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This Halloween contest story is dedicated to Rita and to all of those who have lost a friend or a relative in a driving while under the influence car accident. May they all rest in peace.
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Broke but horny, a man beds a woman in the cemetery on Halloween and makes his best friend jealous.
"What do you wanna do tonight Dave?"
"I dunno," said Larry with shrug and looking over at his friend. "What do you feel like doing?"
"To be honest," said Dave with a yawn. "I'm dead tired, dead tired. I have absolutely no energy," he said yawning again. "I feel like the walking dead," said Dave. "I don't feel like doin' anything today, absolutely nothin'."
"Me too. I need a shot of adrenaline," said Larry yawning too. "For some reason, I'm always dead tired too but it's Halloween," said Larry. "If only in spirit, we should do somethin'. If nothing else, we should go scare the shit out of someone."
"I wish I had a little something, a drink, to get me goin'," said Dave.
"Try some of this," said Larry pulling out a pint bottle of bourbon from his jacket.
Passing the bottle back and forth, both men took big guzzles.
"Yeah, that would be fun to scare someone half to death and I would scare someone to death if I wasn't so dead tired," said Dave looking at his friend while yawning again and causing Larry to yawn too. "I didn't get to bed until after midnight," he said bellowing out a big yawn. "I stayed up to watch the Red Sox play the Tigers."
"Too late for me. I couldn't stay up for that. I need my beauty rest. See? Don't I look beautiful," said Larry turning from side to side with a laugh. "So, where'd you really go last night Dave? I was looking for you," said Larry pocketing his bottle of booze.
"Go? Last night? I told you, I was watching the game," he said.
"Bullshit. I went by your house and you weren't there," said Larry.
"Yeah, well, sometimes watching baseball, even the Red Sox, especially the Red Sox is like watching paint drying. I got tired of watching the game, bored actually when they were losing, so I went out," said Dave.
"Out where? Where'd you go?"
"Out, just out," said Dave with a shrug. "I went for a walk."
"Get outta here. You never go out for a walk," said Larry. "You're hiding something. C'mon fess up Dave. Where'd you go? What did you do?"
"I, um, had a date," said Dave sheepishly.
"A date? No way," said Larry. "You had a date? Get outta here. Who in the Hell would date your bony ass?" Larry looked at his friend. "With who?"
"Rita," said Dave quietly.
"Rita! Eat her, bone her Rita? Rita's here? No frigging way. I've been trying to bone her for years," said Larry.
"Don't call her that," said Dave. "She doesn't like that name and it's offensive to me too."
"Oh, so you take her out on one date and what are you boyfriend and girlfriend now?"
"We may be," said Dave with an excited grin.
"Where'd you take her?" Larry looked at his friend as if expecting Dave to tell him all of the intimate details of his date. "Where'd you go? What did you do? Did you get lucky?"
"Take her? Nowhere. I didn't take her anywhere," said Dave ignoring the other questions of Larry's interrogation. "I don't have any money, you know that. After you totaled my car, I don't even have a car."
"There's lots of places you can take a woman, even if you don't have any money or a car," said Larry.
"Oh, yeah?" Making a face, Dave looked at his friend with doubt that he could take a woman anywhere without having money and/or a car. "Where?"
"Where? Lots of places," said Larry. "You could have snuck in the cinema, walked right by security at a rock concert, or gone through a turnstile at a ballgame without anyone seeing you," said Larry. "That's what I usually do when I have a date and don't have any money."
"When's the last time you had a date?" Dave rolled his eyes.
"Okay, so it's been a while, months actually since I had a date," said Larry.
"Months?" Dave raised his eyebrows, made a skeptical face, and laughed.
"Okay, you're right, I haven't had a date in years but I haven't found the right woman," said Larry stuffing his hands deep in his pockets with sadness. "I don't just date anyone. I'm particular who I date."
Knowing how hard it is being alone and living alone without having a woman in his life, Dave looked at his friend with understanding.
