Reunion by James Kennedy George Jr
Author:James Kennedy George Jr. [Jr., James Kennedy George]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781468529692
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2012-01-09T00:00:00+00:00
CHAPTER 19
The crowd at Mooneyâs has thinned when I return. The night is chillier. Donnie Davis has joined Mack and Eddie, standing alongside the Mercury, as I pull up and keep The Bombâs engine running. Mack gets into the front, Eddie and Donnie into the rear.
âAre you guys out of your minds?â I ask.
Eddieâs teeth are chattering. âItâs not bad once you get used to it.â He lacks any sense of conviction.
âDonnie, you must be hard up for companionship tonight,â I continue. âWhereâs Marnie?â
âShe has a family thing. Her auntâs birthday. I got a free pass⦠was with some of the guys on the team. The heater in this thing is something! Itâs like the tropics in here.â
âItâs not the heater. Itâs the heat,â Eddie says. âJimmy just took Margie Rey home. Thatâs the secret!â
Right.
Mack starts. âHereâs the deal. Eddie and I have this little disagreement going on. He seems to be under the mistaken impression that his Ford piece of crap can run with my car. Ever heard of such nonsense?â
âI have no position here,â I say, still thinking about the little peck that ended my evening. âEddie, you secretly drop in a new engine, or are you simply a lunatic?â
âYou gotta pay to play,â Eddie says. âHow will Mack know if we donât go?â
Mack continues. âCute. Just too cool. How about a little run out on the road to Glenwood Park, out past our friendâs sweetie-pieâs house. I got ten bucks that says you canât stay with the horses over there under my hood. In fact, we can impress Margie Rey by laying on our horns while we drive by.â
âCut the horns,â I say flatly. Thatâs all I need.
Eddie and Mack get out and put up Mackâs top. Thereâs a smattering of sarcastic applause from the remaining cars. One little beep-beep as well. Donnie moves up to The Bombâs passenger seat. He and I will witness the start of the race.
With little traffic at that late hour, our mini-caravan passes Courthouse Square and makes the left turn. Mack leads the way. His parentsâ home is just prior to the curve, so heâll be a model driver at that point. As we pass the cemetery and near the Howlandâs, he accelerates and blows his horn just as we pass the house. Eddie lays on his horn as well. Last in line, I try to make The Bomb invisible.
New Hope Road is a well-paved, two-lane highway. It has only one good straight stretch, nearly a half mile long, a veritable forever bookmarked by long sweeping curves at both ends. Midnight drag racers gather late at night and run side by side over a quarter-mile course, indicated by wide painted white stripes marking start and finish lines. As you might expect, the local residents take a dim view of these proceedings and have pressured the State Police to patrol that stretch frequently to nab the offenders.
Someone just turns on the front door light! By the time the light fades into a dot in the rearview mirror, Eddie and I are closing in on Mack, who has slowed down.
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