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Chapter 3

Chapter 3 Timmy Winters wakes up to find his girlfriend Cory Potts staring out the greyhound bus window. He knew all the events from last night wasn’t Cory’s fault but still his dad the sheriff though it was a good idea to get her out of town till the whole media shit storm blows over. Timmy and Cory have been friends with each other there whole life’s and Timmy has loved Cory very deeply for along time. Cory even manage to saved his life from a psychopath last night but these words that she said to him after the events keep haunting him deep down inside as it keeps running through his head over and over again. The words she said as she slowly put a gun to her own head and almost took her own life till he intervene. “I’ll done bad things” Were what she said. Cory turns away from the bus window because she suddenly had this feeling of being watched. She first turned toward Timmy to find he was staring at her and she wasn’t surprised by this because Timmy had a front row seat to watching her kill someone last night and that that image wasn’t going to leave his memory anytime soon, but Timmy’s eyes are not the eyes that she was feeling on her right now. Cory looks forward to find Jason Grey sitting in the bus seat in front of her with a giant crocodile smile acrossed his face looked back at her. “looks like the wimp is awake” said Jason Grey with a playful sarcasm in his voice. Cory remains silent and turns her attention back to outside of the bus window for a moment in an attempt to ignore Jason Grey. Cory knew that nobody else on the bus could see or hear Jason Grey and that curse seems to be for her to bear alone and normally most of there conversations took place inside her head except on rare occasions when Jason Grey manages to frustrates her and she slip up by voicing her anger openly. Those times were very embarrassing because people tend to stare at Cory like she was crazy. Cory did found it to be creepy at times when Jason Grey seems to notices things around them before her and he also seem to knows how to do things that she normally didn’t, Like picking a lock or how to hot wire a car. “you manage to get any sleep” ask Timmy try to get Cory’s attention. Cory flashes Timmy a innocent smile and shakes her head no. These had been the first words he’s spoken to her since he told her that he loved her from last night. Cory understood that Timmy been thought a lot and it would take him sometime to adjust. “that the thanks you get for saving the little pussy’s life” said Jason. “he watched me shot your brother last night” said Cory in Timmy’s defense. “and I promised him I would never kill again” Jason gives Cory this awkward mocking laugh that seem to suggest that he didn’t believe she was capable of keeping that promise. The bus driver’s voice came over the loud speaker and informs all the passengers that they have now arrived at there destination and the bus driver ask for everyone to remain in there seats till the bus had come to a complete stop. Once inside the bus station Timmy tells Cory that he needs to find a quiet place to call his Aunt Meg to come and get them, it was his dad’s idea to not get a hold of Aunt Meg till after they arrive to the New Jersey bus station. Cory informs Timmy that she was in desperate need of a bathroom only for him to give her a very disapproving stare. Cory could feel herself start to get angry now that she was reduces to begging to Timmy like a little child for permission to use the restroom. After a long uncomfortable staring match Timmy begrudgingly agrees to let Cory adventure off to find the restroom. Cory was amazed by the massive size of this big city bus station, she pretty much believed that she could easily fit her home town high school into the bus station along with the school’s football field. Cory aimlessly wonders around the bus station in search of a bathroom. She walks into a large area of the station lined with blue lockers to find the entire way to the bathrooms. Once inside the restroom she was just as surprised by the restroom area as one side was lined with mirrors and sink. The other side seem to be made up of bathroom stalls and private showers. Cory notices far off that a man and woman couple in the back corner looked like they were making out. The man seem to not notice Cory being there or just didn’t case as one of his hands when up the woman’s shirt fondling her breasts. Cory quickly takes her eyes off the couple feeling uncomfortable and quickly locks her eyes with her own reflection in the mirror. She didn’t need to use the bathroom like she told Timmy earlier but it’s been a long trip. Cory lite up a Marlboro and begins puffing away. Cory knew that she promise to quit. Timmy didn’t want her smoking and he didn’t want her killing. Well damn it Roman wasn’t build in a day and at least the only person she was killing with the smoking was herself. After a belief moment she inspects her outfit in the mirror. Cory was dressed in a black tank top shirt sporting the