As I watched the flashing red lights in my mirror I wondered what I had to look forward to. It wasn't, at least to me, natural that Andrea's husband would tell me to get out of there. He was the wronged husband and he was supposed to want to do me bodily harm and God knows that was his intent before Andrea put him down with the table lamp.
Why did he tell me to get out instead of giving me up to the authorities when they showed up? Could it be that it was because he felt he could get at me easier if I wasn't in jail? It just didn't make sense to me, but then neither did Andrea's actions. Tie him up and take gay type pictures to use as blackmail? She told me that she loved him to pieces and the only reason she was playing with me was because she couldn't get oral and anal from him. She loved him and she was willing to let me stick my dick up his ass? That just did not compute.
What if he changed his mind about saying he tripped? What were my parents going to think when the cops showed up to haul me off? Would dad be pissed off enough at me for getting involved with one of my coworkers that he wouldn't even go my bail?
I did not sleep all that well when I got home and went to bed.
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There had been no night time knocks on the door and I didn't see a police car sitting outside when I got up so I ate the breakfast mom fixed for me and got ready to head to school. Mom stopped me and said:
"Make sure that you come home tonight motherfucker."
I gave her a weak smile and said I would. As I drove to school I was hoping that I would be able to go home that night and not be in a jail cell somewhere.
School was school with one major difference. Every time the classroom door opened I looked up expecting to see someone dressed in blue coming in and looking for me.
At lunch time I took a seat and kept one eye on the door to the cafeteria not that it would do me any good. I couldn't run anyway. I did see Vonda come through the serving line and she saw me and gave me a small smile and a little wave before going and sitting down on the other side of the room.
I saw Nancy and she waved at me and she also sat on the other side of the room. I had expected it from Vonda, but why would Nancy avoid me? Did she know something and didn't want to be around me when whatever it was happened?
Was I being paranoid? Then I remembered the old saying. "Just because you are paranoid it doesn't mean that they aren't out to get you."
I did have someone join me. Gail. She sat down without asking and then said:
"Okay Bobby; how do you want to play this?"
"Play what?"
"Nat doesn't know that you have kicked me to the curb and she keeps calling me so that I can let her know where you are. She is going to call you and tell you that she is held up and won't be home until the morning. I'm supposed to get you to take me out tonight since she won't be here and then let her know where we will be so she will know where to find you."
"We don't need to play it Gail. Just tell her the truth and let her hunt. I won't be all that hard to find."
"That's not why I'm here Bobby. You need to be with me when she finds you. You don't need Nancy or whoever it is that you are out with tonight being embarrassed when you are ambushed by Nat. If you are out with me she won't go off on me because she thinks I'm on her side. Also, if you want, I'll take the heat. I'll tell her I've dumped Tom and that I'm taking you away from her because you don't need a serial cheater like her in your life. That will make her concentrate on me while you go off with some other dolly."
"Why would you do that?"
"If you have to ask that Mr. Marchant you wouldn't understand the answer."
"I guess I have been kind of hard on you haven't I."
"I deserve it. I was stupid and unlike some other things there is no cure for stupid. I honestly thought you were overreacting where the wimp thing was concerned. I thought if I kept quiet it would go away. I never thought that you would actually go after Terrell because I honestly didn't see the need. Anyway; I just wanted you to know that I've got your back if you want me there."
I sat there and thought for a bit and then said, "Where would you like to have this confrontation?"
"Honestly? On a bed at the Starlight, but I guess that would be asking too much. We need to do it where we won't disrupt the evening for other people so I would suggest we use the old standby. Let's do it at Harry's."
"Tell her that I'm going to pick you up after work and go for burgers and fries and then maybe go to the arcade or Skate City. Tell her that we should be getting to Harry's about six-thirty."
"How do you want to handle it?"
"I haven't a clue. Take it as it comes. Just follow my lead and we will see what happens. The only guarantees are that we are done and this time it is for good."
At work I checked in with Marge and she told me to go see my dad. In all the time I had worked there I had never, not even once, been to my father's office. Naturally my thoughts were "Now what the fuck have I done!" On the way to his office I looked around and I didn't see Andrea and I wondered if that had something to do with the summons. Then I thought it couldn't be bad because I was tight enough with Marge that she would have clued me in. Wouldn't she? I turned around and went back to the west windows and looked out. I didn't see any police cars. Not even one that looked like an unmarked one.
I knocked twice on the office door and heard "Come" from inside and so I opened the door and walked in. Dad was on the phone and he pointed at a chair and I sat. He didn't look at me while he talked and the longer he was on the phone the antsier I got. Finally he hung up the phone and turned to look at me. He was silent, almost like he was contemplating something and then he said:
"I've been hearing things about you."
My immediate thought was "Oh fuck me!"
But then he went on to say, "All the departments you have worked in have nothing but good to say about you. As you will remember I talked to you about what I was going to have you doing over your spring break, but I've decided to change it. I'm going to put you on the second shift. I've all ready told you about the building loyalty thing and what I want, what I'm hoping for really, is that you will form a tighter bond with them.
"I'm not worried about our older employees since you have been around them since you were twelve and have spent your summers working with them. They all ready see you as a little kid brother so their loyalty to me and the company will transfer to you almost automatically. I want the Johnson people to develop that same loyalty and to seamlessly merge into the company and I see putting you with them as the way to go about it. Any questions?"
I smiled at him and said, "Just make sure that I get the swing shift premium on my check while I'm on second shift."
"Get out of here. Take the rest of the day off and don't bother punching out. I'll take care of it."
Not bad news really I thought as I left his office, but it was damned sure going to fuck up my love life. On second shift I wasn't going to be able to use the playroom or have access to any of my harem with the possible exception of mom. Tina, Shelly, Gloria and Marge would be at work while I was off and be off while I was working. I didn't include Andrea on the list because I had no fucking idea where that would be going.
