Show Time Part 2

Chapter 161-1

Show Time

Part 2

 

All I could think about was Jared, and how he wasn’t doing any better then I did today in school. I didn’t like the idea of being told to stay home, just because I couldn’t stay awake and was afraid of disappointing Mom and Dad for not being able to do a simple job like staying awake in class today or walk a few simple feet without falling down or totally collapsing, causing everyone around me to panic. 

I hated the extra attention, I hated the idea that it was totally out of my control. Well except the attention Betty was giving me wanting to very much see her naked and have sex with her. Assuming she was into letting me. Then again she hadn’t shown me she wanted too other than stroke Jake on the bus this morning.

I was so engrossed in my thoughts as we on our way back to the Vincent’s house, after picking up their boys from school. That I jumped when Jeff popped in unannounced, telling me that I needed to go home right now. I told him I was going home he said not the Vincent’s to my Rothwell home. He touched my head and I saw Jake's Mom tied to a chair and Gloria had a gun to her head. Demanding to know where Jared and I were, and our parents, listening to Dotty telling her that “They are both still in school. Where else would they be they both have swim practice today.”

Gloria slapped her across the face said. “You lying, job stealing b***h, Jared was sent home hours ago. Eric never showed up to swim practices. Where in the hell are they you b***h?”

The vision fade and I screamed, “stop the bus!” Being asked a million question. I yelled again to stop the bus; telling the bus driver and everyone on it, that Jake's Mom is in trouble. They looked at me as if I was nuts. I said to Jake and Adam that Jeff just told me that if we went there that Gloria would kill us and his mother. Jake and Adam knew about Jeff, but the bus driver refused to believe me. I didn’t have to tell Jeff they didn’t believe me so he said for me to have the bus driver, drive by the gate and keep going that he would see all he needed to see, that I was right.

In the meantime, Jeff would do what he can to keep Gloria and the people she’s with from killing Jake's Mom. I asked how he was going to do that, he said. “Trust me; I can be quite useful creating a distraction.” He gave me a silly grin then he was gone. I told the bus driver if he would just do a drive by. He said he was willing to do that.

I was on pins and needles as we approached the gate, the first thing we noticed that all the guards were laying on the ground and the policeman in the unmarked cars were leaning forward with a tranquilizer dart in their throats as if someone shot them with a tranquilizer gun or rifle they would use on animals. My first thought was Sparky, causing me to panic, only to have Jeff tell me he had coxed him under Mr. and Mrs. Vincent’s bed and put him to sleep.

I asked about Jared he said he was picked up from school by my sister Kerry and is at home in bed asleep while Mom and Mrs. Vincent are out shopping. I didn’t have to ask regarding Dad or Mr. Vincent knowing they had both had gone to work and wouldn’t be home until 5 or 6 pm.

I felt the bus pickup speed causing the bus driver to yell being surprised that the bus had just malfunctioned, and the breaks weren’t working. When I looked over at front of the bus I saw Jeff standing next to the bus driver. It was the first time I had ever seen Jeff do something like this or shown me what was taking places somewhere else. Unless it was a dream and I had passed out again. But seeing the looks on everyone’s faces said it wasn’t a dream that this was real and no dream.

Jeff told me he had just put Gloria too sleep, but he couldn’t keep her that way for long. I nodded and asked the bus driver if he could radio for help knowing that most buses have radio’s to call the dispatch office in case they get a flat tire or the bus breaks down.  He said. “What in the hell do you think I have been doing boy.” The bus stopped unexpectedly and the engine turned off after we had gone a half mile up the road from the house. I heard sirens and I knew they were for us, and I prayed that they would get there in time.

I said. “Do you believe me now or do you need another sign that we need to get the hell out of here?” The bus started on its own and Jeff said for me to get everyone to my house. Proving that he had been the one in charge of the bus the entire time, which was something I didn’t think it was possible and I doubted anyone would believe me, thinking I had seen way too many horror or science fiction movies.

Yet it did get the bus drivers attention and stated I wasn’t crazy after seeing the guards and the cops knocked out or the bus being influenced by a ghost, spirit, or angel. Jeff had a lot of explaining to do, and I wasn’t going be asking nicely having him tell me how he managed to do these things. When hadn’t done so in the past? Something told me I wasn’t going to like the answer.

I nodded and said. “Bus Driver, Jeff says for you to drive us to the Rothwell’s house where we will all be safe. And if we stay here where those people might wonder what in the hell are we sitting here for, knowing that isn’t a bus stop. And start asking question realize that I am on the bus as well as my friends. Now drive or I will take a crash course on how to drive the damn bus.” I heard him grumble as he put the bus in gear and floored it as we speed around the corner.

He said. “I don’t get paid enough for this.”

I wanted to laugh, remembering that large stuffed envelope that Mr. Vincent’s gave him yesterday. Instead, I contacted Jeff asking him if Jake's Mom was alright and the cops were on their way. He said. “Good boy, now get home before I tan your hide,” I questioned how that could be possible only to feel a slight tingling on my butt, I could feel Jeff smiling which stated he was more than capable of doing it. 

He didn’t answer me regarding Dotty’s condition other than state she was alive. It seemed like forever before we all breathed a sigh of relief seeing my Rothwell home insight. The moment we pulled into the driveway. Kerry opened the front door asking us what we were doing here, I said. “Hiding until the coast is clear.”

She gave me a confused look and I didn’t give her an explanation until we are inside the house. I watched the bus drive off the moment we had gotten off the bus. I wasn’t sure if he would come back, but I didn’t worry about it, because all I could think about was Jake's Mom. Even though Jeff told me she was fine and the cops have arrested Gloria and four out of 7 men that had been with her. Which meant 3 of them had gotten away before the cops could catch them. Kerry called Dad at work but he wasn’t there he was out running some errands and was told he would call her when he came back.

