Friday, October 1, 2010

Stuck In the Driveway Part III

It is "Fiction Friday" here at Writing for Fun. Tonight we continue our story from last week. Enjoy this week's installment.


Stuck in the Driveway Part III

Eddie had hunkered to the back of his shelter as soon as it had started to drizzle. When he sat in his current position, anybody passing by saw only the trees. That is of course, unless they knew to look for him. His shelter sat back from the road about twenty feet. One long side of the brown tarp was connected to two saplings, and the other long side was tied to stakes in the ground. The front of the tarp was about three feet off of the ground and the back was about six inches off the ground. The shelter wasn't much, but it keep him dry.

Most of the people in town knew that Eddie lived in the woods; but few really cared. The most trouble he got was from the new people that moved to town. They didn't like the idea of homeless person living free in the woods. The newbies would complain to the police, and if the police couldn't get the complainant to understand that Eddie was harmless, the police would go talk to Eddie. The police all knew Eddie, most of them had grown up with him, but their salaries came from the tax payers, and they hated to tell him he had to move, but they were duty bound to do so. Eddie never wanted to cause trouble, and he would take down his shelter and move it farther away from town.

When he first moved back to town, Eddie was sleeping in the park. Since then, he had been evicted, so to speak, several times. After the Hendersons, who had moved in from Boston had complained, Eddie had taken up living three miles outside of town and right across the road from Brogan's Green Thumb. It was because he had hunkered back that he was able to watch as the black sedan pulled into the parking lot about 45 minutes ago. Eddie then watch while the black sedan pulled out as Bev's yellow Sunfire pulled in.

That was always the highlight of his day, watching as Bev pulled into work and got out of her car. He didn't care that she had gained 30lbs since high school. To Eddie, Bev would always be the first girl he kissed, and the first girl with whom he had done a great many things. That was a long time ago though; before he had left town.

Now, he was back, and they were both different people. Bev knew that Eddie watched as she would get out of her car. Most people would think that his watching was creepy. Not Bev, she knew what had happened to Eddie and felt partially responsible. Often, she would give him a little wave; but not today. Today she was preoccupied. Eddie was preoccupied too, only his preoccupation was with the brunette exiting the Sunfire. She coughed as she put out her cigarette. Eddie hated that Bev smoked, he knew that one day it would kill her.

Eddie watched as the black sedan pulled back into Brogan's. This was the same sedan that had just left, and Eddie knew something wasn't right. He tried to call out to warn her; but his voice, from lack of use, only croaked. He watched with a growing alarm as a man in a dark suit slowly got out of the black sedan and entered right behind Bev. It was odd, thought Eddie, that he had not heard Mr. Darksuit's footsteps as he had crossed the gravel parking lot. Even from his vantage point, Eddie had clearly heard Bev as she put out her cigarette and walked to the front door. Something obviously wasn’t right.

Faster than anyone in town had seen Eddie move since he made the game saving tackle against Southwest High in what seemed like a lifetime ago, he was in Brogan's parking lot. Eddie moved with the same quiet stealthiness as Mr. Darksuit. He hid behind the car out of the driver's view. Mr. Darksuit came out of Brogan's carrying Bev's limp body in his arms, and headed for the trunk. Eddie caught him by surprise and knocked him out cold before Mr. Darksuit had a chance to get around the back of the sedan. Somehow, Eddie was able to grab onto Bev before she was crushed under Mr. Darksuit's massive frame.

As Eddie was repositioning Bev in his arms, the driver got out of the black sedan with his gun drawn. With training that he thought was long forgotten, Eddie kicked the gun out of the driver's hand with his right foot. No sooner had his right touched the ground than his left foot tagged the driver in the jaw. The driver slipped on the gravel hitting his head on the side view mirror and fell silently to the ground.

Eddie repositioned Bev one more time. As he did so, he looked down and nearly dropped Bev. Mr. Darksuit, Eddie realized, was someone he hadn't seen since before he came back to town, and he was someone Eddie could have lived his whole life without seeing again. Eddie recovered from his temporary paralysis and ran into the woods carrying Bev with even more determination. As they were running, Bev started to regain consciousness.

“Eddie? Is that you?”

“Relax Bevy, I've got you. I don't know how or what They are doing here. But, you are safe now.”

“nnn....” Bev eyes closed again, and Eddie continued to run deep into the woods. There was only one place he could take her where she would be safe. Eddie only hoped he could get there before Mr. Darksuit regained consciousness and started to track him.

To be continued...Stuck in the Driveway Part IV


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