Billy Bingo: The Forgotten Past
Chapter 7
Jackie calls Billy. “David and I are hoping you might come to see us this evening.”
“I don’t know.” Billy feels butterflies in the pit of his stomach. Billy paces while he hangs on to the phone with Jackie. “Would David be interested in just watching?”
Jackie laughs. “We will not do anything you do not want to do.”
On his way over to the Jenkins’ home, Billy is driving so slow that people blow their horns at him. They fly past him giving him their middle finger. Billy starts to turn around and go home, but he doesn’t. Even going as slow as a turtle on a Sunday Outing, Billy arrives at the Jenkins’ home. He pulls in the driveway. He sits in the car until David comes out and knocks on Billy’s car window.
“Why are you just sitting here?” David opens Billy’s car door. “Jackie is laying in the bed waiting for you.”
“Maybe, can we have a drink, and just start by talking.”
“Talking?” At first David is taken aback by the concept. Then he laughs. “Sure. Just come on in.”
Billy climbs out of his car and stares at David. “I saw you at the Way Party in New York.”
David pops Billy on the ass with his hand. “Yeah, and I saw you.” David opens the door while Billy just stands there. “What? You expecting me to carry you over the thresh hold.”
Billy winks with a grin. “Sure.”
David yanks Billy up into his arms and carries Billy into the house. Billy reaches and closes the door behind them. David carries Billy to Jackie’s bedroom and throws Billy into the bed next to Jackie. “He was just sitting out there in the car.”
Billy climbs out of the bed. “First, drinks and conversation.”
Totally naked, Jackie climbs out of the bed and they walk to the sitting room that is part of her suite of rooms in the Jenkins Home. She pours the three of them brandy. “So what is it that we are going to be talking about.”
Billy walks over to the stereo. He thumbs through the CD’s and puts music on. “I didn’t see either of you at Clarice Cassidy’s funeral.”
“Dirk separates business from social. I don’t do that so well. I liked Clarice but I don’t like Hutch. He is our competitor in the Restaurant Supply business.”
Jackie takes a drink. “It was tragic what happened to Clarice.” Jackie pauses. “I have been curious what happened when Clarice followed you and Sylvia out to the pool. Then a couple of hours later you come back in all wet.”
“A couple of hours!”
“I didn’t time you but that would be my guess.”
David unbuttons his shirt. “You didn’t tell me about seeing Clarice following Billy and Sylvia.”
Billy tells David, “I was in the pool house in the dark where Sylvia and Kane left me. Then someone hit me over the head. I don’t know who, but whoever threw me in the pool. Someone else must have pulled me partially out of the pool or I would have drowned.”
Jackie puts her drink down. “Poor baby. Come here and let me give you mouth to mouth.”
Billy walks up to Jackie and they kiss. David kicks off his shoes and socks and then takes his pants off. With his dick dangling and large, hairy balls bouncing, David walks up behind Jackie and kisses the back of her neck while Billy continues kissing her in the mouth.
“Get naked Billy Bingo,” David says as he reaches to push Billy away from his wife.
Billy sits down and slowly takes his shoes off. He watches David start to dance with Jackie. Billy watches their naked bodies move in loving motion to the beat of the music. He watches David’s cock slowly growing hard. Billy pulls his shirt off and rubs his chest as Jackie and David dance in his direction. Billy considers running from the room as Jackie stands with her pussy near his face and David stands with his now erect cock near his face.
David laughs. “Last time you gave it to me. It was your cock in my mouth. Remember.”
“I remember.” Billy says as David rubs his cock around his face.
