Lyon – Chapter 108

Today was the crew’s annual random act of kindness day. I don’t know how random it is though since we had a few things we always did around this time of year.

Although I might not put much stock in Xmas per se, there was still a good percentage of the population who did. Every year for the past five or so, the sisters baked cookies and cakes and those little gingerbread men which they then wrapped in these cute little boxes for us men to pass out.

Then later in the evening, we’d take them around to the women’s shelter and the children’s ward at the hospital. We collected money to buy gifts for the children and made sure they had something to look forward to as well.

shit meant a little more to me than in years past. The thought of those little kids, some of them not much older

white, black or red. Everyone in this town was ours and we looked out for all of them the same.

others. Mom and her gaggle of hens showed up first thing in the damn morning and took over.

ng here?”

with the baking.”

oven?”

. Come on Caitie, let’s go into the kitchen and g

lt, you can do that anytime. Besides, you have her all the time grand

that kid almost everyday since

the air when the giggling started. Daniel isn’t the only

call purses.”

tried to play the innocent card but she was about to bust from holding back her laughter.

ke know w

now for sure but he sure does enjoy the benefits.” Kat came out of the kitchen when the hooting

know that’s right, I think that’s why Daniel l

hat note. I sure wish my parents would realize it was not cool to share certain things with me, damn.

omething to do with myself since the babysitting gig fell through.

ing. Somebody had to have an a*s that needed kicking. Any

ude what

tree for old lady Morris but that’s about it.”

ing over to do that.”
Today was the crew’s annual random act of kindness day. I don’t know how random it is though since we had a few things we always did around thi

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ghter while Katarina cooked.”

I need out of this place like now.”

don’t want no part of that shit. Where you getting the tree

.”

here.”

you head out.”

oblem.

entured into the henhouse to kiss my woman and my kid goodbye and from the silence that fell as soon as I crossed the threshold, I knew I really didn’t want any part of w

ear, daddy will be back soon.”

uld be negative, Jared needs to get a tree for old lady Morris and I’m his wingman. Besides, what do you need me for, you’ve got your posse here to do cleanup. Elena, the flour is su

a makes a mess don’t you sweet girl?” Caitie could care less. She was too busy gnawing on a wooden spoon with who knows wh

behind.

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out a bit, cutting down most of the grass and rotted trees so that it looked more inviting I guess you can say, as opposed to something out of a backpacking horror flick, but it was still pretty dense in some parts.

uess having surrounding land and a backyard said

and they’d decided that here is where they’d be getting their Xmas trees from now on. I had no problem with that.

ut I had a better idea. Why not give them away?

back here trying to get one for old lady Morris who lived alone and whose family only came around the holidays.

”

ith it?”

ll those bare limbs in the middle?”

brick outside?”

get back there sometime before next year, so lets get a move on.” He looked up at the tree that he’d been about to cut down as if trying to find its redeeming qualities.

und back there for a good while before we finally found one that I thought looked respectable enough.

This one.

She only needs a little five footer.”

t me in.”

rted heading back.

g up the rear. He stopped short and almost got me in

y Colt.” He bent down close to the brambles and I was about to ask him what the h

t’s up bro?”

y or so?”

y?” He pointed to what looked like footprints and matted down grass but I sti

st day or so.” I didn’t bother asking him how he knew that shit, that was his thing. That little gift has come in handy a time or two in the past and I never questioned his knowledge. I knew f**k all about it so

ut here or they usually came by the house first it’s possible.

ow stood.

would’ve picked up on my own but the way he explained shit as he went made sense.

’s where the person was standing.”

gut again when we turned in the little copse of trees where he’d stopped.

base of one of the trees was matted considerably more than the rest around it but I still wasn

this is new?”

ng to like where this was going.

house, which was more glass than anything else. You probably couldn’t see anything from back here unless you had binoculars, but if you got close

hat but Jared’s hand on my arm stopped me.

leaving something behind.”

nce in a while to study shit closer.

rts or more accurately, Jared found a trail that led onto the property from the road that

h I now saw had been cut.