An Honest days work.
Inside Duncan's Apartment in old Saint Marks. The phone on the wall of the kitchen rings. Duncan gets up from the bed and answers it. "Hello?" "Hey Kid, need ya to get up here." The phone clicks. Duncan hangs up the phone and gets dressed in the suit he had purchased recently. He walks outside and gets in his car.
At the mansion. Duncan parks his car and walks up the outdoor stairs up the patio of the mansion where Toni is sitting at a picnic table smoking a cigar. Duncan walks over to the table. "Take a seat." Toni says, Duncan sits down. "So I need to go check in on the fights. We're heading to mid Towson New liberty." Toni and Duncan get up from the picnic table and walk down a set stairs into an attached garage. The men get into a Lincoln town car.
On the way to the hights in New Liberty the car is stoped at a red light. Toni looks at the back of Duncan's s head and says "So, you on again or off again with that goth girl? What was her name?" "You mean Gwen?" "Yeah." "We're dating. She lives in the city." "What's she do for work?" "She's a teacher." "A teacher. Shit. That's a hard profession. I wasn't the best student. Judging by what you're doing now you weren't either." "No, I wasn't I had a juvie education." Duncan say as he adjusts the review mirror to look at Don Cipriotti. The light turns green. Duncan drives coward into New Liberty.
After crossing the bridge they arrive in the heights. "You gotta park and walk." Toni says. Duncan parks the car outside an apartment complex. The men get out out of the car and walk two blocks. The men walk down an alley, Duncan following Toni. Toni stops at a door and bangs on it. The slat in the door opens. "Mr. Cipriotti." A man behind the door says. Slamming the slot shut locks begin to turn and the door opens. Tony walks in with Duncan following behind. "Who the fuck is this!?" The man standing by the door asks. "My Driver." The Don says in a strong tone. Both men walk down the stairs to and stop in front of a cage. Standing in front of the cage, Duncan watches as the two fighters enter. A tall white man with no shirt black jeans and white sneakers with a wing tattoo on his arm and a black man wearing a red tshirt and black jeans and a pair of tan boots. "Last call." A man with a gravely voice yells sitting behind a desk and in front of a chalk board. The bell rings and the men start running at each other. The white man lands a shot to the gut as black man fails to connect on an uppercut. The men keep swapping low for blow as Toni walks over to Duncan. "So what do you make of the fight?" "Pretty evenly matched." Duncan says not taking his eyes off the fight. "You're up next." Toni says. Duncan looks at Toni "I'm fucking with you." Toni says. "Duncan exasperated Thank fuck." "Nah, there's a new kid up next. He just got let out of Alderney correctional." The cage opens up as the white man walks out clutching his chest. "New to the arena and fresh out of Alderney correctional is Donnie Dogs." The man behind the desk announces. Duncan walks over to the desk. "You want in on the action driver boy?" "Five on dogs." Duncan says as he throws down the dollars on the table. He walks over to where he was standing. The bell rings. "Did you just bet on the fight?" "Yeah, what of it? Thought it'd be some easy scratch." Duncan says. "Shit kid that'll be a nice pay day." Donnie panda a knock out blow sending the black man on his back. The Don and Duncan walk over to the desk. Duncan sticks his hand out as the bookie pays him and the Don.
In the car on the way back to Toni's mansion. "Look kid, you can't go back there without me, aesthetics. That being said, whatcha gonna do with your wings?" Duncan looks at the Don in the mirror and says "I was going to take Gwen out for a night on the town." "She like Italian? Nah never mind. You got plans?" "Yeah. I was going to take her out to the sixty- ninth street diner and then bowling." "Just like you were teenagers." The Don says. They proceed to Saint Marks in old Liberty. "Shit o wish we could've done this when we were teenagers. I was fucking broke and in juvie." "You're playing hide the pencil in the showers weren't you?" "Not my thing man."
Later that night in hove beach. Duncan parks his car and walks into a building with two lower apartments and one upper apartment. He walks up the stairs and knocks on the door. A blue haired woman wearing a black dress and fishnets on her arms opens the door to a modest but clean apartment. "Come on in." "Gwen, baby,I can get you some where a little bit better than this place." "It's fine. They just remodeled the block. They said that this place burned due to an electrical fire." Gwen walks into the hallway pulling the door behind her. She pulls s her key into the door and locks the door. They walk out of the building down the street and around the corner. "There's some charm to this place." Gwen says as she looks at the diner. "Yeah. The food ain't half bad either."
Inside the restaurant the couple sits with plates of food in front of them. "So how is work?" Duncan asks "Eh, it's okay. This American life is different here, the kids all want to be sports stars or gangsters. How's work Keith you?" "It's okay. I'm a driver now and my boss cares. It's strange y'know. He was asking about you." "You think he wants you to stay on the straight and narrow?" "Yeah. He has me wearing a suit and tie." Duncan puts his money on the table as Gwen and him begin to leave. As Duncan walks towards the door a man stops him. With a thick Russian accent the man says "Hey were at the fights in the heights." "Nah. I think you got me confused with someone else." Duncan says as he rushes out the door with Gwen. They walk back to her apartment and get in the charger. "What was that about?" "Nothing." "You left pretty fast for nothing." Duncan starts the car and says "that guy might have wanted to start a fight." "Oh aren't we mature." "Aw c'mon. You know I'm not about that life anymore."
The car drives the board walk. "Board walk bowling? Aren't we getting old?" Gwen asks in a sarcastic tone. "We are. When I first met you, to me, a million dollars was a lot of money. Now, not so much. I see a lot of millionaires." "Don't tell me that a million dollars wouldn't change your life?" "Oh it would, but it would sustain my life here."
After bowling for a few hours, Duncan and Gwen return to her apartment. "You want to come in?" Gwen asks. "I can't stay long, you know work calls."
