Category: Billy Bingo: The Forgotten Past

Billy Bingo: The Forgotten Past

Chapter 12

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The next day the news is full of sound bytes regarding the previous night’s murder of Kane Bishop. There are a lot of people talking about the murder but the details remain sketchy. There is no mention of the video in the VCR. Detective Face is the lead Detective and though Billy is not sure why he seems to be covering up for Billy.

A few days go by and then Sylvia Trundle calls Billy requesting that he come to her secluded vacation home up in the mountains. Reluctantly, Billy agrees and drives up into the scenic mountains. The curvy ass roads make Billy nervous and he is glad when he finally reaches his destination.

Billy knocks on the door to Sylvia Trundle’s vacation home. Her houseboy Raoul answers the door and lets Billy in. Raul walks Billy to the swimming pool where, nude, Sylvia is swimming laps. Sylvia eyes Billy and swims to the edge of the pool as Raul walks back inside the house.

“Hey,” Billy says as he pulls out a cigar, lights it, and puts it in his mouth.

Sylvia suggest, “That cigar looks weird hanging in your mouth.” Then totally nude Sylvia gets out the pool. Billy can’t help but admire her body. Sylvia picks up a towel and starts drying herself. “Are you planning to kill me?” Sylvia’s question is direct.

“No.”

“Your plan to kill Kane by the giving him the electric VCR was rather clever.”

Billy takes a drag on his cigar. “I guess I should now ask you, are you planning on killing me?”

Sylvia smiles as she puts on a white terry cloth bathrobe. “I want to set some things straight.”

“Okay.”

Sylvia walks over and sits down at a patio table. She pulls a cigarette from a pack on the table. Billy walks over and lights her cigarette. There is a yellow envelope on the table. Sylvia pulls a picture from the envelope and places it in front of a chair. Billy looks at the picture as he sits down. It is the picture of a man shoving his cock into Tommy’s mouth.

“That man is Judge Haskel. He and Olivia Destone are the ones who killed Clarice. They are the ones who threw you into the pool to drown. For the record, Kane and I are the ones who pulled you to the side of the pool. Do you believe me?”

“I don’t know.” Billy stares at Sylvia. “If you are trying to make me feel guilty for killing Kane, there is no doubt that he was trying rape me and kill me.”

Sylvia stands up. “Take you clothes off and come swimming with me.”

Billy stares at the beautiful, the sexy, the vivacious Sylvia Trundle. It would smart to say no to her. It would be safe to say no to her. Every instinct in Billy’s being, every inner voice in his mind, screamed for him to politely say no and to make an exit. Still, his hands begin to unbutton his shirt and his feet automatically free themselves from his shoes with a couple of quick kicks. Sylvia kisses Billy on the right nipple while her fingers unsnap his pants and a shiver goes up Billy’s spine. Billy wishes that he might not be so perverted that danger turns him on but there he stands as Sylvia lowers his pants and underwear. Billy and Sylvia both blow smoke rings while Sylvia fondles Billy’s cock. Then Billy and Sylvia both abandon their smokes in the ashtray at the same time as though they are of one mind. Billy takes Sylvia in his arms and kisses her on the neck.

Sylvia takes Billy by the hand and leads Billy to the ladder to the high dive. Together they begin to climb the ladder. Billy does not question Sylvia’s plan but simply follows her slowly up the ladder. In his mind Billy pictures that she may have left a weapon at the top of the ladder on the diving board. He imagines her pulling a revolver from where she may have it on the board and putting the revolver to his head. He considers a single shot to his temple and then he would be dead. Then he imagines a large knife might be the weapon that Sylvia uses to seal his bloody destiny. Still, naked, the two of them climb the ladder.

As Sylvia walks out on the very high diving board, Billy sees that she has no weapon hidden. He climbs that final step and walks onto the high diving board with Sylvia. They stand face to face and Sylvia kisses Billy. She tells Billy that when she and Kane saw him in the Apartment parking lot, they knew he’d be part of their destiny. Billy enjoys the sweet taste of Sylvia’s lips as his cock grows rock hard and presses against Sylvia’s pussy. Music starts playing on a speaker. Billy isn’t familiar with the tune but he thinks it is a nice tune. Sylvia starts to lead Billy in a slow dance on the bouncy diving board. Billy looks out across the green foliage and rolling landscape of the picturesque mountains as Sylvia dances him around. With the turning, the view is dizzying. Billy holds Sylvia close and he enjoys the warmth of her naked body against his naked body.

Sylvia gets down to lay on the diving board and pulls Billy on top of her. “I want to feel your huge, hard cock, inside of me.” Gently Billy slides his cock inside of Sylvia’s moist pussy. “Don’t be so gentle. I will not break.”

Billy pumps in and out of Sylvia with hard thrust. The diving board bounces. Billy moans, “This is kind of scary.”

Sylvia licks Billy behind the ear. “You like scary.”

“I guess I do.” Billy closes his eyes and forgetting everything starts enjoying the moment, the sex. Then suddenly Billy’s eyes pop open. Billy feels the weight of someone drop to lay on his back. Then Billy feels a hard cock sliding between his butt cheeks. Billy screams in pain and in horror as Billy feels a hard cock penetrate his virgin ass. Billy glances over this shoulder but the face of whoever is fucking him in the ass is hidden behind a mask of Richard Nixon. The diving board practically jumps vertical with the thrust of the man fucking Billy.

Billy stares into the smiling face of Sylvia. “This is your revenge.” Up and down the diving board jumps. “Fuck. Shit. Son of a bitch!”

After about 15 minutes of hard fucking, the man pulls away from Billy’s ass and holding tightly on to Billy’s head, the man pumps his cock through Billy’s long hair and against Billy’s scalp. Then shooting his load of sperm into Billy’s hair, the man grabs Billy under his arms and yanks Billy up into his arms. The man does a couple of hard jumps and with Billy limp in his arms from the hard fucking, holding Billy tightly in his arms, the man does a rolling dive off the board and into the pool below. Sylvia stands up and dives into the pool.

Billy, Sylvia, and the man swim to the surface. The man is no longer wearing the Richard Nixon mask and Billy can see that the man is Kane Bishop. “They said you are dead.”

“It was wonderful of you to help me fake my demise and get out from under the thumb of Judge Haskel.”

Billy shakes his head. “So I guess now you plan to kill me.”

Picklepuss, sucking on a sweet pickle, walks out to the pool. “Hey Billy. I still want to suck on that dick of yours.”

Kane laughs, “No one is going to kill you, even if they could.”

“What does that mean? Even if they could.”

“If you could die a mortal death, the Judge and Olivia would have already drowned you.”

Picklepuss laughs. “I told you Billy. That birthmark of yours is the sign you are a witch. That means you can’t be destroyed except by beheading or being burned alive.”

Billy shakes his head. “That is bullshit.”

Kane swims up closer to Billy. “I usually keep it covered by makeup.” Kane holds his his right arm up and shows Billy the upper inside of his arm near his armpit. “See. I have the same birthmark. I saw your birthmark on your inner thigh when Sylvia and I pulled you to the side of the pool.”

“You didn’t have a pulse. I thought you were dead. Then you walked back into the party.” Sylvia shakes her head. “I was shocked as hell.”

“It wasn’t until I decided to fake my death that I told Sylvia about our birthmarks and what they mean.”

Billy asked Kane, “So do you have powers?”

“What you really mean to ask is if you have powers. We probably do but without training it does not mean anything.” Kane thinks a second. “Look. I want to clear something up. You think I killed Tommy Harris. I didn’t give the orders. I didn’t follow the orders. I am just guilty of not saving Tommy Harris. I think we are both guilty of that.”

“What? You expect me to think that I can trust you. You just fucked me in the ass. And hell, I’ve seen the tape of what you did to Tommy Harris.”

“Tommy Harris was paid $10,000 to be gang banged. Then he tried to blackmail Judge Haskel just like George Destone blackmailed your mother. Hell, Tommy Harris even considered taking the tape of your mother and doing exactly what George Destone and Ralph Shath had done. Hell, if Judge Haskel had not ordered Tommy Harris killed then you probably would have ended up killing him yourself.”

“So what am I going to do about Judge Haskel?”

“Talk to him. Deliver all copies of the tape to him. Then if he keeps on trying to kill you, then you know what you have to do.”

“You said he and Olivia killed Clarice. Do you think I should just forget that?”

“Do you want to put the lives of more innocent people in jeopardy? Is revenge for someone you did not even know worth putting your family in danger.” Sylvia shakes her head. “What happened to Clarice is tragic but revenge will not bring her back to life.”

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Billy doesn’t find it difficult to enter Judge Haskel’s house. The Judge is sitting at the breakfast table with his wife. Billy enters the room and dumps all the tapes and DVDs on the table. “I consider this over,” Billy tells the Judge. “I am not a blackmailer.”

The Judge stares at Billy. “Do you see my wife sitting there?”

Billy glances at the woman sipping on her coffee. She puts her coffee cup down. She tells Billy, “Detective Face works for me and not my husband. He said you would do the right thing once you understand the situation.”

Billy nods at the Judge. “I suspect you have a very good wife there.”

“My husband will be retiring from both the bench and the gang activity. I fancy to enjoy our last years peacefully down in Florida.”

Billy smiles. “Cool.”

Mrs. Haskel stands up and shakes Billy’s hand. She kisses him on the cheek. “I would not object to you visiting us down there.”

“I may do that.” Billy turns and pats the Judge on the back. “You take care. You have nothing to worry about from me.” Billy leaves.

As Billy gets in his old Comet car he feels as though someone is watching him. He turns and looks around. He doesn’t see anyone. Billy climbs into the driver’s seat and closes his door. He glances into the backseat. No one is there. Billy cranks the car and drives to his friend Steve Webster’s home.

Steve is glad to see Billy as he opens the door. “I feel like I haven’t seen you in forever. Man, come on in.”

Billy smiles and gives Steve a hug. “A whole lot of stuff has been going on. I am going to tell you some things in confidence because I have to talk to someone.”

“Sure.” Steve closes the door behind Billy. They walk over and sit on the couch.

“I know David Jenkins is not my father because of blood type. I think Amberline Darko may be my mother. I have a birthmark like she had, has. Also, I totally favor her. See, here is thing, I was born at the same time she had a son. Supposedly she and her baby died.”

“Supposedly?”

“You totally are not going to believe me. When I was in New York I was actually drowned in a pool. I died. But it didn’t stick.”

“What the fuck have you been smoking?”

“I know it sounds crazy. I haven’t been trained as a witch and so I don’t know what I am capable of doing but the only way I can be killed is if my head is cut off or if I am burned to ashes.”

“Do you really think I believe this?”

“I don’t care whether you believe it or not. I just need to talk to someone and try to reason things out and you are a friend.”

“I am sorry. Go on.”

“Kane Bishop isn’t really dead.”

“Yes he is. It has been in the news. They are going to bury him.”

“It is a sham. I rigged a VCR to electrocute him but his death didn’t stick any more than my death did.”

“So he is also a witch?”

“Yes. Anyway, I was born at the same hospital as where Amberline Darko had her son. I think I am that son. I think the babies were switched. I also don’t think Amberline Darko could have died while in childbirth. I mean, she may have died, but it wouldn’t have stuck.”

“So you think Dirk’s real mother is also a witch? So is Dirk a witch?”

“I don’t know. I don’t know if he has the birthmark.”

“Birthmark?”

Billy stands up and pulls his pants off. He shows Steve his dagger shaped birthmark on his inner thigh. “Kane Bishop has one on his arm. According to David Jenkins, Amberline had the birthmark. If Dirk has the birthmark then yes, he is a witch.”

“So what powers do you have?”

“I don’t know.” Without putting his pants back on Billy sits back down on the couch.

“I do not want to keep harping on this but you do know this sounds crazy.” Steve looks as though he is talking to Billy’s crotch as that is the direction he keeps looking.

“I know it sounds crazy. I can’t prove to you that it is true. I can’t prove to you that Amberline Darko is still alive. I’d like to find her but I have no idea how to even begin looking.”

“You need to talk to Dirk.”

“How can I tell him this stuff? His reaction would be even worse than your reaction. I know how this sounds. It is not like I know any magic that I can do to prove that I am a witch.”

“If witches are real and in my mind that is still a big question mark, you need to find one who will help you craft your skill.”

Billy laughs. “Okay. Let me see if I can write my Craigslist ad.” Billy rolls his eyes. “How would I find a witch?”

“You said Kane Bishop is still alive.”

“I don’t think he knows any more about his abilities than I do.”

Steve shakes his head. “I have no idea what to tell you.”

Without knocking first, Steve’s mother, Linda Webster opens the door and comes into Steve’s Apartment. She stares at Billy and Steve sitting on the couch. “I hope I didn’t interrupt anything.”

Billy realizes he had not put his pants back on. Billy looks down at his underwear. “Oh, no. I was showing Steve a birthmark. This is not what it might look like.”

Linda walks over. “What birthmark?”

Billy stands up and shows Linda the dagger shaped birthmark. She stares at the birthmark and then reaches down and touches it. Her eyes widen as she looks at Billy’s face as though this is the first time she has really looked at him. Her mouth opens as if she is in a momentary stupor. “I don’t understand.” She glances down at her son still sitting on the couch. She shakes her head and moves her hand back away from Billy’s inner thigh and takes a step back. “How are you related to Amberline Darko?”

“Do you know where she is?”

Linda looks away from Billy. She wants to change the subject. She pulls a usb flash drive out of her pocket. “Steve, can you download the pictures that you took at the Ward place to the flash drive for me.”

