that guy with his hands and his
lips on her. For the first time in my life I gave a shit and it hurt. I finally
realized that I needed to walk away from her bus before one of the other girls
came back…or security walked by and saw me. I’d really get the reputation of
being a creepy stalker then. The people on these sets loved nothing more than gossip;
I figured that shit out when I was just a kid.
As I walked back to my own bus, I didn’t know what
the fuck to think. She seemed genuinely pissed at me. I wasn’t sure if it was
because of the stalking or the accusations or both. Knowing Elly, I don’t think
she would have been that pissed if she’d really fucked that guy. She was pretty
genuine most of the time…shit…all of the time. It was the thing that attracted
me to her in the first place. At first it had only been about sex, but the
reason I’d wanted her so badly had been because she’d been so enthusiastic
about it. She moaned and groaned and shuddered at all the right times. The
little mewling sounds she made when I licked her…fuck, I was getting a boner
just thinking about it. Then I actually got to know her and I found out that
she lived her life like that. If she was happy about something, she showed it.
If she was pissed, she showed that, too. I’d be willing to bet that she hadn’t
lied to me about anything; hopefully that wasn’t just wishful thinking. But now
I really wanted to kick the pretty boy’s ass.
I was almost back to my bus when I saw the two
security guys that had dragged Brooke out. I remembered when Tony was talking
about Brooke earlier; I had thought about the cameras on the lot and wondered
if that was how he’d known. He said it was from the security report, but that
doesn’t mean the cameras didn’t catch some of it. I looked up at the camera
mounted on the light pole above my head and then towards the backs of the
security officers as they continued on their path.
“Hey!” I called after them. The bigger one, Brad,
turned around and said,
“Yes?”
I walked over to where they’d stopped walking and
said, “How are you guys doing tonight?”
“We’re okay; at least it’s not raining.”
“I hear that. I don’t know whose brilliant idea it
was to book a bunch of outdoor concerts in the middle of fucking fall, huh?”
Brad said, “I haven’t had a chance to talk to you
since that night, but I had to write a report about Brooke. She clawed the shit
out of my arms.”
“Yeah, I saw Tony today, he told me. That sucks man,
I’m sorry about that.”
He shrugged and said, “One of the hazards of our
job. I wanted to get a tetanus shot, though, so I had to report it.” I could
tell he felt guilty, or he was worried I’d be mad.
I decided it was a good time to ask him what I
wanted to ask. “It’s really okay. She was the crazy one, not me. I was
wondering, though, if I could ask you guys another favor?”
“You don’t have another naked girl in your bus, do
you?” It was the little guy and he actually looked a little too hopeful about
that.
I laughed, “No man.”
“Damn!” he said, with a grin. His partner was
grinning too. Good, because I knew that what I was about to ask them for was
pushing the boundaries of their jobs. I wanted them in a good mood.
“Yeah,” I said, “But I found out the hard way that
one naked chick isn’t necessarily as good as the next.”
“Or as sane,” the bigger one said. “Crazy bitch
tried to bite me and I’m pretty sure that some of my skin is probably still
underneath her fingernails.”
“I’m sorry, man. I really appreciated your help
though.”
He shrugged again and said, “Yeah well, it’s our
job. What is it we can do for you?”
I pointed up at the camera trained on my front door
and said, “Any chance at all you could get me a copy of the security tape from
the other night?”
The officers looked at each other and the bigger guy
said, “I don’t think we can do that.”
“Aw come on,
Roy Henry Vickers, Robert Budd