Free The Country Club by Tim Miller Page B

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         “What the fuck do you want?” Caleb asked.
         “Hey, I get it. You’re upset. You still don’t understand the favor I did for you. I mean, you don’t want to know what they suggested doing to you.”
         Caleb looked around the room and saw a bloody dead girl strapped to one chair, and a living naked girl strapped to the other. The naked guy was pale and his chest was all broken out. He kept looking down at the floor and was holding a knife.
         “You call me up here to clean up your shit?” Caleb asked as he nodded to the dead girl.
         “No, no. Not at all. I wanted you to meet Joel here. My new best friend.”
         “New best friend huh? Did you tell him how you treat your friends?”
         “Don’t listen to him Joel. Look,” Denny nudged Joel. “Look. This is Caleb. We came here last night to party. But once we got here, he decided to grow a vagina and didn’t want to play along.”
         “So why’s he dressed like that?” Joel said.
         “Because his choice was to join you and your friends downstairs until one of us was ready to play, or stay here as part of the cleanup crew. Only thing is, he can never leave.”
         “Remember to tell him cleanup is cleaning up the dead bodies you g et done cutting up. Including people like you, Joel.”
         “I don’t wanna get cut up ,” Joel said.
         “Exactly! This is why you need to cut up your girlfriend. I don’t care what you do to her. Be creative. Do that, and you might get to leave unharmed. I’ll even go to bat for you ,” Denny said.
         “Really? What about Sophie?”
         “Who the fuck is Sophie?” Denny asked.
         “She’s our other friend, down stairs in the cage.”
         “You can’t help her. You can’t help Crystal here. She is going to die a horrible, painful death no matter what you do. If you don’t do it, we’ll kill you and kill her anyway. Or you can do it and maybe save yourself.”
         Caleb could see Joel actually thinking about it. He apparently knew this girl.
         “Come on kid. You had fun fucking her didn’t you?”
         “You fucking raped me asshole!” Crystal yelled from the chair.
         “You shut the fuck up! No one is talking to you!” Denny said. “Why don’t you start by cutting her tongue out, then we don’t have to listen to her bitch.”
         Joel looked up at Caleb as if he wanted to be told what to do.
         “What?” Caleb asked. “Don’t look at me. You know her, I assume you care about her. But if you’re going to listen to this asshole, that’s on you.”
         “I don’t want to die,” Joel said as he started to cry. “I don’t. I don’t like pain. I just don’t want to be hurt.” He walked over to the chair next to Crystal and raised the knife.
         “Joel, no. Please. I’m sorry I yelled at you earlier. I liked fucking you. If you don’t do this, I will fuck you whenever you want, every day for the rest of your life. I promise.” Crystal pleaded.
         “I’m sorry Crystal ,” Joel was really sobbing now. “I’m sorry I’m so weak. This is gonna hurt though.”
         Crystal screamed as he lifted the knife and began cutting along her stomach, from her waist in between her breasts. Blood ran down her naked skin and between her legs. When he lifted the knife to the top of her head, her screaming no longer sounded human.

Chapter 18
     
         Brett Higgins walked off the airplane and into the terminal at the San Antonio International Airport. He couldn’t believe he flew all the way out there, but after the phone call from that girl, he knew she was about to get herself killed. He stopped by the Alamo car rental window and picked up his car. The only vehicle they had left was a Dodge Dart. At six foot three, it was hard for him to squeeze into the Dart, but he made it.
         The drive to Round Rock didn’t