The Girl.

  “Holy cow pal this is one difficult matter”.

  In tears, Saul asked, “Yeah what’s the solution?”

  Hanging his head, “I do not know pal”, and Saul put his hands back over his face crying heavy. Never went home until daybreak and the next day at the construction site.

  Saul closed the deal for him and his brothers to build their first home, as they moved up from roofers to now building, Saul did have a lot of work too, as he did not lie to Ella. He had to check on the dwelling along with city permits and everything involved to build, as he worked all night going over everything.

  After leaving his best friend Rodney’s home, Saul was at the construction site all-night and alone.

  Six months later.

  The Wiley boys proved they could do anything, as the home was the happy owners dream. It was a split-level house and the owners paid them highly for a great job done perfectly. Saul actually took pictures of the first home they built and hung them in the office at the construction site.

  When that first home built surely started something as word got out and seemed the Wiley boys were moving up from roofers to builders now.

  Paul Gene and Brenda were proud of their boys, as for Paul Gene was not feeling well lately. He had been back and forth to the doctors again complaining with constant chest pain. Test, showed though that it was acid reflex and the family was all relieved. One night in the bar, it was rowdy, because there was a birthday party going on. Seth looking into the wild crowd told Rodney, “Heck, I really need to get my mask back out of the closet”.

  Rodney just grinned watching how rough it become, especially, as him and Seth watched Sebastian fighting a man, which ended fast with Sebastian literally side kicking him right out of the bar?

  Leaning against the jukebox, Seth told Rodney, “Shoot I never can forget the night my head went through a window like a stunt man”.

  Laughing, as Rodney remembered time back on that certain birthday.

  Starting to walk away, Seth said, “Hey Rodney, “I’m gonna grab a soda”.

  Giving a smile Rodney replied, “Go on pal, I got your back”, watching the Friday night crowd and mumbled,

  “There will always be fights in this place”.

  Sure enough before too long and the end of the night.

  A big fight was on and fist swung, as Rodney remarked, “Man can’t people just have a good time”, as he dogged a flying beer bottle.

  Then he got drug into the big brawl with his four pals against six men that started being jerks unexpectedly?

  One light haired man, slapped Shane right across his face without warning. From nowhere, another dark haired man walked right up to Sebastian and head butted him hard.

  Surprisingly, a third man with blonde hair stuck his foot out tripping Seth causing him to fall on the floor.

  All of a sudden, a man with reddish hair swiftly broke a beer bottle over Saul’s head. The last man walked straight up to Rodney spitting dead in his face.

  That fight was definitely on and got rough quick, as many tables crumbled and broke from body’s forcefully crashing onto them and thrown down viciously.

  People ran out of the way fast, because it was wild.

  Paul Gene stood shaking his head and almost off when it becomes outnumbered, because five other males wearing gray hooded jackets over their faces who were not even there at the time. All charged into the battle against the Wiley boys and Rodney unexpectedly when this fight turned ugly and there were eleven men to four Wiley’s and Rodney.

  That hollered out, “Who the heck are these guys?”

  The table sure turned.

  Due to the fact, the Wiley’s and Rodney were actually starting to lose right off the bat, as those men sure swung very powerful punches and lightning fast.

  It seemed as though the Wiley’s were about to meet their match.

  Behind the counter, Paul Gene stood calmly like always and Brenda trembled in fear looking onto her boys.

  The whole bar become silent and watched the Wiley’s, all five, severely beaten on. Raising her hand to her mouth, Brenda in tears mumbled, “Oh dear god, my boy Sebastian!” While her and Paul Gene saw him on the bar floor being kicked repeatedly.

  Brenda was now freaking out, waving her hands all up in the air and her hand throwing turned into rolling tears watching and actually heard Sebastian groaning out.

  The more he rolled in pain groaning the more those hidden faced people are really kicking him roughly and beating on him viciously.

  One person literally jumped onto Sebastian digging their boots into his chest, as Sebastian screamed out, “STOP DUDE!” His mother screams out, “NO!”

  Panicky, Brenda wished his three brothers could help him and could not, because they were taking their own beatings.

  It was sure becoming a Wiley loss.

  Taking her eyes off Sebastian a second Brenda saw Rodney being kicked around the bar floor by two dark haired men while he tried hard getting up and they kicked him right back down roughly.

  There was blood starting to cover the floor and was coming from the Wiley’s with Rodney. That just could not take over.

  Brenda quivered with concern and had many tears flowing, as Paul Gene kept turning his head off the fight.

  Which was a first and Brenda noticed why he would not look, as she caught a glimpse of Shane’s eyes actually tore up a bloody mess.

  Highly upset, now Brenda threw her hands up and said, “Oh this is wrong, I am out of here”. In many tears pouring, she runs to the back of the bar fast and turning back for a second, her hands rose up by her mouth.

  When she saw Seth’s head went busting right through the cigarette machine then Sebastian literally bit the corner of the pool table, as the person smashed his face down fast and hard repeatedly.

  Watching in fear, she witnessed a pool ball bash Saul right in the face instantly blood squirted. Petrified, Brenda went bursting through the swinging doors fast and made it out the back door, now outside wiping tears that would not stop.

