Chapter V

 “Get out of here old man.”

“What’s up Tony.”

“Cmon what are you doing on this side of town?”

“I don’t know.”

“You don’t know much. What the fuck has happened?”

“Not a clue.”

“You had better get a clue. Your daughter needs you and the rumor at school is that you are trying to fuck my sister.”

Then Alicia came out.

“You had better fuck me old man or I am going to cut it off.”

Tony just stares blank faced in the opposite direction and the boys keep shooting.

Alicia gets in the car.

“Got any candy for me you old pervert?”

“Not a cent.”

“Just how I like it. I am trying to lose weight so I don’t want my sugar daddies to have any sugar.”

My face goes blank the direction Tony’s face was.

“Anyways me and your daughter are not best friends anymore.”

“I am not her best friend anymore either.”

“Then I guess we are best friends now.”

“A man in my position..”

“Shut up and tell me I’m pretty.”

“What does it matter if my dick can’t get hard.”

“Your dick is hard.”

“Until it’s time to fuck.”

“Why do you think that is?”

“Affection erection”

“So you are happy to see me?”

“To a point.”

“Just the tip?”

“Where do you learn to talk like this?”

“Every girl has her secrets.”

“Sounds like I am not one of them.”

“It does things for a girl to have Dads in her rumor mill. It means I am going places.”

“It means I am not going places.”

“Why would I want you to go anywhere Daddy?”

“Why do you want me?”

“Rookie question.”

“Because everything I worked my whole life for to give my family you are hoping will go to you?”

“You’ve already given it all to me. It’s just my turn to take it all from you.”

“I told you I don’t have a dollar. I don’t have a reputation. I don’t have a career. I don’t have a house.”

“You have a car. You have a job. You have all the capacity and ability that you always did. Society has just taken the keys from you. I am here to give them back so you can drive me everywhere and buy me everything.”

“I. DONT. HAVE. ANY. MONEY.”

“You have more money than the boys I know.”

“Why would I give you money?”

“Because I am your best friend. I make you happy. You are addicted to me.”

“I am not addicted to you. You are a high school girl.”

“Then why did you come back for a second chance?”

“Because I am a professional sucker.”

“Then suck my balls before you suck my cock.”

My face goes blank as it stares deep down into the distance, not able to comprehend that a sixteen year old child just made my mind orgasm with a homosexual reference.

“Where do you get off?”

I ask Alicia this not knowing if she will understand what I mean.

“What do you mean? I am confused.”

I have heard this term before. Whenever a woman tells me that she is confused it is my sign that she is over my bullshit. It happened with my wife, my ex wife, my daughter and now my daughters new ex best friend.

“I meant when do you get out?”

“Oh I am getting out now. Do you really think that I would let you touch me again you broke fuck? Burn in hell!”

She got out and slammed the door.

Tony looked at me through the glass door of the car with a blank stare that I returned.

“Hey Tony. What’s up?

Johnny I got here as fast as I could.

No kidding? What’s the sweat?

My sister Alicia HAS been talking to Larissa’s Dad.

Ok. What’s the big deal?

He tried to lay her.

Still not the end of the world.

He couldn’t get it up.

Then pay the broad off.

He won’t give her any money.

Oh man Larissa’s Dad is beyond suicidal.

Alonzo is out of it.

Is that the guys name?

Yeah he is beat.

He is a goner.

This could start world war three.

You are right.

We have to do something.

We do.

What can be done?

First we need to flip the script.

We need a plan.

So one of us needs to lay a broad fast.

The other one of us needs to marry one.

You can’t lay your own sister.

She is poor Johnny and you don’t want her.

You are right but she needs a lay.

Larissa needs a committed relationship.

I am going to lay your sister.

I am going to take Larissa out but I’m broke.

I have got money for that.

How long are you going to finance our relationship?

Probably through the rest of high school.

Do you think my sister will be satisfied with one night?

Absolutely not.

Then Johnny you have three kids now.

No. I have four.

How do you figure four?

Tony, Larissa, Alicia and Alonzo.

What do you mean Alonzo?

Alonzo is a player in this.

Alonzo is not playing.

Alonzo is playing badly.

What are you going to do with him?

First get him a better job then hauling trash.

Then get him a woman?

Then I will have five children.

You had better go see my sister now.

Is she at your place?

Yeah. Fucking balling her eyes out.

