Vigilante Reloaded by Jack Quaid

Author:Jack Quaid [Quaid, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Electric Mayhem
Published: 2019-09-20T04:00:00+00:00

The house was full of people he didn’t know. They had come for the funeral, and now that the funeral was over, they had come back to the house for food and drinks. Everybody assumed it was a home invasion, and Russell let them make that assumption. They would move through the house with curious looks on their faces.

Was this where it happened?

Is that where it happened?

Angus kept to himself. He made nice just as his mother would have wanted. He greeted everybody as they came in and played host with food and drinks. He was on his best behaviour, but it was just an act. He was on autopilot. Angus’s injuries hadn’t fully healed, and the bruises that were still evident were all on his left side, a side he tried to face away from people.

Angus and Russell did what was expected of them. Angus played the part of the good son while Russell played the part of the grieving suburban father and husband in the wake of a terrible tragedy.

For his entire life, Angus thought his old man was a machine parts salesman. Thinking back, on the surface that seemed plausible. They had a typical middle-class existence, with a typical middle-class house and typical middle-class friends. His parents would host dinner parties with the neighbours, and on weekends, his father would take him to the movies, and he could see whatever he wanted. Yes, on the surface there was nothing remarkable about their lives, but he had never bothered to look any deeper.

Looking back, Angus saw things differently. It was the little things scattered here and there. An image, a moment, a feeling. If there was a sound outside the house late at night, his mother would look at his father with a fear that wasn’t yet earned. They never drove home the same way twice, and his father would spend as much time looking in the rearview mirror as he did at what was in front of him. It was as if he thought he was being followed. Then there was the incident last summer. They had all gone over to the Hallbergs for a cookout and a pool party. Angus was friends with Digger Hallberg and had been since the Hallbergs moved in three or four years before. Digger’s little brother, Greg, was such a pain in the ass and had just gotten a super soaker water pistol for his birthday, which he spent all day filling up and attacking unsuspecting guests with. Sometime after lunch, Russell fell victim to one of Greg’s attacks and had his shirt completely drenched. Darren, Digger’s dad quickly found another shirt for Russell to change into despite his protests about how it was no big deal going home and picking up one of his own shirts. But Darren persisted to the point that it would have turned into a ‘thing’ if his father kept on refusing the simple gesture, so his father took the shirt, and in taking the shirt, there was an expectation that he would get changed right then and there.

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