Cure For Pain by NM Facile

Author:NM Facile [Facile, NM]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Central Avenue Publishing
Published: 2012-11-20T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11 - Dancing Diversions

Karl was late. Ty was already pissed. He was supposed to be out with Mary, but instead he was sitting in the parking lot of a local tourist trap. It had been almost two weeks since he had seen her.

Between their jobs and her volunteering schedule, they hadn’t been able to find a time to get together until tonight. They had planned to grab something to eat – no big deal, just a friend thing – but fucking Karl had messaged just as Ty was leaving for Mary’s, and he had had to cancel. He told her he had been called into work at the last minute. Then Karl was late, and he was stuck waiting in a dark spot in an already under-lit parking lot in front of the Wabasha Street Cave. He watched a number of carefree couples floating out of their cars and SUVs and in through the double wooden doors of a fake brownstone castle. The fucking thing wasn’t even a real building. The castle was a false front that led into some kind of man-made cave on the side of the bluffs. Now it was a bar or restaurant or some shit like that. There were all sorts of legends about the place, including it having once been a speakeasy where some mobsters were killed. He was trying to remember the story when Karl pulled up beside him.

Ty quickly slipped into Karl’s car. He wanted to get this over with. Karl had an even goofier fucking grin on his face than normal, which did nothing to improve Ty’s mood. Ty scowled in return and his knee bounced to the anxious rhythm set by his foot.

Karl looked Ty over and pointed at the package resting on the floor at his feet.

“What’s got you so on edge?” Karl eyed him carefully.

“Nothing.” Ty didn’t want to say too much. Karl may not know about Mary yet, though Ty had no doubt that if he continued to see her, Karl would find out. He always found out.

“You sure as hell don’t look like it’s nothing.” He raised one of his bushy brown eyebrows, and his mustache jumped up on one side along with it, like they were connected by a string.

“You were late. I was just being paranoid, I guess.” He pushed his foot down to stop the tapping and tried to will himself to calm down. He didn’t want to raise Karl’s suspicions.

He was too late.

“What’s this I hear about you going out of business?” Karl leaned forward and rested his elbows on the steering wheel, looking towards the doors of the castle. Ty knew he was watching him out of the corner of his eye. This was his game. He pretended not to care about the topic at hand to disarm Ty or trip him up. It may have worked when he was seventeen, but not anymore.

Ty shrugged. “Hinks was starting to ask too many questions. I figured I’d take a break from it until things calmed down,” he lied, keeping his eyes steady and on Karl.

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