Chapter 5

The next day I was at Terry’s house about 11am. She had taken off from work and called the hospital. Mikey was doing fine but had to be checked out by a doctor before he could leave. He had an appointment at 3 pm. I offered to take Terry to lunch just to kill some time before we had to go to the hospital and she accepted. We headed over to the City Café. It was busy with the lunch crowd but we found an empty booth and sat down. We were getting a lot of stares.

“Everyone is wondering what you are doing with a lesbian on your arm.”

“No, they are not. They are staring at a big black guy with a beautiful girl on his arm.”

“I see why Mona was in love with you. You make a girl feel like a princess. Were you always like this?”

“Maybe, I don’t know. I was different back then.”

About that time Patrick comes over and sits down with us. “You going to introduce me to your new girlfriend?” he asks.

“Patrick this is Terry. She is Mikey’s sister, you know the guy who got beat up last night. We are on the way to the hospital to get him.” He extends a big meaty hand to her and she takes it. “You know your brother is damn lucky Zulu came along when he did. I think they were going to kill him. At least cut him up. But when this guy showed up with that .45 of his they surrendered pretty quickly. What can I get you for lunch?” We ordered the hot roast beef sandwiches with mashed potatoes and gravy.

After we finished, we still had a couple of hours before we had to go to the hospital so we decided to stop by and see Mona. As we parked at the courthouse, she suggested that I leave Leona in the glove box since we had to pass through metal detectors to get into the building. I locked her in the glove box then locked the truck and we walked in. I still set off the metal detectors and had to pull my jean leg up to show the leg.

In Mona’s office she greeted me with a kiss on the cheek just like she did Terry.

“Zu took me to lunch,” she said as we sat down. Mona looked jealous but I was not sure of who. I explained I was here to make Leona legal and she called her secretary and asked for the paperwork. In 30 minutes, we had it all filled out. She would get the proper signatures and get it back to me in a few days. As we got up to leave she asked if we had heard about those two bikers. After the sheriff took them to jail, he got a search warrant for their bikes. In the saddle bags on the bikes was about $50,000 in oxycodone. They are going to jail for a long time. Mikey was not being charged with anything even though it was alleged that he owed the bikers for some pills they had fronted him and was being given a beat down for non-payment.

Terry said she did not know what she was going to do with him. She realized he had a drug problem, but he was in pain and nothing seemed to help but the illegal pain killers. She was afraid if it went on much longer he would start using heroin to take care of the problem. Just then I had an idea. I excused myself from the office and went into the hall. I called Dove and told her the problem. I asked if she thought she could help. She said she was willing to give it a try. She agreed to meet me at Mona’s house around 5pm. I went back into the office. I did not tell the girls my idea.