Ok sorry guys for the 6 month wait i'll post more frequently from now on.
work kept me busy
so here's the new chap review as usual.
disclaimer as usual.
(V)
Eddie arrived home and made his way straight to the phone, he dialed Sandy's number which he had found in Theresa's diary and waited for somebody to pick up on the other end…..
Newport
It was 9:00am on a gloomy morning in Newport. Sandy made his way down the stairs ready for another long day at work. He walked into the kitchen, made himself a cream-cheese bagel and sat down on the kitchen stool staring out the window as the heaven's opened up and a light drizzle began to fall. Sandy was contemplating not going into work today when the ringing of the phone interrupted his thoughts. He sighed and picked up the phone obviously unhappy that he was interrupted. He'd had a long night and the last thing on his mind was answering calls this early in the morning.
"Hello Sandy Cohen Speaking" Sandy answered.
"Um Hello Mr. Cohen" Eddie asked nervously. "This is Eddie speaking."
"Eddie? Eddie? I don't know anybody by the name of Eddie." Sandy replied confused.
"I'm Theresa's friend Eddie from Chino" Eddie replied.
"Ah yes Eddie what can I do for you?" Sandy asked finally remembering who Eddie was. The aftershocks of last night were still present in Sandy so he couldn't think clearly that morning.
"Mr. Cohen could you give me Ryan's Phone number I need to talk to him about something important." Eddie asked finally realizing that he could just get Ryan's number and talk to Ryan rather than tell Sandy everything.
Sandy was reluctant to give Eddie Ryan's number at least not until he fully got Eddie's reasons why he wanted Ryan's number. Sandy remembered what had happened last time when Eddie was involved.
"Why do you want his number? What's this about Eddie?" Sandy asked.
Eddie wasn't expecting this response. He thought; stuff it he was going to tell Sandy now.
"Uh Mr. Cohen me and Theresa were driving last night and we had an accident" Eddie muttered.
"What's this got to do with Ryan?" Sandy questioned.
"We hit someone Mr. Cohen" Eddie replied.
"Again what's thi…………………….
"Ryan's dad, we hit Ryan's dad" Eddie stated interrupting Sandy midway through his sentence.
Sandy was shocked at what he was hearing he thought Ryan's father was in jail. He sat there stunned silent until he heard Eddie's voice through the phone.
"Mr. Cohen, Mr. Cohen you there" Eddie asked.
"Yeah I'm here" Sandy replied. "Hold on a minute Eddie I'll be right back.
Sandy went to the cupboard and grabbed a bottle of scotch before picking up the cordless phone and made his way to the couch. He finally had a reason for not going into work today although it wasn't the reason he was looking for. Sandy poured himself a drink and slumped down onto the couch.
"Ok I'm back Eddie you better tell me what happened, I need all the details" Sandy stated solemnly.
"Ok Mr. Cohen" Eddie replied. It all started around 9 last night…………………
"We were at a party I was ready to leave. I'll begin from there" Eddie told Sandy.
Eddie walked into the room of a run down house looking for Theresa, there was loud music blaring from the cheap sound system. After looking around all over the place Eddie finally found Theresa sitting at the kitchen table talking to bunch of girls he barely knew smoking a joint.
"Let's go Theresa" Eddie said.
Apparently she hadn't heard what Eddie had said.
"Theresa let's go now" Eddie stressed out loudly.
"10 minutes" Theresa finally replied.
"NO! Now I got to start work early tomorrow" Eddie demanded.
"NO!" Theresa shrieked.
Eddie had heard enough he walked around the table and roughly grabbed Theresa's wrist and pulled her to her feet, he started pulling her towards the exit.
Theresa was stumbling behind Eddie.
"Let me go Eddie" Theresa screamed. "You're hurting me."
"Fine but we are leaving now" Eddie replied releasing his death grip on her wrist.
Theresa walked back into the kitchen angrily, grabbed her purse then made her way outside.
Eddie followed her out and got to the car.
"Get in" he demanded.
Theresa got into the car slamming the door shut behind her.
Eddie slowly began to pull away from the curb when he heard his name being called.
"Eddie man wait up" Mike called.
Mike walked up to the car and peered into the drive side window.
"Hey man what's up" Eddie asked.
"Can I catch a ride with you guys" Mike directed at Theresa.
"Sure man get in" Eddie replied.
Mike jumped into the back seat of the car as Eddie drove towards home.
"I'll drop Theresa at home first then I'll drop you off" Eddie stated.
"Sure man whatever" Mike replied.
Eddie had been driving for a few minutes when a light sprinkle began to fall upon them suddenly turning into a downpour drenching the roads in a slick film of water.
Meanwhile Theresa had been fidgeting impatiently with her purse when she got the sudden urge to turn on the radio mainly to overcome her anger towards Eddie, but also to quell the sound of rain which was hammering down on the metal roof of their beat- up car.
A few moments later Eddie was getting frustrated with Theresa so he switched off the radio.
