Billy Bingo: The Forgotten Past
Chapter 9
Billy dreams…
Billy dreams that Hutch and Tommy are swinging on the rope at the creek behind the old church. Billy pictures himself, as though he is someone else, climbing a tree.
Hutch screams at Billy, “Why don’t you go home kid. We don’t want you here.”
Billy pictures himself holding a pistol. He points the pistol at the top of the rope. He aims and shoots the pistol at the rope and a bullet pierces the threads of the rope, breaking the rope into frazzled ends. Laughing, holding the limp rope, Hutch and Tommy fall into the creek below.
Splashing in the water Hutch looks up at Billy in the tree. “You are one strange, tough, kid.”
Billy places the pistol in a hollow in the tree. He then climbs and jumps down. He runs and jumps into the creek with Tommy and Hutch.
“Little Billy here has got plans to kill Ralph Shath and George Destone.”
Hutch laughs. “Good riddance. Do you know those two somehow managed to film me with David Jenkins. They are threatening to screw things up between David and his new girlfriend.”
Tommy gargles water out of the creek and then spits at Hutch. “How come you get all the rich tricks and I get ganged banged with rough ass motorcycle gang members or some lowly paid horny preacher.”
Hutch laughs. “Doctors. Lawyers. I even know a judge that rides with the Bishop Motorcycle Club.”
“Club? I don’t care how much education they’ve got. It is a gang.”
“So Mr. Billy, how is it you plan to kill Ralph and George.”
“You will know when it happens.” Billy thinks his voice sounds odd.
“What about the tapes,” Tommy ask.
“What do you mean?”
Hutch splashes water at Billy. “Do you think those tapes will just die with Ralph and George. What if the police find those tapes?”
Hutch picks Billy up and throws him through the air to splash in the water. Billy swims to the water’s surface and then toward Hutch. “They have to be stopped. What they are doing can’t continue.”
“So you are just going to kill them. That is your solution.”
“Do you have a better solution?”
The dream changes.
Tommy is screaming at Hutch. “What the fuck man. You told George that Billy was planning on killing him. Why would you do that?”
“Fuck. He is just a boy. He isn’t going to kill anyone. You actually think Billy will do what you and I can’t do. George got a good laugh when I told him.”
The dream changes.
Billy and Jimmy are in the park playing with their skate boards. George walks up to Billy. George knocks him off his skate board and he falls on the pavement. George kicks him. “Do you seriously think you are going to kill me?”
Billy pictures himself as though he is someone else. Billy smiles. “The only way that I will not kill you is if you leave my mother and sister alone.”
“See Billy. The thing is that I want you to kill me. I wish you could do it. I just don’t think you will.”
George then turns and hits Jimmy in the mouth. Jimmy falls and hits his head.
“You bastard.” Billy gets down, appearing to help Jimmy. He then pulls a pistol from his leg holster. Billy points the revolver at George. “Do you seriously think I can’t kill you any time that I want.”
George holds his hands up in the air as if he is trying to embrace death. “So do it. Do it now. Please. I’d rather you kill me quickly than to die slowly from this cancer that I’ve got.”
“Just tell me where you’ve got the tapes so that I can make sure that the police do not find them. I’ll do it.”
“I’ll tell my cousin Olivia where the tapes are. She will tell you after I am dead.” Then George jumps to take the revolver away from Billy. Holding the revolver pointed at Billy’s head, George screams at him, “But you won’t do it.” Then George points the gun at his own head. Then crying he falls to his knees. “And I can’t do it. Fuck. I can’t bring myself to pull the trigger.” George hands the revolver back to Billy and then he stands up and walks away.
Jimmy is still laying on the pavement with his head bleeding. He is unconscious. Billy starts screaming for help. No one comes. Billy picks his friend up in his arms and carries him to the hospital. In the dream Billy feels like he is walking for ever. He thinks that part of the dream will never end.
The dream changes. He is in the garage with Tommy. There are five tapes that Tommy and Billy had reviewed and tossed behind the couch. Those tapes were not in the box that Olivia took to David Jenkins. In the dream Billy is telling Tommy that they need to destroy the tapes but there is one tape that Tommy refuses to destroy.
“They beat me. They hurt me. They might have killed me. I am going to make the bastards pay.”
“That motorcycle gang is dangerous. You need to leave them alone. Just leave them alone. Please.”
