While Mr. Freeman and Mr. Ryder were talking to Moss about the lists of fines and violations that would be presented to them if they were caught; Mr. Crosswire, Frensky and Buck had decided to take a trip to a used car lot, there were two cars on the list, a aardvark man wearing a tacky looking suit looked at Ed and Buck they were both wearing complete disguises.. He thought to himself as he saw them both, "Two fools"
Fools indeed, Mr. Crosswire was wearing a white suit with a dodgy collar, white trousers with massive flares. He heard Stayin' Alive play and he strut into the car dealership.
Buck looked at him, and he was wearing was wearing a denim cowboy hat, denim shirt and denim pants of the color black.
He walked out, "What brings you here?"
Mr. Crosswire talked, "I am interested in the De Tomaso Magusta."
"$75000. But I recommend something like a 1981 Honda."
"Can I test drive the De Tomaso?"
"I see no harm; you are trustworthy."
Ed turned to Buck, "Zed?"
"I want to try the 2002 Toyota Supra Mark 4!" Buck replied calmly.
The seedy car salesman made a suggestion, "A pickup truck is more your taste, I am saving that for some teenagers."
"YOU SONOVA!" Buck yelled as he grabbed the collar of the sports jacket he was wearing, "You give me the keys to that Toyota or you are going to be acquainted with why your brains look like!"
"Ok, ok, calm down, I will get the keys for both cars," he had come back with the keys, "Have fun boys."
They both drove off slowly down the road. As they were out of the car owner's line of sight, they had sped off.
Buck was shocked, over 100 clicks in 13 seconds, Mr. Crosswire was taking longer to speed up the car was older but of a sports car type. Police were following them, Freeman yelled in the megaphone, "YOU BOTH ARE UNDER ARREST! PULL OVER IMMEDIATELY!
There was no slowing down; they had quickly driven past the county line.
Both police cars stopped as they saw the sign.
Mr. Crosswire and Buck had dropped off the cars, Mr. Davenport didn't recognize them both, "Who are you?"
"The guys getting the 60 cars," Mr. Crosswire replied as he was annoyed, "We have cars 26 and 27."
Davenport's cigar fell out of his mouth, "Where the hell did you get that Magusta they hadn't been made in 25 years!"
Mr. Crosswire sneered at the hick, "We stole it."
Mr. Crosswire and Buck went to the bathroom; they had changed from their disguises, changed into their original clothes and left, Mr. Frensky was waiting.
Mr. Freeman and Mr. Ryder set up a roadblock, they of course stopped Frensky, he knocked on the window and Ed rolled it down, "Afternoon Ed, have you seen an Italian sports car and a Toyota go into Rockwood?"
Mr. Crosswire lied, "No, we were checking out the scrap yards as we are building some cars."
"I am going to tell you something I told Harry, if you all are involved in the theft of cars, then you will be spending some hard time at Penn State."
Buck chuckled, "Going back to school?"
Ryder nudged Freeman, "It is state pen! Be warned, we are watching you because police never sleep! A police officer always gets his man!"
Mr. Crosswire sighed, "Stop quoting the RCMP and let us get back to Elwood City, because our rights are being violated as we speak."
They allowed them to pass.
"Those assholes are probably stealing the cars," Freeman grumbled.
"Then we haul their asses to jail!" Ryder added.
Before school, Mr. and Mrs. Read had talked to the kids; Mr. Read had a thin layer of peach fuzz forming on his face.
"Arthur, D.W. we need to talk," Mrs. Read said but was interrupted.
"It's Max's fault!" D.W. yelled.
"No, it doesn't have anything to do with him." Mr. Read sighed, "Your mother and I are getting a divorce…"
They both gasped of course.
"Why?" D.W. asked.
"Sometimes parents disagree over certain things and they have to divorce before it turns violent…" Mrs. Read explained, "Now get to school," and she sighed as she went to her fathers.
Arthur sighed as he left with D.W. and they both walked to school.
They had run into Buster, "Hey!"
Arthur sighed sadly.
"What's wrong?"
"My parents got divorced."
