Glory Days and D&D: page 4
The drive to Colin's house involved lurching to and fro in my camaro, as I pretended to be highly erratic and distracted by the fantastic events we had witnessed. I was suprised there were no cops out that day, we would have had to do some major explaining if we'd been pulled over so I was doing my best to keep Glenn shook up without getting a ticket.
"I know where there's a DOJO on the way" Glenn said, clutching the back of my seat. "We could get lots of weapons there."
"No time," I uttered while passing a slow driver. "The glow flickered a few times while we were watching."
"Yea, it cut a cow in half!" Interjected Colin.
"It might not stay stable long enough. We've got to get there fast." Anybody who lives in Petaluma would know that the quickest way to Orchard Station Road was to take Petaluma Boulevard north to Stony Point Road, then go down stony Point to Washoe Road, then take the right onto Orchard Station. Instead, we were taking Bodega Highway to Skillman Lane, to Liberty Rd, to Pepper, to Jewitt, to Stony Point Road. Luckilly, Glenn had NO sense of direction. I have no Idea where he thought we were, but there weren't any DOJO's on Bodega Avenue.
About now, Glenn decided that maybe, just possibly, we might be pulling his leg, and said "None of this stuff looks like Orc stuff."
"Duh! their weapons were really gross and slimey." Colin reached into his shirt and pulled out the necklace. "But I got THIS off one of them. It was glowing." He looked absolutely serious.
Glenn started reaching for it, and Colin snatched it back. "Don't touch it! I think its MAGIC." He stuffed it back in his shirt. I noticed Glenn's look of yearning in the rearview, and stiffled a chuckle.
The rest of the drive was filled with talk of whether or not we looted the bodies properly, and if there were any other items we may have missed.
Finally, we came to Orchard station road and I slowed for the gravel driveway up the hill to Colin's house. As we crested the hill, Glenn whipped his head back and forth looking for glowing hemispheres and dead orcs. "Where are they?" He shouted, nearly frothing.
The thought that we had two machettes sitting in the back seat next to a nutcase crossed my mind momentarilly as I said "Geez Glenn! You are SUCH a SUCKER!"
"Didn't you think it was just a LITTLE concidence that a dimensional rift opened on my farm two weeks after we talked about it at school?" Colin lost all control at this point, took out his necklace, and waved it in front of Glenn "I think its MAGIC!" he mimicked himself, tilting his head back and forth crosseyed, laughing.
"I knew it all along! I was just waiting for you guys to mess up!" Glenn shot back.
"OK Glenn, you got us, that's right, we thought you were completely fooled this whole time, and you were just sitting there playing with us, which is why you snuck out of your dad's house, even though your grounded, and waited for us for half an hour at the Phoenix Theater. You know, if your dad figures out, your dead meat!"
"Oh GEEZ, I'm DEAD! They're gonna kill me. You guys gotta get me back home." Glenn turned paler than his usual anemic complexion.
"Not a problem" said Colin, Just tell them Ron and I came over to study with you... you needed a book from the Library for your report in World History, so we went there to get it. They can't possibly be mad at you for that."
Having figured out how to save Glenn's bacon, we turned around and drove him home with two machettes and a fiberglass Ben Pearson bow in the back of the camaro.
We never did get him that library book.
