Gray's Ghosts by Carey Lewis

Author:Carey Lewis [Lewis, Carey]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2017-12-10T05:00:00+00:00

JAVIER WAS WEARING THE T-SHIRT from Derriere’s, a pale blue shirt with white font saying Derriere’s in a curve, the two ‘r’s in yellow. Luis was sporting the Treasure Club T-shirt, the first ‘E’ done up to look like a key, a graphic of a chest behind the words. They were in the back of the Town Car making fun of Huey wearing the Wild Things shirt with the front covered in drool. He didn’t realize he was still wearing it. Making fun of him about the girl last night, pretending to be his friend. They were laughing at him, pretending he was in on the joke.

Hector was joining in, getting on the ‘laugh at Huey’ train, trying to make friends with these guys. He was asking them about Cuba, about Castro, where the country would go now that he passed. Said he’d take a trip down there now that Americans were allowed. The Cubans spoke to each other in Spanish after that, giggling, then telling him Cuba would love to have him.

With all three of them talking and laughing, Huey was the only one that noticed the Buick SUV parked a hundred yards away on the shoulder of the road. He was the only one that noticed the woman sitting behind the wheel with the cherry of a cigarette lit up.

They came down the drive as Pablo walked to the Town Car, his arms spread welcoming them with a big smile on his face. Cesar was behind him, miserable looking. Deacon sat on a log, smoking a cigarette.

Now they were laughing at Huey again as he was trying to move furniture. Laughing every time he tripped or something slipped out of his hands. Laughed at him when he couldn’t lift things, Hector making it a point to go lift the side of the couch Huey couldn’t get off the ground. Then Cesar came over to ask him about wiring.

“They got the wires already,” Huey told him, Pablo coming up to listen, “going to the overheads here. See it in that case there, that long bump running to the light? You just got to split the wires where you want the other lights hanging out, maybe run it along the ceiling there if you want it going to the end.”

“We put rows of four in here,” Cesar said, using his hands to explain his words. “One on each of the walls, two going down the middle, how many lights you think we’re going to need?”

“Shit Cesar, I don’t know anything about those kind of lights. They do like the sun, they might be running on different voltage. Depending on the volts and amps you might be needing to get a ballast on them. Plus how far away they supposed to be from the plants? What’s the heat they need, you know?”

For the first time Huey could remember, Cesar looked scared. Had Pablo behind him, looking over Cesar’s shoulder. Looked like Cesar was afraid to turn around.

“Most generators have both a hundred-twenty and a two-forty volts.

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