Page 19 of Changed Man


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I shrugged my shoulders. “I’m locked out.”

“My mommy makes me put my key around my neck, so I don’t lose it,” she said and showed me her key hanging from a silver chain.

“I didn’t lose it. I left it inside.”

“Oh.” Vickie paused and got this look on her face like she was trying to make sense of what I just said. It’s something she did, and it was so adorable until it got annoying. “Wanna play with me?”

“Sure,” I said with excitement. “What you wanna play?”

“Dolls,” she said and held two up. She was about to hand one to me, when her mother came out of their house and called her for dinner.

“You gotta go?” I asked sadly.

“Yeah, I gotta go eat dinner.”

She dropped her head and turned to leave, but she turned back quickly with that big ass Kool

-Aid smile of hers.

“Wanna have dinner with us?”

“Yeah.”

“Let me make sure it’s all right with my mommy first,” Vickie said and took off running across the street.

Her mother said it was all right and I went over to her house and ate dinner with her family. Her father called my mother at work and told her where I was. After dinner, we played in her room until my mother came to get me.

“Mike!”

“Huh?”

“Let’s go,” Bobby said to snap me out of it.

I stood up.

“You okay?” he asked.

“Yeah, let’s go,” I said as I pulled some money out of my pocket. I was about to count off a few bills, but then I handed the whole roll to Anya and headed for the door. Seeing that, Bobby put his money away and followed me.

On the way, me and Bobby talked about how we were going to do it. We knew all the players involved and knew how they liked to do business.

I sat back in my seat, suddenly relaxed. “All we need now is a feat of legerdemain and a degree of intrepidity.”

Bobby looked at me. “Fuck is that?”

“A display of skill and resolute fearlessness.”

“Where you get that shit from?”

“Captain Spock.”

He shook his head and kept driving to a place called Club Garage, that’s where the deal was going to happen. We got there early, parked the car and waited. It wasn’t too much longer after that when Rocky and Jesse arrived in a T-Top Trans Am and went inside.

“There’s the dope,” Bobby said and right on cue, I saw Lamar and Marlo get out of a Bonneville that was parked down the street.

“And there’s our money,” I said, and we watched them go inside. Since the money was just sitting there in the Bonneville, our plan was to simply take the car while they exchanged keys. Simple and easy; right?

We had just got out of the car, when Rocky and Jesse came out and headed for the Bonneville.

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