Steve stands up. “Sure.” Steve takes the drive and walks over to his computer desk.

Linda looks back at Billy. “You don’t think Amberline is dead?” Linda considers she is getting herself in a conversation she does not want to have. She doesn’t want to regret the words she might speak in this conversation.

“When I was in New York I was drown. My death did not stick. Kane Bishop has told me some things. If what I have been told is true, Amberline could not have died in childbirth. I mean to say that if she died, it would not have stuck.”

Steve turns around and looks at his mother. “It sounds crazy. Doesn’t it?” His mother does not answer. Steve repeats, “Doesn’t it?”

“Amberline was my friend.”

“Was? Unless someone has burned her into ashes or cut her head off, then she isn’t dead.”

Linda grimaces at Billy’s words. There is a quietness and a sound of regret in her voice. Linda looks lovingly at Steve sitting at the computer desk miffed that she doesn’t answer him and then with great sadness and a look of compassion she tells Billy, “Amberline is my friend.”

“So you know that she didn’t die in childbirth? You know her child couldn’t have died so easily.” Billy’s words sound more accusatory than he intends.

Linda closes her eyes. “Dirk is not a witch. Amberline had no reason to believe what you are suggesting.”

“She didn’t know. Wait. So is it possible that I am wrong in thinking what I am thinking.”

“I am not sure what to tell you. Just from your face, I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me to wonder, but I didn’t. I never thought you might be Amberline’s son. Now you’ve showed me your birthmark and I guess the birthmark and the fact that your death in New York didn’t stick says it all.”

“Not quite all. I am not the son of David Jenkins. I have the wrong blood type.”

Linda nods. “Amberline and Frank Bingo had an affair. I would guess Frank is your father.”

“Did father know that Amberline is a witch?”

“No. She never told him. After she died in childbirth and of course came back she decided it best if she took a new identity. She shapeshifted to become …” Linda looks over at Steve. She looks at Billy. “Besides shapeshifting she uses a spell that makes it easier to pretend to be this new person. When she is under her own spell she doesn’t remember being Amberline. It is sort of like having a split personality. Jackie doesn’t always know that she is Amberline.”

“Jackie!” Billy’s mouth falls open in horror. “I’ve had sex with my own mother.”

Billy Bingo: The Forgotten Past

Chapter 11

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Billy gets out of his old Comet Car at Raymond Bing’s home. He looks at Raymond’s car in the driveway. Billy isn’t sure whether it is imagination or not but something does not feel right. The nervous sound in Raymond’s voice that Billy had chosen to ignore is now not so easy to ignore. Billy looks at the white Cargo Van in front of Raymond’s home.

Instead of walking up to Raymond’s door, Billy walks to the sidewalk and glances inside of the Van. Billy then looks up and down the road. Other than the Cargo Van, Billy does not notice anything that might scream peculiar.

Billy pulls out his cellphone. He calls Raymond. “Is everything okay?”

There is a period of silence before Raymond say’s anything. “Yeah. Everything is okay.” There is another pause. “I am just sitting here waiting for you.”

Billy looks at the front of the house from side to side. The house has a basement and the windows in the front of the house are all at least ten feet from the ground. There is a small concrete porch and one window that looks out over the porch. Billy notices the curtain to the window move.

Billy closes his cellphone and walks behind the house. The windows in the back of the house are all close to the ground. The window to what Billy figures is to the bathroom is open. There is a screen but Billy figures that screen will be easy enough to remove. Billy puts his cellphone in his pocket. He walks to the bathroom window. Trying to be quiet as possible Billy removes the screen. Billy crawls through the open window. Billy looks at the toilet and thinks how much he needs to take a piss but consider that will make noise. Billy walks to the open bathroom door. He glances out the door to do a quick check up and down the hallway. He sees no one. Suddenly his cellphone starts ringing. Billy pulls the phone out of his pocket to see that it is Raymond’s number calling him. No sooner had Billy acted to quickly turn the phone off, than Billy looks up to see Kane staring at him.

“Son of a bitch.” Billy shakes his head. “Fuck.”

Kane laughs. “Yo, Leg Man, you are slipping. Don’t you know if you are going to sneak into a house then you should park down the street. And yeah, that cell phone should have been turned off.”

“You mean as opposed to parking out in front of the house.” Billy shakes his head as he looks at his cell phone and then places it back into his pocket. “Shit.”

Kane laughs loud. “Yeah. That was stupid of me. But there are a million white Cargo Vans. There aren’t that many old Comet’s being driven around.” Kane grabs Billy by the hair of his head and pulls Billy into the living room. Kane mumbles, “You make things too easy for me.”

Raymond Bing is tied to a straight chair. He isn’t gagged. “Sorry Billy. One of Kane’s men was hidden in my backseat with a gun.”

Kane pulls Billy by the hair to where Billy’s face is touching his face. “Did you really think that I would not remember and recognize good old Raymond?” Then Kane shoves Billy to Mike Ruby and Snake Juice. “Strip Billy naked.”

With Snake Juice holding Billy, Mike yanks Billy’s pants off. Mike spanks Billy on his naked ass and then slaps at Billy’s balls. Billy struggles against Mike and Snake but is unable to break free from them

Another man, Travis Heartbe walks from the kitchen. “You do not really want to leave DNA evidence.”

“Shit. If I am not able to stop people from being worried about that damn video, DNA evidence is the least of my problems.”

Travis shrugs. He then walks out the door and leaves Raymond’s house without saying anything else.

Listening to Kane as he fights against Snake’s tight grip on his arms, Billy looks at Raymond. Raymond sort of nods to let Billy know that Billy has heard Kane right about the video tape.

“You tried to kill me at the Way Party. You were going to kill me in the woods. Now you are worried about the video?”

Kane rolls his eyes. “I am more worried about that tape with you alive than dead. And people have voluntary sex all the time. The importance of DNA evidence is grossly exaggerated in the news and on TV. It isn’t like people haven’t seen me climb in and out of your window in the broad light of day for a little quick sex with you and my girlfriend.” Kane gives a twisted look. “Oh my God, my girlfriend and I totally love Billy Bingo. We can’t imagine who would have killed him. It breaks our heart.” Kane walks over, grabs Billy, and kisses Billy full on the mouth. Billy responds by spitting in Kane’s face. Kane wipes the spit off with the back of his hand and then rubs the wet back of his hand across Billy’s face. “That just turns me on more.” Kane starts to undress. “Put Billy over there on the couch with his ass turned up.” Undressing, Kane walks back to the bathroom.

Mike leans down to take Billy by his ankles. Just when Mike’s face hits Billy’s cock, Billy intentionally lets loose pissing so that he is peeing in Mike’s face. Mike screams in horror at being pissed on and quickly forms a fist and raises up to belt Billy in the face. Billy dodges the fist and instead of striking Billy, Mike lands a solid punch into Snake Juice’s jaw and Snake Juice sprawls to the floor knocked cold. Billy notices a dirty plate on the coffee table with a kitchen knife in the plate. As Mike starts to grab Billy, Billy takes aim with his dick and shoots a stream of piss right into Mike’s eyes. Then Billy grabs his pants and the knife in one speedy swoop and rushes to cut the rope away from Raymond to free him from the chair.

Kane hears the commotion and rushes back to the living room with his gun drawn. Kane takes aim at Billy’s naked ass just as Billy and Raymond bounce out the front door. “That is one pretty ass.” Kane considers firing his gun and chasing after them but he figures it is best to let Billy escape rather than having to explain gunfire. Kane glances back at Turkey Juice and Mike Ruby trying to clean the piss off themselves. Kane whispers, “Yeah Billy, don’t make things easy. I think my plan will work.”

Inside his car Billy grabs his car keys from his pants pocket and cranks his car. Watching Billy speed out of the driveway Kane screams from the door, “You two have fun now.” Kane turns and laughs at an elderly, nosey neighbor watching Billy speed off in the car with Raymond.

The aged man calls to Kane, “Was that young dude naked?”

Raymond shakes his head. “No. He was wearing a suit that was given to him on his birthday.”

The man waves his hand at Kane as he turns to walk back inside. “Biggest damn cock I’ve ever seen.”

Travis Heartbe in the white Cargo Van starts to follow after Billy but Kane motions for him to come to him and not to bother following. Travis gets out of the Van and walks up to Kane, “You don’t really want to kill Billy, do you?”

“The fuck I don’t! You tell the Judge that Billy is as good as dead.”

Travis clears his throat. “As good as is not going to cut it with the Judge.”

They all get into the White Cargo Van and leave Raymond’s house.

Billy doesn’t drive far when he pulls back behind an old, abandoned mini-mall. He puts his pants on. He ask Raymond, “Where is my box from the tree?”

“It is in the boot of my car.”

From the abandoned mini-mall Billy drives back to Raymond’s house. Billy notices Picklepuss’ machine gun in the backseat of his car. Billy takes the machine gun. He handles the machine gun almost like he knows what he is doing. Billy and Raymond approach Raymond’s car like they are on a military maneuver. Billy checks to make sure that no one is in the back seat or around the car. Raymond opens the boot of his car and Billy takes the tin box and slips it down the front of Raymond’s pants. Raymond’s shirt hides the bulge. Raymond closes the boot to his car. Billy and Raymond then rush back to Billy’s car, he throws the machine gun in the backseat and then again speeds off.

Raymond stares at Billy. “Do you think Kane is going to kill me?”

“I am going to drive you to Atlanta Hartsfield Airport. You buy yourself a ticket and stay the hell out of this town until I call you to tell you that it will be safe for you to come home.”

“But my job.”

“Hopefully you will be back in town in less than a week.”

“You’ve got a plan.”

“I’ve got a plan.”

“I feel like a coward.”

“Why?”

“I should be telling you that I will stay here to help. Instead I can’t wait to get to the airport.”

“You’ve been brave enough. You have nothing to be ashamed about.”

Raymond stares at Billy and starts chuckling.

“What?”

“You pissing in that biker’s face.”

Billy laughs. “Not a clean get away but an escape just the same.”

After getting stuck in traffic they finally make it to near the Atlanta airport. Raymond takes the tin box from this pants. He slides the tin box under the seat. “You can let me out here. I will walk.” Raymond points. “Not a good idea to drive through parking entry points with that machine gun in the backseat.”

Billy nods and pulls off to the side. “Everything is going to be okay. I will call when it is clear for you to come back into town.”

Raymond opens the door. “I pray that you win and come out of this alive.”

“It will be okay.”

Raymond gives Billy the key to his house and car and gets out of the car, closes the door, and starts walking. Billy pulls back into the expressway and waves at Raymond as he passes him. Billy exits the expressway so that he can get back on going in the other direction. Billy heads home hoping that Kane has not done anything to hurt his family. When Billy gets home he finds a note that tells him dinner is in the Fridge and telling him that they’ve gone out for the evening. Billy calls them to make sure they are okay and tells them to spend the night at a hotel out of town. He hates to scare his parents but he’d rather scare them than they be where Kane might get to them. Billy calls his sister Bess and tells her to break her normal habits and to visit Atlantic City or somewhere. At first she argues with Billy but then agrees. When Billy tells her to stay clear of anyone she associates with Kane Bishop, her heart sinks. She is terrified for her little brother, who though a man, is still her little brother.

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Billy drives to a street behind the Harris home. Most of the houses in the neighborhood are vacant from where a Corporation had bought many of the houses. There is no one to notice Billy walking with his tin box to the Harris home from a back alley. It is still daylight outside. Billy enters the vacant, though still furnished, Harris home through a back basement window. He checks the generator in the basement. The generator looks as though someone has been maintaining it. It has a new battery. He fires the generator up. He then climbs the stairs from the basement and enters the home to go to Tommy’s room. As luck would have it, Tommy’s room had been left as it was before Tommy’s death. The VCR equipment that Tommy pirated movies on is still set up. There are a couple of blank videos still there in the room. Billy takes the video tape from the tin box and makes a copy. While making the copy he notices something at the end of the tape. It is something he now also remembers from the first time he saw the tape. Billy takes the copy of the video tape and goes to the living room and puts the copy into the VCR. He turns the VCR and TV on. He walks through the house and flips all the light switches on. Billy then goes back to the basement and turns the generator off. Everything in the house goes back dark. Billy goes back up stairs and gets his tin box from Tommy’s room and he goes to the living room and the VCR. He takes an electric wire from the tin box and using insulators rigs the wire across the buttons of the VCR. He plugs the wire into the outlet. With his tin box in hand, Billy leaves the Harris home, walks through the backyard and across the alley to where his car is parked. No one notices.

Billy then drives to Olivia Destone’s garage. He enters her office where she is sitting at her desk and working out the schedule for some of the Escorts who subcontract with her. He takes the tape out of the tin box and puts it into her VCR. He starts the tape. It is the tape showing Kane Bishop and a group of other bikers raping and beating Tommy up. “I want you to see and understand why I am going to kill Kane Bishop. See. This tape is why Kane Bishop killed Tommy Harris.”

At the moment the tape is out of focus and only showing trees. “Why show me the tape and tell me that you are going to kill Kane?” Olivia ask. Then the tape changes and Olivia stares in seeming horror at the TV. Watching the tape she appears to be crying. “I never knew it was that bad.” Her words sound honest. “ I knew that Tommy had run away for a couple of months after that happened. I guess that was so he’d have time to heal up so his family, so we, would not see how bad it was. Fuck. I can’t watch more. Turn that off.”