David stops rubbing his cock on Billy’s face and then grabs Billy by the hair of his head. “Open your fucking mouth.” Billy doesn’t open his mouth. David pulls Billy’s face against his hard cock and large, hairy, dangling balls. David humps his cock against Billy’s face. David repeats, “Open your fucking mouth.” Billy opens his mouth and David starts ramming his cock in and out of Billy’s mouth. Billy gags on the cock and pre-cum in the back of his throat. Billy tries to pull away from the cock but David holds his head where he can’t pull away. Then David loosens his hold on Billy’s head so that his hands have partially released Billy. Coughing and spitting Billy breaks away and pulls totally away from David. Billy wipes the spit and the pre-cum from his lips with the back of his hand while David tells him, “Come on, let me fuck your mouth.” David again grabs Billy’s head and starts shoving his cock in and out of Billy’s mouth. Billy takes hold of David’s cock with his hand and starts pumping it while he lick’s David’s balls. “Yeah, that is what I am talking about.” Billy runs his tongue up the shaft of David’s cock. “Oh yeah.” He rolls his tongue around the head of David’s cock. David shivers, and then he pumps his cock in and out of Billy’s mouth. “Oh Fuck. I am getting ready to cum.” Billy starts to pull his mouth away from David’s cock and plans to finish David off with hand action. David has other plans. He shoves his cock back into Billy’s mouth just as his cock starts to twitch and pulse and shoot a heavy load of sperm. Billy taste and feels the sperm filling his mouth. He pushes David away as David’s cum oozes out of his mouth. Billy spits and spits to get the sperm out of his mouth. Billy runs to Jackie’s bathroom and takes a cup from the dispenser. He feels it up with water to rinse his mouth out. Billy repeats several times.
David walks into the bathroom. “Jackie is waiting for you. I’m going to take a shower and get to work. You two have fun.”
Billy returns to the sitting room, sees that Jackie isn’t there, and then he goes to where Jackie is laying in bed. Billy kisses on her until he becomes erect and then they make love missionary style. With each push and pull of Billy’s large cock to massage her pussy, Jackie realizes that Billy isn’t just having sex with her. Jackie feels genuine love, a tenderness, illuminating from Billy. As she considers his eyes are closed, she wonders with whom, in his mind, he is making love. Then suddenly Billy opens his eyes wide. He lets out a cowboy yell and Jackie screams in pleasure as Billy increases the speed to begin bringing her to orgasm.
“God Billy. That was good.”
Billy crawls out of bed and goes to the sitting room to find his clothes and get dressed. Jackie quickly gets dressed and goes to the sitting room where Billy is sitting and listening to the music and thinking about Rachel.
“Are you upset that David fucked you in the mouth.” Jackie sits down next to Billy.
“Not really.” Then Billy turns and looks at Jackie. “Do either of you have any feelings for me or am I just someone to fuck?”
“I love David. I do. That is not going to change. But yes. I do have feelings for you. I don’t really know about David. We both know at some point you will meet someone and this will end.”
Billy smiles and hugs Jackie. He kisses Jackie. “I am uneasy with David but I hope this, this with you, does not end anytime soon.” Billy stands up. “I guess I better go on and get out of here. I was planning on going to a cemetery to visit the grave of Tommy Harris.”
“Why?”
Billy thinks he talks too much but still he talks. “I played with Jimmy Harris as a child. I don’t really remember Tommy too well, but my mom went to his grave the other day and it had not been being tended to. She pulled weeds and such and put flowers on it. I thought I’d make a picture of it and send it to Jimmy in New York.”
“What? To make him feel guilty?”
“No. To let him know he is not alone.”
“How is that going to let him know that he is not alone?”
“I don’t know. Regardless, I want to go visit the grave.”
“I will go with you.” Jackie laughs. “We will be like girlfriend and boyfriend doing things together.”
* * *
Billy and Jackie get out of her cadillac. There is another car parked at the abandoned church but they don’t see anyone around. The old church cemetery is not well maintained. The grass is knee high and in some places totally covered in briar patches. There is some old liquor bottles scattered around.
“Mother said the grave is toward the back in the left corner.” Billy takes Jackie’s hand and leads Jackie through a thicket of bushes and trees. “I didn’t realize it is all so grown up.”
Jackie whispers, “We could fuck outside back here and no one would see us, but still there would be that slight chance of getting caught. The thought of that excites me.”
“Mother must have come in here from a different entrance and not from the old church parking. There is a stream there.”
“Five foot wide and deep running water. I call that a creek. There is no way to get across here. We’ve got to walk back.”
“Lets walk along it a ways. There must be a place somewhere to cross it.” Billy leads Jackie along the creek bank. She follows but is not too happy.
They hear a man’s voice. “Suck it. Yeah. God. That feels good. Take my balls in your mouth. Lick my balls.”
