“Why are you telling me this?”

‘Because you will need money to end this…..The last game…because even after all you have taken from me I am still playing fair. It’s not a game if only one team shows up and I have been playing games with you for a while now. I know your tricks….I know how your filthy mind works…..I know everything about you; your sad dead mommy, your sad dead daddy…your sad dead friends, lovers……and if you don’t meet me here on this date your sad dead baby….So no more auto erotic trips with your brain dead wife anymore ok….I want the pleasure to cracking your skull open with one of Dana’s Wilson’s. I think it’s only fair to kill you the same way that he killed her. We have several vacation homes scattered across the country. Florida, Hawaii, Seattle, Portland and L.A.  find the right one before this date or the kid buys it…it would be a shame too he is smart for a kid his age. And with parents like you two it’s amazing….So three weeks from today…you know you hit jackpot when you see a blue hummer in the garage…..”

“Ok….can you walk?”

“Yeah my head feels a little stuffy but I think I can manage….”

“Is he right about our money?’

“Yeah I called the bank and they said our assets have been frozen by the federal government and they wouldn’t say why…Carm we can’t trust anyone…”

“Babe…we never could….put your clothes on and let’s get out of here. We need to pack and get going…what are we going to do for money?”

“We are going to steal it.”

“Shane….”

“What…I’ve done it before….”

And I will do it again. And again. I get up out of bed and take the needle out of my arm and get dressed. Carmen checks the corridor and spots The Feds talking with the admitting nurse. We slip out of the room and head home.

Carmen parks the bike and goes in to the house. I make my way to John’s cache and stock up on a few things we will need. The action. The excitement I was feeling was dulling the underwater feel of my head. My shoulder on the other hand burned like a motherfucker. I packed everything we needed in a backpack. I grabbed the cash I stashed in here for emergency’s…..I never thought I was gonna need it to be honest. I was so secure in this fantasy world never once stopping to think those lines would keep fucking blurring on me.

I get back to the bike just as Carmen tosses a small travel bag out the window of our bedroom. She hops out and walks fast over to me. Kiss on the cheek. Backpack on. Gun in my waist. Helmet on. Engine revving and once again like a shot we where gone. That first step to getting our baby back…..it was behind us.

TBC.

Featured Song: Crying Shame By Jack Johnson.