Zack & the Boys
Friday July 9th @ 12:30 PM
"Hey Zack! Yeah, you asshole. Where have you
been? We
haven't seen
you in while." Zack turned to see Max and Nozone standing outside of the
grocery store. Max, or Tony Marcus, and Nozone, or Sam Tucker, were
Zack's partying buddies. Then Nozone said, "That Shelley still
got you
pussy whipped?"
Zack, "Cut the crap, Nozone. ... What
are you two
degenerates
doing in town before dark?"
Max says, "Lookin for you. Called you place
and your ma said
you
were here. ... Anyway there's a party out a Glen's place tonite, figured
you might want to go. Glen's parents are out of town for the weekend, so
the beer will be flowin tonite." Nozone chimes in, "And the chicks will
be hot and wild - you know Glen."
Zack has been avoiding these two for
weeks. But shit, they
weren't
that bad. While he would rather be going out with Shelley, her aunt was
in town and planning to take Shelley, TK, their mom and their grandma
out to eat. "Tell you what I'll meet you there." Zack finally says.
"Won't do dickwad. Neither of us have wheels
tonite. You
gotta pick
us up." Max said. Nozone adds, "You're the only one with his own
pick-up."
"Okay, you two shitheads. What time?"
Zack said
making up his
mind.
He made plans to pick them up between 7:30 and 8:00. Then he headed back
home to get ready for later.
11:30 PM
The music is loud and pounding. It's been 3
hours since they got
there, and Zack looks at his watch. He'd spent most of the night
shootin' the shit with guys from school, talking about all the sex they
were all having, who was easy, and who was frigid. It was one or the
other. All in all, it was a pretty good time. He was glad he came. But,
he'd promised Bart and Will that he'd drive them fishing at 5:00 AM.
Zack turns to Max and yells, "Let's split."
"Why?
The party's still
going strong." "Cause I have a ton of shit to do tomorrow, fuckface.
Now, let's round up Nozone and go. "
It took them nearly 10 minutes to find him. He
was putting the
moves on some babe from Cheyenne Gap and really didn't want to go. Zack
eventually, stated flatly, "Listen asshole, I'm leavin, you can stay if
you want, but find your own fucking way home." And he headed for his
pick-up. Nozone and Max followed him out, but Max managed to snag a 6
pack from the tub before they got off the back porch.
They all piled into the cab with Max
sitting between Zack
and
Nozone. He pops a can of beer and hands it to Zack, then one for Nozone,
and finally one for himself. Zack wasn't worried about having another
beer, he'd been nursing his beers all night long, this was only his
fourth beer it three and a half hours. His buddies had been draining can
after can all night. Nozone says, "Did you hear that there is one less
faggot in town?"
"Sam, what did you say?", Zack suddenly was
deadly
serious.
"Glen, was tellin me that fuckin Kirkwood
packed up and
moved to
Cheyenne Gap." Max added, "They're welcome to him. Fuckin queer."
Zack now started to ask the real question that
was the reason he
was avoiding these two, "Do you know who did that to Kirkwood? It wasn't
you two was it?"
Max said, "Wasn't me or Nozone. Don't
know who it was,
but they're
all right in my book. One less cocksucker in town!"
Nozone looks out the window and sees someone
he recognizes,
"Speaking of cocksuckers, what do we have here? Ain't that McCory!?!
... I think we should stop and suggest to he joins that other faggot."
"Zack
pull the car over." Max said. "Come on slow
down."
Zack can't. He can't. "No way, I gotta get going.
We're not
stopping!"
Nozone half out of the window, starts yelling, "Hey
faggot! You
wanna suck a man's dick?" Zack slams on the brakes, and Nozone almost
falls out the truck. Nozone and Max jump out of the truck thinking Zack
has come to his senses. The two of them start heading for Steve, when
Zack grabs them by the shoulders turning them both around. Zack yells,
"Steve get the fuck out of here! Now dammit!" then to Max and Nozone,
"Just shut the fuck up you assholes! Leave the guy alone! He ain't done
nothin to you."
Nozone shakes off Zack, "What the fuck
is wrong with
you? Why you
protecting that faggot? He your own private cocksucker!"
Max says, "Get your hands off me
Matthews!" He
too shakes of Zack.
"You go all queer on us? Since, when you give a damn about some
faggot?"
Zack looks at the two of them. Their
words rip through him.
It was
just like Bart said. "Listen up you pigfuckers, you leave Steve alone.
You two think you're so fucking cool. He's not hurtin anybody. And two
against one, proves you're just assholes." Not necessarily the best way
to talk to guys who have been drinking all night. But Zack was pissed,
what if it had been Bart or Will or TK?
Max says, "Zack just go to hell! You've
turned into a
fuckin cunt.
You stay out of our way. We'll fuckin do what we want. Don't need you,
you motherfucker! Me and Zone'll do what we damn please, you ..."
He
was stopped in mid sentence by a fist to his gut. When Nozone dove for
him, Zack faked him out by taking a step back just as Nozone swung his
fist at Zack head. Zack figured the odds to be pretty good, it was him
against two drunks. Max was still on the ground out of breath, when
Nozone turned back toward Zack, this time he caught Zack in the eye,
just as Zack kicked him in the nuts. Zack staggered but still stayed on
his feet.
"Now listen, and listen close, you two
worthless
pieces of shit.
If I hear from anyone, and I mean anyone, that your messin with Steve or
any body else, I will personally cut your nuts off and shove them down
your fucking throats. And I MEAN it!" Zack then headed back to his
pick-up and drove home, leavin the two of them writhing on the ground.
4:30 AM
The alarm woke Bart. He looked over to check Zack's
bed, but Zack
wasn't there. Bart figured Zack probably crashed in the screen house. So
per Bart's usual routine, he logged on to the internet to check for
e-mail. there were about 25 pieces most from his listmates, all but one
anyway. Now that Zack knew about everything, he didn't have to read and
destroy his messages. But the one message was from Steve McCory and
marked with the highest priority. It was addressed to him, "Bart, i
don't know your brother zack's e-mail address. could you tell him
thanks! i heard what he said to those two assholes, and tell him i hope
he didn't get hurt too bad. could you please send me his address? -
steve"
Zack's hurt? Bart ran to the window a checked to see
him Zack's
pick-up was there. It was where he always parked it. Throwing on a
t-shirt, shorts and tennis shoes, he ran out to the screen house. When
he got in, he saw Zack sleeping on the coach, still dressed as he was
last night. He turned on the small lamp which woke Zack up. Zack turned
to him. The whole right side of Zack's face was all puffy and his eye
was swollen shut and turning black and blue. Zack looked at Bart and
said, "Sorry about this Bart, but I don't think I'll be able to take you
and Will fishin after all, I'm havin a tough time seein."
Bart aid, "What happened? What's Steve McCory
have to do
with all
this?", Zack wanly tried to smile, saying, "Never mind. Let's just say
'the auxiliaries' to the rescue. ... Had a disagreement with Sam and
Tony. ... Could you run in the house and get me some ice and a wash
cloth?"
"Zack how bad you hurt?" Before Zack
could say
anything, Bart
grabbed hold of Zack, and held him tight, saying with the emotions
catching in his throat, "You stupid ... fuck. ... Don't go getting all
... beaten up on me."
With that, Bart ran to the kitchen for
the ice and wash
cloth.
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