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“Unh-unh. Friend Prices ended the other night.”
“Since when?”
“Since I had to toss Bessie off the tower.”
“…Bessie?” Jack asked, bewildered.
“His rifle,” I said.
Jack turned to Sid. “You name your guns?”
“Don’t – ” I tried to warn him.
“Just her,” Sid said. “I got her in a pawn shop in Memphis, right after the war – ”
“Which one?” Jack asked. “World War I or II?”
“The Revolutionary,” Kade added without missing a beat.
“Hardy har, you fuckin’ hippies,” Sid snapped. “One more crack like that and you’ll be walkin’ home.”
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We said goodbye to Sid thirty minutes later.
I hugged him and thanked him for everything. Jack gave him two thousand that Kade had stashed in his apartment, and promised to pay the rest in the coming days, once he’d gotten his life back together.
“Make it sooner rather than later,” Sid said.
“I’ll do my best.”
“Don’t do your best, just fuckin’ pay me. We ain’t that good ‘a friends.”
Jack laughed, then stuck out his hand. “Thanks again.”
“Yeah, yeah – remember, it’s always nicer to say ‘thanks’ in cash,” Sid said, but shook Jack’s hand anyway. “See you, Viking.”
“See you,” Kade said unemotionally, then went back inside without any further ado.
“Rude,” Sid called after him, then turned to me. “You need a ride back to LA, Fee?”
I hesitated. I glanced at Jack, then opened my mouth to answer –
Jack beat me to it. “She’ll be staying with me for a little while.”
A little while, I thought bitterly, a pang in my heart. Whatever the fuck ‘a little while’ means.
“Bonin’,” Sid snorted.
“Sid – ” I started.
He pointed at me. “Remember – Friend Prices don’t include you, so you settle up with Easy Rider here on your own.”
“It’s fine,” I said.
“I get my cut first, though, so whatever he owes you, take it out in bonin’.”
“SID – ”
