The man in hiding

Diner date with my bro

Pulling up to K C'S diner i hop out of my brothers truck waiting for seph to stop taking his lovely time.

"Hurry up you old man !" I say to him
He chuckles and slings his arms around my shoulder
"Old man? Ha ha ok sis good one"
I push his arm off my shoulder and roll my eyes, walking ahead of him and opening the door. Immediately when i open the door i feel truly at home with the smell of the baked goods. I close my eyes and take a deep breath welcoming the feel, I open my eyes when my brother grabs my arms and pulls me to our favorite booth in the corner right below a huge 10 point buck above our heads.
I look up and stare at the stuffed animal admiring how beautiful it is, until i heard the familiar raspy voice of the 63 year old woman with her platinum white hair pulled up into a neat bun with a plain navy blue bandana wrapped around her head, bright crytal clear blue eyes with little thin lips perfect straight pearly whites. Her uniform consisted of a long navy blue skirt a white blouse with a worn apron and of course you couldnt ever forget her white worn out roller blades. Miss lucy owns this diner named it after her daddy. He died not long after he opened this place up, he died in a car crash some drunken driver on a motorcycle on the wrong side of the road and mister K C swerved away and rolled down a hill into a lake. Lucy carried on her daddys dream and her own dream along the way and kept this place running, she wanted to be just like her daddy selling good homemade deep cried catfish at a decent price along with their signature double meat cheese burgers and the milk shakes mmmmmm. Miss lucy the most sweetest lady she use to be our neighbor and occasional babysitter when me seph momma and daddy were still picture perfect before everything went down hill we were the "IT" family here in this small town in Louisiana. But things change, i wont ever forget that.
Snapping out of it i smell the familiar smell of honey suckles mixed with cigarette smoke i smile at miss lucy and her grin gets even bigger.
" Well hi there darlings, now i would say y'all have just about grown up. No more dirty diapers and boogery noses huh? I havent seen y'all in a while, where yall been ?" Miss lucy says with her southern drawl and her raspy voice. All those cigarettes shes smoked in all her years have really showed up in her voice.
Before i could speak i word joseph stands and gives miss lucy a big hug gently rubbing her back.
" Well miss lucy i can say for sure no more dirty diapers and boogers (he say s with a wink and a smile) ive been busy with the vet in all and blythe here has been busy decorating her house." I look at him and give nod for a silent thank you cause we both now that isnt true.
Miss lucy stares at me for a while for what reason i dont know i just put my head down and pick my nails. I see movement from the corner of my eye but before i could look i feel a soft wrinkly hand take a hold of one of mine a hold it i fight the urge to flinch and coward away in fear i dont want to give her any suspicion so i sheild my true feelings and give her a bright smile.
" Well now look at how beautiful you are. Ive missed you both. Thank you for coming to old K C's and seeing me." She looks at the both of us and smiles. She takes her hand away, i inale real quick and put my hands underneath my legs.

" yall want the....."
Before miss lucy could finish we both look at eachother and say
"Yupp"

Miss lucy giggles and says
" alrighty 20 minutes kids"
And skates off

She comes back 2 minutes later with
2 frosted glassed rootbeers.

Me and my brother sit and look out of the windows while he watches passing cars and the football game on tv i watch the forest line seeing nothing but green tress and vines moss hanging from the trees. Until i look deeper and see blurs of movement run most of it brown and grey and then it just disappears almost as a train passing by the its gone. I just stare into it more watching and waiting until i hear the food bell go off and she comes skating with our food on a tray. She lays our food down gently and both of our plates consist of 2 fillets of catfish homade coslaw tarter sauce and french fries. I tear off a peice of catfish and dip it into the tarter sauce and moan as i bite into the juicy fish.
" y'all enjoy now " miss lucy say and skates off once again with her long skirt flowing behind her.
Me and my brother do not say 2 words to each other were to busy stuffing our faces with this amazing food. I hear the door chime as 4 young guys walk in probably in there early to mid 20s. All 4 of them look in out direction and stare i throw a quick glance at seph and he was staring right back and gave a single nod. I turned back and looked at them the tallest out of the group had long light brown hair with tints of blonde pulled up in the back in a little bun and thin lips and sharp defined jaw but its his eyes caught me they literally looked gold not light brown gold, They glowed. Hes gorgeous no doubt.
The shortest guy here and platinum white hair styled short and jelled and black eyes his eyes were a bottomless pit of tar his eyes scared me but he looked goofy he had this crooked smile and deep dimples as he looked everywhere looking clueless to the stare down that happening right now. The other two looked like twins but not identical.
They had brownish red hair more so red than brown that looked rough and meesy probably due to their hands running through it several times, sharp nose very full pouty lips and an even sharper jaws than guy number 1. The diffrence between the two is one of them is flawless and the other has a crooked nose a lip ring and his eyes are amazing one is a white and the other is a light brown while the other brother is just a light brown.
They brake the stare as guy #4 pushes goofball out of the way and takes the corner booth in the back of the diner tall guy with the man bun silently nods and sits in the booth his back facing us.
I look back at my brother and hes resumed finishing off his last peice of catfish.
I just continue eating like nothing happened knowing its not any good to know. He finishes just as i do and stands .
" ill pay go ahead to the truck ill be there after . ok?"

"Ill leave a tip" i say quickly

"No blythe. I've got it go now "
He gently pushed me towards the exit
I mumbled a whatever and started walking towards the door and noticed the group of men were looking at me. I ignored them and kept walking.

As i opened the door to the truck I heard a loud howl in the forrest and looked deeper only to see the blur of colors again.
And the group of guys came barreling out of the diner hopping into a blacked out jeep slaming it into reverse and skidding out of the parking lot following the blur of colors. I watch in confusion wondering what in the world ?
Weird.
Seph comes out and makes his way around the truck just in time for miss lucy to peak her head out of one of the double doors.
" now y'all come back now y'all hear?" She says with the biggest smile on her face.
I smile back " Of course miss lucy "
She winks and dips back inside.
" That right there is a sweet lady " seph whispers gentle as we climb in his truck.
" yes she is " i say back.
" lets go to the house yeah?" Seph tells me " yeah to the house " as i crank up some Tim McGraw.

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Above is miss lucy

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