{"id":30,"date":"2016-03-25T16:04:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T20:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voice.devinecreations.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2019-02-28T19:19:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T00:19:44","slug":"rick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voice.devinecreations.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/25\/rick\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rick McQueen<\/strong><\/em> leaned back in his chair, hands atop his head looking across his desk at Harold Bicy waiting for Harold\u2019s answer. Bicy reached out and touched McQueen\u2019s desk his fingers near the mounted baseball that has sat on the edge of McQueen\u2019s desk for years.<\/p>\n

\u201c1985 World Series – St. Louis v. the Cardinals.\u201d said McQueen knowing the kid wanted to pick it up. Lots of kids have over the years, bet if I took that to the cops and had it fingerprinted they\u2019d get a dozen hits.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cCaught it in the third inning of the fifth game– good game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rick leaned forward and caught Harold\u2019s eyes, \u201cWhat are you in here for Harold?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAhh .. I dunno Misser \u2018Queen\u201d mumbled Harold. Harold leaned back and crossed his arms across his chest pulling his best gangster face. Bicy wore a purple satin shirt unbuttoned against a white wife-beater tee shirt, his biceps bulging as he peered at Principal Rick McQueen.<\/p>\n

\u201cSays here\u201d read McQueen, \u201cHarold had a verbal confrontation with Toyna Williams in the east hallway between 5th and 6th hour on Oct 28th.\u201d \u201cHarold used several obscenities and at one point attempted to hold onto Tonya\u2019s arm as Tonya tried to get away from him. Attempts by myself to get Harold into his 6th hour class failed with his running out of the building. He is not welcome back into my class until this matter has been addressed. Signed Celia Foster.\u201d<\/p>\n

McQueen sat back in his chair again and gave Harold some time to speak. Harold sat mute, looking at his feet splayed out across the tiled floor.<\/p>\n

\u201cSound about right Harold?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNah .. I ain\u2019t don nothing to that bit–\u201d Harold caught the widening of McQueen\u2019s eyes and rephrased: \u201cI din\u2019t touch her – we\u2019s jus havin us a lil\u2019 set-to is all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harold\u2019s impossibly long eyelashes blinked at McQueen. \u201cShe\u2019s my girl, sometimes she gets hersef all twisted up \u2018s all , we aight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, you don\u2019t know what the problem with Tonya was then?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNah – we was just haven a good time then all-sudden she go psycho on me– it was whack, man.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell\u201d said McQueen, \u201cmaybe you called her a bitch. . \u201d<\/p>\n

Harold grinned quickly then pulled his face back \u201cNooo Noo, I din\u2019t do none o that.\u201d<\/p>\n

McQueen folded the incident report in his hands and tapped it\u2019s corner on his desk blotter. He let some time pass and looked at Harold.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know I was principal at Boyer when you were coming up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI know, I \u2018member.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou were a good kid .. say is your Mom still in the Army?\u201d McQueen braced himself for bad news .. asking one of the kids about their family life was risky. Often the answer was incredibly sad and depressing.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah – she\u2019s stationed in Atlanta\u201d Harold smiled, \u201cbe home in November for a few weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you\u2019re living with your Grandmother then?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah Grams – she cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

McQueen turned his head toward the window, somebody from grounds was out there running a gas leaf blower. He waited till the guy had walked far enough away so he could be heard.<\/p>\n

\u201cGuess we need to set up a meeting then with her– get us all in a room and talk this over.\u201d ventured McQueen.<\/p>\n

\u201cNah man, Grams\u2019ll have fit Mr. MacQueen – she get pis– she get mad she have to take time offa work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell then what are we gonna do here Harold? I can\u2019t have you fighting and disrespecting other students in this high school.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harold slouched back into gangster mode, crossed his arms, looked sideways towards the leaf blower noise and sucked his front teeth. \u201cTssst— man.\u201d<\/p>\n

McQueen snapped his fingers, \u201cHey here\u2019s an idea .. we have an after school program, over at Boyer elementary .. fifth and sixth graders. They shoot hoops and play some soccer, catch up on their homework. You could help out over there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNaa – me hangin wit shorties?\u201d Harold snorted. \u201cAh don think so.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCome on Harold .. work with me .. plus ..\u201d Rick frowned. \u201cAren\u2019t you on some kinda probation with juvie?\u201d<\/p>\n

Harold had gotten jammed up recently for breaking windows.<\/p>\n

Harold glared at Rick .. \u201cShitt, now–\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, seems to me if you\u2019re not in school you gotta go back and finish your time with them – Juvie.\u201d McQueen said. \u201cGrams not gonna like that much.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harold steamed a bit over that, his right leg jack hammering up and down. Phones rang out in the outer office, McQueen leaned back, locking his hands behind his head, he swiveled away from Harold as if giving him time to access his predicament. The leaf blower stopped outside.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018s blackmail is what it is..\u201d Bicy said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, No, No — Harold its a deal. That\u2019s all. You get back in Mrs. Foster’s class and Pastor Williams gets some help for his after school program over at Boyer.\u201d McQueen smiled.<\/p>\n

\u201cPastor Williams\u201d Harold gasped, eyes narrowing. \u201cTha\u2019s Tonya\u2019s daddy .. aww man.\u201d<\/p>\n

McQueen smiled at Harold. \u201cIt is? Really? uh.. you know I think you may be right. Huh. Small world, hey Harold?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPfftpt, not that small\u201d, snorted Harold. \u201cI think I\u2019m a being played is what I think.\u201d<\/p>\n

McQueen ignored him, \u201cSo be at Boyer this afternoon at 4pm. Find Tonya\u2019s daddy\u201d he chuckled then, \u201cHe\u2019ll tell you what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harold stood up then, and headed out of Rick\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

\u201cHarold?\u201d<\/p>\n

Harold turned back, his hand on the door handle.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo more arguments or obscenities in the building – hear me?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah,\u201d Harold sighed \u201cI get it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rick McQueen leaned back in his chair, hands atop his head looking across his desk at Harold Bicy waiting for Harold\u2019s answer. Bicy reached out and touched McQueen\u2019s desk his fingers near the mounted baseball that has sat on the edge of McQueen\u2019s desk for years. \u201c1985 World Series – St. Louis v. the Cardinals.\u201d … Continue reading Rick<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-are-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voice.devinecreations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voice.devinecreations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voice.devinecreations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voice.devinecreations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voice.devinecreations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/voice.devinecreations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/voice.devinecreations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voice.devinecreations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voice.devinecreations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voice.devinecreations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}