Billy turns the VCR off and then looks at Olivia. He looks at a young woman standing off to the side that he had not notice enter the room. She had been in the bathroom.

“I knew Kane Bishop was evil. I just didn’t know. That there, that is our worse fear. Who is that young man?” There are no fake tears from the young woman speaking but there is the sound of sadness in her voice.

Billy tells her. “That is Tommy Harris. Kane Bishop and his gang murdered him ten years ago.”

Olivia wipes away the tears that come easy for her. “What do you expect me to do?”

“Does Kane take your calls?”

“I have to pay him for protection but I have as little to do with him as possible.”

The woman walks up to Billy. “My name is Willa Trundle.”

“Related to Sylvia?”

“I am her sister.” Willa hesitates with her question but still she ask, “Are you planning to kill Kane Bishop?”

“I am.”

Willa nods. “Promise that you will not hurt Sylvia.”

“I don’t trust Sylvia.”

“I don’t either, but she is still my sister.”

“What does Kane think about you?”

“I try to stay away from him. I’ve tried to tell my sister to get away from him but …”

“But they are two of kind. You know it. I know it.”

“She is blood.”

Billy looks at Olivia and points to Willa. “Would they come for her?”

Olivia shakes her head. “No. Sylvia hates her. Hell, Sylvia has tried to kill her two or three times.”

“I need to get Kane to go to the old Harris home. That is where I want to kill him. Any suggestions.”

Willa points. “The video tape. I will pretend like I found it at the, what did you say…”

“The old Harris home.”

“I will tell him that I will sell it to him for $25,000 when he meets me at the Harris home. That should bring him there.”

“You’d do that?”

“Hell. You can listen when I make the call.”

“How do I know you will not make a second call?”

“Take me with you. I don’t want Sylvia hurt but I want her away from that crazy fuck.”

Billy notices that Olivia has a way to copy video to DVDs. He makes five copies of the tape.

Olivia smiles. “Yeah, that is the reason he might not fall for it. Original isn’t worth much when there are so many copies.”

“Oh, I think he will fall for it.” Billy smiles. Billy doesn’t explain that he knows it will not be the tape that Kane Bishop comes for. Billy feels certain that Kane Bishop will come for him. Billy knows what is at the end of the tape. He knows Olivia betrayed Tommy. Billy knows the call Olivia will make and he is certain it will be Olivia who makes the call. Olivia would have had him think that Hutch is the one who murdered Tommy but he feels certain that she always knew it was Kane Bishop. Her tears and her acting that she was shocked by the tape didn’t mean much to Billy when he knows at the end of the tape she had accidentally pointed the camera to her own face. She was the one who made the tape.

Billy takes the tape and the copies and puts them all in his tin box. He leaves.

Willa starts to make the call but Olivia stops her. “Don’t get involved.”

Olivia calls Kane Bishop. “Billy has the Tommy video tape and has made five copies of it. He has gone to the Harris home and is waiting for you. He thinks he is setting a trap for you. Now is the perfect chance for you to kill Billy Bingo.”

Willa stares at Olivia. She then runs out the door of the office and out of the garage. She calls a friend of hers on the police force. “Detective Face, something major is about to go down at the Harris home. Some young man was planning to set a trap for Kane Bishop but Olivia has tipped Kane off.”

“What do you mean not to get involved?” … “You know Kane Bishop is evil. I know he is evil. I was going to help this man but Olivia stopped me from making the call I was going to make.” … “I don’t know his name. He had a tape from ten years ago where Kane Bishop and his gang raped and beat up a young man named Tommy Harris. The man who showed the tape to Olivia said that Kane Bishop later killed Tommy Harris.” … “Fuck no. You don’t go to the house to arrest the young man. Just go to the damn house to warn him. I would go but I don’t have a car and even if I stole a car I don’t know where the house is.” … “Joseph Face, you know the Police Department is corrupt. Please just go to the house and warn the man that Olivia has betrayed him.” … “Thank you. I owe you big time.”

Billy drives to a gas station to buy a gas can and five gallons of gas. Billy then goes back to the cemetery at the old church and hides the DVD’s in different places in the church. Billy then drives toward the old Harris home where no one lives.

Detective Face is off duty and decides to do what Willa Trundle has asked him to do. Driving the speed limit, he drives toward the Harris home in his unmarked car. He reaches the house and sits in his car. He watches the house from his car. Even though it is night, the moon is full and he thinks he has a pretty good view of the front of the abandoned home. He hasn’t sit there long when he sees Kane Bishop sneaking and crawling through a front window. He has not seen any sign that Billy is anywhere around the house.

Billy has again driven around on a street behind the house and comes up from a back alley way. With the gas can in hand Billy slips though a window into the basement of the house. He pours the gas into a generator. When he fires the generator up, all the lights in the house come on. The television also comes on.

Kane Bishop is walking around the house when the lights and TV comes on. He hears screams on the television from ten years ago. The screams cause chills to creep up his spine. Kane Bishop rushes to the living room and to the TV. Kane looks around but sees no one. Kane calls to Billy, “Billy, I know you are here. It is just you and me.”

Detective Joseph Face sees the house light up as he is walking briskly toward what once was the residence of the Harris family. “Fuck.” He stops walking and runs to the front door. Detective Face has a lock pick key that will open many locks. He has no trouble opening the front door. When Kane Bishop sees Detective Face enter the house, he rushes to turn the VCR off. Kane Bishop touches the live wire that Billy has rigged across the VCR. Kane Bishop is electrocuted just as Billy comes up out of the basement with his revolver pointed.

Detective Face screams to Billy. “Leg Man, get the hell out of the here. I will handle things with the police.”

Billy doesn’t remember Detective Face but Billy has no intention of hurting anyone who is innocent. Billy screams, “Don’t touch anything until I get the generator turned off.” Billy quickly jogs down the steps back into the basement. He puts his revolver away. He quickly kills the generator so that no one else will be electrocuted. He then does as Detective Face has told him. He gets the hell out of there.

 

 

Billy Bingo: The Forgotten Past

Chapter 10

[List of All Chapters]

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!”

* * *

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.

Billy Bingo: The Forgotten Past

Chapter 9

[List of All Chapters]

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!”

* * *

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.

Billy Bingo: The Forgotten Past

Chapter 8

[List of All Chapters]

Sylvia Trundle is the last person that Billy expected to be ringing the doorbell. Billy is alone at the Apartment when he answers the door to the strange woman who had got him to go out to the pool house where he was hit over the head.

“Aren’t you going to invite me in?” Sylvia winks, giggles, and then grins as she enters the Apartment without waiting for an invitation. “I’ve been thinking about the night at the Way Party. Thinking about that night we almost fucked makes me so horny.”

Sylvia pulls her top off and hands it to Billy who is staring at her naked breast. “Even if she is evil,” Billy thinks, “she is one sexy woman.” He thinks making love to her would be like going back in time and making love to Marilyn Monroe. Still, he wants to resist. “I don’t live here alone. I don’t want either of my parents to walk in when I am with someone.” Billy hands Sylvia’s blouse back to her. “Please put your blouse back on.”

“I like the thought that someone might walk in on us.” Sylvia tosses her blouse on the sofa. “I want to fuck you right here in the living room.”

Billy grabs up her blouse and takes Sylvia’s hand. He leads her back to his bedroom and closes his door. While Billy fumbles with the lock Sylvia walks over to Billy’s window and looks out. She notices that the window is locked and she unlocks the window as she looks out toward Kane Bishop sitting on his motorcycle. Billy locks his bedroom door and walks over to the window and looks out to see Kane Bishop.

“What is Kane doing there?”

“He brought me. He is fixing to leave.” Sylvia waves at Kane and he rides off. Before Billy has a chance to notice the lock on his window, Sylvia starts unbuttoning Billy’s shirt. She kisses his chest through his open shirt. She then slides his shirt off and drops his shirt to the floor. She pushes Billy down on his bed and removes Billy’s shoes. “Take your pants and undies off.”

It isn’t as though Billy suddenly has forgotten how he was hit over the head at the Way Party and might have been drowned. It is not as though he is ignorant to the fact that Sylvia and Kane are the most likely suspects. Still, Billy’s current main thought is how beautifully sexy this woman is who has just told him to take his pants and underwear off.

Billy does as Sylvia has told him and lays naked on the bed as he watches Sylvia remove the rest of her clothes. She jumps up and down with her breast bouncing, “I am so excited.” Then she crawls on the bed and licks Billy’s cock. She looks up at him, “I think someone else is excited.”

Billy moans as Sylvia swallows his large cock. She has no trouble taking his entire cock into her mouth. Sylvia begins bobbing her head up and down. Even with Billy’s cock tickling down the back of her throat she does not gag. Billy closes his eyes. Now something beyond most peculiar happens. He imagines that it is Rachel doing that for him. Then he pictures Marilyn Monroe. Then he pictures Betty Davis. “Oh my fucking God!” Billy opens his eyes and glances down at Sylvia still working his cock. “Oh my fucking God, this is so great!” Billy again closes his eyes.

Sylvia stops sucking his dick and Billy opens his eyes. Sylvia is down on the floor and getting something out of her pants pocket. Billy ask, “What are you doing?”

Sylvia giggles. “Close your eyes. I have a surprise for Billy.”

Billy sits up. “Close my eyes. I don’t think so. I have not forgotten about the pool house.”

Sylvia is holding something behind her back as she climbs back on Billy’s bed. Billy reaches to pull her hands out from behind her back but she resist. Billy feels medal but he isn’t sure what she has in her hands.

“Come on. Let me see what you have there.”

Sylvia giggles. “No. It is a surprise. Close your eyes.”

“No.”

Sylvia straddles Billy. Sitting in his lap, Sylvia kisses Billy on the mouth. As her lips massage his lips and their tongues do a dance, before he has any clue to her plan, he feels the cold metal of handcuffs locking his wrist together. Sylvia moves her hands from behind her back and in her tight fist, Sylvia pumps Billy’s hard cock. Moaning, Billy starts to wrap his arms to hold Sylvia but she quickly slips out of his arms and out of his lap. Billy feels her fist leave his cock as she darts away from him. With Sylvia gone from his lap, he views and considers the handcuffs.

“Shit. My dick makes me totally retarded. Fuck! What is this? Why did you do this? Take these the hell off me.” Billy watches Sylvia fiddling with her pants down on the floor. She is pulling a chain and lock from her pants pockets.

Billy struggles against the handcuffs. He wishes he were Houdini. He doesn’t know why he didn’t listen to his 7th grade girlfriend who once told him to make like a magician and learn to disappear. “I knew for that talent show I should have learned to become an Escape Artist rather than learning to play Swanee on that damned trombone.” Billy fights harder to free himself from the handcuffs as beads of sweat form on his forehead.

Sylvia laughs, “There is no reason to be afraid. I am not going to hurt you.” Then Sylvia moves quickly back up to Billy still on the bed. She loops the chain around the chain connecting Billy’s wrist together. Billy quickly moves to unloop the chain and Sylvia screams at him, “Hey, don’t spoil my fun.” Sylvia loops the chain around the metal rod of the footboard of Billy’s bed and again moves to loop the chain to the handcuff chain. This time she clicks a lock on the chains before Billy can undo the loop. Naked, Billy is chained to his bed. His cock is no longer so hard as he sits on the side of the bed.

“What are you planning on doing?”

Kane Bishop opens Billy’s window and climbs into Billy’s bedroom. Billy stares at him and then stares at Sylvia. Kane pulls a chair out from Billy’s desk and sits down. Sylvia watches Kane sitting in the chair and then looks at Billy.

Sylvia crawls back into Billy’s lap and shoves him to force him to lay back. She starts rubbing her pussy against Billy’s cock. She kisses Billy and whispers, “Don’t worry. We are just having fun.” She looks back at Kane with a look of disapproval.

Billy’s cock again becomes hard and she slides Billy’s cock into her pussy. She starts riding Billy’s cock. Billy watches Sylvia’s breast bounce and then he glances around Sylvia to see Kane pulling a large knife from his pocket.

Billy leans to up to kiss at Sylvia’s earlobe and to whisper in her ear, “Are you two planning to kill me?”

Sylvia flicks her tongue behind Billy’s ear and then whispers, “It will be okay.”

Kane speaks. “Hutch said I was crazy when I told him that I shocked to learned that Billy Bingo and the Leg Man are one and the same. He tells me that you aren’t the Leg Man. Raymond Bing tells me that you aren’t the Leg Man. Other people tell me that you are. What do you tell me?”

“I don’t have full memory of everything when I was ten. You aren’t the only one who has called me Leg Man like that night we first met, but the name means nothing to me.”

“Ten?” Kane cocks his head. “Yeah. You are young. So you don’t know anything about a tape?”

Billy shrugs. “Not really. Olivia said something about some tapes or something. She was drunk. I don’t know.”

“Yeah, Olivia is a total drunken whore. I don’t know why I put stock in anything she tells me.” Kane stands up. In the outline of Kane’s blue jeans Billy can see that Kane’s cock is erect. Kane rubs his crotch and bites his lip as he stares at Billy. Kane plays with the zipper of his blue jeans as if teasing Billy. Then Kane kisses Sylvia on the back of her neck and whispers something in her ear. “Have fun.” Kane smiles at Billy as Sylvia continues riding Billy’s cock. Kane crawls out Billy’s window and walks to his motorcycle. He rides off while Sylvia continues fucking Billy.