“We aren’t meaning to intrude.” Jackie yells. Then she whispers, “Did that sound like Dirk to you?”
“I don’t think so. What would he and Rachel be doing here? Besides that car back at the church was old and beat up. It doesn’t belong to Dirk or Rachel.”
“I guess you are right. Maybe I shouldn’t have warned them. Maybe we should have snuck up on them and got a peek.”
Billy doesn’t say anything. He continues leading Jackie along the creek bank where the creek is becoming wider and wider. Then he comes to a large drop off and a large pool of water below. “Fuck.”
Then they hear Dirk calling to them. “What are you two doing on that side of the creek?”
Billy looks across to see Dirk and Rachel standing together across the creek. “We parked at the church.”
“No. You turned too soon,” Rachel tells them. “You are at the old church and not the new one.”
Billy questions, “What are you two doing here? I mean besides having sex.”
Dirk tells Billy, “Your mom said you were coming here. She told us about the ghost.”
Jackie punches Billy. “Ghost! I am getting out of here.”
“No. It was in the kitchen after mom had worked to clean Tommy’s grave site. She didn’t see the ghost in the cemetery.” Billy rubs his arm.
Rachel points. “Look! There is a rope. You two can swing across.”
Jackie screams at Rachel. “The hell I can. Are you insane.”
Billy takes the rope. “It looks like it will hold us.”
“It hold us. No, I will have to hold it.”
“Take the rope and I will push you across and then Dirk can catch you.”
“No.”
“Come on. It is not like you are going to be swinging across a large gorge. It is what? It is maybe fifteen foot across at the most.”
Reluctantly, Jackie takes a hold of the rope. She lifts her feet up to make sure she can hold her own weight. When Billy is certain that Jackie has a good hold he takes her and pulls back and then gently pushes her forward. Dirk grabs hold of her on the other side. She lets go of the rope and Dirk tosses the rope back across to Billy. Billy takes the rope and he climbs it. He then uses his right leg to push off from a tree so that he will swing to the other side of the creek. He jumps as he lets go from holding the rope and with a bounce he laughs, “That was cool.” Billy grins.
Jackie shakes her head. “Playing Tarzan and Jane is not my idea of fun.”
Leading Billy to Tommy’s grave, Rachel tells Billy, “Your mom did a good job. Considering how the other graves look, she must have worked on that grave for hours.”
When they reach the grave Billy pulls out his phone camera and sends a picture to Jimmy and sends Jimmy a text message. Jimmy quickly text back asking who cleaned the grave up and Billy tells him that his mother did. Jimmy tells Billy to thank her for him.
Jackie looks around the cemetery plot. “He is buried here alone. That is kind of sad. I know the cemetery isn’t well maintained but Clarice should have been brought back here to be buried next to her twin brother. It isn’t like that bastard she was married to will ever be buried with her.” Jackie admires the red and purple flowers that Maureen has put on the grave.
Dirk ask, “Do you think it was Tommy’s ghost in the kitchen?”
“I don’t know.”
“My mom is buried about ten miles from here. Do you want to see where we are going to have the wedding?”
Billy nods. “Sure.”
“We’ll go in Dirk’s car and then come back by to drop ya’ll off to whatever car you all came in.” Rachel winks at Jackie. “Or maybe Jackie wants to play Tarzan and Jane some more.”
As they walk away from the grave, Billy turns and looks at the red and purple flowers that his mother put on the grave. For a second he pictures a teenage boy standing at the grave and waving. Billy guesses that the image is his imagination.
* * *
They drive to the cemetery where a grave is marked as the grave of Amberline Darko and where Dirk and Rachel plan to get married. Dirk wants to get married near the grave of his mother. Unlike the other cemetery, this cemetery is well maintained.
Billy looks at the grave of Amberline Darko Jenkins.
Dirk shows Billy a picture of his mom. “I remember her some. She died when I was seven. We were up in the mountains and she went into labor. I sat out in the waiting room with a girl who was about my age. Her mother had also gone into labor. We sat there playing jax and some other games. We were laughing and playing. Then dad came out and his eyes were all red from where he had been crying. I’d never seen my father cry before. He told me that my mother and baby brother had both died.”