Ok. Here is $500. Take Larissa to the mall.

Just like that? 

Just like that.

How do I repay you?

Just don’t break Larissa’s heart.

What about my sisters heart?

Does she have a heart?

Yes she has a heart. It’s her soul that’s missing.

You would know you ginger bastard.

Haha. Thanks Johnny. I owe you one.

I think laying your sister makes us even.

No. Now I owe you two.”

So let me get this straight —

Johnny ——

You were trying to help me 

So you fucked Tony’s sister

?

Johnny : yeah

Alonzo : how the fuck does you

Fucking somebody help me?

Johnny : well I thought

Alonzo : shut the fuck up

Because now you are a rapist

That is not my fault

Johnny : I didn’t rape her

Everyone knows I didn’t rape her

That’s why the judge threw out the case

Alonzo : you have zero clue as to why the judge threw out the case. Your brain is shot. You have no attention span. Everyone does not know that you didn’t rape her. Everyone knows that you did because she is going to be a mother and you don’t want to be a Dad.

Johnny : it’s not my fault

Alonzo : again. No attention span. It is your fault. 

Johnny : I don’t want to be a dad

Alonzo : you already said that. I just said that you said that. I don’t want to be a dad either. Something weird in this life about getting what you don’t want. If you don’t embrace it it will embrace you and then you don’t have any arms to swim.

Johnny : why the fuck would she keep a rape baby?

Alonzo : wow. I thought you said you didn’t rape her.

Johnny : I didn’t.

Alonzo : so why are you calling your baby a rape baby?

Johnny : because that’s what she told people.

Alonzo : she told people that for the same reason she kept the baby. She is trying to keep you. She has two things on you now to keep control over you. A rape allegation and a baby allegation.

Johnny : I don’t need either.

Alonzo : that’s your decision. These things have a way of creeping up on you though if you don’t do it right the first time. Believe me kid. Tony and Larissa getting married while still in high school is living proof of what shenanigans can and will happen without a father figure in the midst. What the hell do I know? I know now that I should have fought for her better. I know now that she needed me. I know now that anything I was doing instead of looking out for her was satans work. I also know now though that since I wasn’t there when she needed me that I had damned better stay out of her way now.

Johnny : bullshit. She still needs you. That’s just another excuse you are using for your sorry ass to be selfish and live in denial.

Alonzo : just repeat those words that you just said but put them in the context of your own situation.

Johnny : bullshit. She still needs me. That’s just another excuse I am using for my sorry ass to be selfish and live in denial.

Alonzo : right.

Johnny : ok. I see your point. I don’t want Alicia to need me. I don’t want Alicia. I don’t want a child. I don’t want Alicia’s child.

Alonzo : your child.

Johnny : I don’t want my child.

Alonzo : right.

Love is to high of an art form for me

Trying to love without anything in my heart

If I were loved I would assume someone was trying to poison me it is so foreign

Like a first time dancer I stomp on your feet

Out of embarrassment I rip your blouse

In spite I smear your lipstick

Then I cry out that you aren’t my partner

That you had stolen me from my true one

I tell you to dance, to move to the rhythm

Then accuse you of acting seductively

I bluster about telling you where to put your feet when I do not own a pair of dancing shoes

Your look becomes contemptuous and I accuse you of unfaithfulness 

You cry and I tell you you are weak

I raise my fist and you flinch and I say that you have betrayed me

I’m aroused and i say it’s your fault for being a harlot

The worst of the lot is that I had come to like to see you cry

Out maneuvered by me again I see, to bad you couldn’t keep up, but all you wanted was to dance to a rhythm that you loved

Didn’t I tell you I do not know love?

Through the dark you see my eyes, bloodshot and wild yet once stalwart and true

Hands soft to the touch once are now worn

A happy tone in my voice now only used in inflection

A smile deranged and a body haggard only betraying a once spry spring

Beware or you could end up just like me

Looking at me like I am your friend and I return the recognition as though I was managing it

Hark or you could be just like me unable to love and forgetting to kneel

The King is here and he behests me to be beside myself and no longer come near

“Uncouth blasphemer do not speak of love”

“You have taken one of my favorite undefiled doves”

“In you she saw me for you are made in my image but you behaved like your father, darkly, a haunting visage”

At your behest oh King I take my leave.

From this court of love that I must no longer impede.