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sprout into a tree of choices.
    ‘We take care of each other,” he replied. His voice lacked any real signs of convincing me of his words. It sounded more rehearsed than anything else.
    “Shoot him!” the woman screamed to the Kid.
    “Sounds like she’s making you do all of her dirty work. That’s not taking care of each other… that’s called manipulation,” I added.
    “Just unlock the doors,” he said.
    I hit the unlock button with my left hand the Woman quickly jerked the door open with a shit eating grin forming on her face. “You’re not such a badass now, are you?”
    “And the one manipulating kids is?” I said to her and smiled.
    She slapped me. The smile was erased from my face and I looked at her with anger flushing my face. She took a few steps back and looked at her accomplice. “Shoot him in the head.”
    “What?” the Kid asked her. “He opened the doors, just like you told him to do.”
    “We don’t need him starting any trouble, now do what I tell you,” she said. “Shoot him in the head and I’ll pull his body out onto the pavement.”
    “You haven’t ruined your life yet, kid. But I guarantee you that if you do this, it’ll eat you alive,” I told him, trying not to sound as though I was pleading for my life, although deep down I think I was.
    “Who takes care of you?” the Woman asked the Kid. “I do, that’s who. I also give you every desire you could ever imagine, don’t I?” She added and grabbed one of her firm tits.
    “You’re the one with the gun, Kid. You shouldn’t take orders from anyone… you should give them,” I said, doing my best to make a volatile situation even more unstable. However, if the Kid was nothing more than a horny little bastard that had never worked, had no goals in life, then I was about to be dead and I wasn’t ready to die just yet.
    “Darren, shoot him… for me,” she said in a seductive voice. “Just shoot him so you can mount me. I want to feel you deep inside me… I want you.”
    I had to think quickly.
    “How old are you, Darren. Sixteen, maybe seventeen at the most?”
    He coldly replied, “I’m sixteen! What the hell does it matter how old I am?”
    “I have a nine year old son and a two year old daughter, so if you listen to her and you shoot me. You’ll not only be killing me, but you’re also killing them. Can you live with killing two innocent children all for some mediocre sex, if that , from a roaring slut that doesn’t have the courage to get her own hands dirty.” I explained to him.
    “Shoot him; he’s just trying to manipulate you!” She countered.
    “No, bitch! You’re the only one out here trying to manipulate anyone!” I yelled at her. My anger was coming on like a tornado and it took everything I had to keep from leaping out of the truck and taking her to the ground where I would choke the life from her with my bare hands. My only problem with that was the horny bastard behind me with the hand cannon.
    “You think I can’t do my own dirty work?” She asked me.
    I had presumed that she didn’t have a gun, which was a mistake to even let wonder through my mind, when in fact she could have one. But having one and using one on someone were two completely different things.
    “No I don’t,” I told her.
    Her attention, once again, went to Darren. “I want you to shoot him in the head, right now. Show me you love me like you say you do. Prove it to me.”
    The Kid turned his attention from her to me, and then back to her. The struggle was immense and I could feel that he was slowly wearing down and the pure need to prove to this woman that he would do anything for her was swiftly becoming apparent. I only had one shot at changing all of this and my words had done nothing. I’d have to try a more hands on approach if I wanted to ever leave and continue my search for Gage.
    The Woman reached for something behind her and withdrew a small revolver, probably a .38 of some sort and held it by her side,