log post II

[orangetoughguy]

third person narrative, action bracket spam, anything goes
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[orangetoughguy]

The ferris wheel was the closest I could get to a skyscraper for a little while.

[He nods, still amused, still fucking charmed.] You win anything neat?

[whitetwoguns]

There was a roller coaster too, I had to make a choice between the ferris wheel or the coaster.

[He exhales to one side as a courtesy.]

I got a Snoopy dog.

[With his cigarette and open hand he shows how big this plush animal was....looks like about a foot and a half.]

[orangetoughguy]

They had those back then?

[He's totally kidding, Larry, honestly he is. But the old man can take a shot at the kid if he really wants to. Freddy can take it.]

[whitetwoguns]

Oh yeah. They were made out of woolly mammoth skin and stitched together with porcupine needles.

[On the exhale this time he lets it all roll out his nose giving the kid a look.]

Your mother must have been sprouting out of the cabbage patch then right?

[He can keep on goin' really.]

[orangetoughguy]

Oh yeah I heard they used Elvis Presley to get the crops ripe and ready.

[Only because it sounds like the old man could be ballsy enough to go there.]

[whitetwoguns]

All in the hips.

[His tongue slides from one side of his lower lip to the other.]

Though if that doesn't work, well...

[Larry lets that hang in the air awhile with his cigarette smoke. What's gonna stop him from going there.]

The man's gotta give all he got.

[orangetoughguy]

[Oh he's riding the same wavelength. Fuck they're in public though and that big bird is still hanging in the air. Not the one right out the window, the other one.]

So where's Snoopy now?

[It's not a subject change, just reigning the hormones in. A little bit.]

[whitetwoguns]

[Ah so he is catching that. Larry finishes off his beer. As for his cigarette he'll grind the end of it in in his napkin.]

He hung around my cave awhile then I gave it to a girl.

[Shrug right on there.]

[orangetoughguy]

Because you liked her or because you wanted something out of it?

[He's not doubting Lawrence Dimick's gentlemanly behavior at all but boys will be boys and this one admitted to upskirt accidents.]

[whitetwoguns]

Because I liked her and I didn't know what to get her.

[He takes a look at his fingernails, then folds his hands like a gentleman.]

Didn't have much money again. Funny how that works out.

[orangetoughguy]

It was a joke.

[As if Larry didn't already know but maybe it was bad timing too or the fact that jokes are his go-to crutch. He puffs on his cigarette and sips again.]

Did she like him? [And you?]

[whitetwoguns]

I think it was a few days before I got something out of it.

[Is he kidding? That's up to you to figure out Freddy.]

She loved him. Liked me enough.

[orangetoughguy]

[Right now he can't tell. Whether that's Larry's fault for being ambiguous, Freddy's fault for thinking too much, or both who really knows.]

What was her name?

[whitetwoguns]

Vickie Flagler.

[He leans back and crosses his arms.]

We went to the same school.

[orangetoughguy]

[The snort that comes out of his regal roman nose can't be helped.]

Vickie Flagler. Vickie. Flagler.

[Yeah he's trying out her name on his tongue because it sounds a little funny. About as funny as Freddy Newendyke and that's not even the real name. Not quite real anyway.]

[whitetwoguns]

Victoria Flagler. But she's absolutely a Vickie.

[It's amusing to hear him try it out.]

Flagler's not so weird.

[Not like Newendyke.]

[orangetoughguy]

Yeah it is.

[Mr. Newendyke gives an insistent nod because seriously, Flagler. Sounds like a girl with glasses and a backbrace...the kind who probably would have found a boy like Freddy cute because she thought the other boys were out of her league. Then again this Victoria Flagler caught the interest of one Lawrence Dimick so maybe she compensated for her name by being a fox. At the tender age of thirteen or something.]

How do you tell a Vickie from a Victoria?

[Freddy has an idea he just wants to hear Larry's thoughts on the matter.]

[whitetwoguns]

A Vickie is more rough around the edges. Her shoes aren't polished and her coat might not go with her skirt, but she knows her sport stats.

[Fourteen actually.]

Victorias wouldn't settle for anyone's secondhand Snoopy.

[orangetoughguy]

Okay I'll give you that.

[Because the old man looks more like a Larry than he'll ever look like a Lawrence, at least the old man the kid knows. Put him in a sharp suit, sunglasses, slick his hair, slip on a diamond ring, and let him loose in a high stakes casino though and yeah he'd look like a Lawrence. Or a Mr. White.]

I'd take Woodstock.

[whitetwoguns]

She was pretty in her way. Her teeth were almost too big looking and she had long straight hair. Definitely a Vickie. Not like a Freddy though.

[Uh huh he's talking about you kid. Though to any eavesdropping ear that could be someone different.]

I'll keep my eyes peeled. How about that?

[orangetoughguy]

Okay.

[He smiles. The prospect of getting a plush yellow bird from Larry Dimick is amusing, even if it's the kind that types out words for a beagle not the big thing standing around over there. Now where Freddys are concerned...he can't help but arch a brow.]

What do you think's the alternative to a Freddy? [Everyone thinks it's Frederick. Little do they know.]

[whitetwoguns]

They're still popular these days.

[Or maybe they could go to Knotts Berry Farm. They got plenty of things there. It doesn't come out though, it's about the big ol' bird of a subject that is hanging there. It's a little on the turkey size about now.]

What do you mean what do I think? It's Frederick. [Right? Larry tilts his head to one side looking at the man across the table.]

[orangetoughguy]

[And turkeys are pretty fucking big. They can be dangerous too, as cantankerous as geese. Talking about his name on the other hand gets Freddy sitting up a little more confidently. This is a subject he knows well, one he doesn't share with too many people too. He puts his cigarette out.]

Frederick sounds like the head of a household stuck in a basement since the Cold War. Freddys ain't always Fredericks anyway.

[whitetwoguns]

Then what?

[The old man leans forward. He's all ears now. Not a Frederick? Sure, he's got a point of a Cold War hero but that's not such a bad name. At least not by Larry's count.]

If it's not Frederick what is it?

[orangetoughguy]

[Oh he's in too deep now. Freddy rubs a hand over his face before looking left, looking right, rubbing again, looking right, then leaning in closer to Larry. Lawrence Dimick. Mr. White. Fucking tough as nails cowboy.]

Alfred.

[There are only a handful of people in the world who know this and they're all blood related. Somehow even the LAPD took him on board as a Freddy Newendyke.]