Chapter 14

I sat on my bed thinking about Allie and smoked for a while. Sometimes when I’m bored I talk to Allie. I remember once when I wouldn't let Allie come down to the Lake with me and Bobby Fallon. We were going on our bikes and taking our BB-guns so that we could shoot things. I feel sorry as hell for leaving him out. I kept telling Allie to go home and get his bike and we would wait for him outside Bobby‘s house. When I went to bed I kinda felt like praying, only I didn’t. I mean I like Jesus and all but I don’t care too much for the disciples, they were always letting him down. I liked that lunatic in the bible who cut himself with stones.

Anyway I couldn’t pray worth a damn. I heard someone knock on the door. I was in my goddam pyjamas, I opened the door and Maurice, the elevator guy was there with Sunny behind him. They wanted an extra 5 bucks and Maurice kept saying he told me it was 10 for a throw. I tried to refuse, I really did, but old Maurice had me up against the wall and Sunny took the money from my wallet. Maurice snapped his finger somewhere I wont mention but god it hurt like hell, that's when I started to shout things to him, calling him a goddam moron and stuff. Maurice slugged me hard in the stomach and left me on the floor.

After he went I lay there for a while, when I finally got up I pretended to be a movie actor and that had just been shot, I was staggering around holding my stomach, The goddam movies, they can ruin you. I’m not kidding.