"That's too bad…"
"I do wonder if they are going to meet anyone new…" Arthur thought nervously as they continued to walk to school, "First Sue Ellen in shock, now my parents get divorced…"
After school Arthur had visited Sue Ellen, to him she was still on the couch, intervenes hooked up to her, "Any change?"
"She has to eat through a tube, the doctor predicts she will be like this for a while, she hasn't talked… yet."
Sue Ellen talk, I know you have words to say… I know you are in your darkest hour, I know you are going to be nearing deaths door soon, help me help yourself and snap out of this funk!
What's the point, you saw how April died, you saw how others had died to an extent, but less bloody I should just die in peace and hope for a better after life.
Arthur looked at her; she was looking dreadful, he went down to his knees face level with her, "Please get better…"
He grabbed her hand and rubbed it, she hadn't noticed it, but a slight smile formed on her face, she still wasn't talking, or acknowledging Arthur's presence, "Please talk… I know you can…" Arthur had tears welling up in his eyes as he had seen her.
Carla soon came to visit; she had seen that Arthur laid his head on her torso and was crying.
Arthur had so much fun playing DDR with her; these were the most cherished memory that he had when she talked.
They both went to the kitchen for some cookies Mrs. Armstrong had made.
Arthur munched on a cookie, "When will she get better?"
"I don't know, soon I hope…" Mrs. Armstrong replied sadly, "I care for her; I should have listened to her instead of ignoring her."
Arthur sighed sadly, "My parents are getting divorced…"
"That is too bad; they were a lovely couple…"
"I feel it is my fault…"
"No, your father had some urges he needed to get out…"
Meanwhile Mr. Read was at a singles apartment, for now he was setting up when Mr. Armstrong visited, "So David how is it going?"
"Single life is great…" the aardvark man explained.
"You cheated on your wife."
"Let me continue, I get to sleep in a racecar bed do you?"
Mr. Armstrong sighed at Mr. Read's lack of responsibility, "I sleep in a big bed with my wife."
"She took the house, and I have to live here and wait until Nigel comes."
"I will leave you…" Mr. Armstrong stated nervously and he left, moments later Mr. Ratburn came.
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That evening Reno ran into Crosswire Motors, "Oliver! There is a car show coming to Elwood City in three days. 12 of the cars we need are there!"
"Excellent, then we should try and get them all."
"Yea, we will need to," Frensky commented, "Soon my daughter will come home and things will return to normal."
"Yea, this is far from normality, I seen a lot of bad things in my day… Holding a child hostage takes the cake."
"We will get the cars no problem right?" Oliver asked with some slight nervousness in his voice.
"Sure, just as long as we don't set off any alarms or attract any unwanted attention then we should be safe from any police entanglements."
This was the ultimate risk, surely to cause problems, and police to show up, Mr. Crosswire was sitting in his office smoking a cigar with Moss, "Cubans are the best…"
"You said it…" Moss stated as he took a puff of the illicit cigar.
Reno walked in… good ol'… well sort of law abiding Reno, "You both know those cigars are illegal in this country."
"It is of a victory, you have been so helpful," Ed replied with a grin, he opened up a box of his private reserve and pulled one out for Reno, "Smoke?"
"I don't…" Reno rejected the offer, "It is a filthy habit…"
Moss sighed, "Sometimes I don't know about you, you seem a bit fruity for my liking."
Reno was now annoyed, "How would you feel driving a car off a ramp from the top of a parking garage to street level almost blowing the shocks?"
Buck joined in the argument, "We almost got killed by snakes, snakes in a car."
"Not as bad as a pit-bull!" Moss yelled.
"Well you are all a bit well gay for my liking!" Reno argued.
Moss heard that and got in Reno's face, "Hey I am not the one who is whipped, if anyone is gay, you are."
"Well Mr. Read is gay!" Reno yelled because he presumably read Fuzzy Fuzzy Cool and heard that he recently got divorced by Mrs. Read
They all started arguing until Mr. Frensky and Mr. Crosswire intervened.
"That is enough!" Frensky yelled, "Instead of arguing about what happened we should all be going out and getting those cars before Francine dies! And Besides Mr. Read is gay; he got divorced by his wife, and is planning on marrying Mr. Ratburn!"
To Be Continued.
