Mary Merrill
Chapter three: Chopper
"Hey, you guys been watching the 'Mickey Mouse Club' lately?" Teddy asked as I came back from filling my canteen up with fresh, oh so luxurious water.
"Yeah." everyone said together. Me and Chris looked at each other then looked at Gordie.
"I think Annette's tits are getting bigger." I groaned. They know I hated it when they talk about girls tits.
"Think so?"
"Yeah, I think so."
"Yeah, I think he's right. I've been noticing lately that the 'A' and the 'E' are starting to bend around the sides." there was laughter all around then out of the blue Teddy said something that I would kill him for later.
"I think Mary's tits are getting bigger too, I mean look at 'em babies." Chris's eyes were wide and he and Gordie were chocking on water they were drinking from their canteens. I flushed different colures and slapped his head.
"Annette's tits are great." thank you Vern!
"Yeah."
"This is really a good time." Vern said quietly.
"The most."
"Yeah."
"A blast." There was a longish pause. I don't think Vern didn't just mean being off-limits inside the junkyard, or fudging on our folks, or going on a hike up the railroad tracks to Harlow. He meant those things, but it seems to me now it was more, and we all knew it. Everything was there and around us. We knew exactly who we were, and exactly where we were going. It was grand. Teddy blew water all over Vern. Vern attempted to dry off.
"Great. Spit at the fat kid. Real good." he paused to wipe his face, "hey Gordie, what time is it?"
"Umm, it's quarter after one."
"We better go get the food. The junkyard opens at three. Chopper will be here." obviously Vern was scared of Chopper and stupid Milo what's-his-face.
"Ooh. Sic balls!" Chris teased.
"You go. You can pick us up on the way back." Teddy said, laughing his small balls off.
"I'm not going alone. We should all go." no one really agreed with him.
"I'm stayin' right here."
"Yeah, man I'm not goin'. I'm not goin' all the way out there." Chris said, shaking his head back and forth. He wrapped his arms around his frame and stared at the rest of us.
"Girls, girls, girls, cool it. We'll flip for it." all of us took out a nickel. I was scared to say at least, people always talked about Chopper. What happened if Milo taught him to sic tits?
"Okay. Odd man goes?"
"That's you, Gordie. Odd as a cod." I glared at Teddy.
"Why does the queer queen get the last word in?" Teddy glared back at me. We never got along ever since grade school when he pulled my pig tails and stole my chocolate chip cookies; of course back then Ace used to bet that pussy up for me because I was always scared of getting hit by a boy, even that queer queen. Gordie shook his head.
"Flip or eat lead." everyone counted to three and then we all flipped our coins. I was shaking at this point and I think Chris noticed because before we compared he patted me on the back in a friendly way. We all had tails.
"Five tails! Oh Jesus man, that's a goocher!" Vern yelled out. He was scared out of his pants, looked like he was going to shit them; I started to freak out.
"Come on, Vern. That doesn't mean anything! Let's go again." Chris said, glancing once over towards me and back to Vern.
"No man. No man. A goocher—that's really bad! You remember when Clint Bracken and those guys got wiped-out on Weed Hill in Durham? Billy told me they was flippin' for beers and they came up with a goocher just before they got into the car, and BANG! They all got totaled! I don't like this. Sincerely." Vern said, his chubby cheeks plumping out again as he huffed and puffed.
"Verno! Nobody believes that crap about moons and goochers, it's baby stuff! Now come on, flip again." I stared at him.
"So your callin' me baby?" I asked, my face growing red. Teddy smirked towards me, showing some teeth like an animal.
"So I can call you baby then?" I smacked him on the back of the head and another one for the comment on my tits earlier.
"I'll take that as a 'no'." we all counted again and flipped; well all except chub boy.
"You gonna flip, or not?!" Teddy screamed at Vern.
"Come on, Vern. We don't have all day." Chris added on. As Vern flipped, we all compared our nickels.
"You lose, Gordie! He-he-he-he! Gordie loses! Ol' Gordie just screwed the pooch!" Teddy laughed out, wiping a tear away.