Sylvia screams as she has an orgasm. She then climbs off Billy and unlocks the chain that connects Billy to the bed. She then unlocks the handcuffs and takes them off Billy. Sylvia then starts getting dressed while Billy continues laying on the bed. Sylvia ask Billy, “Aren’t you going to finish yourself off?”

“What?”

“Jack-off.”

“Maybe later.” Billy stands up and gets dressed. Sylvia starts to unlock Billy’s bedroom door when Billy grabs her and takes her in his arms. He kisses her and as she pulls away he ask, “If I was the Leg Man would I be dead now. Would you have let him kill me.”

Sylvia unlocks Billy’s bedroom door and opens it. Sylvia then turns back and puts her arms around Billy to hug him. “I had confidence that you knew the right things to say because you are the Leg Man and you always knew what to say. When you were the Leg Man it was more than just the way you wore your hair differently. Trust me. The Leg Man was not ordinary and that part of you would never have let Kane win.”

Billy moves to hold Sylvia in his arms. “I have amnesia of sorts so I don’t fully know what happened when I was the Leg Man. I will not always have amnesia. I will remember. I will recover the tape.”

Sylvia nods as she kisses Billy on the cheek and pulls away. “Billy Bingo, I am not your enemy. I am confident that if anyone died today it would not have been you.”

“You handcuffed me. Kane had a knife. You and Kane are partners. There is no doubt in my mind that Kane was involved in the murders of Tommy and Clarice Harris.”

Sylvia touches Billy’s nose. “I think your memory will start coming back. That is not a threat to me.”

As Sylvia leaves the bedroom and starts leaving the Apartment, Billy calls to her, “You and Kane tried to kill me at the Way Party. How could I not be a threat to you?” Sylvia glances back at Billy and shakes her head no but she doesn’t say anything else.

Maureen and Frank come home from work. Billy does not mention his day.

 

Billy Bingo: The Forgotten Past

Chapter 7

[List of All Chapters]

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.

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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.”

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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.

 

Billy Bingo: The Forgotten Past

Chapter 6

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The trip back to Georgia was uneventful. When Billy unpacks his suitcase he finds the sketch that Tommy Harris had done of him. Tommy knew he had driven the car that killed George Destone. That realization bothers Billy. He considers destroying the sketch but he can’t bring himself to do it. He tucks the sketch beneath some old magazines in the bottom of a chest drawer.

Billy takes a shower and changes into some clean clothes. He sits down at the computer and sees if he can access the library news archive in Rockdale. He manages to pull up information on Tommy Harris’ death. Billy figures that Tommy killed himself or was murdered around 6 weeks after the death of George Destone. Tommy had time to go to the police but he didn’t.

Billy turns off his computer and lays down in his bed. It is good to be back in his own bed. Billy closes his eyes and quickly falls asleep. He begins to dream.

Billy is at Jimmy’s in the dream. They are playing with skateboards on a cement patio. Tommy walks out to the patio where they are playing. Tommy tells Billy, “I don’t want you playing with Jimmy any more. Don’t come back here.” Jimmy pitches a fit with his brother, telling him that he can’t tell him who he can and can’t invite over. Jimmy runs in to ask his parents to tell Tommy to leave Billy alone. In the dream Tommy yanks Billy up. “I don’t care what my parents say. You stay away from my brother.”

The dream changes. The door to Tommy’s bedroom is partially opened and Billy peeps in. Tommy is in his bedroom looking at a video. The video is of Billy’s mother being forced to have sex with George Destone and Ralph Shath in the abandoned garage.

Billy tosses and turns. “Stop hurting her. Please stop hurting my mother.” Billy realizes he is having a dream. “I don’t want to dream this. Please stop this.” Billy pictures himself as a ten year old. In the dream he has dissociated himself and it is as though he is watching a third person as he dreams of himself running into Tommy’s bedroom. He watches the ten year old boy jump on top of Tommy and start pounding him with his fist. “Why are you watching that? Stop watching that.”

The dream changes and again Tommy is telling him to stay away from his brother Jimmy. “Stay away from my brother. Stay away. Stay away.” The words keep repeating.

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Billy continues dreaming and sees himself Billy sitting alone and staring at the old car in the garage. Billy searches the garage for a gas can and hose to siphon gas with. Billy finds a can and hose and sneaks to Jimmy’s home. He sucks the gas out of Tommy’s car into the gas can. He takes the can back to the garage to put the gas in the old car. He finds the key to the car and cranks the car.

Billy wakes up. “Did Tommy have a video of mom being raped? Was that real? Did that happen?” Billy realizes how little he does remember. Mostly what he has remembered through the years is driving the car when he runs over Ralph Shath and George Destone. The rest has been hazy memories of spying on his mother and Bess. It is not something he has particularly much wanted to think about. If he had run into Tommy’s room and attacked him because of his watching the video, what happened next. Something had to have happened. If the incident was real, did it happen before or after Tommy told him to stay away from Jimmy.

Billy stands up. “The past is the past. There is nothing that can be gained by thinking about it and conjuring up old memories.” Billy finds that easier said than done.

Billy goes into the kitchen and gets himself a soft drink. He goes into the living room and sits with his mother. “Mom, Tommy Harris had a sketch of me driving the car that run over George Destone and Ralph Shath.”

Maureen Bingo isn’t sure how to respond or what to say. “I don’t understand.”

“I found the sketch among Clarices things when Bess and I were at the Cassidy home. I tore the sketch out of the pad. Tommy killed himself or was murdered 6 weeks after I killed George Destone. I just had a dream. In that dream Tommy Harris had a video of where George Destone and Ralph Shath raped you.”

“How would he have such a tape? They would not have given him the tape. He had to have stolen the tape.”

“It could just be a dream. I don’t remember seeing the tape like in a memory. It could just be a dream.”

“I know we haven’t much discussed what happened. Both of us have wanted to put it out of our mind. Still, I know you didn’t just wake up one morning and realize what was happening and decide to kill George Destone and Ralph Shath. I haven’t wanted to consider how you knew what was happening.”

“I have vague memories of sneaking back home and spying on you. I have a vague memory of going to the gas station which is where, in the dream, the tape was made. I don’t really remember that with Tommy but the dream makes me wonder.” Billy hesitates. “In the dream Tommy wanted me to stay away from Jimmy. I don’t know if that happened or when that might have happened.” Billy pulls out his cellphone. He calls Jimmy Harris. “Jimmy, are you busy or can you talk?” … “Steak. That sounds like some good eating. Look. I know this is going to sound weird to you but I had a dream and in that dream Tommy was in it.” … “Did Tommy ever tell me to stop coming over to your house and stop playing with you?” … “He did. Do you remember what that was about?” … “Even if he was just being an asshole there must have been something that triggered it.” … “He had helped me with a school project. I don’t remember that.” … “I made him angry when we were working together. Was that project something you and I were working on together? … “Your father was helping you with your project. I don’t remember it. It is strange.” … “Well, thanks Jimmy. I am sorry for interrupting your meal.” … “Yeah. I hope to come back to New York sometime soon as well. Bye.”

Billy stands up. “Do you remember me being helped on a project by Tommy Harris?”

Maureen thinks. “Yes. Now that you mention it. He helped you construct a volcano. Jimmy’s father was helping him and you didn’t have anyone helping you and it was Jimmy’s father who suggested that Tommy help you.”

“A volcano?”

“You made an A+”

“I don’t remember. Jimmy said that Tommy and I had some kind of fight while he was helping me to work on it.”

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“I don’t know anything about that.”

Billy calls Rachel. “Are you busy?” … “Would you mind going with me to visit some places around Rockdale?” … “I want to visit an old garage. I want to drive by where George Destone lived and Ralph Shath lived. I want to drive by where the Harris family lived.” … “There are some things I may have blocked out of my mind and I want to try to remember.” … “Sure. Dirk can come with us.” Billy hopes he does not sound jealous. … “I will see you and Dirk in the morning then.”

Maureen sighs. “Be careful dredging all of this up.”

“The dream I had bugs me.” Billy doesn’t tell his mother about what Hutch had told him about the Leg Man. Billy finishes his soft drink in a final gulp. “Still, I agree. Bringing people’s attention back to the deaths of George Destone and Tommy Harris will do no one any good.” Billy closes his eyes. “Still, there is something that makes me feel that I owe Tommy. He knew I killed George Destone but he did not go to the police.” Billy opens his eyes and looks at his mother.

Maureen nods.

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Billy, Dirk, and Rachel go the the old garage where his mother had been forced to have sex with George Destone and Ralph Shath. It has been turned back into a working garage or something to appear so by George’s cousin Olivia Destone. At the moment the garage doesn’t seem much of a business.

Billy remembers following Kane Bishop and Sylvia Trundle to the garage from the parking lot of the Apartment where he lives. Then there they were at the Way Party.

Rachel points to a woman that is approaching them just inside of the garage. “That is Olivia Destone. She is older than me or Bess but I remember her.”

Dirk whispers to Billy. “I saw her at the Way Party.”

Pale as though she has just seen a ghost, with suspicion, thirty year old Olivia walks up to Billy. She is a tough looking woman. The slur in her speech suggest she has been drinking. “Can I help you with something?”

“Just revisiting the past.” Billy bites his lip as he looks around the garage.

There is an uneasy, but still a teasing sound, in Olivia’s voice. “You aren’t one of those who believes the garage is haunted, are you?” Olivia looks down and up almost simultaneously as she cocks her head to the side. There is now a sour tone in her voice. “Those stories don’t help business.”

“I’d never heard that it is haunted.” Billy looks around. “Who do people think is haunting the garage?”

Olivia straightens her head and looks Billy straight in the eyes. Olivia ask with a puzzled and disbelieving look. “Are you teasing me?”

Billy shrugs. He isn’t sure what to say.

“This is where Tommy Harris was found hanging some years ago.” Olivia scratches her head. She watches for Billy’s reaction but there isn’t much of one. She wonders if Billy is playing a game with her. She thinks she will play along. “Do you know the name?”

Billy remembers that Hutch has said that Olivia Destone is one of the people who know who the Leg Man is. If Clarice was able to recognize and realize that Billy is the Leg Man then it would follow that Olivia should also recognize him. “I do know the name. I recently went to his sister’s funeral. I didn’t realize this is where his body was found.”

“I read about Clarice.”

Rachel had been unable to find any local news stories on Clarice’s murder. Rachel ask, “What newspaper?”

Olivia looks distant. She ignores Rachel. “I am the one who found the body of her brother Tommy. The police ruled it a suicide but there was no suicide note. I’ve never been sure it was a suicide.” Olivia rubs her forehead and can’t decide whether she wishes she weren’t drunk or whether she wishes she had a bottle to get more drunk.

“Who do you think killed him?”

Olivia shrugs. Then she cringes. She is silent.

“You don’t have any theory on what happened?” Feeling deafened by Olivia’s silence, Billy ask another question. “What did you think of Tommy Harris?”

There are more moments of silence and then Olivia’s face brightens up with a smile. “I was older.” Olivia does something similar to a ballerina curtsy. “The older woman, Tommy would tease.” Olivia whirls around and then her face darkens. “Tommy was just seventeen. When I saw him hanging there with his neck broken and his tongue hanging out, it was the worse day of my life.”

“What about when your cousin George died.”

“Shit. I fucking hated George. He may have been blood but that boy was evil. Unlike George, Tommy didn’t come from a rich family. George got Tommy all messed up on drugs that he didn’t have the money to pay for so he’d do stuff. George once took him to a motorcycle club where horny riders hung out. Tommy was stoned out of his mind.”

A hammer falls off the wall for no reason and Olivia looks scared. “Why am I telling you this shit.”

“Tommy wasn’t always drugged out.” Rachel speaks up. “He run with a tough and somewhat odd crowd but I remember he usually did good in school.”

Olivia glares at Rachel. “You were friends with that crazy girl who dated George. Yeah, I remember you. Little snotty bitches; the both of you.” Olivia spits at Rachel. “Yeah, that other crazy girl came around here asking questions. I didn’t tell that bitch anything.” Olivia stomps her foot. “Oh God. You are doing research for her damned play. Shit. If I had known that I would not have been talking with you.” Olivia runs her hands through her hair. She spits at Billy. “You get out of here. Get the fuck out of here. All of you, leave!”

Dirk and Rachel start out of the garage. Then they stop when they see that Billy is not following. “Bess is my sister.” Billy shakes his head. “But I am not doing research for Bess. I know things I’ve never told Bess and that I will never tell Bess. Not because she is a bitch but because she is my sister and I do love her. Bess does not know George was evil but I do know.”

“Wait. Fuck. Shit.” Olivia scratches her head. “What is this game?” Her voice is loud and her words are slurred. Olivia grabs Billy’s hair and pulls it back from his face. She stares at his face. “You were always so pretty. Bess’ little brother.” Olivia drops her hands away from Billy’s face and whirls around and giggles. “Little Billy Bingo isn’t so little now but then the Leg Man never was. Yeah, first you stepped into this garage, I recognized you.”

Dirk speaks, “I recognize you. You were at the Way Party.”

“Me in New York. No.”

Rachel repeats what Olivia has said, “Little Billy Bingo isn’t so little now but then the Leg Man never was.” Rachel’s mouth falls open. “Oh, my God.”

Dirk ask, “What?”

Olivia winks at Rachel and then glares at Dirk and then looks back at Billy. She cocks her head. “Didn’t I tell you all to leave?”

Billy knows what Hutch has told him. “Olivia, were you and I friends? I don’t remember.”

Olivia doesn’t answer. She stands in silence.

