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Authors: TJ Weeks

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He pushed the door open. “I found
out that she came from about an hour
from my old stomping grounds.
Found out she’s a metal head too.”

I walked out behind him. “That’s
good. She’s a pretty cool chick for
sure. She’s definitely one of those,
don’t take shit from anyone, type of
girls.”

He laughed. “So is Kris.”

I agreed. “That’s
why I married
her. I don’t think any normal chick
that carries their feelings around on
their sleeve could have handled me."

He shook his head. “I can’t think of
anyone that would argue that.”

 

Howard and Gizmo walked up after
being out at the tower.

 

Gizmo seemed anxious. “What’s
the plan for today?”

I stared him down trying to figure
out his excitement. “Crunching
around in the snow, I guess.”

He sped up and walked in front of
me. “How about we start that pond?”

I looked over at Howard that had
apparently been encouraging him.
“Bro, look around…we’re standing in
about six inches of snow. I’m sure we
can do it when it starts heating back
up a bit.”

Howard joined in. “At least when
the snow melts, it can help fill the
pond up.”

I started laughing. “So you’re
just
going to dig a hole and expect it to
hold water?”

“I was actually thinking we could
make a run and grab a liner of some
sort.” Gizmo stated.

I shook my head. “Brother, you
need some clay or at least I would
think so. I wouldn’t see people
throwing liners out when they build
big ass lakes.”

He stood there for a moment.
“What if we concrete the bottom?”

I started laughing harder. “What
are you going to do, concrete it, then
brush it down with Thomson’s Water
Seal?”

He crossed his arms. “I don’t
fucking know.”

I put my hand on his shoulder.
“Tell you what, you can start digging
the hole for it and I’ll take Bo and
Howard with me to see what I can
find. I’ll even swing by and grab
Robin and Tiffany for the just in
case.”

Gizmo didn’t respond, just hauled
ass to the backhoe and started driving
it to the back.

By the time I gathered up everyone,
Gizmo was already breaking surface.

I turned and looked at my team.
“Do any of y’all know how to make a
pond hold water?”

Robin stood. “You can test the
ground to see if it can hold the water,
but if it doesn’t, then you generally
put a thin layer of concrete, sand and
gravel down.”

I started looking around until I
spotted Kris. “Hey babe! Assemble
your team as well, we’re going to
need all kinds of help on this
apparently.”

She smiled and walked off to grab
her team.

I led my team to the storage. “Hey
Bobbi, I’m going to need about ten
shovels and a few dollies if we have
them.”

She started running her finger
down the list on her clipboard. “It
only shows for us to have eight
shovels, but no dollies.”

I looked over her shoulder. “What
about a wheelbarrow?”

 

She looked down at her list. “No,
sorry.”

“Damn! Okay, well give us the
eight shovels and we’ll figure
something out on the rest.” I stated.

She started grabbing the shovels
and handing them out to us. She
picked her clipboard up and began
writing all of our names down on who
she handed the shovels to.

I started laughing. “Just put in there
that you signed eight shovels out to
me and save a lot of work.”

She was looking a little over
whelmed, but changed it up on her
paper. “Sorry.”

I smiled. “Don’t be sorry. You’re
learning this. I just don’t want you to
have to do more work than needed.”

I turned around to see my wife’s
team making their approach, but no
Tina. “So what’s the mission?”

I counted up everyone to ensure no
one was missed. “We’ll call this,
Mission Water Front. However, we’re
going to combine forces on this one,
so there’s not a team one and team
two. We’re going to get all the shit to
make this pond that Gizmo is so eager
to make. We’re going to take five
vehicles and it’ll be two per vehicle. I
want Tiffany with Kris, Shianne with
me, Lisa with Bo, Robin with Karen
and I want Bobbi with
Howard…We’re going to convoy up
to whatever hardware stores that we
can find and load two trucks down
with bags of cement and then we’re
going to find places that have sand
and gravel and load down the other
three trucks with that…There’s not
enough shovels for everyone and
since I don’t want to tire everyone
out, I want someone to go grab Gizmo
and have him follow our convoy in
the backhoe. With a little luck we’ll
be able to get the backhoe in any of
the places to save our backs from
going out.”

Bobbi stepped out and walked to
the back field to get Gizmo and
caught a ride with him back to the
trucks.

Karen spoke up. “Wouldn’t we be
able to hold more in the deuces?”

I looked over at the gas cans.
“Yeah, but if we keep using them for
everything, we’re going to end up in
another gas run as well.” I turned
towards everyone. “I want you to start
pulling your trucks up to the gate and
fill up before we pull out.”

Everyone acknowledged and got in
their vehicles.

Shianne jumped in with me and I
pulled to the gate first to lead the way
as everyone else started lining up
behind us.

Donald started walking to the gate.

I stopped him from opening it.
“Just a second bud, we all need gas
before leaving.”

I was at three quarters of a tank, so
I just sat one of the gas cans in the
bed of the truck.

I waited for everyone to fill up and
get back in their trucks before
signaling Donald and driving out of
the gate.

Shianne sat up in her seat. “I’m so
scared.”

 

I looked over at her and then back
to the road. “Why?”

She tugged at her seatbelt.
“Because, I’ve never gone a mission
and I’ve heard the guys talk about a
lot of the crazy shit y’all have ran
into…Dad, I’m not sure if I could pull
the trigger on a living person.”

I looked back over. “Hopefully you
never have to.”

I could see “Ace Hardware”
coming up on our right. I slowed up
and turned in. I could see a few rotters
inside. They were wearing the green
aprons, so I could assume they were
working there when everything went
down. “Wait here.” I grabbed my
machete from the seat.

