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“Told you I’d write.”
He shakes his head. “Not funny.”
“Well, if you know I’m callin’, it means I’m not dead.”
He ignores me. “What did you do this time?”
“What does it matter? I’m out now.” I hold out my arms. “No brotherly hug?”
He glances around and I laugh even more.
“Still ashamed of me?”
He nudges me hard in the ribs with his elbow, the closest I’ll get to a hug, not that I deserve it.
“Shut the fuck up,” he says.
“Gladly. Need a beer.”
“It’s ten o’clock in the mornin’,” he says. “Don’t tell me we need to add Alcoholics Anonymous to your ever growin’ list of day trips aside from jail.”
“Ain’t no cure for what I got,” I tell him. “Anyways, they kicked me out. Apparently, you’re not supposed to fuck in the bathrooms.”
He looks at me sideways. “You’re full of shit.”
“I swear to God it happened.”
I mask a lot by joking. It keeps me safe from harm, even if that harm is usually self-inflicted.
We both know that we don’t need to go there.
Being abused as children never leaves you. Somehow you learn to cope with it and tuck it away somewhere. Usually, my beast unleashes when I’m in a fight. My opponent has no fuckin’ clue what they’re in for until I’m in full anger mode.
Most of the time, I’m pretty placid. I don’t go looking for trouble.
When crime isn’t permeating my everyday waking life, I tend to chill out the only way I know how. Drinking, smoking, and pussy. In that order.
I guess those things come freely to Jett now that he’s patched in and doing well for himself. Not that either of us have to work hard to land chicks. We never have.
That’s what happens when you have a pretty face and long hair. Keeping my body lean and trim doesn’t hurt, either.
“You gonna drop me home?” I give him a chin lift when we head out toward the parking lot, pulling out the cigarette from behind my ear.
“Where do you call home now?”
“Got a place above a pizza joint. Cheap rent. Shit neighborhood but better than a park bench.”
“Sounds classy.”
“Probably better than that piece of shit room at church.”
“Plenty to keep me there.”
I grin. “You gettin’ easy pussy. That’s the only reason you fuckin’ joined the Rebels.” Of course, I know that’s not true. I just like to rile him.
“That so?”
I shrug. “Probably a good move.”