“My sister Bess told me about when I was born. Mom had gone into labor while we were up in the mountains. Bess told me about a little boy that she played with in the waiting room. She was impressed how the little boy had taken care of his father when his father had just told him the worse news of his life. Bess said she will never forget the best night of her life, my birth, and the worse night of that little boy’s life at the Wilshire hospital?”
“Wilshire hospital. That was the hospital. Bess is the girl. You were born the same time that my little brother was born and died.” Dirk stares at Rachel and then at Jackie. He looks back at the picture of his mother. He then stares back into the face of Billy.
Dirk walks over to the grave marked, “Baby Johnny Jenkins.” Dirk stares at the grave marker with the date of birth and death. “This is also the date of your birth?”
Billy walks over and looks at the marker. “Yes.” He notices the red and purple flowers on the grave but he doesn’t say anything about the flowers looking like the flowers his mother put on Tommy’s grave.
“I’ve often wondered what if he had lived. What if I had a brother? Of course I would have been seven years older.” Dirk considers the flowers that look like the flowers at Tommy’s grave. He doesn’t mention them.
“Bess and I were not always close. When you are young, seven years is a big age difference.”
Dirk pats Billy on the back. “You and I are friends. What is seven years to us? You and Bess will become close.”
Rachel stares at the flowers and questions, “What if somehow the babies became switched at the hospital? Billy, what if you are Johnny Jenkins.”
Jackie shakes her head. “That is a sick thought.” Jackie looks at the flowers she put on the babie’s grave. She guesses she and Maureen have similar taste.
“I had to have a blood transfusion when I was three. Dad provided the blood. We are the same blood type. He has type O and I have type O.”
Jackie clears her throat. “David has type AB and if I remember biology that would rule him out as Billy’s father.”
Dirk puzzles as he considers how much Billy favors his mother. “It is still odd that I was in the waiting room with Bess and that our families paths crossed up there in the mountains those years ago.”
Billy calls Bess on his cellphone. “You want to know something weird.” … “You remember you telling me about when I was born.” … “The boy in the waiting room with you was Dirk.” … “Yeah. I am serious. He told me a similar story and I was born the same day as his little brother that didn’t make it.” … “His mother, Amberline Darko Jenkins, died.” … “Jackie is his stepmother.” … “Okay. I will let you go.” Billy looks around. “She is at work. Guess I should have thought before calling.”
Rachel tells Billy. “She was not very friendly with us at the Cassidy Home or the funeral.” Rachel looks into Dirk’s eyes. “There was a time she was my good friend.”
“I am not sure what is going on with Bess. I think I embarrassed the hell out of her at the party. She was kind of miffed at me and Sammy. Then there was Clarice’s death. It was all a bit much for her.”
Dirk smiles. “Sammy Way?”
“What about you and Sammy?” Jackie ask.
“Nothing really. We did see one another naked. He didn’t make advances. I didn’t make advances though he was standing there with a boner. Dad said Sammy was dry humping me in the bed when Sammy slept over at Bess’.”
“Well, that is something to think about when I fire up my old vibrator.” Jackie giggles.
“You brought Sammy Way home to your sister’s Apartment. You and Sammy Way slept in the same bed.” Rachel shakes her head as if in disbelief.
“We fell asleep while watching a movie.”
Dirk questions. “So, are you and Sammy Way going to, you know?”
Jackie nudges Dirk. “When thinking about that late at night, are you going to want to borrow my vibrator?”
Dirk looks at Rachel and then looks at Jackie. “Forget that I asked that.”
“He is in New York. I am in Georgia. He is rich. I’m not. I’ve got secrets. He is probably an open book.”
“Secrets?” Jackie wonders.
Rachel changes the subject. “Anyway, there is going to be a stage built over there where there are no graves. The guest will sit on the other side and the deceased will be on this side. You know, in their graves. We don’t expect them get up or anything.”
Dirk frowns. “Please don’t make my plans sound silly.”
“Sorry.”
* * *
Dirk drives Billy and Jackie back to the old church where Jackie has her car parked. The old car is still sitting in the parking lot. The front church door is blowing back and forth in the wind. There are dark clouds moving across the sky and a rumble of thunder can be heard in the distance.
