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Relatively Speaking
By
Kole
Previously…
"You're a mess," I said. "Those dogs humped all over you. And you got something in your hair from that bulldog."
I helped Lula stand up.
"I'm going with drool. It looks like drool, right?" Lula asked.
"Um, sure. Just so you know, I don't feel bad about the humping. I warned you that we should just leave, but noooo. You didn't see any dogs." I said, smiling while Lula huffed at me.
Lula and I moved to the safety of the car, and I made my way Beverly's apartment.
Chapter 9
Beverly's apartment looked a lot like Lowanda's, except Beverly didn't have a recliner. Beverly had a couch right up against her television. The couch was partially covered with a blue sheet, and I feared there was a gross stain under the sheet, too terrible for even Beverly to overlook.
"You can't come in here now," Beverly said when she opened the door. "I'm busy. I got my honey here, and we were just getting it on."
"More information than I need," Lula said. "I was just humped by a pack of crazy ass dogs. I had enough humping for a long time."
"Those must be Lowanda's dogs," Beverly said. "I don't know what the deal is with those dogs. I never seen anything like it. And three of them is female."
"We're looking for Rodger Banker." I said to Beverly.
"That's inconvenient. You gonna arrest him?"
"We're going to take him to the station to get rebonded."
"Then what? Then you gonna let him go?"
"Do you want us to let him go?" Lula asked.
"Well, yeah."
"Then that's what we'll do," Lula told her. "He'll be in and out. And on top of that, we'll give you a twenty if we get to take him in."
Lowanda and Beverly would give their mother up for spare change.
"Okay, I guess I could tell you then," Beverly said. "He's the honey in the back room. And he might be a little indisposed." Just like that, I felt stupid. I should have remembered that he was here, I could have saved Lula from the whole 'humping' incident. I mean this wasn't really a big part of the book, it's not like Rodger was important to the major storyline, but I had forgotten that he was here. I remembered the humping dogs but only because that was a funny and memorable part of the book and even then I didn't remember it until we were already at Lowanda's.
"Roger," Beverly called out. "I got a couple ladies out here want to see you."
"Bring them back," Roger said. "I can handle them. More is better when it comes to ladies."
Lula and I looked at each other and did some eye rolling.
"Tell him to get dressed and come out here to meet us," I said to Beverly.
"You should put some pants on and come out here," Beverly said. "They don't want to meet up with you in the back room."
We could hear some rustling and fumbling, and Banker strolled out. He was wearing khaki pants and sneakers. No socks, no shirt.
I was betting on no underwear.
"Roger Banker," Lula said. "This here's your lucky day on account of we come to give you a free ride to the clink."
Banker blinked once at Lula and once at me. And then he whirled around and ran for the kitchen door.
"Cover the crappy car in the front," I yelled to Lula. "I'm sure it's Banker's."
And I took off after Banker, pushing around Beverly, following Banker out the back door. Banker was running fast. He jumped a section of chain-link and disappeared around the end of the building. I jumped and cleared the fence, just behind him.
Banker wasn't that far ahead of me. He made it to the street and threw something at my car just as I tackled him and we both went down. I pushed my knee into Banker's back and pulled his hand back and cuffed him. Before I could get off the ground, Lula screamed "Oh shit!" and then there was a loud explosion.
I stood up and looked at my car. My car, which was now no longer my car. It had exploded. That asshole. This didn't happen in the books, he didn't explode any cars in the books. I would have remembered that.
I saw Lula getting up off the ground. I was pissed off; I had just bought that damn car. It didn't even last one year. I was hoping I would be able to get around the bad car karma, but apparently not.
"Let go of me, you stupid bitch." Banker screamed as I hauled him to his feet and started to pull him towards Lula. I threw Banker to the ground.
"Don't move." I said glaring at him. I helped Lula off the ground.
"Are you okay?" I asked her.
"Yeah, white girl. I'm fine. That dumbass blew up your car. That's two cars in a week. I guess you have bad car karma also. Oh, that was close," Lula said then turned towards Banker. "You, you almost killed me and blew up her car. What the hell were you thinkin?"
"I didn't want to go back to jail." He said.
"Well, too bad." I said. I wanted to kill him. The stupid idiot had blown up my new car. I thought I had avoided the part of the book where my car went up in flames, guess not. I turned when I heard the sirens in the distance. Great, my car is in flames and now I have to deal with the police.