Ch 13 Harbinger

Jeremiah  saw the many assembly lines entangle and raised in between each other, behind the glass he could see them climb up high to the ceiling. He was in a door knob factory waiting for Teddy to et out of work. He was wearing his glasses and his suit-like uniform, he stood out amongst the other people in the waiting room who were common and plain white t shirt-esque. 

Jeremiah was standing while everyone else were sitting down. He stared at the factory line, all the workers with white hats, scrambling pieces and putting them together. There was a large crane machine that indented the metal of the door knobs, then it quickly passed onto the hands of a worker, the process was repeated over and over again with such accurate precision. Behind Jeremiah’s glasses, his eyes were correlating, observing, and calculated. He was some sort of a genius.

He was thrown off when Teddy came in the waiting room wearing his hat and his worker’s vest. 

“Alright I’m ready to go” Jeremiah was kicked out of his trance. 

“Oh, ok, then lets leave… this place bothers me” .

Albert opens his eyes to see a pair of perfectly manicured feet standing right next to his nose. Connected to them was a tan colored man, at a first glance he might look like he’s wearing a graphic t-shirt but it would be due to all of the tattoos, from his neck to his waist and on his arms. A grizzly bear with an outstretched palm grasped his left peck, he was toned and his permed hair suggested the perfect juxtaposition, his head free of imperfections. 

“Rise and shine sweet cheeks” he said. Albert could hear Rock the Casbah by The Clash in the background. he looked again at his feet and remembered the rebellious tirade of an orgy that he was in. 

“Chico, you’re gonna be upset with me but I need a place to stay-“

“Say no more my friend, mi casa es su casa, stay as long as you like you know, just as long as you’re willing to fuck some pussy” Albert glared at him.

“I’m just kidding bro! But you ought to try it sometime-“ A topless woman walks into the living room, her breasts miniscule and non-buoyant. 

“Rosa! Get back in the bedroom, I’m not done with you yet!” Rosa scurries back. Albert stands up and sits on the couch. 

“here” Chico throws a small clear bag at Albert.  

“It’s from my personal stache, free of charge of course, as long as you’re staying here” Chico winked at him and hunched over to whisper something in his ear.

“I’d better see you in there afterwards” Albert contemplated the bag with white powder as Chico disappeared into the bedroom, he stared blankly.  

Jane kept dialing the number on her phone, she pressed the phone to her ear as she heard the tone over and over again hoping to hear Albert’s hello. She walked to her car from the science building in broad daylight as she kept dialing she stopped at her car to press dial one more time.

Suddenly her head was thrust into the driver window as her nose felt the full impact. An enraged Olivia held onto Jane’s red smoldering hair with one hand as she bashed her skull with her other hand. Jane screeched as she tried to release Olivia’s grip on her hair. She immediately thought of pulling but Olivia had grasped a good portion of her hair.

“You fucking whore bitch!” Olivia shouted as she kept pouncing at Jane skull while she shrieked. 

Iago turned around as he heard Jane’s screams from across the parking lot. He sprinted as he saw Olivia pounding Jane’s head, driving her to the floor. He ran as soon as he reached them he grabbed Olivia’s fist with a manly ferociousness, he was angry and with his grip he was crushing Olivia’s hand causing her to release her grip on Jane.

“Ow, ow, ow, let me fuckin go you fuckin piece of shit wetback!”

Iago released her and pushed her back. His teeth clenched and  his eyes glared at her his manly honor was restraining him from chasing her away and pelting her with rocks. Jane recovered from the floor and jumped up, Iago caught her and prevented her from lashing out on Olivia.

“Let me go! I’ll kill her!” It was instinctive for Iago to stop Jane from attacking Olivia but at the same time trying to defend her from Olivia. 

“You fuckin stay away from Bradley, you fuckin whore!” At the mention of his name Jane stopped struggling to get past Iago. 

“That sunuvabitch?” Jane said. Iago was in a hurry and he was not about to let these two make him be late. 

“You should leave. Now before I call campus security!” He said. 

Olivia cursed and mumbled under her breath. She jogged back to her car as Jane and Iago watched.