Jackie gets into her car but Billy stands staring at the blowing door. Jackie rolls down her window, “Are you going to get in?”
“I am going to see if I can fasten that door.” Billy walks up the crumbling cement steps to the church. He feels it is a walk he has made before but the feeling is not a memory. He reaches the old door with peeling white paint and is about to close it when he sees an arm and hand in the light from the door. Billy steps just inside the entrance way of the church, and though beyond the light from the open doorway it is dark, he can see that the arm and hand are not disembodied as they first appeared. Billy takes a deep breath and walks closer to the shadowy image, stretched out, barely visible in the dismal light. Nervously Billy slowly approaches what he fears is a lifeless body laying in the aisle of the old church. Billy stops and hoping the person is not dead, he calls out, “Who is there in the aisle?” No one answers. Billy again walks toward what he fears is a lifeless corpse. With his eyes now adjusted to the dark, Billy can see the seemingly lifeless body laying at his feet. Sickened with a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach, Billy recognizes the face of Olivia Destone. Looking beyond her face to where he fears a white chalk line might soon be drawn, he sees a couple of liquor bottles and a syringe. “You okay?” Billy’s voice quivers as he repeats again, “You okay?” Olivia doesn’t answer. Fearing the worse Billy screams to his friends outside, “Olivia is dead or dying!” Billy’s scream sounds more desperate, “Someone help me!”
Dirk tells Jackie and Rachel to stay put as he takes off running into the church. Seeing the shadow of Billy in the dark, Dirk turns to find a light switch and flips the light on. As the lights come on, Dirk is relieved to know that the church deacons had kept the electricity turned on to the building. He watches Billy feeling for a pulse of the woman he recognizes as Olivia Destone.
Billy shakes. There are tears in the corners of his eyes. “I think she is dead.”
Then Olivia moans. She struggles to sit up. “What the fuck are you doing here?”
“You okay?” Dirk questions her.
Olivia manages to stand up. “I don’t know. I came here to visit Tommy’s grave. Then I came into the church. I was sitting here.” Olivia looks at the liquor bottle. “ Yeah, I was drinking.” Olivia looks at the syringe. “Just drinking, nothing else.” Olivia folds her arms as a shiver runs up her spine. “I was thinking about Tommy’s funeral. I don’t think I will ever forget Tommy laying in the coffin. He was the most handsome I’d ever seen him laying there and all dressed up in that suit. It wasn’t obvious that his neck was broken. His tongue wasn’t hanging out of his mouth like when I found him.”
Rachel comes into the church.
Jackie comes into the church and she stares at Olivia Destone. “I know you!”
Olivia shakes her head. “I don’t think so.”
“Not recently. You were younger. I walked into a motel room and you were with my then boyfriend. David and I had just started dating.”
“I sometimes fuck men for money. It is possible he was a trick.”
“No. You were delivering a box to him. He paid you money for video tapes that were in the box. I was curious and I played a couple of the tapes in my portable VCR when David was in the shower. One of the video’s was of David’s maid Mary Aghar with some woman. Then there were other tapes of two young men fucking the women.”
Billy stares at Olivia. “You delivered the tapes that your cousins made to David Jenkins.”
Olivia doesn’t say anything. She holds her head as if in pain and hoping to gain some sympathy.
Billy looks at Dirk and then at Jackie. “David was behind what George Destone was doing to my mother?” Billy looks at Olivia. “You were part of it?”
“I hated George. I hated that son of a bitch.” Then Olivia stares at Billy. “You and Tommy were going to destroy the tapes. You remember. It was right after you run over Ralph and George.”
“I don’t remember. God! Fuck. I don’t remember.” Billy sits down on the pew and bangs his head. “Why in the fuck don’t I remember?”
Olivia sits down beside Billy. “I found out where the tapes were hidden and told you and then you and Tommy stole the tapes with plans to destroy them.” Olivia pulls Billy back nearer to her and she wraps her arm across his shoulder and she pulls his head next to her breast as she hugs him like she’d done when he was ten. Olivia fights the urge to throw up. “You and Tommy took the tapes back into the garage office to make sure they were the right ones. Hutch Cassidy came in and found the two of you in the office. He walked in when the tape being played was of Tommy being gang banged by the bikers. He told you and Tommy that he had been paid for the tapes to be delivered to someone. Hutch and I were tight at that point. He had me deliver the tapes while he kept you and Tommy at the garage.”
