{"id":7047,"date":"2010-11-27T11:34:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T19:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltdrivebetty.com\/wyzwmnsworld\/?page_id=7047"},"modified":"2010-11-27T11:34:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T19:34:33","slug":"chapter-25","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/?page_id=7047","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 25"},"content":{"rendered":"

the sound: <\/strong><\/span>Black Sabbath \u2013 Sweet Leaf<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>Metallica \u2013 Seek and Destroy<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>Jethro Tull \u2013 Aqualung<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>Aerosmith \u2013 Train Kept a Rollin<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>Kiss – Detroit Rock City<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>AC\/DC – Thunderstruck<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>Apocalypse Now – Ride of the Valkyries<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Robert turns and waves at the fire.
One of the women jumps up and runs into the garage and turns off the sound. As the music stops the night sound of crickets and frongs can be heard and the distant rumbling of engines idling as the men duck walk their idling way around to the far side of the track.<\/p>\n

I turn to the people still around the fire with me and ask one of the women, the one closest to me, what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

She shudders as she turns to me and I realize it\u2019s the woman that had been introduced to me as Wonder Woman. She gives a kind of all over body shudder again as she turns to look at me and I am surprised to realize that she\u2019s well over 6 feet tall and shaking like a leaf and tears running down her face.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the follies\u201d she repeats, \u201cthe games\u2026the final qualifier for the club\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cbut I don\u2019t understand\u201d I reply, what kinda games are they gonna play with guns in the dark?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWatch n see Baby\u2026watch and see\u2026.and maybe say a prayer\u201d she sighs.<\/p>\n

I turn back to the field to see Boomer and BarnYard standing on either side of the far side of the track both carrying lit torches in the air to illuminate their way.<\/p>\n

Once they are in position across from each other I see them look to Robert for guidance but Robert isn\u2019t watching them. He\u2019s looking at the gun in his right hand and the bottle in his left. He takes another long pull on the bottle and as he does so his long hair slides back to reveal his face. He looks up and nods.<\/p>\n

Boomer and BarnYard begin to wave their torches back and forth from side to side as they face each other across the track and in the flickering light I can see men on motorcycles lining up between them.<\/p>\n

As if at a \u201cstart\u201d.<\/p>\n

Just as it begins to register to me that the sounds remind me of race car drivers jockeying for position there is a loud clap of noise and the bikes begin to take off from their start positions. Some go very fast and some are slow outta the gate but they all begin to move.<\/p>\n

Robert looks up and the smile falls from his face.<\/p>\n

I see his lips moving but I can\u2019t hear what he\u2019s saying and I get out of my chair to see if I can get a better vantage point. I see Boomer and BarnYard hot foot it back to the rock as if they are trying to get out of the way.<\/p>\n

As I begin to walk forward to get a better view Wonder Woman grabs my arm and I turn to look at her as she admonishes me to stay near the campfire and out of the line of fire.<\/p>\n

\u201cLine of fire?
Fire?
As in gun fire?
As in shooting?
Like fucking target practice?\u201d I bleat.<\/p>\n

She nods as I hear a succession of gunshots.<\/p>\n

I swing back towards the field to see Robert lowering himself back into the chair and as he does so he lowers his arm. I see Rosie handing him something as she\u2019s speaking to him quietly and calmly.<\/p>\n

I see Robert nodding as he listens.<\/p>\n

\u201cA reloader\u201d mumbles Wonder Woman.<\/p>\n

I am absolutely freaked. \u201cBut he\u2019s shooting at them?\u201d I squawk.<\/p>\n

She nods. \u201cIt\u2019s the follies\u201d she replies. \u201cIt\u2019s the last thing they have to do to earn their colors\u201d<\/p>\n

As the bikes continue around the track I shrill, \u201cwell that\u2019s just fucking ridiculous\u201d and I glare at her\u2026but she doesn\u2019t notice as she turns back towards the track again. <\/p>\n

I hear another shot closely followed by 5 more and I begin to really freak out. \u201cThere are fucking people fucking shooting at fucking people out there!<\/strong>\u201d I yell and I\u2019m enunciating through clenched teeth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

the sound: Black Sabbath \u2013 Sweet Leaf, Metallica \u2013 Seek and Destroy, Jethro Tull \u2013 Aqualung, Aerosmith \u2013 Train Kept a Rollin, Kiss – Detroit Rock City, AC\/DC – Thunderstruck, Apocalypse Now – Ride of the Valkyries Robert turns and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":6871,"menu_order":25,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7047","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7048,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7047\/revisions\/7048"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}