
"No"
"Why?"
"Cause you killed
someone and I'm going out with someone else and I love someone
else."
"Who?"
Joy looked at Andrew "Andrew"
Mike
looked at Andrew "Your going out with my girlfriend, I thought we
were friends?"
"We thought you were died." Andrew
said.
"So she could of waited or checked to see if it was really
me in there." Mike yelled at Andrew.
"How are we supposed to
know that that wasn't you? We believed what the doctor said."
"Oh boy, this is going absolutely know where. Joy your coming
with me like it or not cause if you don't" he pointed the gun at
Andrews head " I'm going to blow his fucking head off."
Joy
was quite because she has know idea what to do she doesn't want
Andrew killed yet she doesn't want to go with Mike either.
"I'll
give you to the count of five and if you don't answer I'll just
shoot him and take you with me. One…" Mike started counting.
Joy
looked at Andrew, then at Mike. What should I do? She thought to
herself.
"Two…"
Then she saw Lance behind Mike and he
made a pushing jester and turned his head to Jason.
"Three…"
Joy got the idea when she says no (again) and when he reaches five
was going to push Mike…
"Four…"
…and Jason was
going to grab his gun and try to it out of his hand.
"Five…
Times up Joy. Say goodbye to your boyfriend." he started to pull
the trigger when Joy said "Wait."
"What Joy can't you see
I'm going to kill?"
"Yes, I can see that, but does your
folks know you're here?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Cause
if they knew I was still freaking alive they would put it in the
newspaper and then the police dig up the body and find out the
truth."
"Oh."
"Listen Joy, your only saying that to
stall me. Well I'm not going to listen to you till I'm done with
your boyfriend."
Mike pointed the gun at Andrew and before he
pulled the trigger, Lance grabbed Mike and Jason grabbed the gun, but
it went off accidentally shoot Diane in the leg. Diane screamed and
clutched her leg and crumbled to the floor. As the boys continued to
fight, Joy and Jill went to Diane.
Someone was in the neighborhood and called the police and the ambulance on her cell phone when she heard the shoot.
Joy and Jill used what they
could find to stop the bleeding but there wasn't much is the house,
so they had piece of Joy's shirt and Jill's belt to keep it there
and to stop the bleeding. Joy and Jill stayed with her most through
the whole thing.
On the other hand the boys are still fighting
over the gun and that it was three against one, but Mike took them on
and almost had the gun a few times, but then Lance would kick the gun
out if his hand and the fight starts again. It went on for a few
seconds, then Joy saw the gun skidded across the floor and went to
get the gun, but Mike went after it also.
Mike reached the gun
first and Joy slammed into him trying to stop when Mike grabbed the
gun, but it was to late cause when she slammed into him he grabbed
her and but the gun to her head.
"One more move and I'll blow
her fucking brains out, but I won't if you stay were you are till
we are gone and when you hear the car going."
The boys stopped
where they were Jill and Diane was looking at Mike like he was some
kind of nut.
When everybody stopped Mike backed away with Joy in
front of him with the gun still pointed at her head.
When they
reached the car Mike pushed Joy through, climbed in and started the
car and went to who knows where.
Meanwhile back at the house
the boys went outside to see if they can get him, but all they saw
was the license plate TIG 158. As they walked back in they heard the
sirens. When Lance looked out the window and he saw the police cars
and an ambulance and the officers were talking to a girl about her
mid-forties, gray or starting to turn gray hair, wearing a hat and an
overcoat. When the officers were done they started toward the house.
"Guys we've got company?" Lance said.
Andrew and Jason
looked out the window "What should we do? Stay or leave?" Jason
asked, but Andrew wasn't paying attention because he was thinking
of Joy. Will she be O.K? Will he kill her? Will take her back?"
"Andrew" Jason said a little louder. Andrew came back to
reality.
"Sorry, what did you say?" he asked.
"I said
what should we do? Stay or leave?"
"I think we should stay
and tell them what happened."
"O.K. we'll stay."
They
were walking back to Diane when all of a sudden the door was slammed
back.