Jackie speaks up. “David and I talked about the tapes after I discovered what was on them. He said he paid Hutch Cassidy to get the tapes and to make sure there were no copies left around. See, he was on some of the tapes with Mary and someone else. David told me that he intended to destroy the tapes.”
“I remember driving the car that run over Ralph and George but I don’t remember other things. I had a dream where Tommy was watching a video of my mom and I got so angry.”
Olivia thinks she knows what Billy is talking about. “Somehow Tommy had managed to steal a tape. This was several weeks before you run Ralph and George down and managed to steal the entire box of tapes. When Tommy stole the tape he thought it was of himself but when he started watching the tape in his bedroom, it was of your mother being forced to have sex with Ralph and George at the garage. Tommy thought he might be able to use the tape as leverage with Ralph and George but you had other ideas. The tape incident was when Tommy explained to you what was going on and the two of you became accomplices of sorts.”
Billy stands up. He steps away from the pew and paces in the aisle. He stares back at Olivia. She has told him a lot. He contemplates her expression. “Do you have any idea who killed Tommy?”
“Hutch and I were tight at one point, but I’ve always suspected Hutch.” Olivia’s words sounded accusatory but less than genuine.
Billy remembers Hutch’s words, “You and I were friends. I was much older, but we were friends.” Billy considers that Olivia is attempting to point blame toward Hutch but David Jenkins trusted Hutch. Bess trust Hutch. Billy can’t remember when he was ten but still Hutch seemed a friend at the pool house. Though reasonably upset that day at his house after his wife Clarice had been murdered, Billy considers that Hutch really was not too out of sorts with him. Billy doesn’t believe Hutch is the one who killed his wife Clarice.
“It feels so weird having this blank in my memory.” Billy shakes his head. “Tommy had kept proof that I was the one who drove the car. The evidence was laying on Clarice’s bed when I was there with Bess. Was Tommy planning on blackmailing my mother?”
Billy doesn’t speak the thought out loud but still the blank in his memory makes Billy consider he, himself, might have had a motive to kill Tommy. The thought horrifies Billy.
Olivia defends the memory of Tommy. “Tommy wouldn’t have used what he knew against you.”
“He had drawn a sketch of me in the disguise.”
Olivia shakes her head. “He liked to draw. He used to say that drawing things helped him to think and reason things out.”
Billy doesn’t trust Olivia but still her words are comforting in that Billy hopes Tommy and he remained friendly. Billy prays that part is true. Billy thinks back to the sketch pad and the items on the bed. Clarice was collecting evidence against someone. Did she know that he was the one who killed George? Billy realizes that at this point it does not matter. What matters is that Clarice thought the Leg Man had the tape that would bring all the evidence together to prove what happened to her brother.
Billy remembers the voice he is sure was Clarice’s voice outside the pool house. She said, “I am sure that Leg Man has the tape that can prove who killed my brother.”
It is hard for Billy to get a grip on the fact that though ten years old he was able to pass as someone older and with the identity Leg Man. He doesn’t remember that. He doesn’t remember the tape that Clarice mentioned and doesn’t know where the tape might be.
Billy considers Olivia’s words, “Hutch Cassidy came in and found the two of you in the office. He walked in when the tape being played was of Tommy being gang banged by the bikers.” Billy thinks that had to be the tape Clarice mentioned and Clarice thought key to proving who killed Tommy. Unless there was more than one copy of the tape, Hutch could easily have got rid of the tape when he went to get the tapes for David. In Billy’s mind that points suspicion away from Hutch. If it was being played when he came in as Olivia said then it wasn’t as though the tape had been hidden from Hutch. Still that was based on what Olivia said.
Billy stares at Olivia. He wishes he could remember her. No matter how much Olivia wants Billy to distrust Hutch, Billy has doubts about Olivia and he thinks it is more than just because of her last name: Destone.
Billy considers and believes that if he could find the tape that Clarice thought that he, the Leg Man, had then he would know who killed Tommy Harris, Clarice Harris, and tried to kill him.