Like, good friends, I thought I had. They told Kerry what had happened at school today, as I tried to downplay it as nothing important. Kerry said. “I guess you know what that means young man?” I didn’t argue knowing it would do me no good as Kerry wheeled me into my room and put me to bed right next to Jared who was stone cold asleep. I soon understood why feeling Kerry jab me with a needle as she hugged me telling me she was glad that we didn’t go inside the Vincent’s house but came home instead.

Knowing I would if wasn’t for Jeff or being confined to a wheelchair, I didn’t tell her if worse came to worse I would have crawled my way into the house just to save Jake's Mom from being killed by Gloria and the people she was with, by sacrificing my own life to keep everyone alive and safe. She kissed me goodnight as she swung my legs and feet into bed and didn’t bother to undress me just pulled the blanket over me. I was out cold by the time my bedroom door closed.

When I woke Mom was sitting in a chair, Jared and I had been moved to Vincent house and placed in my room there. Jared was still asleep with Sparky at our feet, and I cringed seeing Moms worried face I cringed looking at the clock which said it was a little past 7 pm which meant I had been out for at least 3 hours. She reached down kissed me on the head, then said. “I knew you both should have stayed home today?”

I was about to say something only to have her shush me. Telling me her and Dad know all about it and Mr. Vincent’s has increased the security and have set up roadblocks at top and end of the street as well as surveillance cameras that are being monitored around the clock. But he doubts he’ll need them considering that Gloria is behind bars, acting like a crazy person jumping at shadows and screaming in her sleep about giant monsters trying to eat her.  She asked if that was Jeff doing, I nodded and she smiled and then giggled. “Well, then it serves her right, and Dotty would like you to thank him for saving her today.”

I said. “I’ll do that next time I see him,” Feeling that spot inside me that was just as cold as it had been. I couldn’t understand it, because once more Jeff had left me yet he never stays long enough to have a nice long serious chat.

Mom placed a thermometer in my mouth, as well as Jared’s even though he was sleeping. She said. “You have both been running a little hot these last few hours. Betty said you have been most of the day, but it wasn’t bad enough to worry about at the time. When she told me, I nearly smacked her because your temperature is normally at 95 or 96, and when it goes above that I know that you are not having a good day, but should be in bed. She should have sent you home the moment it reached 98.9.

“Mr. Brady gave me and Dad one hell of a tongue lashing for letting you boy’s go too school in the first place. I told him that you insisted and he told me next time I should lock you in your room, and bolt the sheets to the bed.” Mom said after pulling the thermometer out of my mouth reading 101.

She tsked when she said it. “I have half a mind to tan your hide for not letting Betty take you home the moment your temperature spiked and you passed out cold the first time. Even Veronica knew better by sending Jared home from school, where you should have been.” Mom pulled out his thermometer and tsked reading 100, as he mumbled something in his sleep. Then leaned down and kissed me on the head. Telling me to know that I wake she’ll run me a bath.

I asked how Dotty is; Mom turned around and said. “How do you think she is? Mr. Vincent has had her sedated because she couldn’t calm down the moment she woke up screaming that the house was haunted with ghosts all around them. She has been yelling your name the moment we came back with the groceries. Telling us we needed to get to you and Jared before Gloria and Crawford find you and kill you. That your friend Jeff said if you and Jared weren’t back in this house by 4 pm Crawford will have found you boys and killed you.

“We knew better than leave you at home, after finding out how Shawn and his friends at your school knew that you had gone home seeing the bus pull up to the house and watched you and Jared go inside as well as Jake and Adam. We had to move fast and if wasn’t for Bishop Sakes creating a diversion sending ambulance too our home we wouldn’t have been able to get you boys out in time before Crawford and his goons showed up at the house within minutes.

Instead, they watched them place you and Jared inside and rushed you to the hospital, then rushing you boys inside the hospital and out the side door, into the unmarked van that said plumbing supplies on the side. While your friends Jake and Adam became decoys as Crawford and his people thinking it was you boys, watched them being rushed up into the Hospital penthouse with security guards in the hallways and at the doors, while we moved you boys right from under their noses. When I asked him about it he said he was told by your dead friend that we needed a diversion. It was the only thing he could think of that would work and throw them off your trail.

“Right now, no one knows you boys are here, but somewhere in the hospital. Dad and Mr. Vincent is right now sneaking them out as security guards and should be here within the hour as Crawford and his people are focused on the hospital as well our home at the moment, not knowing they are walking into a trap. Mr. Vincent believes that by the end of the week we will have them and we can say good reddens to them once and for all.

“So even though it was a bad idea having you boys go to school today. Something good will come of it. Gloria is behind bars, and we are just waiting for Crawford to get tired of waiting and walk into the trap we have set for him. All because of you boys today, so now we can worry about getting you boys back on your feet and not worry about Crawford or Gloria, for now anyway.

“So rest and I run you nice hot bath then well feed you a nice hot dinner, afterward and put you back to bed. Oh good your brother is waking up? I let you deal with him as you explain to him why his sister tranquilized him the moment he came home.”

I groaned inward as I watched Mom leave the room to run us both a bath.  I only hoped it didn’t include that smelly remedy, but I had a bad feeling that it did. So far Dotty has lied about feeling like a million bucks. Yet I was willing to still give her the benefit of the doubt for what she has been through today. I tried to reach Jeff and thank him for saving our lives today including Sparky’s as reached down and scratched him behind the ears. As always he did reply back, leaving that spot cold and empty and it frustrated me.