"I could ask Rita. She may have a friend or know someone who's looking for a boyfriend," said Dave. "You're a great guy Larry, sometimes," said Dave with a laugh. "Most any woman, some woman, perhaps there's one woman who would want you," he said laughing again.
Both men remained quiet until Larry spoke again.
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"I would have liked to have dated Rita," confessed Larry. "I didn't know she was still around. I figured when we left that she was gone for good. I didn't know she was here with us too. I've had the hots for her for years, ever since high school," said Larry falling quiet again.
"I know that Larry and I'm sorry to have dated her after knowing how you felt about her," said Dave.
"That's not right Dave. That's not fair," said Larry kicking up dirt and not making eye contact with his friend.
"I remember you talking about her all the time then. Yet, when I saw her again, love at first sight, it was like seeing her for the first time. You know?" Dave looked at his friend to see if he was understanding or still angry.
"Love at first sight?" Larry made a sour face at his friend. "Seriously Dave or was it more like any port in a storm will do?"
"Nah, it wasn't like that Larry," she Dave looking at his best friend for some shred of understanding. "When I saw her was as if seeing a familiar face in the crowd. And she was so excited to see me too, you know. Right then and right there, we bonded as if were lost lovers."
"Lost lovers my ass," said Larry. "I'm the one who loved her and not you."
"Yeah, well, you never did anything about that Larry," said Dave, "now did you?"
"I didn't have the chance to tell her how I felt about her after what happened," said Larry.
"I know but what happened was more your fault, then it was mine," said Dave.
"I know and you're right," said Larry. "It's okay. Really. I'm good with you dating Rita. So, finish telling me what happened."
"As if she was a frightened little girl, instead of a 19-year-old woman, lost in a crowd, she took my hand, held it, and wouldn't let go of it," said Dave.
"There aren't very many available, young women around to date. All the women that I know are old, wicked old. All the women that I meet are my mother's age, my grandmother's age, or older. Sometimes surrounded by old people, inundated with baby boomers, I feel as if I'm a resident in a nursing home. Do you know what I mean?"
"Yeah," said Dave. "I sure do. I know exactly what you mean. A chance in a billion, it was a fluke that I bumped into Rita. I figured I'd never see her again."
"So with all the places that you could have taken her for no money and even without having a car, why didn't you take her somewhere nice?" Larry looked at his friend with jealousy.
"I dunno, old habits die hard," said Dave. "You're different from me. I can't do anything illegal like sneaking in a cinema, a rock concert, or a ballgame. Besides, what would Rita have thought of me if I did something like that?" He looked at his friend as if insinuating that he was all of what he was about to say.
"She'd think that you were showing her a good time," said Larry.
"No she wouldn't. She'd think me a cheap ass loser sneaking my date in a movie, a concert, or a ballgame. Next, you'll be suggesting that I steal food from the buffet."
"Let me tell you something Dave. There's nothing wrong with stealing food from the Hungry Man Buffet. They have plenty of food to go around. I've don't it before, not so much now. I haven't had much of an appetite lately," he said feeling his bony arms and legs.
"Gees, Larry, if you're going to steal food, at least steal food from a better class of restaurant instead of the Hungry Man Buffet," said Dave laughing. "That food sucks."
"Yeah, well, considering the circumstances of our dire financial situations with no jobs, no money, and no future actually, I'm sure Rita would have understood," said Larry looking at his friend with curiosity before speaking. "So where did you take her?"
As if he was ashamed where he took his date, Dave looked at his friend with embarrassment before confessing the location of his date.
"Where else would I take her? I took her to the only place I know to take a woman," said Dave with a shrug.
"Okay, I'll bite," said Larry laughing. "And where might the only place that you know to take a woman be?"
"I took her to the cemetery, of course," said Dave.
"The cemetery? You took Rita to the cemetery? Are you nuts? No way. Get outta here," said Larry laughing.
"I like the cemetery. It's quiet and I can think," said Dave. "I dunno, the cemetery feels like home to me, you know."