"What's your problem"? Theresa screamed towards Eddie.
"You"! Eddie replied.
"What did I do?" Theresa asked shocked.
"You never listen to me, you do whatever you want. Well I'm not going to take your shit anymore Theresa". Eddie screamed back at Theresa taking his eyes of the road momentarily.
"Yeah well I'm not the one being a big asshole" Theresa screamed towards Eddie.
"Shut the F
"WATCH OUT!" Mike screamed from the back seat interrupting Eddie mid sentence.
Eddie quickly looked towards Mike then followed Mike's gaze towards the front of the car nearly snapping his neck with the sudden movement. Eddie's eyes shot out of their sockets in pure fear at what he saw in front of him. There was a man crossing the road as the rain continued to thunder down.
Eddie reacted instinctively and slammed his foot down on the brake. The tires squealed in protest as the brakes locked up. The car began to slide sideways on the wet asphalt, Eddie tried correcting the slide but it was no use the car was out of control. All Eddie could do was watch what was happening, everything moved in slow motion in his mind.
The man looked towards the car approaching him he was frozen on the spot. The head-lights glaring at him blinding him.
Eddie was focused on the man's eyes it was as if time stood still, all he could see was the man's eyes change from a look of surprise as the car slid towards him to a look of shock as the car got closer to a look of pure fear as the car was about to collide with him.
Suddenly time sped up for Eddie all he saw was the man colliding with the car flying into the air and his body smashing face first into the windscreen. The car came to a abrupt halt as the man's body rolled of the hood and onto the wet road.
Eddie sat solemnly in the driver's seat staring out of the smashed windscreen which now had streaks of dark red blood being washed away by the rain.
Theresa sat in her seat in shock not knowing what to do.
Eddie silently opened his door and stepped out into the rain, the other two following his movements. Eddie was getting drenched but that didn't concern him at the moment, he moved towards the front of the car.
All three of them reached the front of the car simultaneously what they saw scared them beyond belief.
The cars headlights were illuminating the body of a man lying on the road.
Eddie bent down towards the man and nudged him with his foot. He got no response; the man was lying on the ground stiff as a corpse heavy rain pelting down upon him.
The man's upper body was surrounded by a dark red puddle of his blood mixed with the rain water both were flowing freely towards the nearest drain.
Eddie could see a deep gash on the man's forehead the skin had peeled away showing the snow white of the man's skull. His right leg was bent at an obscure angle he could tell that it was severely broken, there were also various injuries here and there all over his body.
Eddie knew the man wouldn't survive long if he wasn't already gone he shuddered at this thought.
"You ok mister" Eddie muttered at the man.
Mike knelt down beside Eddie and gently grasped the man's shoulder and lightly shook him.
"Mister Can you hear me? We didn't see you crossing the road!" Eddie asked the man.
"I don't think he can hear us I think he's dead" Mike said barely above a whisper.
"Do either of you know C.P.R" Eddie asked
"What's c.p.r gonna do he's dead" Mike said while lifting up the man's arm and letting it fall back on the wet road with a splash.
"We don't know that, we have to get him to a hospital" Eddie stated.
"THE HOSPITAL" "Are you fucking nuts or something He's dead you get it HE'S DEAD" Mike yelled towards Eddie.
"Besides We can't take him to the hospital even if he's alive someone might see us dropping him of and if we take him in they'll ask questions which will lead to them taking tests and all of us ending up in the cells on multiple charges". "I don't know about you but I sure as hell don't want to spend the next twenty years locked up in some hell-hole" Mike said.
"Alright smart-ass you got any brilliant ideas" Eddie directed towards Mike.
"No but I'll come up with something" Mike replied.
Theresa had been standing there thinking about what was going to happen to her if they got caught. She knew she couldn't let that happen at any cost. She suddenly came up with an idea that might just save them all.
Meanwhile Mike suddenly got an urge to find out who the man was; he reached for the man's body……
"What are you doing" Eddie asked.
"I'm getting his wallet"
"You're going to take his money now"
"No you idiot I'm trying to find out who he is".
Mike continued to maneuver the man's body until he could see the man's back pant pocket he reached into the pocket and pulled out a worn leather black wallet.
Eddie snatched the wallet from his hand's and roughly pulled it open, a folded piece of paper fell out onto the wet road.
"Who is he" mike asked anxiously.
Eddie pulled out the driver's license and read the details.
"DAVE ATWOOD" Eddie replied dropping the wallet in shock.
Theresa heard the name and stepped back as fear gripped her entire body as if she had seen a ghost. Now more than ever she was determined to get out of there and not get caught.
Mike didn't know who Dave was so he was the first to notice the folded piece of paper on the ground. He picked up the paper and unfolded it the ink was getting smudged by the rain water, he read the paper it was a parole form.
"Hey guys this note says this guy was released from the penitentiary earlier today 4 hours ago".
"Let's get out of here before someone drives by and sees us" Theresa said.