Billy considers that people change but he doesn’t remember Olivia Destone. Hutch had mentioned her but Billy doesn’t remember her. Billy decides to start out of the garage.

“You know, I was stoned out of my mind when I got you to smoke that joint. Tommy was so mad at me when he walked in and there you were with that joint and high as a kite. High as kite!” Olivia runs and touches Billy’s face. “You would make a pretty kite.” Olivia winks and curls the corner of her lower lip up in an almost comical expression. “Now that you are grown we might could fly our kites together and by fly our kites together I do mean rub our nasties together.” Olivia laughs. “I am such a silly drunk.” Then Olivia frowns. Olivia moves her arm as though tossing an imaginary bottle as she screams, “You don’t even remember me.” Olivia takes hold of Billy’s shirt and pulls him close. Her voice is now soft. “You once told me that you would grow up and save me from this town.” Olivia lets go of Billy’s shirt and turns away from him. “You don’t remember when I was so afraid. In fear I did things and you don’t even remember me.” Tears stream down Olivia’s face as she turns back toward Billy. “Plain Olivia. No one remembers plain Olivia. No one wants to do business with plain Olivia.” Olivia screams. “I will not hate myself!” Olivia stomps her foot. “I will not kill myself. No one is going to find me with my neck broken and my tongue hanging out of my mouth.”

Billy touches Olivia’s face. “You are not plain. There is a beauty about you. You are a kind soul.”

“You remember those words you spoke to me. Of course you were jail bait and I am not a weirdo. You know. Still, the crush you had on me meant something.”

“I can’t remember. That is the trouble. It is not just you. I have hazy memories of some things but there are other things I don’t remember. Did I share things with you?”

“What do you mean?”

“Did I ever confide in you about things?”

Olivia looks at Dirk and Rachel. She then looks at Billy. “There is nothing worth remembering about those days. You don’t want to end up dead like Tommy or a drunk like me.” Then Olivia closes her eyes. “You were at the funeral of Clarice?”

“Yes.”

“These days, do you know Hutch Cassidy?”

“Not really. I met him but I don’t know him. Not really.”

Olivia grabs Billy and hugs him. “But you do know him and he knows you. Don’t trust him. Be afraid of him. Be very afraid of him. He plays the respectable man very well but he is not respectable.” Olivia pulls back away from Billy.

“Explain.”

“No. I told Tommy and Tommy is now dead. I am not going to tell you. It is enough that I’ve warned you.”

Billy changes the subject. “I remember Tommy being angry with me. Why was he angry with me? Do you know?”

“I don’t know,” is what Olivia says but her look suggest that she does know and is just not telling.

Even though Olivia is messed up, Dirk feels he might can help her. “I am going to come back here and if you are sober I am going to give you some work. If you stay sober I am going to give you lots of work.”

“Yeah, right.”

Billy takes Olivia’s hand and hold’s it. He wishes he could remember her, but he doesn’t. “I can’t help you but Dirk can. He is serious.”

Rachel opens her purse and pulls out pen and pad. “Make an appointment to see this doctor. Tell him that you are being sponsored by the Jenkins’ Foundation. He will help you get sober and it will not cost you anything.”

“What? You all just waltz in here. I am supposed to believe that you two don’t have some ulterior motive.”

Rachel smiles. “We do have a motive. We help you and you help Billy.”

“My helping Billy Bingo could get Billy Bingo killed.”

“I may not remember everything but I know I was a tough ten year old and I am an even tougher twenty year old.” Billy shakes his head. “But my friends will help you no matter whether you help me or not. It is not a condition. You just concentrate on getting sober and getting this business going right. Understood.”

“Understood. Thank you.”

Dirk, Rachel, and Billy leave Olivia’s Garage. Billy then directs Dirk to drive where the Harris family lived. The house is UN-lived in and the yard is grown up. The house still contains many of the belongings of the Harris family. Billy looks through the window but they don’t try to enter the house. They walk around to the cement patio where Billy and Jimmy used to play with their skate boards. “God, Jimmy and I used to have so much fun back here doing stunts with our boards.” Billy looks down to a window to the basement.

Dirk questions Billy. “Were you any good with the skate board?”

“I thought I was. Jimmy was better. He could do stunts that I could not quite master though I did fall on my butt quite a bit trying.”

Rachel ask, “Any other memories coming back.”

“I remember playing with Jimmy. Those memories were hazy. I mean, I remembered the childhood friend but I did not remember Tommy or Clarice. I remember playing. I remember laughing.”

Dirk smiles. “Those are good memories to have. Maybe the rest is best not remembered.”

“The past can’t be changed. That is true.”

They walk back to the car. As they are driving back to Dekalb they are all quiet. Then Rachel looks at Billy. “Bess and I were in our own little world. We had no idea what was going on around us. Billy, I am sorry. I had no idea that you are the Leg Man.”

Dirk glances at Rachel. He understands what she has just said but does not comment. The Leg Man’s reputation extended beyond just Rockdale to even the school he attended in Dekalb.

“There is no reason to be sorry. I did what I had to do. Whatever else was going on with me I did what I had to do. I will never believe differently. George Destone was evil. I had to save my mother and my sister.”

Dirk drops Billy off back home and he and Rachel drive off. Billy watches the car leave him behind. He thinks back to when Dirk had broken up with Rachel. Billy wants to be glad that they are back together and happy. “I can’t feel jealous. Dirk is a friend.”

Billy walks around for a bit and then goes in where his mother is waiting. “Did the trip help?”

“Do you remember a girl by the name of Olivia Destone?”

“Vaguely. She was a wild girl. Bess didn’t like her. Bess mainly didn’t like her because she totally hated George Destone.”

“I apparently was friends with her and Tommy. When I was ten I did drugs with her and I don’t remember. I think I should not want to remember, but it scares me that I don’t remember.” Billy paces in front of his mother. “I hope Bess doesn’t become more involved with Hutch Cassidy. Olivia warned me not to trust him. Do you remember him from around Rockdale?”

“Not really. I will call Mary Aghar and see what she says.” Maureen calls Mary Aghar. “Hey honey.” … “Look. Do you remember Hutch Cassidy from the Rockdale days?” … “Yes. Bess and Billy went to Clarise’s funeral.” … “So you only know him from New York. He apparently was around Rockdale back in the days of when you know what all was going on.” … “I don’t know if there is a connection between him and Ralph Shath and George Destone or not.” … “What about Olivia Destone? Did you know her?” … “I don’t know. I will talk to you later. Bye.”

“Rachel and Dirk just walked in. I guess they will fill her in about your day.”

“It is early but I am going to bed. Goodnight.”

Maureen watches Billy go to bed at 7:00 PM. She is worried about her son but she does not know what to do. This day she had made her own trip to Rockdale. She had gone to Rockdale to find the grave of Tommy Harris. She found the grave all grown up and she had spent the day pulling up weeds and picking out flowers to put on the grave. The boy had known what Billy had done but had not turned Billy in. She felt gratitude toward this boy that she had not known. The only way she knew to thank Tommy Harris was to tend to his grave.

Maureen goes to the kitchen to fix herself a sandwich. She considers that Billy probably hasn’t eaten anything but she does not go to wake and nag him about not eating. Suddenly she feels a chill. A knife she has laid down slides off the counter and on to the floor. She now seriously wants to get Billy back out of bed but not for his sake but because she is spooked. She shakes her head and laughs at herself as she bends down to pick up the knife. Picking the knife up she sees a reflection in the metal of the knife. She sees someone standing behind her and she feels a hand on her shoulder. She quickly straightens up and turns around but no one is there.
Maureen screams, “Billy!”

Billy jumps out of bed and grabs a baseball bat as he goes to check on his mother. He thinks there might be a burglar in the house. Running into the kitchen, Billy sees his mother is as pale as a ghost. Maureen tells Billy, “There was a spook in this kitchen.
There was a haunt. I am not crazy. I saw the reflection of a ghost in the knife.”

Billy feels a chill at his mother’s words. Billy changes the subject. “I think I want a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Billy puts the bat aside.”

“You don’t believe me.”

“Doesn’t matter. I mean what are you going to do? Call ghost busters.”

Maureen slaps at Billy and laughs. She gets a drink and takes her sandwich to the living room to eat. Billy fixes himself a sandwich and joins his mother in the living room.

“I went to Tommy Harris’ grave today. It was all grown up. It was a mess. I cleaned it up and put flowers on it.”

“Good. I am glad you thought to do that. So neither Clarice nor Jimmy were going to their brother’s grave. That is sad.”

“They were Catholic. Because he killed himself he was not buried on consecrated grounds.” Maureen thinks a second and adds, “He was buried with us sinful Baptist.”

“That isn’t really an excuse for them not maintaining his grave.”

“No. Course, Clarice is now also dead. That is a pretty good excuse.”

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Billy Bingo: The Forgotten Past

Chapter Five

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After Bess went to bed, Billy and Sammy fell asleep on Bess’s sleep sofa while watching “17 Again.” Morning comes early for Bess and she stumbles out of her bedroom to see Sammy laying cuddled with her brother. They are fully dressed and Bess knows they’d fallen asleep together watching the movie but still Bess feels a little jealous wishing for someone she might cuddle with.

Bess shakes her brother. “You two better wake up before mom and dad get up.”

Frank and Maureen Bingo call to Bess from the breakfast nook. Maureen tells Bess, “I hope you don’t mind that we hit your pantry to cook breakfast. There is plenty for you.”

Frank adds, “We’ll restock your pantry before we go back to Georgia.”

With a slight hangover Bess enters the kitchen and sits down.

Maureen gets a plate down and pulls out some silverware for Bess. “I love your place. It is so cozy.”

Frank points to the living room. “So who is the young man dry humping your brother?”

“That is Sammy Way. His parents are the ones who were hosting the party we went to last night. He came back with us to watch a movie and eat pizza.”

Maureen shrugs. “Well. They make a nice couple.”

“Yeah, Billy started the party with a woman by the name of Sylvia who tried to drown him and ended the night with Sammy. That is my brother.”

Maureen screams, “Tried to drown Billy! Why?”

“I don’t know. Billy thinks it was just a prank of some kind.”

Frank intentionally does not want to seem alarmed by what has just been said and winks at Bess. “So, how was your night. Did you meet some young man?”

“Believe it or not, at one point, Sammy was flirting with me.”

Maureen smiles. “You will meet someone but the way Sammy was humping at Billy while they slept I wouldn’t really count on Sammy being that someone.”

Bess plays with the eggs on her plate and then takes a bite. “The good ones are always gay, married, dead, or all three.”

“What?” Maureen worries about her daughter. “You will meet someone.”

Billy and Sammy wander into the kitchen. Maureen stands up to get two more plates and silverware to set the table.

“That bacon smells good,” Sammy tells Bess.

“Yeah, mom makes a pretty mean breakfast,” Bess tells Sammy.

As Billy and Sammy sit down, Maureen ask Billy, “What is this about some girl trying to drown you.”

“I guess it was a prank. I don’t know.” Billy isn’t about to tell his mother that someone tried to kill him.

Maureen and Frank both know that if Billy suspected Ralph Shath is involved he wouldn’t say so in front of Bess. They wonder but they don’t press the subject for fear they might say something they should not.

There is a sudden, loud, knock at the door. Everyone jumps but it is Bess who jumps up to answer the door. “Hardly anyone ever visits me, much less this early,” Bess says to her visiting company who are sitting in the kitchen as she hurries to the door. When she opens the door, her heart sinks. There are two policemen staring at her and she feels like a mute unable to say anything.

“May we speak to Bess Bingo?” one of the officers ask.

Bess’ heart races. She feels faint. Still, she manages to get the words out, “I am Bess Bingo.”

“Hutch Cassidy says that he was out at the pool with you, your brother, and Sammy when he thinks his wife left the party.”

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Billy has been listening and comes to the door. “I am Billy Bingo. He was with us. There was an incident at the pool where someone had hit me over the head and threw me into the pool. Just a prank. But I lost my cellphone and he was helping us to look for it.”

“I see. Someone hit you over the head and throws you into the pool and you call that a prank and not attempted murder.”

“When I regained consciousness I was laying partially in the pool and my arms and head were out of the pool. My hair was wet so at some point I was submerged but I don’t think anyone was trying to kill me. Someone probably saved me. I didn’t know anyone other than my sister at the party so who would have a motive. Just drunks trying to pull a prank is what I think.”

The other officer ask, “Can we come in?”

Bess nods. “Why was Hutch Cassidy talking to two policemen, I mean, talking to you?”

“He told us that you have been very friendly with his wife. I think you should sit down.”

Bess starts shaking as she walks with the police officers to a chair. Billy watches his sister and the police officers. Frank, Maureen, and Sammy walk to the living room and stand behind the chair where Bess is seated.

One of the police officers ask Billy, “Did you see Clarice at the party?”

“I am from Georgia and am just visiting my sister. I don’t really know anyone but I did see a woman that was identified to me as Clarice. I was dancing with Sylvia Trundle in the Ballroom and she pointed Clarice out to me in conversation.” Billy considers the voices he heard outside the pool house but does not mention what he heard.

“You didn’t have a fight with Clarice in the pool house. She is not the one who hit you over the head and threw you into the pool?”

“I didn’t have fight with Clarice. I don’t know who hit me over the head and threw me into the pool. I went to the pool house with Sylvia Trundle against my better judgement. I thought we were going to have sex.”

“I see.”

Sammy speaks up. “While we were searching for Billy’s cellphone, Billy found my father’s revolver under the sofa. It should have been in a locked drawer. That was odd.”

