Fire-in-the-hole!

Fire-in-the-hole!

Well this little boy came up to use the bathroom and had to wait because someone was already in it. The women started flirting with him because oh he was just so cute and they found out that he used to be five and now he is six. He was going to San Diego where he used to live but now he didn’t. He was going to see his Dad. The woman I could partially see was eating a sort of trail mix that had chocolate in it and she gave him some. I was hungry and wanted some but no one offered me any.
Then the boy went on talking and I got that feeling I sometimes get. It’s like going down a roller coaster hill when your insides try to stay where they are and to you they feel like they’re really trying to go up. Well this feeling was close to that except my insides were trying to go down. My body felt weightless on the outside and heavy on the inside and I tried to distract myself by wondering was that where the expression “with a heavy heart” came from.
I’ve learned to deal with it though and that doesn’t mean it’s easy. It can be pretty tough sometimes. You know my son turned six last month and before that he was five. And he keeps telling me every time I see him.
Then the headache came back. I was doing so good in the campaign and then the perimeter just began to fall. I had been dealing with that headache for at least a week. My reason called it a police action but I knew what it was. It was a war. I had won every single battle but some of them took a while to win and the allied forces suffered a few high ranking casualties. We had almost equal body counts though. I didn’t know how I forgot the pinche painkillers in the car but I did and so I asked the girl if she had anything for a headache. She said, “sure,” and smiled and gave me two aspirin and a glass of water but she didn’t tell me to call her in the morning because she wasn’t a doctor she was a flight attendant.
Then she poured me a half cup of the pretty trail mix and I accepted and my soldiers started to regain the ground against the headache.
The next thing that happened was I heard someone scream, “FIRE-IN-THE-HOLE!” and a SWAT team of words breached the back door of my mind. There was a flash with an explosion and the team forced entry yet again.
“Federal Agents, it’s a warrant!” they said. And before I knew it they were in and hit the corners, guns all on me.
I tried to run out the front but they had that covered so well like they always do and I was forced at gunpoint to open the notebook and begin again.

From my first book, Small Moments

Available for sample/purchase at www.sidneyroberts.com

Copyright 2003 Sidney P. Roberts II

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