"We can't just leave him on the road" Eddie replied getting more nervous as the minutes passed.
Theresa was getting restless "Fine" "Pick him up" she directed.
"What"
"You and Mike pick him up, you grab his arms and mike you grab his legs"
"Where are we taking him" Eddie asked.
"Do you see that alley, there's a dumpster near the front of it put him behind the dumpster". "Someone's bound to walk there sooner or later they'll see him and THEY'LL help him". Theresa stated
"His leg's broken I can't lift him up" Mike stated.
"Just grab his pant's you've got 10 meters to carry him and hurry up we have to get out of here" Theresa replied.
Theresa went back and sat in the car and waited breathing in and out deeply while Eddie and Mike carried Dave to the alley.
"Where do you want to put him" Eddie asked Mike once they had reached the dumpster.
"Let's just drop him here" Mike replied.
"Ok". They both dropped the body simultaneously and could hear something break in Dave's body when it landed on the ground with a thump.
Eddie winced at the thought of what might have broken in Dave's body.
"Let's go" Mike stated.
Eddie and Mike made there way to the car when they arrived they got in and drove away completely silenced hoping the incident's of that night would never be heard of again.
Little did they know that someone had seen and heard everything.
"So that's about it Mr. Cohen" Eddie stated. "I don't know what happened to him after that, we were scared so we just left him there and took off".
"You just left him there?" Sandy Asked stunned.
"Like I said Mr. Cohen we were scared we didn't know if he was alive or dead and we didn't want to be stuck there incase someone saw us so we took off." Eddie replied nervously.
"You weren't scared when you were just standing there, you weren't scared when you carried him away and you sure as hell weren't scared when he lay there dying" Sandy yelled fuming.
"All you cared about was that your sorry ass wasn't caught" Sandy stated.
"That's not true Mr. Cohen it was an accident we didn't know we were going to hit someone" Eddie replied.
"An Ambulance Eddie! You should have called an Ambulance".
"We weren't thinking about that".
"That's right you weren't thinking" Sandy yelled at Eddie completely frustrated.
Eddie began to think that calling Sandy wasn't such a good idea. He would have been better off not telling anybody. Who knew where this could go.
"Are you sure the man you hit was Ryan's dad Eddie"? Sandy asked.
"Yes Mr. Cohen" Eddie replied.
"Ok we can't do anything now do you remember where you left him?"
"Yes"
"Alright Eddie we'll deal with this today. I know a couple of guys in the Chino P.D they can help us find out what happened to him".
"Mr. Cohen aren't you going to tell Ryan" Eddie asked.
"Not yet not until I know everything". "I'll meet you at the corner of Dwight Street and Wilkes parade in Chino in about 2 hours, you got that Eddie?" Sandy asked.
"Alright Mr. Cohen see you then Bye". Eddie replied while hanging up.
Sandy turned off the phone and gulped down another shot of his whisky. This was going to end up as one of the worst days of his life. He finally had a legit excuse for not going into work today. He slowly got up and walked upstairs to change out of his work clothes.
10 minutes later Sandy was contemplating whether to call Kirsten or not he decided to call her when he had more information, he made his way out of the house towards his car headed towards Chino and Eddie.
Dave's last moments
Dave's eyes blinked several times before opening he felt a splitting headache take over him. He could feel that his ribs were broken because he was having some difficulty breathing. He was dazed as to where he was all he could see was that he was lying on the ground next to a dumpster.
Dave suddenly winced in pain as a drop of water fell from the sky landing on his forehead it felt like someone had dropped acid on him. Moments later the drop of rain turned into a few drops then turned into a downpour.
Dave screamed as an excruciating bolt of pain surged through his body while the relentless downpour kept hammering down upon Dave's helpless body.
Dave rolled onto his side trying to dull the pain he knew he had to find cover and get some help he couldn't remember what had happened since he left the penitentiary.
Dave still hadn't realized the extent of his injuries or how significant his blood loss had been he latched onto the side of the dumpster and pulled himself up, suddenly he felt dizzy and a wave of nausea washed over him however he knew he had to get some help.
He stepped out onto his right foot and felt his leg crumble beneath him as he fell to the ground with a thud. Dave held onto his right thigh as he screamed in agony for someone to help him. He felt a bitter taste in his mouth as he spat out the blood he knew he couldn't think about the pain right now he had to somehow reach the street which was 3 meters away. Hell he had to find his family again there was so much hanging on him reaching the curb.
Dave stretched out his hand and grasped onto the wet concrete and heaved his body forward pushing on his left leg, he was slowly making his way toward the curb inch by inch however he was loosing all strength fast. He knew he was running out of time.
He decided to rest completely unaware of the amount of blood he was loosing or the amount of blood he had lost. He closed his eyes and thought about meeting his family again and seeing his sons for the first time in 10 years. The loss of blood caused Dave to fall into unconsciousness never to wake up again.
To be continued...
Ok so that was it now review and tell me whether eddie should get into trouble or not
later
dandyr