14 chapter 14
Joe begins to play on the abandoned playground and he became happier than a lark.
Wendy speaks,"I just can't believe the old playground is still in one piece!"
McDonald laughed.
Wendy spoke," What is so funny?"
McDonald looked over to his wife with an elephant grin.
McDonald spoke,"It was broken down but all the parts was still here though! It was like it meant to be put back together!"
Wendy spoke,"That is why you were gone so long! I had believed that it was just because that you could not find it, but you just trying to fix it."
McDonald looks at his wife with a tender look that pierced through to his wife's soul.
Wendy begins to cry and is held by her husband while still sitting at the picnic table.
Wendy cries into her husband's shoulders and is comforted by McDonald with a gentle
embrace.
Wendy whispers in his ear to avoid scaring Joe who was in his own little world,"All our friends that had played with us here are died. We are the only two that are left."
Joe and Wendy's school mates had all died due to gang violence or overwork. It was a burden that the couple had carried over the years, since all their old friends died before they were thirty years old.
McDonald spoke,"I know that, so I thought that I should rebuild this place. I can not take back what troubles we had to go through but I can help us remember the good times! We have to remember how much fun we had and the tender love was shared with them!"
Wendy looked up into the eyes of her husband and discovers that McDonald was crying too. McDonald pulls out his hanky and dries out the eyes of his wife.
The couple remembers where all their friends played on the old playground.
Joe was enjoy playing on the playground but it was starting to get dark.
The boy hears for him to stop playing and return to his parents.
Joe thought,"I am having so much fun why would I want to stop! It is not fair!"
The young boy got all huffy and mad.
He speaks," Let me go down the big slide just one more time!"
Wendy yells up to Joe,"Okay, hurry! We have got to go!"
Joe jumps down the slide and runs over to his parents.
They all hold hands as before and begin to walk home.
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The family of three had walked some distance away as the sun was starting to darken the skies by it's setting.
Wendy looks over to Joe and speaks,"Did you have fun today, Joe?"
Joe jumped for joy and said,"I had so much fun today! Thank you Momma and Poppa for taking me here! I love it here, bring me back here again some time soon! I just can not wait to return!"
Joe's parents lifted him off the ground and swung him in air for a few moments while walking.
Joe yells,"More, More!"
McDonald spoke," No more, since it is getting late. We need to hurry back so that bad men can't hurt us!"
Joe spoke,"Awe man! Okay, let's go home!"
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Joe was resting on his father's right shoulder with the boy's rear end resting of McDonald's forearm.
The family of three were almost home when they see a car racing behind them.
The car was swerving from side to side uncontrollably and the driver was likely drunker than a
skunk.
The car starts to honk it's horn so much that it wakes up Joe out of his deep sleep and the boy starts to get grouchy.
McDonald speaks,"It will be okay, Joe. Shh! Stop wiggling or you hit the concrete! You do not want to hurt yourself do you?"
Joe rubbed his eyes and went right back to sleep as if nothing had happened. The boy had a long
day at school and played most of the afternoon at the playground. His body had been tuckered out and he would sleep very good tonight.
The car pulls up in front of the family and parks.
Wendy and McDonald knows that trouble is soon to come.
The driver comes out the car with a beer can in his hand. The driver chugs the rest of the beer and throws the can to the ground.
The driver cusses wildly to the total disdain of McDonald and Wendy.
They must have been caught by a gang member is want they were thinking. They were praying that the drunken fool just went away.
The driver drinks three more beers and makes a loud burp that awakes the young Joe.
Joe stirs right awake and is scared by the loud drunk.
McDonald speaks," Why have you stop us? We have not doing nothing wrong since it is still light outside!"
The gangs had made a set curfew that the citizens are to not leave their homes past dark. All people that disobeyed the curfew would be punished by the gangs.
The driver was taken back by the statement and his head begin to shake wildly.
He begins to laugh and finally begins to speak," How dare you rebel against the gangs! I am a boss of a crew. Boys come out and back me up!"
Three thugs jumped from the fancy sports car and shut the door behind them. The three poorly dressed men stand to the sides of the liked dressed driver.
Then the four men were trying to intimidate the small family.
Joe becomes scared and holds the side of his mother.
The driver spoke," You are too old to be still sucking a tit!"