“Are you ok?” Jane looked at Iago’s caramel skin and his large boulder-like shoulders. 

“Yeah, im just a bit shaken is all” She bent down to grab her phone.

“Wait, I’ll get that” he bends down to grab her phone and almost as if pushed by magnetism, their hangs touched as Iago’s hand reached the phone first. They stood up and Iago handed her the phone.

“I’m sorry, my name’s Iago” 

“I’m Jane. Sorry to ask but what accent is that?”

“I’m from Colombia, I know, my English is sloppy”

“No, no, its fine. I was just intrigued that’s all”

“So are you going to be okay? DO you need to go to the doctors?”

“Um, no I’ll be fine. She hits like a pussy”

“alright well I have to get going, see you around Jane” He smiled at her as she watched him walk back to his car with a gleam in her eye, her attack seemed insignificant to the back side of Iago. 

“God, if you’re up there and your’e not too mad at me, please don’t let him be gay”

Teddy sits idly as Jeremiah walks out of the car to refuel it. Jeremiah’s car was nothing too fancy, a well kept Ford Eclipse. Teddy sat twiddling his thumbs secretly glancing at Jeremiah when his phone started to ring. Teddy picked it up and about to announce to Jeremiah that his phone was ringing when he accidentally looked at the caller I.D. It was Gemma. Teddy felt like he was suddenly in the twilight zone, automatically, he pressed the call button and raised the phone to his ear.

“Jay, sweetie, I rented Pirates Of The Caribbean, how long till you get here?”  Teddy quickly hung up and flung the phone to the driver’s seat as Jeremiah approached the vehicle.  Teddy stared at the dashboard unblinkingly as Jeremiah got in. His eyes started to accumulate water and started to shine. 

“You alright Teddy?”  It took him a while to respond.

“Uh, yeah I’m fine” Teddy bit his lip and gritted his teeth. He wanted to open his window, stick his head and just yell his heart out and let his tears fall out of his face. 

Megan walked up the stairs of one of her friends’ house, she followed a little girl to a bright fluorescent room with flower wallpaper and a giant window that overlooked the entire back yard. Megan was desperate and running out of time the window period in which she could do what she was there to do was closing.

“Hey Cessy could you get me a glass of water”  The little girl nodded and left the room. The instant she did, Megan spasmodically retracted a high caliber photography grade camera from her bag.  She lashed open the curtains of the window and pointed the camera the at the reverend’s office window hoping and praying that he had not moved the curtains the way she placed them before so that there was a clear shot. 

And sure enough, the view was unobstructed. There was the reverend naked, as Megan snapped the photo of him naked and Regina’s ass in the air. She snapped the camera again and again gritting her teeth and cursing under her breath.

Ronnie squeezed through some busty queens to get to Enrique’s dressing room. He was in front of his mirror wiping off his make-up. He lingered a while before he said anything.

“Hey, how are you doing?” He asked him. Enrique looked peppy. 

“I’m great actually”

“Yeah? Cause I was thinking maybe we could go and have that date-“

“Oh I’m sorry I kinda already made plans with someone else”

“Oh alright, yeah no problem” Ronnie had turned red with embarrassment if there was anything that Ronnie found the most unpleasant was being rejected. 

He quickly walked back to the bar as the sensual music pierced his senses. He was diffused, it didn’t really mean anything to him that Enrique rejected him. He was entranced with someone else. The dance floor teases him unwaveringly, teetering the sensual music back and forth, he looked and hoped desperately that he would find Kessler in the middle of the dance floor with leather bottoms and a sequin top.

Iago  stopped at a corner next to a heavily tattooed man wearing a wife beater. He got out of the car and went straight for the hood of the car.

“What the Hell took you so long?” Asked Chico wearing his crocodile skin sandles, showing off those prized piggies. 

 

Iago opened the trunk. “Girl fight bro, had to break it up, anyways, here’s the 50 Kilos”

Chico looked I the trunk and there were the pristine white packages of white powder. Iago’s accent seemed to vanish.

“That’s perfect bro”.