"Hey!" Paul yelled at the top of his lungs. "What are you doing there?"The third man turned his way, and in the darkness, raised an arm and there was ...a loud ringing noise in Paul's ear. It took him a second to realize that the man had fired a gun at him! Paul turned towards the shore and began walking towards it, using his hands as oars to push him while the water was still too deep for his feet to touch the river bottom. A second shot rang out, sounding impossibly hollow and booming as it. Bette was a bit deeper and sterner looking, yet she was the one who had talked first."Surely you got a lift some of the distance," Bette intervened."No; not one. It has been shank's pony all the way," I replied."Poor dear and where are you heading now?" Joyce asked."Nowhere in particular, just heading north." We are heading that way would you like to join us for a short way," She asked and her eyes almost begged me."Sure why not, I will then get a ride in your beautiful camper," I replied.After. ..”“Who would be willing to go to jail to get me to the hospital? And that doesn’t include you big sis,” Calvin asked.“I don’t know... , “ Gina said after a moment, then paused, “I’ll ask Hammer.”“Not Hammer either,” Calvin said before Gina could put forth that as a possibility. He knew that without Hammer there to keep things humming along the little island of calm he’d won in the chaos of the barrio would collapse.“Not me, and not Hammer, little sister you don’t make things easy, do you? But. ‘Hey man, we’re startin’ to get a bit of attention.’ Beth looked to him with a frown and then scanned the area and indeed several groups of people where looking their way. She removed her hand quickly. James caught her hand and gave it a quick kiss. ‘Thank you.’ For some reason, Beth felt herself blush, people were outwardly staring and James didn’t really seem to mind. She coughed and cleared her throat, ‘its ok.’ she mumbled. ‘Where are you going later? When the bands are through?’ James.