Billy wants to wake up. He doesn’t want the dreams to continue. He begs for the dream to stop. There is darkness in his sleep. Billy feels a nothingness that for a moment torments him. Then he hears the roar of motorcycles. He hears Tommy’s voice telling him to hide in the attic space of the garage. Billy sees himself as though he is looking at someone else and shows Tommy his revolver. “I am a good shot. I can help protect you.”
“I don’t need protecting. I’ve got those bastards right where I want them.”
Billy looks out and sees Kane Bishop riding the lead motorcycle coming into the garage parking lot. Reluctantly Billy crawls up the door ladder into the attic space of the garage. He looks back down at Tommy. He reaches down and hands Tommy his revolver. “Don’t be afraid to use it if they try to attack you.”
Tommy takes the revolver and pushes the attic ladder up and which closes the attic door. Billy sits there in the darkness. He listens to muffled talking below. Then he hears two shots. He isn’t sure what to do. Without his revolver, what can he do? He sits there until he hears the sound of motorcycles riding off. Then, in Billy’s dream it is like he is two people. One Billy continues sitting in the attic, afraid to move. The other Billy opens the attic door that lowers the door ladder and crawls down to see where Tommy has been hung. Billy screams in the horror and then in the dream it is as though there is now a third Billy. While the one Billy is still in the attic scared, another Billy is standing and screaming at the sight of his dead friend who has been lynched, there is the third Billy who is recovering his revolver to put back in his leg holster. The Billy in the attic goes to a box in the attic and retrieves a video tape. Then in the dream there is yet a fourth Billy who leaves the garage as though everything is okay and who does not look back.
Billy eyes pop open in an awakening. He thinks he knows what he already knew, “Tommy was killed by the Kane Bishop’s Motorcycle Gang.” The Billy that left the garage without looking back tells his dead friend, “There is nothing I can do.” The Billy that has awakened tells the ghost of his dead friend, “There is something I must do!”
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Billy drives an old car, a beige Comet, that his father had fixed for him to the old church and cemetery. There doesn’t seem to be anyone around as Billy crawls out of his car. Billy walks to find the tree that was in his dream. Billy walks to the creek and attempts to orient himself to where the tree might be. He knows that he is not in the right area. Billy walks to where he and Jackie had walked and to the drop off and where the rope is. Billy knows it is not the same rope or place where the rope was in his dream. Billy stares at the creek. The water needs to be deeper. Billy attempts to picture the swimming hole from his dream.
Billy climbs through a thicket up above the drop off. It is steep and he has to sit down and basically walk on his butt and hands to get around the drop off. Finally Billy comes to another path and he is able to stand up. The creek is much wider now as another creek flows into it. Billy continues walking. He stops at a tree and looks toward where the swimming hole from his dream is. He looks at the tree and starts climbing the tree that he feels is the right tree. Billy climbs higher and higher. In the dream he had not realized how high he was or how far he could see off. He thinks the view from up in the tree is cool. Billy climbs a little bit higher. The thought of falling does make Billy nervous. Billy still has not found a hollow in the tree. It is not the right tree. Billy looks across the creek at a tree on the other side. He sees what he thinks might be a hollow. Billy climbs down and looks for a rope, thinking he might can swing to the other side of the creek. In the dream, in that area, he had shot a rope. Billy searches but no one has hung a new rope in that area.
Stripping down to his briefs, leaving his clothes behind, Billy crawls into the creek to swim across. Billy thinks how good the water feels and takes some time to enjoy swimming. He then crawls out of the creek. He senses someone is watching him standing there in his wet, white, briefs. He looks around but doesn’t see anyone. He starts to walk. He feels nervous. The rustle of leaves against his bare feet as he walks along the path adds to the odd sensation he feels walking in the woods. He comes to what he is sure is the right tree to where he had hidden the tin box with the revolver, holster, and video tape. He looks around. He doesn’t want to climb the tree if there is anyone watching. Billy walks beyond the tree and comes to a couple of large granite boulders. He leans against the rocks.
Suddenly Billy hears a voice. “Sexy underwear.”
Billy turns and looks up on the boulder. It is Raymond Bing. “I still can’t get over how much you look like Matthew Perry.” Then Billy clears his throat. “I didn’t really expect anyone would be around, much less anyone that I know.”