"Does the word retarded mean anything to you?" Teddy shook his head.
"Gordie, go get the provisions, you morphodite." Teddy replied, not wanting to argue in front of me.
"Don't call me any of your mother's pet names." Gordie snapped back getting off the dirt.
"What a wet end you are, Lachance!"
"Shut up!" Gordie screamed as he walked about four steps and turned around.
"I don't shut up, I grow up. And when I look at you I throw up. Aaaaaaaaaaaa!" they stuck each other's fingers down each other's throats.
"And then your mother goes around the corner and she licks it up." of course, Teddy's mom might even like that.
"Ooooooooh!" we screamed at each other. As Gordie walked off they all turned to each other and started spitting water on each other. Teddy turned to spit water on me, but I got up and went around the corner.
"I'll be back I gotta piss."
"Aren't girls supposed to pee and dudes piss?" Teddy snickered.
"I HEARD THAT COCK KNOCKER!" I screamed back at Teddy. They all snickered, well except Teddy and I went around the corner; pulled my pants down and started to do my business. I looked around at all the junk that was gathering up in the junkyard. Many, many things. I pulled my pants up and wandered around and bit. I didn't know, but a bit was actually it was a few hours. When I got back the guys were all packing up.
"What happened? Where's Gordie?" I started panicking. Chris looked at me, and Teddy--well Teddy was being Teddy as he stared at my babies. I smiled and gathered up my stuff.
"Is he waiting for us?"
"No, the junkyard is going to be opening up in five minutes and he's not back."
"Shouldn't we wait?"
"Not if you want your tits." Teddy said, laughing aloud. Chris and Vern snorted and laughed abit. As we walked towards the fence I could hear the garage opening up. I gulped in fear and walked faster, catching up with Chris. When I first jumped the fence I had trouble just getting over. Chris laughed at my frustration and bent down on his hands and knees. I stared at him, really confused.
"Jump on my back and up." I made an 'O' with my mouth and jumped off his back and over the fence. I caught all their bags, when I saw Gordie rounding around the corner; just then Milo came out of the garage. He yelled something and Gordie began to run. My ears picked something up though.
"Chopper, sic him! Sic him, boy!" When I heard sic him, boy; I heard sic balls, boy! I started to scream at Gordie to run faster. He ran faster than I've ever seen him run before. I busted out laughing as Gordie jumped over the fence and I got a closer look at Chopper. He was a small, chubby dog I've ever seen!
"That's Chopper?!"
"Come on, Choppy! Kiss my ass, Choppy. Kiss my ass! Come on, bite shit! Come on, Choppy! Sic balls, Choppy!" Teddy was rubbing his ass against the chain link fence. Everyone was laughing their asses off, but me. I was petting him, smiling like an idiot.
"Hey, you kids! Stop teasing that dog! You hear me?! Stop teasin' him!" a fat man was running towards us like a very, very slow bullet.
"Sonny, I'm gonna beat your ass, teasing my dog like that!"
"Yeah. I'd like to see you try to climb over this fence and get me, Fatass!"
"Don't you call me that, you little tin-weasel peckerwood loony's son!" Teddy's face turned serious, wanting to kill him maybe.
"What did you call me?"
"I know who you are. You're Teddy Duchamp. Your dad's a loony—a loony up in the nuthouse in Togus. He took your ear, and he put it to a stove, and he burnt it off!"
"My father stormed the beach at Normandy." Teddy's face was turning one of murderous.
"He's crazier than a shithouse rat! No wonder you're actin' the way you are, with a loony for a father."
"You call my dad loony again and I'll kill you."
"Loony, loony, loony." Teddy jumped on the fence attempting to climb over, but the boys and me held him back.
"Ahhhhhh! I'm gonna rip your head off and shit down your neck!" he growled, "Oh, I'm gonna kill that asshole!"
"You come on and try it, you little slimy bastard!" Chris restrained Teddy back as Milo said that. I was scared for my life here, an asshole threatening my friends.
"He wants you to go over there so he can beat the piss out of you and then take you to the cops!"
