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“Are you gonna pop them here?”
“No. It’ll make a mess, and I don’t feel like cleaning up a mess. I told Liz I’d be home to watch a movie tonight. She downloaded something with that DiCaprio weenie in it.”
“He’s pretty good.”
“He wasn’t in any of the Godfather movies.”
“You got me on that one.”
“We’ll take them to the construction site,” Moe said. “We already got a thing going there.”
“A thing?” I asked.
“Yeah, we’re having a party.”
“I like parties,” Grandma said.
I didn’t think this sounded like a good party. And I wasn’t excited about visiting a construction site. Lula was out there somewhere communing with Kevin. If I could get Lula’s attention I would have help. She could call in the Marines, or at the very least she could shoot someone, which hopefully wouldn’t be me or Grandma.
“Call Fitz,” Moe said to Shorty. “He’s working a late-night gig a couple blocks away. Tell him we need a short pour.”
Moe walked Grandma and me down the backstairs and into the alley while Shorty called Fitz. The alley was deserted and in deep shadow. No sign of Lula.
“We’re going to the building across from the social club,” Moe said. “Sunny’s been renovating it. Get walking.”
“I don’t think so,” I said.
“Yeah, I don’t want to go there either,” Grandma said.
“You want me to shoot them?” Shorty asked.
“No. You don’t know who’s watching here. Remember the trouble Sunny got into because he was filmed running over some a-hole.”
“Damn cellphone cameras,” Shorty said. “There’s no privacy anymore.”
Moe poked Grandma with the barrel of his gun. “Move.”
“Make me,” Grandma said.
“All I want is to get home to watch a dopey movie with my wife,” Moe said. “Could you try to cooperate?”
Grandma squinched her eyes together and opened her mouth to scream, and Shorty rushed at her and tagged her with his stun gun. Grandma squeaked and crumpled to the ground. I took a step toward Grandma, and Shorty pointed his stun gun at me.
“Stay,” Shorty said.
“She’s old and fragile,” I said. “She could be hurt.”
“First off, she doesn’t look too fragile to me. And second, that’s the least of her problems,” Shorty said.
Moe waved his gun at me. “We’re going two houses down to where the construction Dumpster is sitting. I don’t want to make a scene out here, but I will if I have to. I can shoot you and drag you, or you can walk.”
Shorty looked down at Grandma. “What about her?”
“You zapped her, so you get to drag her.”
“I got a bad back. Why don’t we get Bobby over here?”
“It’ll take too long. Just suck it up and drag the old lady to the Dumpster.”
