"You lying, cheating cunt." Ron yelled as he swung the door open, hard.
I coughed from the joint I hit, looking at Janice, wondering what the hell was going on.
Ron's eyes were huge, black, and I could tell he'd been on the shit for a while.
"Fuck you motherfucker! said Janice. Where ya been for the last five days, huh? Where's the fucking
truck, you 'rent' it to your crackhead buddies again?
Goddamnit Ron, I'm so sick of this shit." Janice starts beating on Ron's chest. He grabs her hands and
shoves her on the couch "You think you're so slick, dontcha? What, you didn't think I'd find out?
Stop being so stupid, Janice! I told you, you can't fool me, and that dirty cocksucker down the road, I
got something for his ass." When Ron talked like this, in his gravelly voice, I got goosebumps, my
stomach lurched because I know well what Ron is capable of. I was there more than once, watching in
horrified disgust as he bloodied one after another.
I walked towards the kids bedrooms to check on them and Ron said "Mike, take off, I need to deal with
my wife." I left in a hurry, my freaking buzz gone, man.
It was pitch black as I started walking east towards Potomac Trucking. I don't want to call the
cops, they might get their kids taken away from them, go to jail, not good.
I walked about three blocks and "Aargh, damnit!"I slipped in a hole, my left foot was stuck so I tried
moving it and then I heard the rumbling of a car engine and saw it's lights, coming right at me, fast. I
hurled my whole body to the other side, avoiding getting hit.I got unstuck and luckily I was
able to walk without too much pain so I started walking the two miles to Rick's house.
I get there and knock on the door, after a minute he opened it. "Hey what's up?" said Rick
"I need to talk." I told him. "Alright, come on in." said Rick
I followed him into the living room and saw Lonnie,(a member of the Sons of Agony motorcycle club)
and we don't like each other. He's a piece of shit, beating on women and causing all kinds of
mayhem. I could see his eyes were huge, he was straight jacked up. Oh shit, I see he's got an enforcer
patch on now. Wonder what he had to do to get that? Nothing nice at all, I'm sure. He's gonna have to
live up to that title now, jeeze. Next to him was a big, strong looking dude in a Hawaiian shirt, with an
evil sneer and a look of contained rage in his eyes. Sonofabitch, i don't need this shit right
now. Rick goes off to use the bathroom.
"Mike, what the hell you doing over here?" Lonnie said by way of greeting
"Man, I gotta talk to Rick." I said
"You ain't talking to nobody, till you talk to me." said Lonnie
"Look man, there might be some big trouble with Ron down the road." I said
"What the fuck ever, man. What's he gonna do?" said Lonnie chuckling.
Lonnie gives his buddy a look and they both walk towards me menacingly.
I say, "Hey man, what's the problem?"
"The problem is I never liked your NY ass. What the fuck you doing out here, in the middle of
cornfield county anyway? You a snitch or what? I don't trust you and I damn sure don't like you."
Bam, Lonnie punched me in the face, I took the punch and immediately punch him in the throat,
making him choke and I see the big dude coming at me so I get down and punch him in the balls, hard.
Rick comes out of the bathroom, shock on his face., says "Oh shit man, what happened?"
"They came at me, I defended myself." I told him
"Yeah, I can see that. You know you messed up big, right? "said Rick
"What was I supposed to do, let them beat the shit out of me or worse? "I said
"Alright, go in my room, I'll talk to them, try to squash this right now. There's a few joints on my
nightstand." said Rick
I light up a joint and take a swig from Rick's bottle of Wild Turkey, a horrid drink if ever there was
one.
A few minutes pass and Rick walks in and says "Alright they're pissed but they're gonna forget this
happened".
"Thanks man". I say
"Dude, Ron got home looking all jacked for days, ya know, and he's all pissed at Janice. I'm scared for
her and the kids. No telling what he might do. I said
Rick's eyes got bigger than they were from smoking meth.
"No shit? Well damn, I got a pistol, a 25, you can use if it's that serious."
I thought about it, man Ron is my good friend but I gotta make sure them kids, Janice, that they're okay.
"Okay, let me check it out." I told him
"This is the safety, it clicks down like this. Make sure you don't forget about that." I nodded.
"You know to use two hands in this stance, right? He showed me a pro stance.
Look down this front sight here and aim, pull the trigger nice and easy, don't jerk the gun. Alright?"
"Yeah." I nodded
I left then, walking down the road. I wondered, could I shoot somebody, especially a good friend? I
stopped to take a piss, so I stood behind a tree and as the pee left my body, so did my reticence. I
zipped up, took a deep breath and resolved to do whatever I had to. About twenty minutes later I
arrived at Ron's house, Janice opened the door, eyes red from cryinmg. She went to the kids room.
Ron was sitting on his recliner, looking calm. "Hey man, sorry about earlier, I had to straighten her out." said Ron
"I hear ya man." I said
I lit up one of Rick's joints, took a long pull and exhaled. Whew, what a night.
