Waiting It Out - Benny Rodriguez - Book 1

Watch the Rope

Yeah-Yeah was the brave soul that stepped up.

Of course I offered but Benny shut me down before I could even finish the sentence.

Yeah-Yeah's gonna be in a catcher's vest that's tied to a rope. Ham's gonna be the main control of the rope. We've connected the rope to some petals he's gonna be pushing. We do have a few of us holding the rope incase something goes wrong with that.

Positions:

Tommy and I are on the tree house's balcony. Only because I know there's a good chance it'll get hectic somehow and I don't want him to do the freeze-freak-out thing he did yesterday. Mrs. Timmons had some cleaning company come over and clean the tree house. When she asked I stepped up and said we were trying to clean in the tree house but there was something wrong with the extension cord that caused them to short out. Don't think she would've believed it if anyone else said it.

Squints is on look out. He's positioned himself at the hole in the fence once again. He made sure not to forget his cereal box telescope at home.

Ham's obviously pedaling.

Bertram, Kenny, Benny, and Timmy are on the back up rope.

And Yeah-Yeah's our bungee jumper.

Not too sure where Smalls is.

"It's clear." Squints whisper-yells.

"Take me up." Yeah-Yeah told Ham.

Ham gives him a nod before hoping on the struggle bus and starting to push the petals.

He keeps pushing til he's over the fence and they begin the decent.

"Let me down slow." Yeah-Yeah whisper-yells.

Ham gives him another strained nod before starting to attempt to slowly push the petals in reverse.

"A little slower." Yeah-Yeah tells him.

"Go slow." Squints echoes.

Not to be a bitch, but if Ham tries to go any slower than he is currently, his legs will explode.

"Go. Yeah, let me down. Almost there." Yeah-Yeah whispers, on the other side of the fence at this point.

"He's almost there." Squints confirms.

I can hear The Beast start to growl. Here we go.

"Let him down right over it." Squints says. At this point, none of us can hear him so Squints is telling us what he's saying.

After about 20 seconds we hear Squints whisper, "Pull him up."

He has the ball... and nothing went wrong?

"HEY! PULL HIM UP!" Squints yelled.

There it is. The Beast must've come out of the dog house or something.

Ham starts to push the petals when the rope breaks off. 

Kenny, Bertram, and Timmy go over to pull on it, leaving Benny with the back up rope.

That's what it's there for idiots.

I roll my eyes and start to walk down the tree house. Tommy grabs my arm with a scared look.

"I'll be fine." I reassure him. I go over to Benny and grab the rope. "Let go." I tell him.

"What?" he asks me, not quite sure if I just told him that.

"Let go." I say clearer. "I'm not gonna be able to pull the rope if you're still holding on to it."

"There's no way you can pull him up by yourself." he tells me with a dumbfounded look on his face.