“We may need that revolver.”

“Sure.” Sammy looks at Billy and looks at Bess. “What has happened?”

“Where did you go after you left the party?”

Billy sits down on the fold out bed. Sammy sits next to him. Sammy tells the officer, “Bess, Billy, and I went to get pizza, beer, and rent a movie at the Shastaria. We came back here. Bess went to bed. Billy and I fell asleep watching the movie. Their parents were already in bed when we came in. Earlier, before Hutch Cassidy went to look for his wife he said he would call us. We thought they might come here to join us but he never called.”

“At their home Hutch Cassidy found his wife shot.”

Bess cries, “Oh God. Is she at the hospital? Is she going to be okay?”

“She was already dead when the paramedics arrived.”

The other police officer looks at Billy. “I think it would be good if you file a police report on what happened to you last night and that be investigated as a separate crime. It is possible the two crimes are connected.”

“I guess I can do that. As angry as I felt last night after it happened, I don’t really want Sylvia or her boyfriend Kane Bishop prosecuted.” Billy looks at Bess. “I used very bad judgement. I’ll be going home to Georgia but my sister lives here and will be dealing with the people who were at the party.”

“I understand. Do you think there is any reason to believe that what happened to you is in anyway connected to the murder of Clarice Cassidy?”

“I don’t know. I know I went out to the pool house with Sylvia. I don’t know why Sylvia left me there and I don’t know who the two people were who attacked me after she left. I figured it was Sylvia and her boyfriend. They were laughing when I came back into the Ballroom.”

Sammy shakes his head. “I also laughed. You were comical the way you made your wet entrance. Even Bess laughed at one point. I mean, Sylvia obviously lured you out there but I don’t know about Kane.” Sammy suddenly bows his head and strains to control his emotions. “I can’t believe someone killed Clarice. It seems unreal.” Sammy looks up and stares at Bess. The image of her kissing Hutch flashes in his mind but he doesn’t say anything about it.

“Clarice’s brother Tommy either committed suicide or was murdered back in Rockdale, Georgia. Now she has been murdered. It can’t be a coincidence, can it?” Bess looks at her mother and then her father. “Could her death be connected to the death of Tommy Harris and George Destone?”

Billy remembers the muffled woman’s voice. “I am sure that Leg Man has the tape that can prove who killed my brother. Leave me alone. I want to go talk with him.” He realizes the woman had to be Clarice. He starts to tell the police but he doesn’t. He has his own secret from the police to protect.

Maureen shakes her head as she glances at Billy. “Darling, I don’t know. George’s death was over ten years ago.”

“At the party I was showing some changes I had made in my play to Clarice. Then she was showing a page to Kane Bishop while I was showing some pages to David Jenkins. I was so busy trying to get David Jenkins interested in the play I didn’t much pay attention to Clarice.”

Neither of the police officers know what Bess is talking about. One receives a call just as he is about to question Bess. The Officer is told on the phone that a suspect has been caught trying to sell a couple of items that were taken from the Cassidy home for drug money. They are told to return to the station.

“We are sorry for the loss of your friend and if our questions have made your grief worse. Apparently the killer is a junkie. He killed her trying to get money for a fix is what the chief detective thinks.”

Sammy questions the officer. “Did he kidnap her from our party and take her back to the Cassidy Home?”

“We understand your concern but we don’t know. We intend to continue the investigation.” With that the police officers leave.

Sammy Way says his goodbyes and leaves. Bess prepares to go check on Hutch Cassidy. Billy changes clothes to prepare to go with his sister. Together they go to the Cassidy home. Hutch is sitting in the backyard trying to paint while he cries. When he sees Bess and Billy he puts down his brush and stands up.

“I don’t understand this. I just don’t understand,” Hutch tells Bess. “We were at the party together. Why did she come back here? It doesn’t make sense.”

Billy watches Hutch and notices a look that Hutch directs toward him. It is an odd look that Billy can’t quite read, other than it unnerves him.

“I don’t know. I don’t know what to tell you. The police say a Junky did it.” Bess hugs Hutch and Hutch glances over her shoulder at Billy with what Billy considers another strange look.

“I know that is what they are saying, but I know the young man. She knew the young man. He was clean. He was off drugs. They find him trying to sell a few of our items for drug money right after he has been shot up with heroin. I talked with a friend at the police station. He agrees. It doesn’t make sense. Joe Bigby would not have killed Clarice. Why would she leave me at the party? Joe Bigby wouldn’t be on that side of town where the party was. He wouldn’t have kidnapped her from the party.”

“I know Joe Bigby. Clarice was worried that he was about to self destruct. Still.”

“Do you think he did it?”

“I don’t know.”

Billy remains quiet while watching his sister and Hutch. To Billy, something does not feel right.

“Can you help me pick out a dress to bury her in?” Hutch ask Bess.

“Sure.”

Hutch, Bess, and Billy walk up to Clarice’s bedroom. The smell of jasmine is strong in the bedroom. Billy guesses that lots of people might wear that perfume but he can’t help but remember that jasmine was the perfume he smelled at the pool.

“I smell jasmine in the air,” Billy comments.

“Clarice loves, loved that fragrance.”

Bess opens the closet to look at Clarice’s many dresses. Tears stream down her face. She pulls one dress from the rack and takes a quick look at it. She then puts it back on the rack.

Billy notices a box of pictures on the bed. Billy points to the pictures. “I guess your memories are important at a time like this.”

“She had been going through the pictures. Some are of her brother and other people.

Billy is shocked to see a picture of the junk car that he had driven to run George Destone and Ralph Shath down. Next to the picture of the car Billy sees a torn out Catalog page of the costume he had worn so that he looked like a small Moslem Woman. Then Billy notices a sketch pad off to the side. Billy picks up the sketch pad.

“That sketch pad belonged to Clarice’s brother, Tommy. You remember Tommy, don’t you?”

Hutch is speaking to Billy but Bess answers. “I wasn’t part of that circle of people.”

Billy flips through the pages. “He was very talented.” Then Billy comes to the last page that isn’t blank. On that page is a sketch of himself when he was ten and wearing the costume. Billy quickly closes the pad.

Bess pulls a black dress from the closet. “I think this is the dress for the …” Bess can’t finish her sentence.

“Yes. That one. I remember that one.” Hutch takes the dress from Bess and they leave the room.

They do not pay much attention that Billy is still standing with the sketch pad. He quickly flips to the sketch of himself and rips it from the pad. He sticks the page with the drawing down his pants to hide it. Billy is just about to make a quick exit from the room when Hutch stops him.

Hutch walks forward to cause Billy to walk backwards into the room. “Bess has gone to do some work on the dress.” Hutch walks Billy all the way back against a wall. He puts his arms on both sides of Billy. “Leg Man! Leg Man, what happened to my wife?”

“Why do you call me Leg Man?” Billy knows Clarice was also outside the pool house and talked about someone called the Leg Man. “I am pretty sure it was your wife that I heard outside the pool house. I think it was her because of the smell of jasmine in the pool area and also she said that she was sure that the Leg Man has the tape that can prove who killed her brother. She was talking to someone who I gather from things said had stopped her and was hurting her.”

“Leg Man, do you have the tape?”

“I don’t know why you are calling me the Leg Man. I don’t know anything about a tape.” Billy pushes Hutch away. “And hell, as far as I know, you could have been the one your wife was talking with outside the pool house.”

“It wasn’t me.”

“I don’t know that. I think it was Kane Bishop. That is what I think, but I don’t know. I only think it was your wife talking because of her mentioning the death of her brother which Bess had already mentioned to me. There was also the smell of jasmine in the pool area.”

“Look! Leg Man, now is not the time for your games.”

“Stop called me the Leg Man. I don’t know who the Leg Man is, but it isn’t me.”

“Joseph Face, Raymond Bing, Tommy Harris, Olivia Destone, Clark Bishop, George Destone, and myself were the only ones who knew your identity but you are the Leg Man. When you were being Billy with kids your own age, you’d keep your hair in a cap or in a pony tail tucked down your shirt. You wear your hair visibly long now, which is more like the way the Leg Man wore his hair. Back then, other than our little gang, most people did not connect you with being the Leg Man. There was just a few of us who knew. Because you were tall for your age you could pass for someone older and when you passed you were the Leg Man.”

“You’ve got me confused with someone else.”

“Man, I know that Billy Bingo and the Leg Man are one and the same person. Leg Man was a nick name we had for you when you were different. When you were the Leg Man you dressed older and behaved older. Your leg holster was known by a crowd and they would call you the Leg Man because that revolver and leg holster was your creed. The police knew of the Leg Man and at one point suspected the Leg Man as the driver of the car and of George’s death but the police never learned that you are the Leg Man. Those of us in the know did not want you to be arrested for killing George Destone.” Hutch hesitates. He stares at Billy. “But if Clarice confronted you with knowing who killed her brother and you killed her to protect yourself or someone else, by God I will make your ass fry.”

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With his back against the wall, Billy slides down to the floor. “I remember driving the car that killed George Destone. I have other hazy memories from that period of time. I don’t remember what you are telling me.”

Hutch Cassidy stares at Billy. “You and I were friends. I was much older, but we were friends.”

“I don’t remember.”

Hutch turns around and sits down next to Billy. “Sylvia Trundle and Kane Bishop are evil. They may now attend all the A list parties but they were evil in the old days and they are still evil.”

“Did I know them in the past?”

“You crossed paths a couple of times, maybe even more.”

“I don’t remember.”

Hutch stands up and helps Billy to stand up. “I guess you don’t.”

Billy and Hutch go down stairs and to the kitchen where Bess is. Bess fixes tea for them to drink. Together, Billy and Hutch sit silently. Dirk Jenkins and Rachel Aghar enter the kitchen through the door to the kitchen from the backyard.

Dirk pats Hutch on the back. “I know we are competitors but Clarice and I were friends. When Rachel and I heard, we wanted to come here. I hope you don’t mind.”

“I understand. Clarice had many friends.”

Rachel sits down between Hutch and Billy at the table. “We are your friend also. If you need us for anything, please do not hesitate to ask.”

Dirk sits down next to Billy. “I saw you at the party last night after you went swimming with your clothes on.”

Bess pours tea for everyone. She says nothing as she sits down next to Hutch. They all sip their tea in uncomfortable silence.

Billy excuses himself from the table telling everyone he needs to stretch his legs. He walks to the living room and stares at a painted portrait of Clarice. Dirk walks up next to Billy. “That is a self-portrait. She was a very talented woman. I will miss her.”

“Do you have any idea what happened at the party last night,” Billy ask.

“What do you mean?”

“Sylvia Trundle lured me out to the pool house to have sex. She vanished and I was hit over the head. Naked, unconscious, I was thrown into the pool.”

“All I know is when you came back into the ballroom all wet. I didn’t realize something that serious had happened to you. You should have called the police.”

“When I regained consciousness there was the smell of jasmine in the air.”

“Clarice’s fragrance. She was at the pool?”

“Yes.”

Rachel comes into the living room. “Bess is acting like she doesn’t even know me. I know it has been over ten years but still we were close at one point.”

“A friend has died. I am sure she will be glad to see you when she is not so upset.” Billy picks up a picture of Tommy on the mantel. The young man in the picture seems familiar but Billy can’t quite place him. “Do you remember Tommy Harris?”

Rachel takes the picture from Billy and looks at it. “He was kind of shy around me. The few friends he had were stoners. There was this one dude that was friends with Tommy. God he scared me. He was called the Leg Man. They may have used more than pot. I don’t know. Bess totally disliked Tommy. I am surprised Bess is friends with Clarice. In school they didn’t like one another either.”

Dirk takes the picture from Rachel. “People change. What is he doing now?”

Billy clears his throat. “He is dead. He died some time after George Destone. It was reported as suicide by hanging.”

“God. Clarice and Tommy were twins. That had to have been awful for her. Mom had already moved me away from Rockdale before any of that happened.” Rachel shakes her head. “I didn’t know. There was so much I didn’t know that was happening.”

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Billy stares at the body of Clarice in the open coffin. A man about Billy’s age walks up beside Billy. They look at one another and the man speaks, “Someone told me that you are Billy Bingo. We played together as children. Well, you’d come over to my house and sometimes you’d stay and play and sometimes you’d sneak home.”

“Harris. Jimmy Harris.”

“Clarice is my sister.”

“I didn’t realize. Tommy and Clarice were your older brother and sister. I saw a picture of Tommy and I didn’t remember.”

Jimmy smiled. “Remember once when Tommy took us swimming.”

Billy’s eyes widened. “I think I do. He threw me in the deep end and I thought I was going to drown but then I started dog paddling. How could I forget him? Tommy taught me to swim!”

“If you want to know what a small world it is, I was the cab driver who drove you and your sister to the party at the Way Mansion. My sister and I haven’t spoken in years. I didn’t even know she was at that party.”

“I am so sorry for your loss. Are your parents here? I loved your mom’s apple pie.”

Jimmy frowns. “No. Clarice and I were the only ones left. Now there is just me.”

Billy wanted to ask Jimmy why he and Clarice were estranged but he thought asking would be improper. There are people waiting for the viewing of the coffin and so Billy and Jimmy walk away from the coffin. As they turn to go down one of the pew aisles, Billy sees Sylvia Trundle sitting next to Kane Bishop. He wants to ask her a few questions but doesn’t want to make a scene at the church. Still, he sits down in the empty spot next to Sylvia.

“I would like to talk with you outside, if that is okay,” Billy whispers to Sylvia.