logo of the heavy metal rock group Halestorm on the front and black leather mini skirt. Cory realizes that she haven’t seen Timmy’s Aunt Meg in a little over a year now and back then she use to dress a lot more conservative. Cory since then had traded her old flannel shirts and faded blue jeans for a more slutty attire that she wears now a days, but at less today Cory was making the extra effort and was wearing a bra in Aunt Meg’s honor. The woman in the far corner let’s out a loud cry that gets Cory’s attention and she could suddenly feel that there was something off about the couple as she slowly begins making her way to the couple. Once Cory was a few feet away she could see that the man was holding a gun to the woman’s ribcage. Cory was surprised at how a criminal would bravely try something like this in a public place but then again, Cory’s never been outside of her small town before or seen the big city. “welcome to the big city” said Jason who is now standing off to the side of Cory. Cory feels the pocket of her black leather mini skirt in search for her switchblade knife that she normally keep on her person for these type of situations only to realize it’s in her duffle bag on the other side of the restroom. “just walk away and let this poor bastard have his fun” pleaded Jason Grey. “I can’t do that” said Cory talking to Jason Grey inside her head. The man quickly slams the woman’s head against the bathroom wall causing her to fall to the floor in a half dazes. He then turns around and points the gun in Cory’s face as the woman victim presses herself tightly against the wall in a state of confusion. “your in it now bitch” said the thug holding the gun with a big grin form acrossed his face as he looks up and down at the curves of the blonde teenage girl. “daddy’s getting a up grade” Cory’s mind for some reason had a flash back of what she believed to be one of Jason Grey’s memory’s. In the memory Jason’s older brother Roy Grey who was a Ex-army ranger and in the memory he was teaching Jason how to take away somebody’s gun when there pointing it at you. Cory found her thoughts then drift away even more, Roy was one of Jason’s siblings that came to her small town yesterday but unlike the others in Jason’s family Roy didn’t want Cory dead. Roy for some reason could see the potential killer that Cory was and he wanted to recruit her into the Grey family as Jason’s replacement. The remainder of Roy’s life, he and Cory seem to have a thing for each other. Then last night Roy kidnapped Timmy and later Roy handed Cory a gun and he demanded for her to kill Timmy as a test of love. Jason quickly gives Cory a mental slap across the face that felt very real and it even hurt for some reason. The mental slap also managed to put Cory back into the reality of her current situation. “no time for ex-lovers lane” screamed Jason Grey very angrily. Cory’s mind now back on track she could now see a number of occasions where Jason use the disarm technique he learned from his brother Roy. Cory suddenly found herself laugh along with the thug that was holding the gun on her. “craziness will get you nowhere but being a dead bitch” said the thug. Suddenly with a blinding quickness Cory takes a hold of the gun and twist the barrel of the weapon back on it’s owner. The thug was shocked to find himself now looking down the barrel end of his own gun because now the teenage girl was the one holding the gun on him. “that just happened” said Jason Grey with a cockiness in his voice. “you just learn that from my memories” “I don’t know” said Cory feeling a bit surprised herself. “It just felted natural” Cory then takes the gun and quickly smacks the thug upside the head sending the thug to the floor unconscious. A part of Cory wished deeply that she was hitting Jason Grey acrossed the face . “I have never seen any kind of shit like that outside from a movie” said the woman victim sounding excited and very grateful. “you saved my life” Cory noticed the woman’s voice sounded a little bit on the husky side kind of like a males voice would be. Cory found herself looking the woman up and down wondering if she just rescued a man. “if this chick haves a dick you better put a bullet in it’s fucking head” said Jason. The husky voice woman took noticed right away when Cory begin checking her out intensely. After a long moment Cory couldn’t find anything other than that strange husky voice to suggest this was a man. “your beautiful” said Cory not realizing at first that she said the remark out loud. Cory grow up her whole life in a small town and the big city was already now turning into a strange adventure. The woman blushes over the comment before flashing Cory a big smile and studying her in return. “it may not be much but I think I can return the favor” said the woman. “your blue cowboy boots don’t go very well with your black outfit” Cory look down at the thug’s feet and takes a liking to the black high top steel toe boots he’s wearing. “what size is his boots” ask Cory.

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