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I laughed at how amazing it was. It was like he was this adventurer, out there living the life that most of us only dreamed of one day having. I leaned on the counter, my chin in my hands as I stared at him. “So, what happened? Did you get him? What happened to the monkey? And did you really only have an umbrella?”
FNG was about to answer when Thumper snickered from the other end of the table. It was clear by the look on FNG’s face that he hadn’t even heard him come in.
“Do you have something to say?” FNG asked, turning in his chair.
“You mean, other than the fact that the whole fucking thing is bullshit?”
FNG stood, not liking to be challenged, especially when he fought tooth and nail to get back here. Anyone with a sense of reason could see it. “Bullshit?”
“Oh, come on. A monkey saved your life? And what were you even doing in Marrakech?”
“That’s classified,” FNG retorted.
Thumper stared at FNG like he was an idiot. Clearly, he had no sense of adventure. “And I might believe you, except for the fact that you just told us the whole fucking story.”
Ooh, he had a point there, but there could be any number of reasons that FNG was allowed to tell bits and pieces of the story.
“But I didn’t tell you who I was after.”
Thumper stood and walked over to FNG. I had a feeling there was about to be a showdown, so I slid the shawarma out of the way. There was no sense in wasting good food.
“And you really expect us to believe that you went after this man and didn’t even have a weapon on you?”
“It was supposed to be reconnaissance.”
“Yes, reconnaissance in a foreign country where you have nothing to protect yourself,” Thumper laughed.
“Hey, you weren’t there,” I came to FNG’s defense. “You don’t know what it was like.”
“I know he didn’t fight off four men with only an umbrella.”
“There were two umbrellas,” I corrected. “And why couldn’t he? FNG has proven to be more than a little wily.”
I wasn’t about to let my friend get dragged under the bus when he was so obviously the hero in this story. A story that I hadn’t yet heard the end of. I was dying to know how it all played out.
Did he ever find out what the man’s plans were in Marrakech?
Did the man with one eye die?
What about the guy he poked in the ass with an umbrella? That had to hurt like a bitch.
And where did the monkey run off to?
“You can stay and listen all you want,” Thumper said to me. “I’m heading to bed.”
“But you didn’t hear the ending!” I shouted, chasing after Thumper.
“I don’t need to. It’s all a lie.”
“Yeah?” I challenged him. “If it’s all a lie, then how do you explain him escaping death not once, not twice, but three times? Rafe said himself that FNG was dead.”
“Well, I guess he lied.”
“Did he? Or is FNG really that lucky?”
Thumper paused. He couldn’t do it. He couldn’t refute the evidence right in front of him. We’d never met anyone like FNG, someone that could live through most anything and come out swinging on the other side.
“Fine, I’ll admit that something else is going on here, but right now, all I want is to go to bed.”