Jimmy continues walking down the aisle. He looks back at Billy sitting next to Sylvia. Jimmy takes a seat toward the back of the church to sit alone.

Sylvia and Billy stand up. Kane Bishop follows as they walk out of the church and toward the parking lot. Bess notices Billy leaving the church with Sylvia. She prays he is not about to make a scene.

Billy is polite when he ask Sylvia. “What happened at the party?”

Kane Bishop speaks up, “I saw Sylvia and you go to the pool house. I used my camera that has night vision to follow you. Inside the pool house I pulled Sylvia away from you. As I was doing that she grabbed up all the clothes. Outside she got back dressed and I threw your clothes into the pool. Neither one of us know anything about who hit you over the head or threw you into the pool. That is what we told the police. That is the truth.”

Sylvia shakes her head. “I am sorry. I don’t know what happened to you in the pool house. I am sorry I took you out there.”

“Sylvia and I have an open relationship. I don’t know why I acted all jealous.”

“Did either of you see Clarice around the pool area?”

Sylvia and Kane stare at one another. Kane speaks, “I didn’t see her but I told Sylvia that I smelled Clarice’s perfume when I went to a bush to pee. Sylvia was getting dressed on the other side of the pool deck and didn’t notice the smell. I did though. I fully expected Clarice to be standing behind me when I got a whiff of that smell but no one was there.”

“I smelled jasmine when I regained consciousness at the pool.” Billy shakes his head and shrugs. “I appreciate the two of you talking with me.” Billy didn’t expect for them to be honest with him and of course there was no way that he could make them be honest. Still, he wanted to know their version of the night and now he had it. Billy doubts he has been told the truth. “I guess my parents and I will be going home in a few days. When you two are back in Georgia, look me up.”

“We will be going back to Georgia and back to work.” Sylvia cocks her head at Billy. “Would it be wrong to ask for hug?”

Kane pats Billy on the back. “Give the woman a hug.”

Billy hugs Sylvia and pats her on the back as Sammy walks up. “Can I sit with you and Bess. I don’t really know too many people here.” Sammy stares at Sylvia. “That is people that I like.”

“Sure. I need to go find Bess and then I want us to find Jimmy Harris.”

They all walk from the parking lot back into the church. Billy and Sammy find Bess and then they find Jimmy Harris still sitting on the back row. They sit down with Jimmy.
“Sis had lots of friends.” It is not so certain whether there is pride or resentment in his voice when he mentions his observation.

Bess nods and takes a kerchief from her pocketbook.

Sammy whispers to Billy. “You were hugging Sylvia.”

“They were pretending to be friendly.”

“You believe them?”

Bess whispers, “I believe them. Sylvia is a friend.”

Sammy stands up and starts to get up to go sit somewhere else. Billy takes his arm and stops him. “After the funeral I’d like to go get a beer with you and Jimmy.”

“Okay.” Sammy sits back down.

Bess shakes her head. “You are not old enough to drink in New York.”

“I am not old enough to drink in Georgia either. What is your point? I am not planning on us going somewhere and getting plastered.”

After the funeral Billy, Sammy, and Jimmy go to O’Heno for pizza, beer, and to play a game of pool. Then Billy goes back to Bess’ Apartment where his parents are already getting ready for the trip back home to Georgia. Their parents retire to bed and Billy and Bess sit halfway watching TV.

“I had fun with Sammy and Jimmy. I didn’t remember that Jimmy’s brother and sister were Tommy and Clarice.”

“I didn’t much like Clarice while we were going to school but here she was friend. She was much smarter and talented than I realized while we were in school.”

“Rachel was kind of hurt the way you were at the Cassidy home.”

“My friend had just died.”

“I know. Maybe some time the two of you can get together under more pleasant circumstances.” Billy pauses and moves closer to Bess. “I also would like for us to spend more time together. I wish you would consider moving back to Georgia.”

“My home is here.” Bess stands up. “Billy, it has been good seeing you this last week. Even if not under the best of circumstances, I am glad you were with me. Goodnight.”

“Goodnight.” Billy gets up to fold the bed out. He then collapses into it without changing out of his clothes.

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Billy Bingo: The Forgotten Past

Chapter Four

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Billy and his parents, Maureen and Frank, have gone to New York from Georgia to visit his sister Bess. She still works as a secretary in New York for an obscure Literary Agency. Bess does not know that when Billy was ten he drove the car that run over Ralph Shath and George Destone, killing George Destone. Bess does not know that her boyfriend George Destone was a blackmailer who had blackmailed their mother for money and for sex. Bess fancies that she loved George Destone and that he loved her and that theirs was a star crossed love affair. Bess continues writing changes and trying to sell her play about her love affair with George Destone and his unsolved death by a mysterious driver.

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Twenty year old Billy Bingo feels somewhat odd being his twenty-seven year old sister’s escort to the Way Party in New York. He and his parents had somewhat surprised his sister Bess with their visit from Georgia and then they, not Bess, had invited Billy to go to the party with her.

As Billy and Bess get into the Cab, Billy tells Bess, “I could just hang out at a bar while you go to the party. They will never know.”

“Don’t be silly. I will have the most handsome escort at the party. I am glad you are going with me.”

“I will try not to embarrass you.” Billy clears his throat. “Say do you have some gum? I’ve got major dry mouth.”

Bess opens her pocketbook and fumbles through it for a pack of gum. Billy notices she has a lot of papers in her large bag. She finds a pack of gum and hands it to Billy.

“What are all those papers?”

“My play that I will never get produced. Still, I keep trying. When I run into someone who I think might be interested, I always have the play with me.”

Billy notices the cab driver looking at him in the mirror. Billy looks at the cab driver’s face reflected in the glass of the driver’s door. There is something about the driver that looks familiar. Dismissing the odd feeling, Billy looks away from the reflection and looks at his sister. “You are looking good. Maybe you will meet the love of your life at this party.”

“I’ve had the love of my life.”

Billy squirms in the seat. “Mom thought you might be living with a man. She had this whole sitcom scene worked out in her mind.”

“Just my cat Roofus.” Bess turns and admires Billy in his suit. “If you meet anyone at the party, don’t let being with me cramp your style.”

“Style. What style?”

Bess laughs. “How is Steve Webster doing?”

“Pretty good. I do some decorating jobs with him and his mother Linda. One I worked on was featured in Fancy Magazine. Course, Linda got the credit while Steve and I did most of the work. But that is cool. I like Linda.” Billy pauses and tells Bess, “Steve and I aren’t lovers. Not that Steve hasn’t tried to have sex with me.”

Bess grins. “I met a real nice woman, Clarice Cassidy. Actually she went to High School with me but we weren’t friends back then.” Bess can’t believe she is telling her brother this. “She and her husband are swingers. I considered when she made sexual advances but then I decided I was being crazy.” Bess blushes. “Still, I’ve fantasies about her husband Hutch Cassidy.”

“The name Clarice sounds familiar to me.” Billy notices the driver’s expression in the mirror. The driver slows the cab down and he glances back at Billy like he is about to say something but he doesn’t.

“Clarice lived in Rockdale the same time we did and you may have heard me mention her before. She had a twin brother.”

“Had?”

“He died around the same time George Destone was run over. He hung himself or someone made it look that way. I think there may be a connection in the death of George and the death of Tommy.”

Billy feels the blood flow from his face. He can’t tell Bess that George Destone was not the love of her life. He can’t tell his sister how George was blackmailing their mother. He certainly can’t bring himself to tell Bess that when he was ten years old he dressed up as a Moslem woman, stole a junk car from a garage, and run George Destone and George’s cousin Ralph Shath down. Billy sits in silence.

“George was involved in drugs. I now know this from Clarice. Clarice says her brother Tommy Harris was also involved in drugs. We both think drug dealers had something to do with their deaths. I’ve added that dimension to the play.”

Billy and Bess get out of the cab. Bess pays the driver without much paying attention to him. Then she and Billy enter the grand home where the party is being given. Billy is amazed at the size of the Ballroom.

As Billy looks around, Billy notices a woman who reminds him of Marilyn Monroe. Their eyes fix and Billy swallows a gulp of air. Billy feels both a familiarity and an aloofness as he and the woman goggle each other. She glances away from Billy as she hands her drink to a rough look man standing next to her.

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“Of course. I know them,” Billy tells his sister. “Well, not really know them. That is Kane Bishop and Sylvia Trundle. They were at the Apartment Complex one night.” Billy thought it best not to explain to his sister how he had stalked them. “She looks a little different all dressed up for the party but I know it is her.”

Bess looks over at them. “You probably remember them from Rockdale as well. I like Sylvia. She is so beautiful.” Bess takes a drink from a waiter’s tray as he walks by.

Just when Billy is about to turn his attention elsewhere, Sylvia smiles at Billy. Billy’s mouth falls open in a rather stupid look as the woman, 35-22-35, blonde and with blue eyes, begins her stunning and highly sexual walk across the Ballroom floor toward him. Then there she stands right in front of Billy and Billy feels 2 foot tall.

Bess introduces Billy to a Sylvia Trundle. Sylvia grabs Billy by the arm and tells Bess over the sound of the music, “I almost met your date one night. He told me I look like Marilyn Monroe. Now you know I’ve got to dance with a man who tells me I look like Marilyn Monroe.”

Being dragged to the dance floor by a woman Billy thinks at some point must have been a centerfold model, Billy feels at though he is in a dream. Excited to be dancing with such a beautiful woman Billy forgets about Bess for moment. He then notices Bess is standing alone. “We need to find someone to dance with my sister.”

Sylvia glances at Bess who she has known since High School and who she has really never liked. “I know.” Sylvia points. “There is my boyfriend Kane Bishop over there talking to Clarice and Hutch Cassidy. I can get him to ask Bess to dance.”

Billy looks at the rough looking Kane Bishop, a biker, who’d that night at the Apartment Complex Billy had wondered what it might be like to have sex. Now Sylvia has just described Kane as her boyfriend in one sultry breath and in the next she has suggested he might dance with Billy’s sister. Words escape Billy but Billy is sure his look has conveyed the message, “Are you fucking crazy?” He quickly attempts to interrupt that look with a flirty smile. “Not your boyfriend. Of all these people here, there must be someone else who isn’t attached.”

Billy watches the woman Sylvia has called Clarice walk up to Bess. Clarice sort of reminds Billy of a young Vivian Lee. She is small woman but even from a distance Billy notices her expressive eyes. There is an elegance about her but there is also a vulnerability. For a moment Billy pictures her as young man. “Okay, that was fucking weird.”

“What?”

“Nothing.” Billy notices that Dirk’s father, David Jenkins, is walking toward Bess and company. “David Jenkins is here.” Billy looks around for Dirk or Jackie but doesn’t see either of them.

“Do you know David Jenkins?”

“No. I know his son Dirk and his wife Jackie.” Billy adds, “I’ve seen pictures of him of course.” The image of David getting ready to try to fuck him in the ass flashes in Billy’s mind. “I may have met him once.”

Billy watches Kane Bishop walk up to where Clarice, David, and Bess are talking. Bess pulls out a couple of pages of her play from her large pocketbook. Clarice makes a point to search for a certain page to show Kane Bishop.

Sylvia watches as Billy watches. “What is your sister doing?”

“She is trying to find a producer for her play. I haven’t read this version but she says she has added a drug angle to it. Apparently George Destone and Tommy Harris were involved in drugs.”

“Back in Rockdale, Georgia?” Sylvia has a distant, worried, look on her face.

“You know Rockdale.” Billy knows that is where he had followed them. It still bothers Billy that night he’d followed them to the Destone Garage where his mother had been forced to have sex with her blackmailers Ralph and George. “I once lived there.”

“I live there. Kane and I both do.” Sylvia looks at Billy with puzzled look. “You like playing games don’t you?”

“Yeah. Games are good.”

Sylvia points. “There is Judge Haskel. He is one bad ass character and he is here with that awful woman.”

Billy looks in the direction of where Sylvia is pointing but there are people moving about that blocks his being able to see them. Billy thinks the name Judge Haskel sounds familiar but he doesn’t quite place where he has heard the name before. Billy doesn’t say anything but rubs his face gently against Sylvia’s face as they dance moving gracefully with the music.

“I’ll be right back.” Sylvia runs over to say something to her boyfriend Kane Bishop. She then runs back to Billy. She doesn’t offer an explanation to Billy and he does not ask for one.

Billy and Sylvia dance until Billy is getting tired and ready to say bye to her. He looks around for Bess and notices that Bess is now standing with a handsome young man who favors Zac Efron. The people she was talking with have moved on.

Just when Billy is about to excuse himself from Sylvia, she whispers in Billy’s ear. “Let’s you and me slip out to the pool house and fuck.”

“I don’t know.” Billy starts to explain how she has a boyfriend and he doesn’t want to be her boyfriend’s punching bag but instead says, “I better stay where I can keep an eye on my sister.”

“Come on. Your sister will be okay.”

Then Sylvia grabs Billy and pulls his face to her face and she kisses him. “I really want to fuck,” she breathes in his ear. Sylvia takes hold of Billy by his belt and pulls him toward an exit. Billy does not much resist. As he is pulled he does turn to look to see where Kane Bishop is standing. At first he doesn’t see Kane but then he sees Kane standing and talking to a woman. Billy hopes that Kane doesn’t notice Sylvia pulling him from the ballroom.

