THE HOMECOMING!

CHAPTER I

Sitting in a greasy spoon off I-16, Daniel eats his steak and eggs, walks to the restroom. Inside is a trucker with a thick wallet bulging out his hip pocket, so Daniel sashes over to the stall next to him. Pretending to be using the urinal, Daniel has his hunting knife in his right hand, looks over at the burly trucker and winks at him! The trucker sees this and growl's, asking Daniel "Who the hell you winking at?!"
Daniel says nothing as he turns and stabs the man eight times before he can utter another word! Grabbing the wallet, keys and hat he pulls the big man into a stall, wipes his knife off, and heads the big rig he saw the trucker exit earlier. Taking off, he pushes the engine and revels in the rush of driving something so powerful! Nine hours later he pulls into a cheap dive motel, rents a room for the week. Inside he takes a laptop out, and begins the search anew. Somewhere there must be a listing of his birth parents. After one a.m. he crashes out. The maid awakens him the next morning at eight o'clock, and he grumbles for her to come in. She vacuums floor, changes the bedsheets and puts fresh towels out. Leaving, Daniel notices she's nice looking. Going back in, he returns to the search. Finally after another five hours have passed, he discovers a family in Louisiana that gave two boys up for adoption in the late seventies. Clicking on link after link he soon finds out they are still living in the same town and he gets the address and takes off! Grinding the gears on highway, Daniel is now on a mission. To find his parents, to ask why they gave him and Timmy away, and then kill them in the most brutal way possible!

Eleven hours of straight driving and he enters the state of Louisiana. Now where the heck is Hokesburg? Checking the GPS, it states it is another six hours away. Exhausted already, he stops at a truck stop, refuels and sleeps in the cab. Soon the noise of the other truckers taking off and more coming in wakes up Daniel and he gets started, south.

Now on a two lane highway in the middle of nowhere, he cruises on at eighty five miles an hour. As he passes the 'Welcome to Hokesburg' sign he smiles. Now to find out where the heck their house is. According to the GPS it is twelve miles out west of the small town. Turning on a road named 'Possum Road' he chuckle's to himself and thinks My God, the family is a bunch of hillbillies!"

Coming up on an old large wood frame farm house, Daniel realizes that his dad is a farmer. Stopping several yards away, he grabs his binoculars and watches.

For two weeks he watches the house. No one, but a tall man dressed in a suit but has the gun bulge under his jacket, so he assumed he must be a sheriff department guy.

In town at the local restaurant, enjoying some shrimp and grits, Daniel sees the big man from the house sit down at a couple of tables from him. Daniel studies the man and hears the infatuated waitress call him Inspector Hollingsworth.
"Hollingsworth? That's the name of my real parents! Is he... another brother?" , Daniel thinks. Finished with his Daniel goes out and climbs in the diesel. Waiting for Mr. Hollingsworth to leave so he can follow him. Soon the Inspector comes out and jumps in a hopped up Dodge pickup. Daniel follows him, watching as pulls into the Honey Swamp apartments, gets out and goes to the door of one and is met by a pretty blonde. He goes in, and Daniel grows frustrated. Feeling the urge growing larger and larger, he hunts for a victim. Soon a pretty black girl comes over asks Daniel if he wants a date. Agreeing she goes to the other side and climbs up into the cab. She tells him to give her the forty dollars first, but instead Daniel gives her two dozen stabs!
Pulling out of the parking lot, he comes to a stretch of wooded area and rolls her body out, and takes off, headed for home.

Early that morning Daniel feels giddy, and spruces himself up a little. Getting out of the eighteen wheeler, he crosses the road and goes up to the house. The front door is open, just the screen in front of him. He peers in, and the place is spic and span, the woman is cooking breakfast... fatback, grits and eggs. The scent drives Daniels stomach wild. He knocks, and a tall, thin man in late fifties answers.
"Yeah, what the hell are you selling, mister?"
The odor of whiskey overwhelms Daniel for a minute. Gathering himself, he looks his dad in the eyes and says "I'm home, pappy! Break out the moonshine and the fiddle and let's celebrate!"
The drunken man says nothing, instead slamming the door in Daniels face!

Still standing there, Daniel actually has tears in his eyes. He turns and sits on the railing that surrounds the porch, and tries to get his feelings right. A few minutes later, he leaps up, opens the screen door and kicks open the door!
"I told you old man! I'M HOOOOOOME! LET'S HAVE A GREAT REUNION!"