I got out and walked over to the
side of the building that was closed
off by a chain linked gate that had a
lock on it. I climbed over the top and
dropped down. I quickly placed my
back against the side of the building
and started making my way down to
the back. I could see a massive
pavilion with lots of lumber and
eighty pound bags of concrete stacked
up on a pallet. There was also a big
pile of sand, but no gravel. I turned
around to go back and turned into
Gizmo. “WHAT THE FUCK!”

He snickered from startling me.
“You should know better than going
to check out things alone.”

I put my hand over my heart trying
to slow it back down. “Get back to the
backhoe and use the stinger to break
the chain on the fence and we can
load the cement and the sand.”

“10-4 little buddy.” He called out.

I started looking around for more
stuff and saw a forklift. I started
walking over to it and tried to start it.
It wouldn’t turn over, but I could see
it was gas powered, so I waited for
everyone to pull their trucks around
back.

I pointed over to the pile of sand to
let them know to start there and
signaled Shianne to pull over to me. I
walked over and grabbed the gas can
and poured about a quarter of it into
the tank and tried to start it again. It
fussed for a few seconds and then
started up. I pulled it around to Bo
and Lisa. “Back your truck up to the
pavilion.”

They backed up to the pavilion and
put it in park. I lowered the forks
down and got the pallet with the
cement and softly set it in the back of
their truck. I pulled back and grabbed
another pallet that was only about half
stacked and set it behind the other
pallet and pushed both of them in so
none were hanging over the tailgate.

I jumped off the forklift and walked
up to Bo’s window. “Start taking this
home. Just pull it to the back and
leave the truck there for now. No need
in unloading it until we know how
much space he’s going to make into
the pond.”

I walked over to the rest of the
team to see Kris was loaded down
with sand. “Follow Bo and get this
home. Park the truck next to Bo.”

Karen backed her truck up so
Gizmo could fill the back of her truck.

I walked over to her window.
“Once you’re loaded, take the load
home and park next to the other two.”

She stepped out of the truck. “What
about plants? No fish will survive if
they don’t have oxygen going to the
water.”

I hadn’t thought about that. “We’ll
have to figure it out later. We’re
running out of vehicles.”

She smiled. “Our team will take
care of it.” She stepped back into her
truck and pulled off.

Gizmo killed the backhoe and
joined me on the ground. “So what’s
the plan now?”

I waved my hand in front of my
face to clear the dust from Karen
pulling away. “I guess we’re going to
Grand Saline by the Dollar Store.
That’s the only place I know around
here that has gravel.”

Howard pulled up after hearing
from a distance. “Well, let’s ride.”
Gizmo started laughing. “Fuck
that, follow me.”

Didn’t really feel like arguing, so I
jumped in the passenger side of the
truck since Shianne was already in the
driver’s seat. “Follow Gizmo.”

He turned right out of the parking
lot like he was headed to Hawkins. I
reached over and turned on our
hazards to be funny at how slow we
were moving. Howard followed suit
and turned his on as well. All I could
see was a silhouette of Gizmo giving
us the middle finger.

He turned off right before the loop
overpass and started driving behind a
building. We followed him around, to
a huge pile of gravel.

Shianne put the truck in park and
got out. “I suck at backing up.”

I shook my head and scooted over
to the driver’s seat and put it in
reverse and pulled up next to the pile
and got out and moved the gas can to
the front of the cab. Shianne climbed
back in once Gizmo started loading.

I pulled forward and waited for
Howard to get his load. Gizmo filled
up the bucket and the stinger before
following us out.

CHAPTER TWELVE

WE PULLED up to the gate to see
the corvette that Lisa had brought
back from the mall was gone and
could see Bo and Robin standing out
next to the trucks. We pulled down
and parked next to the trucks.

Bo walked over. “The women..”

I interrupted him. “I know, they
went for plants.” I got out of the truck
and waited to see what Gizmo was
going to do with his load so he could
finish digging. He dumped it in front
of the trucks.

I walked over. “What if we have to
use one of the trucks, DICK?”

He cracked his window open.
“BINGO, BANGO…WHEEW!” He
completely ignored the questioned
and pulled around and started back
digging.

I started gathering up all the
shovels from the different trucks and
we started walking over to the storage
to return them.

Bobbi was standing at the door.
“Guess y’all didn’t have to go far for
the gravel? And why are we all of a
sudden doing this?”

I handed the shovels over. “Not this
time, just gathering some shit for
Gizmo to keep his mind focused and
busy.” I turned to Bo, Robin and
Howard. “Well, what else do you
have on your plate?”

Robin stated over Howard’s
shoulder. “Can we cook some more of
those alligator steaks?”

I started laughing. “I guess we can,
but you’ll need to move one of the
pits around to the side of the school so
we’re not being dicks and just rubbing
it in to the rest of the people.”

He took a fast pace walking. “I’ve
got it.”

The rest of us walked to the
cafeteria so we could pull another
alligator tail and slice it down.

I was about to walk behind the
counter when Milissa stepped in front
of me. “Can I help you?”

I stepped to the side and she
stepped with me. “I just need to get
something out of the back.”

She was shaking her head with my
words. “I’m sure you do, but the only
way I’m letting you back here is if
you’re going to cook enough for me
and my helper as well.”

I started laughing. “You drive a
hard bargain, but you got it.”

She stepped to the side and we
walked through. The first tail I came
to was that from the biggest one we
killed. I pushed it over and grabbed
the one under it, so I wasn’t being so
selfish using the bigger meats that
could feed a lot more than us. I used
both hands to carry it out and laid it
up on the table.

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