Raymond nods as he crawls down from the boulder. “I sometimes come back here. For all the things that happened during the old days, this place feels like freedom. We could come back here and for a moment it was like all our problems were gone.”
Billy smiles at Raymond. “Hardly. This is where we made our plans to how we would deal with our problems.” Billy isn’t sure where those words have come from.
“Just tell the Leg Man and he would know how to make the problems go away. I guess that is why back here I felt like I had no problems. My problems became your problems.” Raymond shakes his head. “When I saw that you are Maureen’s son I was shocked.”
“You hid it well.”
“There you were. Still solving my problems.”
“You told Kane that I am not the Leg Man.”
“Did I do wrong?”
“You did right. I had a dream last night that brought me back here. I think it revealed some things to me. I still don’t really remember being the Leg Man.”
“I talked to Hutch. He told me.” Raymond looks around. “Kane has someone following you. I spotted them before I saw you.”
“Shit. I need to go to my hiding place.”
“I kind of thought that was what you were about to do.” Raymond shakes his head. “Man you are so fucking sexy.”
Billy eyes the man Raymond had mentioned standing on the top of a Mausoleum and staring down at he and Raymond. “Up there. That the man.”
Raymond darts a look as he pulls out a cigarette. “Yeah. He is the only one I saw.” Raymond lights his cigarette. “I have no idea what would be the best way to distract him.”
“Do you know where my hiding place is?”
“Yeah. You trusted me. I know.”
Billy rubs his cock through his underwear as part of a show for Kane’s man. “I need the tin box from it.”
“Yeah. I can do that. Can you distract him?”
“Make a fist and hit me like you are outraged by a come on.”
“Man, I don’t know.”
“Just hit me.”
Raymond doesn’t land much of a punch but Billy plays it up as he falls down. Billy screams, “Fuck man. A simple no would have been good enough.” Billy jumps up and grabs Raymond. Billy whispers, “Run like you are afraid and circle around to get the tin box.” Raymond punches at Billy again for an added touch and then takes off running. Billy screams at Raymond, “Yeah, you better run.”
Billy then quickly turns and starts running toward Kane’s man still standing on top of the Mausoleum. Billy reaches the man. “So what about you?”
“What about me?”
Billy lifts his hand and rubs the man under his chin. Billy raises his eyebrow with a wicked grin. With his other hand Billy slips his underwear down to reveal his large cock. The man looks at Billy’s cock.
“What are you doing running around in your underwear back here?”
“You saw me swimming. I saw you watching me swim. I saw that longing look in your eyes.” Billy rubs the man’s bald head and pretends to admire the anchor tats on his muscular arms.”
“I could crush you. I could crush you right now. I could put an end to all of Kane’s problems.”
“You mean you work for Kane. Should I be disappointed?”
“Kane would probably reward me if I take you down to the creek and drown your ass.”
Billy wiggles his cock in front of the biker. “You know you want it.”
The man stares at Billy’s cock. “No.” Then the man looks at Billy’s birthmark that is almost in the shape of a dagger on Billy’s inner thigh.
“You are a witch.”
“What? A witch?”
“Stop trying to put your spell on me. Stop making me think that I want your cock in my mouth. Stop it I say.” The man grabs Billy by the throat. “I could break your neck right now and the police would not do anything to me.”
Billy breaks away from the huge, evil looking biker and takes off running. Billy knows he needs to get back around to his clothes but without tipping off the Neanderthal to what Raymond is doing. Billy knows he must not go into the area of the tree where the tin box is hidden nor cause Kane’s henchman to wander into the area while looking for him.
Billy stops running. He doesn’t see the man who has said that he would kill him if given the chance. Billy grabs up rocks and screams. “Hey, stupid, I am over here.”
Not one, but two men appear in Billy’s sight. Then the original monstrous looking man who Billy had tangled with appears. “I can handle this,” the man tells the other two men.
One of the bikers, Snake Juice, spits and grins, “Yeah. I bet. That is one handsome dude. I guess you would like to have him all to yourself.”
“What? You are crazy if you are suggesting what I think you are suggesting. I don’t want to fuck him.”
The other biker, Mike Ruby, says, “Yeah, Bro, you forget, Picklepuss there doesn’t like fucking.”
“I like women.”
Mike Ruby crunches his face in a wrinkled nose frown so that he looks even more hideous to Billy. “Bullshit. I’ve never seen you with anyone and I’ve known you ten years.” Then the man turns his attention to Billy. “Put those rocks down, drop those drawers and get your pretty ass over here.”
