Blaze by Bob Leuci

Author:Bob Leuci
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road

Irma was talking fast. She wore a strange, frightened expression, standing perfectly still, plucking at the skin of her wrist, “Tino was watching me for a long time. I’m lying on my side and the professor from Germany, Jurgen, was doing me, you know. Anyway, I could see Tino over his shoulder and there was the kid, there was Tino in the closet, watching.”

Tino said, “Aw, Irma, c’mon.”

“Nicky, Tino doesn’t understand how this sort of thing could affect me.” Now Irma was walking around the kitchen, pointing at her head. Pretty soon she was jumping and her jumping around annoyed the hell out of Nicky. “Oh, this could have a big effect, Nicky. This could have a lasting impact.”

When Nicky did not answer, Irma shot him a mean, disapproving stare. “Do you know how I feel? This could give me nightmares. And, you know what, I bet he’s done it before.”

Nicky said, “Did you ever do this before, Tino?”

Tino, head down, shook his head.

“I don’t believe him,” Irma said, “maybe you want to, but I don’t. This ain’t the first time, Nicky. He’s been in that closet before. I know he has.”

“Tino?”

Tino wagged his head sadly as if Nicky’s question insulted him. He looked from the floor to Irma avoiding Nicky’s eyes.

It struck Nicky that he never should have given Tino the key to Irma’s apartment. Now he was forced to stand in his kitchen and picture the boy sitting on a box in Irma’s closet. He had an image of Tino watching the German’s head down between Irma’s legs. The kid thinking, oh, man. Nicky closed his eyes for a moment, carefully thought about what the kid saw.

Nicky tried to go far, far back in his memory and remember the first time someone had told him about making love to a woman; said something about going down on the muff, it was something like that, the muff. He remembered thinking, saying, not me, uh-uh, not me. Half joking, half trying to imagine what it would be like. Tino didn’t have to imagine, he’d seen it in person, and the oh-man look in the boy’s eyes told Nicky all he needed to know.

Irma looked tortured. Nicky saw her mouth moving, as if she wanted to say something to Tino, but could not manage it.

Nicky understood how Tino’s mind worked and figured Tino, intelligent, creative, was probably reliving the experience, just going through it all again, a sort of free-form, life-altering experience.

Since he came home from the street, Nicky had been trying to decide if he should tell Irma of his plans with the woman cop. The fact that Irma was so flighty and silly and out of control encouraged him to let it slide; watching Irma perform convinced him he was right.

Nicky walked over to Tino and pulled the boy in close, saying, “Sometimes we see and hear things we never were meant to. Seeing and hearing things we’re not meant to can mess you up. But I’m going to tell you something, Tino.

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