The pool house is dark. Billy thinks it is spooky. Sylvia tells Billy to get naked while she goes look for a candle. He hesitates but then she kisses him again before leaving and in total darkness Billy removes his clothes. Sylvia returns and tells Billy that she couldn’t find the candles.

“How am I going to get redressed in the dark.” Billy feels vulnerable. Too vulnerable.

“Wait, I know one more place I can look for candles.” Sylvia leaves Billy standing there naked. Waiting for Sylvia to return, Billy is thinking more and more what a bad idea coming out to the pool house is. “No luck.” Sylvia giggles as she puts Billy’s hands on her naked breast and guides him down to sit on the floor. He feels goose bumps. Billy kisses Sylvia’s nipples.

Sylvia tells Billy, “I know who you are? You are a bad boy. I like bad boys.”

Billy continues kissing on Sylvia’s breast.

“I once was afraid of you. Now I am here in the dark with you. I have chills.”

Billy runs his hands through Sylvia’s hair. He kisses her earlobe.” He whispers, “Are you role playing?” Billy doesn’t understand why Sylvia would be telling him that she once was afraid of him.

Sylvia snickers as she plays with Billy’s huge cock. “If you like. I know how much you like games. Pretending.” Sylvia kisses Billy’s nipple and then her hand is gone from his cock and her lips are no longer touching Billy anywhere. Billy hears Sylvia pulling away from him.

Billy hears muffled voices outside.

Billy hears a man’s voice, “Are you a peeping tom?”

Billy hears a woman’s voice. “I am sure that Leg Man has the tape that can prove who killed my brother. Leave me alone. I want to go talk with him.” There is a moment of silence. “Stop! You are hurting me.”

Billy hears Sylvia moving around. “Where are you going?” Billy flings his hands around searching but he can’t feel Sylvia anywhere near. “Sylvia. Sylvia! Where are you?” Billy fumbles around thinking he will find his clothes. He doesn’t, but touches something. He doesn’t much consider what it is. He drops it and accidentally knocks it up under what he thinks is a sofa. He continues grabbing around in the dark hoping to find his clothes but they aren’t there. “Oh shit.” He has an epiphany. “I have fallen for a prank.” He sits feeling hopeless in the pitch black darkness of a strange room where a strange, beautiful woman has led him.

Billy sees a beam of light flashing around the pool house. Billy stands up and feels his cock brush against something. “Who is there?” No one answers. Billy has no idea what he is going to do. Suddenly there is a bright light in Billy’s eyes and whoever is holding the light is walking toward him. Billy uses his hands to hide his cock and balls for he knows he is visible in the light even if he can’t see the figure walking toward him. Billy hears footsteps behind him and he turns around. Someone hits Billy on the back of his head. In a distorted blur he eyes the face of someone in a beam of light as he falls semiconscious to the floor.

Billy hears a woman’s whisper. “Men. Always thinking with their dicks.” In a semi-stupor Billy can’t decide on whether the whisper is from Sylvia, the woman from outside or someone else.

Half unconscious Billy grapples to fight the hands trying to take hold of his arms. Billy feels someone squatting over, barely touching, his head.

“We need to hit him again.” The whisper is unrecognizable.

Billy moans with the strike of a flashlight against the back of his head. He doesn’t fight but just allows himself to be dragged across the floor. Billy struggles not to pass out. He thinks when the time is right he will again try to fight. Then Billy feels another hit to the back of his head and he passes out.

Billy isn’t sure how long he has been knocked out when he starts to come to. He is partially floating in the lighted pool with his head resting on his arms on the rough cement side of the pool. His hair is wet and so he knows at some point he was submerged. Billy smells the strong smell that he guesses is jasmine perfume. He looks around the large pool but sees no one. Even though his clothes are wet and floating in the water, he is thankful when he notices them. With a pounding headache, he swims around the pool to gather his clothes as they float here and then there as though they are alive and trying to teasingly escape his reach. After winning the game with his clothes, Billy gets out of the pool and slides his legs into his dripping, navy blue pants. Wearing the soaked pants without underwear he shakes from head to foot and sprays water like a wet dog. He then puts his wet, clingy, white dress shirt on to wear. It is an uncomfortable garb. He slings his dripping jacket over his shoulder and without bothering to put his socks or shoes on he reenters the party. He feels eyes watching him in curiosity as he walks and puddles across the ballroom floor toward Bess standing alone in the corner and nursing a drink and chewing on ice. He walks up to her. “Some more friends you have.” His words begin terse but then soften as he reminds himself that his anger is not at his sister.

Bess is lost in thought and has not paid attention to her brother’s entrance. In an absent minded manner she questions, “What friends?” Then she turns, taking full notice of Billy and his predicament, she is stunned. Then as she gets over her shock she can’t help but laugh. “You look so pitiful.” There is both sympathy and mocking in her voice.

Billy does not want to alarm his sister. He does not want anyone to realize what a serious situation he has just survived. “You think this is funny?” Billy considers the humor in how he must look and laughs with his sister. He takes Bess’s icy drink and pours it over his hurting head. “I thought I felt a dry spot.” Billy enjoys relief as the ice and alcohol from the drink seems to reduce the pounding pain permeating through his skull.

“How did you end up in the pool?”

Billy does not tell Bess what happened. He shrugs. He stares at Sylvia standing with a big grin on her face as her boyfriend Kane Bishop chuckles. Billy quickly loses his sense of humor and feels furious. Still, he is careful not to show his anger. He casually walks away from Bess. Now there is a strut in his walk as he approaches the much larger Kane Bishop. Billy nods and with an arrogant look but in a teasing voice tells Kane, “Glad I could entertain you.” Billy considers punching Kane Bishop in the stomach and then the chin. He would like to stomp him into the floor. Knowing that would accomplish nothing good, Billy continues to carefully control his anger. He turns and still all wet he puddles his way back to his sister. “You ready to go.”

Sylvia starts to go after Billy but then Kane grabs her by the arm. His eyes motion toward a group of people who are watching them. Sylvia looks toward the crowd and then falls back next to Kane as he unhands her. Sadly, she rest her head on his shoulder and from the opposite side of the room watches Billy with his sister. She can’t guess what they are saying.

Bess directs a puzzled glance at Sylvia and then Bess nods at her wet brother. “Sure, we can go.” She starts to use her cellphone to call a cab but then Billy stops her. Billy’s billfold and keys and all are in his pants but his cellphone is missing. “I’ve got to find my cellphone.”

“Where do you think you lost it?” Bess notices Billy’s odd expression and then giggles. “I know. That is always a stupid question.”

“Either in the pool or the pool house.”

Billy and Bess walk out to the pool area. They look around the pool deck and in the pool. There is no sign of the cellphone.

Seemingly out of no where, Hutch Cassidy joins them on the pool deck. “What is going on?” Hutch stares hard at Billy. “You are Bess’ brother? I didn’t know.”

Billy considers why should he know but then figures the words are polite enough. “Yeah.” Billy points to the pool house. “Sylvia Trundle lured me in there for a joke. Someone hit me over the head, dragged me out here, and then threw me in the pool.”

Bess screams, “What! They could have drowned you.” She starts to march back into the ballroom to confront Sylvia but Billy stops her.

“Sis! Don’t! Anyway,” Billy continues, “I lost my cellphone. It is probably in there but I have no idea how to turn the lights on.”

Hutch tries to hide his own agitation and walks inside the pool house and flips a switch on and off. The lights do not come on. Hutch winks at Bess, trying to calm her and himself, as he walks past her. Without stopping he tells her, “I will go get someone who knows where the fuse box is.” Hutch quickly vanishes back into the ballroom. Billy and Bess can hear Hutch screaming inside, “Kane! You need to take your crazy girlfriend home before she murders someone.”

Bess and Billy look at one another. Bess shakes her head. “I don’t know what the hell Sylvia was thinking. I kind of thought of her as a friend.”

“It was a prank. Don’t worry about it. I figured it was her boyfriend that knocked me out and threw me in the pool. But Bess, I really don’t know for sure who did what.” Billy’s head is no longer hurting and Billy really does want to think that his being hit on the head and thrown into the pool was little more than a harmless caper, but Billy knows he could have died. Still, whether the attack on him was the mischief of a bored couple or somehow connected to whatever that was going on outside of the pool house before Sylvia vanished and he was hit over the head, Billy does not want his sister to be overly alarmed.

The young man Bess had been talking to comes out with Hutch. He walks to the side of the building and opens a box. He flips a switch and lights come on inside of the pool house. Then he walks around and Bess introduces him to Billy as Sammy Way. Sammy, Billy, Bess, and Hutch enter the pool house to look for Billy’s cellphone. Billy looks around and tries to orient himself to where Sylvia had led him. He walks to the round sofa and notices what he thinks is one of Sylvia’s earrings behind the sofa. He walks behind the sitting area to pick up the earring and then thinking his cellphone may have slid under the sofa he feels around the floor beneath it. He feels something but it isn’t his cellphone. Billy pulls a revolver out from under the sofa.

Billy walks up to Sammy. “I found this under the sofa.”

Sammy takes the revolver and opens a drawer in a desk. “Why is this unlocked? My dad is going to have a fit.”

“Sylvia brought me out here. I apologize for being out here but…”

“I know. I’ve dated Sylvia before. I understand. Believe me. I understand.” Sammy looks at the wet clothes Billy is wearing. “You and I are about the same size. I will get you some dry clothes to wear.”

“Thanks.”

Hutch climbs the stairs up to a balcony area overlooking the lounge area. Billy calls to him. “I wasn’t up there.” Then Billy stops to think. “Then again my cellphone isn’t where I was so I guess it could be anywhere.”

Bess tells Billy. “I called your number and it was ringing up there.”

“Oh. I didn’t hear it.”

Following the sound, Hutch finds Billy’s ringing cellphone laying on top of folded boxer shorts in a large over stuffed orange chair. Hutch calls down to Billy. “I found your cellphone.” Hutch pauses. “And I guess these are your boxer shorts.”

Billy tells Sammy, “Well, this is embarrassing. My sister will never take me to a party again.”

Hutch comes back down to give Billy his shorts and cellphone. “Here.”

“Thanks.” Billy shakes his head. “Why would someone put them up there? That doesn’t really make sense.”

“A spare key to the desk drawer is kept up there but I don’t know.” Sammy tells Billy, “Follow me and we will get some dry clothes for you.”

Bess remains in the pool house with Hutch. She tells him she does not feel like going back through the Ballroom and facing the people. She and Hutch sit down on the round sofa. He puts his hand on her leg and pats it. “No reason to be embarrassed.”

“My brother is now getting naked with the only man who showed me any interest tonight. Embarrassed? I wish I was embarrassed but when Billy is around it is like I am invisible.”

Hutch grins. “When I am with Clarice I am always the husband. That is how I am defined. I could find the cure for cancer and I would still be the husband. I don’t really mind though. Not really.”

“Clarice is great. She has given me some good advice with my play. I feel closer to getting it to a quality where I can get it produced than I have ever felt before.”

“I wish you would reconsider and consider having sex with Clarice and myself.”

“I have had fantasies but I am afraid the reality might spoil my fantasy.”

“I promise you that it will be better than you could ever imagine.”

Meanwhile Billy is up in the large bedroom of Sammy Way. Sammy pulls some designer blue jeans from his closet and a tie dyed T-shirt from a drawer. He then stands and watches Billy take his wet clothes off. When Billy is standing totally naked in front of him he throws Billy a towel from a quilt rack in the bedroom.

Sammy shakes his head. “Now that is the biggest fucking cock I have ever seen.”

Billy isn’t sure what to think as Sammy stares at him. Sammy looks like he wants to make a pass at him but he doesn’t. “So, you’ve dated Sylvia?” Billy uses the towel on his hair and then other parts of himself. He does not rush to get dressed.

“Yeah.” Sammy walks to his closet. “I am ready to get out of this suit.”

“You look handsome in it.”

“Thanks.” Sammy kicks off his shoes and starts to undress. “Do you want to go see a movie with me tonight?”

“I live in Georgia and hardly ever see my sister.”

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“Sure. Bess is invited.”

Sammy stands in front of Billy totally naked and with an erection. Billy and Sammy stare at one another. They each consider walking toward one another. Then Billy shakes off the thought of having sex with Sammy. “I need to get back down to Bess.”

“Sure. Do you like Zac Efron movies?”

“Yeah. You know. You favor him.”

Sammy gives Billy an “ah shucks” look. Billy and Sammy quickly get dressed. Billy grabs up his wet clothes and they rush down to the pool house. As they enter they see Hutch and Bess kissing. Billy clears his throat to let Bess and Hutch know they aren’t alone.

Hutch pulls out his cellphone to call his wife Clarice to see if she is ready to leave the party. He tells Bess that she isn’t answering her phone. “That is odd for her not to answer.”

“Maybe her battery is dead.” Sammy tells them, “That is the excuse Sylvia always gave when she didn’t answer my calls.”

“It sometimes happens.” Hutch looks around and then stares at Billy. “I guess I better go find her. I was hoping she and I could take the two of you home so you wouldn’t have to call a cab.”

Sammy speaks up. “Billy and I were talking about going to see a movie and wanted you all to come with us.”

Bess moans, “I am tired but you two go on to see the movie.”

Sammy shakes his head when he sees the disappointment on Billy’s face. “I’ll drive you home and we’ll go pick up a pizza and rent a movie to take back to your place Bess, if that is okay.”

“That will be cool.” Bess looks at Hutch. “You and Clarice are welcome to drop by if you’d like.”

“Once I find her, I will let you know.” Hutch waves bye as he goes to look for his wife.

 

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