WELL WHAT DO YOU KNOW, you showed up
Yup, i showed up
After all these years you look good
Yup, what have you been up to all these years
Awe, you know hunting and fishing with Steve staying up in the mountains not much going on Have you seen Steve Cleve
Nope, last time with you, what brings you way out here this early in the morning
[Sam kicked the dirt rubbing his fore-brow making Cleveland wait for an answer-Sam is struggling on what to tell his friend. Should he tell Cleve about the girl? About the strange marking in his cabin? That Steve is missing or dead a pile of red dust if you will].
Well cat got your tongue, come on spit it out, can’t stand around doing nothing but listen to you tell me i’m pretty
Yeah, no, i have a few issues i need to talk over with som, one, any one, i can’t find anyone the whole trip to here. Where are all the people
I’ll give you a choice, i can tell you on the way, or i can tell you when we get back, or if we get back, know what i mean jelly bean
Right now?
Before HIGH_NOON. Well get what you taking and get in the SUV time to go.
[I know, but it was out of the blue when the wind picked up too]. Cleveland called out to the child. Did you do what i told you to do? Get in the truck then, do babies have to be told everything?” Cleveland chuckled a good laugh back and Sarophia complained. Sam was kind of stunned. No, he was stunned. He motioned to the little girl].
You come from the city
No i have to dance
Are you doing a recitation for school [Sarophia giggled]
A recit a tion what. What is that
A play at school or something
No, silly, i’m to little to go to school. A bee dance you silly i just told you twenty-seven hours ago don’t you remember do you want me to tell you again i can tell you one more time i can tell you lots of times bee dance bee dance bee dance
Good going Sam
What did i do
That little girl never stops talking
Well he forgot he won’t forget now for a long long long time, bee dance bee dance
Well never mind telling him nothing, he will forget it again anyhow, Old Samy here is like a big forgetter, he can’t remember nothing
[Cleveland chuckled at the little girl he learned to get her attention causing her to listen and not go on like a broken clock, which he had told her she sounded like. Of course Sarophia would not understand this].
No i don’t, clocks sound like this, tick-tock tick-tock tick-tock
{Sam grunted out a laugh} Cleveland said
There you go again thinking like a baby and i don’t need no baby i need a little girl who can think like a little girl can you do that, think more like a big girl.
Okay, is Sam going to dance too
Oh he will want to
what if he doesn’t know how {Sam could not keep still}
What do mean i don’t know how, why i’m one of the best BEE DANCERS around
Oh yeah, probably not like me and Cleveland
did he dance the bee dance for you
Yup, he, he showed me {Sam turned his face from her’s to Mr. Rupert}
So when are we going to have this talk
[But it would not be right straight now . . .Cleveland accelerated the closer he got to the rail-road tracks]. [The collision with Perch and the train, still remains where it happened. In the Middle of the road-way. Except nothing else was around. Nothing not a sound]. Not even PINK FLOYD.
TIME IS RUNNING OUT Actually the time is ten-twenty-seven they have to get around the crash-up to the other side of the tracks the way to the City before high noon but not to soon right on time, time is essential for life.
The men figured they had ten to fifteen minutes to spare, that Sam arrived and is with them. They went aboard the train. With Sarophia.
There is no way on this EARTH Mr. Cleveland Otto Rupert is going to let this child out of his sight . . .Not now. She is all he has, he is also fairly sure to say he is all she has. Only thing now is he actually likes her and does have fun poking at her, even if it means teasing her. Sarophia means the whole world to him and he is going to keep it that way at all cost. Now more so with the aid of Sam.
Cleve, i have to pee
