CHAPTER 29

I was sitting quietly listening to Kori, word being was. Now there is a small army of women consisting of Loretta, my girls and Natsuko attempting to calm me down. Better luck convincing a starving dog to not eat a hunk of meat. I am in the main foyer of the house pacing like a mad man barking out orders.

"We need the rest of the crew back here now. Get Jun up and running on where the homeless camps are in town and we start there. I want Ben and Devin in one car and the rest of you girls need to split up so we can cover more ground," I'm yelling at everyone assembled.

"Guys, you need to calm down, it's not that simple," Katy says, trying to get me to slow down.

"No it's is that fucking simple now get on your shit and let's get this going now," I tell them as they stare at me in shock," What are you waiting for?"

"Guy, honey, you need to listen to your girls, there is nothing we can do. Jackie left on her own and that's been done for weeks now," Loretta tells me in a quiet tone.

"Yes it's been for weeks and nobody bothered to tell me my friend was in trouble because I couldn't do anything weeks ago but guess fucking what!? I'm here and we got shit to fucking do," I scream loud enough to be heard outside.

Kori steps front and center and takes my head in her hands, I resist but she doesn't take no for an answer as she tries her hand at talking me down.

"Guy you need to stop screaming at us and blaming Loretta for what happened. She can't do any more than she did or she'll get removed and a lot of girls will need her help in the future," Kori says trying to reason with me.

"I don't blame Mom for this, it's not her fault this happened," I tell the woman taking Kori's hands off my head," It's Mine and it's Steven's and when I get a hold of his ass I'm gonna kill him."

I step past the women and grab my coat out of the TV room and beeline it for the garage. I grab my helmet and start to search for my key to my bike in the pockets of my coat to find they're not there. I scramble for a moment emptying each one when it dawns on me they took them. I was enraged before with them not helping me but now I am about to explode as I head back in and find them almost right where I left them in the foyer.

"Who took my keys," I ask, shaking with rage.

"Guys, you need to calm down and we'll help you find them," Katy says quietly.

"Don't mess with me," I growl," I want my keys back and I want them now."

"No," Imelda says, showing me my keys before closing her hand around them.

"Do you really want to do this with me now," I say, getting less than a foot away from her face with my own.

"No Guy, are you gonna do this with me now? I have the keys and we both know what it'll take for you to get them back and that's not going to happen and we both know it," Imelda tells me with a cold resolve.

I won't fight her for them, hell I won't even try to grab them and she knows it. I've got plenty of control to keep from doing anything to women and especially all the women present. I drop my coat off my shoulders and see all the girls back up a bit including Imelda before I turn towards the back door and stomp my way over to it. It's a nice big door made of some deep stained wood with all these little glass windows in it to let plenty of light in. I barely notice all of that as I swing the door open hard and watch as it pops back in front of me, mocking me by trying to close on me.

I officially lose what little control I have and grab the frame of the door tightly before slamming it against the wall it's connected to hard. I don't let go after the first slam, I keep smashing it and even feel my knuckles contact the wall hard but it doesn't faze me as I repeat my slamming till I see barely any glass in the door as it's mostly broken on the ground at my feet. I storm out into the back having conquered the mocking door and am so pissed that my stomping past the pool leaves me confused as I hit water and am drowning in shock till I pull my head out and start screaming and thrashing. I want to know who pushed me and I finally pull myself out of the pool to see nobody was even close to me as all the girls are still by what's left of the back door. I continue my now soaking wet walk and when I get to the first tree I find I slam my shoulder against it and try to push it out of the ground. Granted it's almost as big around as I am and it doesn't move but I throw everything I have at it to no avail before finally walking past it and collapsing on the far side away from the house.

I don't know how long I'm staring off into the distance but it was late afternoon when I got home and I can feel my wet clothes getting cold against my skin as night starts to take over. I can hear people approaching me from behind but right now I don't care who it is.

"Guy honey, we're all inside eating dinner," I hear Loretta say from behind the tree," did you want to come in and get some food?"

"Nope," I reply, barely loud enough to be heard.

"Honey it's getting cold outside and I think you should come in and at least get warm," Loretta says again this time with a little more concern.

"Nope," I said again to her, still not moving.

I can hear her start to head back to the house and some talking behind me but as much as I would normally want to know what is being said about me right now I couldn't care less. The sun finally goes down and my wet clothes are mostly dry but cold as hell as I continue my vigil of impotent rage. I can't go help my friend, my own family won't help me and not a single person in my crew is coming out to back me up and help me get this started. More footsteps, multiple people this time and I hear male voices this time.

"Guy you want to come inside and try to get started with finding your friend," I hear Jun say like he's waking me from a sleep.

"Nope," I tell him, almost dead panning from my spot.

"Guy we're here to back you up like always man. Come on and get out of the cold," Devin calls to me.

"Nope," my new vocabulary is doing me wonders right now.

"What did you all do to him," I hear Ben ask the other's present.

"We tried to get him to calm down but he just wouldn't stop, then he broke the door," I can hear Kori trying to explain it desperately," And fell in the pool before trying to knock down the tree. Now he's been sitting here for over four hours."

"I think we should just pick him up and carry him inside," Devin says as the rest of the crew gets silent.

I can hear footsteps stomping up to me and see Imelda as she steps into my view. I watch as she squats down in front of my face and just stares at me.

"Come on babe it's time to get up now," Imelda says, pulling my shoulder.

"Don't," I reply, shifting my gaze from the space she occupies to her face.

"No I said come on and that means get up and start moving," Imelda orders me again trying to pull me up.

"I said no, now leave me be," I tell her, brushing her hand off my arm.

"Good you can use more than one word at a time babe now get up," Imelda says trying to pull me from my spot.

I'm dead weight and in the struggle to pull me Imelda loses her grip and slips falling on her ass. Normally everyone would laugh but given the moods her and I are in nobody even makes a sound until I see Rachael step into view to help Imelda up. Rachael has on what would normally be a nice full length cotton skirt and a light colored top but right now it's just clothing to me. Imelda is seething from her fall and Rachael is right in front of her as Imelda starts barking orders at the crew.

"Alright Devin, Ben and Masha I need your help getting him up and inside, he doesn't want to listen then we just carry his ass," Imelda says ready to burst.

"No," Rachael says, getting a look of confusion from Imelda," You need to cool off and everyone needs to go inside now. I'll take care of this."

"You are going to pick him up and carry him in by yourself," Jun asks, confused.