Billy isn’t sure what to do. Can he get way from three of Kane’s men? Billy thinks he’d be crazy not to try. Billy continues holding the rocks in his hands. He considers throwing them and then taking off running.
Snake Juice grabs up a rock and takes aim. “I bet I can land this rock a lot harder than you can.”
Billy thows a rock and hits Snake Juice between the eyes. Running, Billy hopes he can make his escape.
Snake Juice screams, “Son of a bitch.” Snake Juice takes aim and hits Billy in the back but it is a bad throw and Billy barely feels it.
Billy hollers, “You throw like a girl!” Billy continues running but it is the wrong direction. He runs right into Kane Bishop. “Boy, I am glad I run into you,” Billy lies.
“Yeah, I bet.” Kane grabs Billy by his hair and pulls Billy back toward his men. “Picklepuss, you can go. We will take care of this.”
Picklepuss walks up to Billy. He starts to say something but doesn’t.
Kane screams, “Picklepuss, get out of here.” Then Kane, yanking Billy by his hair also grabs hold of Billy’s underwear to give Billy a wedgy. “Get your underwear off.” Billy starts trying to pull his underwear down while Kane keeps pulling the underwear tight in Billy’s ass and against his balls.
Billy wonders why in the hell he hadn’t chosen to wear ragged underwear this morning so that his underwear would have already ripped off. Suddenly Kane lets go of the underwear and Billy yanks his own underwear down to his knees. Kane lifts his foot and stomps Billy’s underwear down to Billy’s feet. The underwear slips off Billy’s feet and into the dirt as Kane drags Billy closer to Kane’s men.
Kane slaps at Billy’s cock and giggles. “I bet you have fun with that big toy.”
Billy shrugs.
“You should have seen yourself with Sylvia. Fucking my woman, you were in heaven, weren’t you.”
“You seemed okay with it,” Billy speaks softly.
“I was. I am. I’ve enjoyed thinking about it while I’ve fucked her. I’ll enjoy thinking about it while I fuck you.”
Mike Ruby stares at Billy’s cock. “I bet Sylvia did enjoy that. Fuck hell and ride the devil like a bitch, that is one big cock.”
Kane smiles. “Suck it.”
Mike shakes his head. “What?”
“Get down on your knees and suck the Leg Man’s cock.”
Mike walks up to Billy and get down on his knees. He stares at the large cock. “Seriously.”
“No. Suck it like a clown and make us laugh.” Still holding Billy by his hair Kane kicks his shoes off. “Clamp your mouth around Billy’s cock.”
Mike handles Billy’s cock. Billy starts to resist as he feels Mike lick the head of his cock.
“Leg Man, don’t resist. It would be bad if you cause Mike to accidentally bite it.” Kane lets go of Billy’s hair. Kane pulls his pants and underwear off. He pulls hist shirt off. He walks up behind Billy and whispers to Billy. “You’ve got a pretty ass.” Kane plays with his own cock while he fingers Billy’s ass. “Remember you don’t want Mike to sink his teeth in that pretty cock of yours.” Kane places one finger in Billy’s ass.
“If you rape me I will kill you.” Billy squirms as Kane places a second finger up his ass.
“What makes you think you are going to leave here alive?”
Billy kicks Mike away from his cock with one swift kick. Billy turns, takes Kane by the arm and effortlessly flips him. Then quickly Billy takes his bare foot and places it on Kane’s neck. “Because I am the Leg Man and whether alive or dead, I have the power to destroy you. I have Tommy’s tape.”
Kane laughs. “So the Leg Man’s game moves to another level.”
Snake Juice positions himself in a squatting position to jump Billy. “Punk. Get your foot off Kane’s throat.”
“Do you seriously think that you are going to make me?” Billy is not nearly as confident as he sounds. He isn’t sure how he tossed Kane. Billy takes his foot off Kane’s throat. Billy starts to walk. “It has been fun but I’ve got to go.”
Kane quickly jumps from the ground and he runs and tackles Billy to the ground. He kisses Billy on the back of the neck. He breath’s in Billy’s ear. “I am going to fuck you in the ass and you are not going to stop me. Then Mike Ruby is going to fuck you in the mouth and shoot his sperm all over your face. Then Snake Juice is going is going to fuck you in the ass.”