The other three thugs all laugh at the comment as if it was the funnest joke that they had ever heard. The three men were all secretly afraid of their boss and would do anything to make him happy, so that could have a health chance at life.
Wendy speaks,"Shut your mouth! Do not insult my boy!"
McDonald backed up his wife,"That is right! Just let us go home and you can go back to your fun!"
Then the thugs all went silent.
This was the first time these thugs had ever been shot down by anyone besides their own leaders. It was unheard of the common folk standing up for themselves since most of the people had been too scared to say anything against any their attackers to be. The people were afraid that they would be killed or tortured.
The four thugs been to get angry that someone had the gall to speak against them.
The driver begins to speak," You two have a lot of balls to speak against members of the red blooded gang! I am Big Mack!"
Wendy and McDonald did not react at all to the comment.
The parents did not believe in fearing anything but God. Joe was taught from a very young age that only God could destroy the body and the soul. Men could only destroy the body and are not able to send someone to heaven or hell. Men desired over time to lift themselves above God and run rough shot over anybody and everyone. The law and the gangs were carving out what they wanted to the horror of the common people. They took lands, bodies and anything imaginable. Those on top can get ahead because the common folk are squeezed dry of all they had owned.
These gang members are mad because they are being told that doing wrong instead of just willing acceptance to the status quo.
In the ghetto, evil has made presented as good and doing good is seen as evil. The Urano faction
cares only about results and not how you got there.
The thugs begin to curse wildly which angers the parents.
McDonald yells,"Watch your dirty mouth around my boy and wife! You need to stop it now!"
Big Mack punches McDonald in the face and busts the father's lip.
Wendy cries,"Thug, you do not realize who you are messing with! It is not in your best interest since we work for the One who made us! If you hurt us anymore then you all will destroyed by the All
Mighty!
The scene was getting fierce and Joe was getting scared. Wendy was holding her son as tight as she could without hurting him.The scene was getting very intense and Wendy and McDonald was starting to get to get worried for their son's well being. They could care less about what happened them as long as Joe was okay. The
couple did not know what was going and they prayed that their God would soon intervene.
Mack spoke,"That is it! You are going to have to pay us to keep us from killing you after all you had done to us!
The family of three was between a rock and a hard place.
The parents started to pray out loud as the four thugs were beginning to laugh at the family.
One of the thugs spoke,"God can not help you now! Give it up! God does not care about us that that live in this hell!"
The parents did not respond to the mocking and they continued to pray.
Mack stopped his laughing and begin to speak.
He spoke,"You have insulted the red blooded gang and it will take three thousand Rindats a head for us to forgive you! That is our forgiveness fee that we charge to those that speak against us!"
McDonald yells," We do not make that kind of money in a year! We are not going to pay that unbelievable sum! You all have lost your minds if you think we are going to pay that! Plus, it was you all that attacked us first to be begin with! Who do you think you are?"
The driver starts to laugh evilly and the other men begin to laugh as an endeavor to appease their boss.
The thugs knew that their boss had a very short fuse and he would get violent soon.
This family had the gall to say that their boss was wrong.
That was fatal, since the driver was very narcissist and believed himself to be an under boss. The driver was just a simple street thug and nothing more. The other three thugs were the driver's friends, since they were kids and they were always afraid of him.
Big Mack spoke," Fellas this broad may be an ugly Betty but I think that we can get nine thousand Rindats out of her! What do ya think?"
Wendy covered the ears of young Joe to keep him from hearing the nasty talk from the four gang members.
McDonald whispered in his wife's ear,"Run! Run as fast as you can!"
The family of three starts to run as fast as they could.
The thugs start to run after them when they hear a large bellow.
Mack said,"Stop it, we will get them just them the same! Let us chase after them with (my sports car) Bubbles!"
The other three thugs smiled and gingerly jumped into the driver's car.
The driver spoke,"I am going to give a three minute head start!"
The driver pulls out his cell phone and uses a stop watch app.
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Joe was struggling to keep up with his parents and he had stop to catch his breath.
Wendy and McDonald stop in their tracks and look back.
Joe was laying on the pavement huffing and puffing uncontrollably. The parents run to their child's side.
McDonald throws his son over his shoulder in a fireman's carry position. The parents then return back to the running like mad men.
