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 * Knife of Love**

So you want to know what happened? Cause I’ll tell ya exactly what happened but it’s notin that I’m proud of. Truth is I feel really lousy about the whole thing. See this whole mess started out when the gang and I went to one of them drive-in movie theater. Truth be told the movie wasn’t half bad. I forget what it was called, but I remember what it was about. It was about this guy who travels all around the world looking for his true love, and when he finally finds her she’s already married. Boy, that just killed me. It gave me a big tickle; I even let out a little chuckle at the end of the flick.

That’s when everything went downhill, and that no good Greaser, Tony Francis, showed his ugly mug. He pulled up in his chrome-plated cheery with his date in the seat next to him and his two goons, John and Stan, in the back. John and Stan were nobodies, just two of Tony’s lackey’s that followed him wherever he went. I swear if he jumped off a bridge those two nosebleeds would follow him right off. Tony’s date for the night happened to be this Dolly I had my eye on for a little while, her name was Nancy. Nancy lived next door to me, when we were ankle-biters we used to play together, but as we grew up we were driven farther apart. We stopped playing with each other when she was about ten. It was strange, and I didn’t understand why she had stopped coming over; I had approached her a few times to ask why she stopped coming over, and all she did was run away with tears dripping from her eyes like a leaky faucet. One day after I asked her I went over to her house to talk to her, I figured if I went directly to her house she couldn’t run away from me. When I got there I wished I hadn’t, because what I saw there stuck in my mind for the rest of my like. It was the root of my troubled life.

I left my house and marched down the sidewalk looking at the trees that lined the sides of the road. I turned right onto her walkway, sweaty palms, racing heart, mind fogged, I hoped I would find an answer to Nancy’s problem with me. I knocked on the door and waited for Nancy to answer the door. What I saw when she opened the door was horrifying, she was crying, the strap on her sun dress was ripped, and she eye was black and blue.

What happened after that was a long conversation in her backyard about how her stepfather had been abusing her and her mother for a couple of months, she told me that she missed taking to me, and that see was scared to talk to me from fear her stepfather would disapprove. Just the thought of this was horrendous, to think what it would feel like if my father had hit me. I don’t think I knew what I would do if that happened to me. For the whole day we sat next to each other, not even talking just basking in each others company. That night I told my mother and father what was happening to Nancy because I was scared she would really get hurt. That was the last time that I’d talked to her, she never talked to me again because the government came and took her away and dropped her in some dumpy orphanage. Well any way back to Tony, boy he could really get me worked up. He got under my skin and got me rally frosted, while tonight I had had enough of his bull so I called him out on it. At first I just walked around him and tried to ignore his usual insults, but then it started to get physical and he gave me a shove on the shoulder.

“Hey, watch were your going Tony” I huffed

“What you goin to do about it nerd” countered Tony, John and Stan laughed in the background thinking everything Tony said was funny.

“Ahh forget you D.D.T.”

“What and look like you” Tony snickered

“You keep this up Tony you’ll be cruisin' for a bruisin'”

“Yeah, well whose goin ta give it ta me, you, you’re too much of an ivy leaguer to do anything like that.”

I didn’t say anything, and then he turned around and lit up a weed. I was furious that he thought that I wasn’t capable of tusslin with him. Out of nowhere I grab his shoulder and turned him around to face me then I let it fly. My fist connected with his jaw with the sound of a backfiring car. Tony fell to the ground dropping his weed, john and Stan where quickly at his side helping him up. Nancy on the other hand just walked away leaving Tony spitting blood in the parking lot next o his red rag top. I was about to chase after her to see what was the matter, but Tony stood back up. That’s when things really escaladed. Tony pulled out his blade, and prepared to knife me.

“What are ya thinking Tony, we can work this out ya don’t have to go and stab me.” I Begged

What ya scared cause I got a knife and you don’t. Not so big now are ya?” Tony threatened

“Come on please Tony don’t do this you don’t wanna go back ta jail do ya?” I tried to reasoned

“I’d be happy to for this” Tony lunged across the parking lot and stabbed me in the stomach. I dropped to the ground as Tony and his boy’s jumped in their chariot and Hauled ass out of the lot the last think I remember before I passed out was thinking “What happened to Nancy?”

“That’s all I remember Officer Thomason, Honest.” I told the officer that was investigating my case

“Okay, Jimmy, if you think of any thing else give me a call” Officer Thomason handed me his business card “My numbers on the back”

“I sure will, but before you go did you see Nancy, she has long dirty blonde hair, beautiful eye’s that are a shade of blue that is almost indescribable and she’s pretty tall too.” All he did was smile, put on his police hat, and leave. Immediately following his departure Nancy came in. I was shocked I didn’t think Nancy would have come to see, but here she was. We talked for hours catching up on lost times, and all. She told me that a year after she was put in the orphanage her mother came and got her, and that they had been living together ever since. It was cranked when I found out that she and her mother were together again and that they were happy.

When I was finally allowed to leave the hospital we went out for a date, and eventually fell in love. We were happy and together that’s all that matters, and we will be forever.