"You watch your mouth, smart guy. Let him do his own fighting."
"Sure. You only outweigh him by 500 pounds, Fatass!"
"I know your name. You're Lachance! I know all you guys, and all your fathers are gonna get a call from me! Except for the loony up in Togus." I got scared if my father found out, he was going to bet the shit out of me. We all dragged Teddy away as me and Gordie held everyone's bags, except Vern.
"I'm gonna kill you! Son of a bitch!"
"You little foulmouthed whoremaster! You come back here! Come back here! You hear me?!" I turned around and gave him the bird.
"Yeah fatass we can hear you, we ain't fucking deaf cock knocker!" Milo looked pissed then all of a sudden his facial features faltered.
"Ace Merrill..." he backed off and ran back to his shop. I smirked and tired to ketch up with everyone else. When I did ketch up Teddy was sobbing and Chris was holding him up, then he stopped and stood there.
"I'm sorry if I'm spoiling everybody's good time." I was looking towards Chris and them. Chris; being the sensitive one he spoke up first.
"It's okay, man. It's okay."
"I'm not sure it should be a good time."
"You saying you wanna go back?"
"No. But goin' to see a dead kid—maybe it shouldn't be a party."
"Yeah. Like if he's really bad, like all cut up and blood and shit all over him. I might have nightmares..."
"Come on, Vern."
"...you know, like all guts and eyeballs all ready to jump and grab..."
"Shut up, Vern." I wanted to throw up and I think I'm going to. All the guts coming out and the eyes popping out of his skull and blood gushing out of his nose and other body parts. I held up a finger and went behind a tree and yakked up my lunch/breakfast.
"Come on, goddamn it!" Chris yelled at Vern and went behind the same tree and looked at me.
"You alright?"
"Yeah..."
"Do you wanna go back?"
"N-no." I wiped my mouth and got up, wobbling slightly, but got up. Chris helped me over to our stuff and picked it up and handed it to me. I thanked him with a smile and we were on our way towards the dead body. I wanted to hug Chris and kiss him, but he would never fell the same about me, I knew it.
Chopper?!" I heard Gordie scream, pointing at Chopper."I wonder, wonder who, who-oo-ooh, who
(Who wrote the Book Of Love)
Tell me, tell me, tell me
Oh, who wrote the Book Of Love
I've got to know the answer
Was it someone from above
(Oh, I wonder, wonder who, mmbadoo-ooh, who)
(Who wrote the Book Of Love)
I love you darlin'
Baby, you know I do
But I've got to see this Book of Love
Find out why it's true
(Oh, I wonder, wonder who, mmbadoo-ooh, who)
(Who wrote the Book Of Love)
(Chapter One says to love her)
(You love her with all your heart)
(Chapter Two you tell her you're)
(Never, never, never, never, never gonna part)
(In Chapter Three remember the meaning of romance)
(In Chapter Four you break up
(But you give her just one more chance))
(Oh, I wonder, wonder who, mmbadoo-ooh, wWho)
(Who wrote the Book Of Love)
Baby, baby, baby
I love you, yes I do
Well it says so in this Book Of Love
Ours is the one that's true
(Oh, I wonder, wonder who, mmbadoo-ooh, who)
(Who wrote the Book Of Love)
(Chapter One says to love her)
(You love her with all your heart)
(Chapter Two you tell her you're)
(Never, never, never, never, never gonna part)
(In Chapter Three remember the meaning of romance)
(In Chapter Four you break up
(But you give her just one more chance)
(Oh, I wonder, wonder who, mmbadoo-ooh, Who)
(Who wrote the Book Of Love)
Baby, baby, baby
I love you, yes I do
Well it says so in this Book Of Love
Ours is the one that's true
(Oh, I wonder, wonder who, mmbadoo-ooh, who)
(Who wrote the Book Of Love)
I wonder who (yeah)
Who wrote the Book Of Love."
(Author's Note:
I updated woot! My boyfriend is an asshole. Boys are such cock knockers! Sorry, anyways hope I did good.
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