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4.
"Jeez man.... what're we goin to do with the body........?"
"Dunno. Head off down there..."
They headed off down the dusty
side road towards the Borough tip. They heard the crash
of the Falcon's gears just behind them as it screeched into the same
turn.
"Some bastard is following us... get goin!"
Clive's Falcon suddenly spluttered, there was a clang and the motor
died. They screeched to a halt. "Gimmie that spanner..." howled
Clive as he shot around to the front and hoisted up the
bonnet. There was a clank or two, a crash as Clive jammed down the
bonnet and got in behind the wheel again, revving the motor back into
life.
"They stopped, Jace." said Tatua. "Look, we'll go round
here..." They gunned the Holden ute, John's body bouncing
around in the back, down the side road towards the tip.
The tip staff weren't there that day. A strike over individual contracts
or something - Jason and Tatua cared little, they didn't work
for anyone and maybe never would.
They ground to a halt
beside the tip face.
"Get him out and over here." shouted
Jason.
"Hey, we'd better make it look good case they find
em!"
"Gimmie that knife in the back, Tate." said Jason. He
ripped the remains of John's shirt off. "Get me that
bit of cardboard..."
They cut a hole in John's back and
dipped their fingers into his blood.
"What about "Bob Marley
is dead?" suggested Tatua.
"That'll do. Hey, just do one
of those German things too, you know, a swasta
something."
Tatua explained, "A swastika, you mean,
man... yeh, I know how to do one of them,
too."
They tied the large piece of cardboard with the
message and swastika crudely fingered with blood on it
around the corpse and rolled it down the tip face. The body
flopped this way and that, mixing with ash and rotten vegetables until
it rocked to a stop at the bottom. They gingerly followed it
down pushed some garbage over it. They were still down
at the bottom of the tip when Clive's Falcon rolled to a halt at
the top.
Clive and Boyd looked down over the face at
the rolling upward-looking eyes of the two boys.
"Well well well. What do we have here, now?" Clive looked sternly
at the two boys. "Is that poor John?" indicating the
now still, partly covered corpse.
"Na na - we didn't
do that, man - honist- na! He just fell out of the roof..."
"You boys had better come back up here." said Clive sternly. Boyd was
nervously hanging around in the background wondering what he'd
got himself into. The four of them gathered together
at the edge of the tip. Tatua and Jason explained what they had done.
They all went over to look at the cannabis spread around in the back of
the ute.
"Nobody's going to miss him." Clive suggested.
"Hate to see this stuff go to waste - with the police climbing all over
it asking awkward questions." said Boyd, tentatively trying
to contribute something to help. "You poor boys." he
said, putting his arm gently around Jason's shoulder.
"You
have lots of secrets now, haven't you, boys?" said Clive.
Jason and Tatua said nothing. All that lovely dope
was slipping out of their hands and they couldn't do a single
thing about it!
"What about the ute...." Jason asked
urgently. They held a council of war. The die
was cast. They would get the ute quickly back to John's place and stash
the dope away safely. Better still, they could get some of
the seed heads together, mix it with some stuff Clive
already had, and have a smoke at Clive's place.
They did just
that. Clive sat in the big chair staring at Jason's tight little
bottom. He took another puff. The world seemed a much better
place. Here were the four of them, all with the same
deadly secret. John would just become another missing person lost
amongst the drug wars at this time of year. Even if the authorities
were to find his body, the message and sign painted in
blood on the cardboard wrapped around him would be enough to throw
them off the track.
Jason and Tatua were showing signs of mellowing,
in their new company..
"This is good, good stuff, hey, great
man." Jason mumbled some more and looked up at the swimming
ceiling.
"Yeh - what about some music...." Tatua started beating
his hand down on his leg, simulating a beat. Boyd started
suddenly, relaxed and stared fixedly at Tatua's firm little
bulge.
"I've got something better than that." said Clive and
reached for a video cassette from the line of cassettes
on the shelf next to the tv.
"You boys are going to love this,
now just relax, you - nice - boys." |