Billy struggles to throw Kane off his back. He can’t find the same strength he found when he flipped Kane. He thinks to himself, “I’ve got to find some way to get away.” Billy feels Kane humping his soft cock against his ass but without penetration. Billy closes his eyes as he feels Kane’s cock starting to grow harder. Billy thinks, “Someone help me. Please don’t make me be a bottom for this son of a bitch.” Then Billy hears footsteps and he opens his eyes. He looks up and he sees Picklepuss standing with a machine gun over him and Kane. “Can this get any worse?” Billy then feels Kane’s fully erect cock sliding between his butt cheeks. “Oh shit.”
“You like that huh?” Kane says as he looks up and sees the machine gun pointed at him. “What the hell?”
“I am sorry Kane. Leg Man is a witch. He is compelling me to do this.”
“Picklepuss, if you shoot me you will shoot Billy. He wouldn’t be compelling you to shoot himself.”
Billy throws Kane off his back and Kane rolls in the dirt. “Say Picklepuss, my good buddy, what do you say we compel Mike Ruby over there to fuck Kane in the ass.”
Picklepuss points the machine gun at Mike. “You heard the man. Get your clothes off.”
Mike screams, “Picklepuss! Who the fuck do you think you are kidding? You are like the cowardly lion. You aren’t going to shoot anyone.”
Picklepuss shoots at Mike’s feet. “Get those clothes off.”
Kane stands up. “No one is going to be fucking me in the ass.”
“Come on Picklepuss, killing your boss here would be too messy and too hard to explain. I have other plans.” Billy and Picklepuss start walking but with Picklepuss walking backwards still pointing his machine gun at Kane.”
“Where do you think you are going? I am not finished with you.”
Billy turns. “I am going to get dressed. Then Picklepuss and I are going home.” Billy turns and walks a little bit more. Then Billy turns again to look at Kane. “And oh, by the way, it is me who is not yet finished with you.” Billy again turns and naked, leaving his underwear in the dirt, starts walking.
Kane kicks in the dirt. He screams at Mike. “Get me my damned clothes.” Then Kane gives a look. Is that curl of his lip disgust or a disguised grin?
Billy gets to his clothes and gets dressed. “Damn, almost caught my dick in my zipper.” Billy looks around. There is no sign of Raymond in sight. He and Picklepuss then walk back to Billy’s car. “So you think I compelled you?”
“I don’t know. It could be that I am just tired of those assholes.” Picklepuss looks at Billy. “And also, I really do want to suck your dick.”
After driving a ways, Billy pulls his cellphone out of his pocket and calls Raymond. “Where are you at? You have the box?”
“Yeah, I am on my way home.” There is a nervous sound in Raymond’s voice which Billy chooses to ignore.
“Okay. I will see you in an hour or so.”
Billy closes his cellphone and looks at Picklepuss. “Where do you want me to drive you?”
“Drive me to Peachtree-Dekalb Airport. I have a friend who will fly me out of Georgia.” Picklepuss notices a pen and paper among the trash on Billy’s dashboard. Picklepuss takes the pen and writes down his cellphone number. “When you think it might be safe for me to come back to Georgia give me a call.” Picklepuss writes down another number. “If I am out of the country and you can’t reach me, give this number a call. They will know how to reach me.”
Billy glances from the road and over at Picklepuss. “I owe you big time. Trust me. When I am finished, Kane will not be a threat to anyone.”
Picklepuss stares at Billy. “If you and I survive, I have a feeling you and I will be friends.”
Billy turns and changes direction to head to the PDK airport. “We are friends. In case you didn’t catch my name, my name is Billy Bingo.”
Picklepuss reaches to shake Billy’s free hand. “Glad to know you Billy Bingo. I am Jesus Picklepuss Garciaius.”
As Billy releases Picklepuss’ hand, Billy cocks his head. There is the appearance of contentment staring Billy in the face that causes Billy to picture Picklepuss as a pleased cat with feathers hanging out of his mouth. Should Billy so easily believe that Picklepuss had turned against Kane? This moment, Billy is not sure but the point seems to be mute. With Picklepuss’ help Billy had escaped Kane and his men and now Picklepuss was going to fly out of town.
After driving a bit, Billy reaches the entrance to PDK airport. Picklepuss tells Billy to let him out and he will walk. Billy does as Picklepuss ask. Billy then drives to Raymond’s home.