  “No god, please let it end”.

  “My boys!”

  If she thought that was bad with her sons, luckily she had left the bar, because it becomes worse and Brenda should have witnessed what happened next.

  It was bowling night at Wiley’s pub and not with actual bowling balls and standing behind the counter, Paul Gene was completely shocked at this point.

  The whole bar at that point cleared back standing by the front doors and staying far from the bowling league’s range of flying pool balls.

  About seventy or even a few more people stood amazed this night at the bar.

  Paul Gene stepped back by the whisky rack and away from the sudden bowling competition. Now taking place and the screams and cries of pain become worse, as Paul Gene stood back watching in shock each of his boys get hammered.

  By flying pool balls striking and hitting them head on when the shouting grew from each of his boys and Rodney.

  “OH MAN MY NOSE!” Shouted Saul hands by his bloody face.

  Putting his hands on top of his head, Sebastian shouts, “MY SPLITTING HEAD!” “AW HECK, MY TEETH!” Shane shouting touching his teeth as blood runs down his face. Covering his bloody face, “MY EYE’S!” Shouted Seth.

  Rodney yelled, “ENOUGH DUDES!”

  “JUST STOP!” All yelling.

  The four Wiley’s with Rodney were dripping blood and barely could see or move now. Brenda was home making a turkey sandwich and spreading mayonnaise on her bread she in tears rolling mumbled, “Oh my poor boys are going to be all banged up again”. Back at the bar.

  A mother’s instinct is always right, as her boys were bruised, especially after the bowling tournament that went down.

  The other side definitely won the championship against the Wiley’s and their pal that were all stumbling and staggering really close to going down now?

  Ready to wipe the blood off their battered faces with the bar floor any minute. Paul Gene along with the ba
r was very silent and still, as they watched the worst fight ever take place.

  The Wiley’s with Rodney were losing, still trying to give their all, as they stumbled badly and such a bloody mess they could not take over this time.

  Those people they were fighting at this point gave their all and did not stumble. Paul Gene at that point turned his head away from his boys taking a deep breath, because it finally reached the ugly part and those people were about to finish his boys off. Paul Gene looking away from the horrible fight noticed half the females in the bar were hid into their guy’s arms now.

  He was glad Brenda had left and not here to witness her boys take their first brutal beating. These people were beating the heck out of the Wiley’s and seemed mad too. Paul Gene turned around again looking back at his boys, and it hurt him watching the big ending and his boys take punch after a harder punch.

  Head on repeatedly and they were limp, blood squirted all over and women in the bar screamed, “NO!”

  Paul Gene hated it and more than Brenda at that point.

  However, watched hard as it become they are his boys that stepped up to the plate and sure are paying the price.

  Paul Gene once again had to turn away, as it was the end of this fight.

  All five of them took very bad striking blows to their bodies.

  Leaning against the bathroom doors beaten on ruthlessly, blood dripping on the floor and covering his face, Sebastian’s attacker threw a high front kick directly in his face adding the groin kick.

  Crumbling on the floor Sebastian was gasping out, “Enough dude!”

  “You’re fucking killing me!”

  However, the person would not and literally beat the pulp out of Sebastian that blocks his head ducking from powerful strikes one after the next which did not help him, as he went down completely flat on the floor and never swung one punch back, as he was definitely hurt. Wiley number one lay on the floor rolling in pain groaning.

  There was also a little pool of blood on the floor which you could not really see, because Sebastian rolled on the floor with his hands covering his battered face. Looked like two was up, bent way back on the pool table, gasping after the person used every karate move against Seth that struggled using his, first time ever.

  The person viciously beats on him, as he blocked shouting, “What the fuck dude enough!” Giving multiple jab punches right in Seth’s bloody face, and finished him off with a double palm heel to his ribs then threw a lightning fast crescent kick.

  Number two flew back against the wall, instantly collapsed down on the floor gasping very badly and meeting his match in karate.

  Paul Gene sure saw number three was ready to go down when Shane was bit hard in his face losing a chunk of skin.

  Grabbing his torn up face really stumbling and yelling, “Fucking stop man!”

  In addition, his eyes were almost snatched out his head, then quickly was kicked twice directly into the face, as blood rolled heavily and learned some new karate moves against him. Making a bigger pool of blood on the floor Shane swayed back and forth a few staggering seconds.

  Within the blink of an eye number three went down seasick actually and number four was kicked to every part of his body mostly his lower back.

  Literally being stomped when Saul rolled on the floor actually putting his hand up for the men to stop.

  Three men stepped back, as one man kicked Saul one final time very hard in his side, he groans out, “Fuck man, stop”, and lay face down trying to breathe.

  He was coughing nonstop with blood squirting out of his mouth and rolling all down his battered face.

  Number five was already down such a bloody mess and gasping heavily, as he leaned against the jukebox his favorite spot. Paul Gene, hard as it had been, watched every minute until each of his boys finally went down and lost.

  Definitely not getting back up either and the big winners walked away from the losers that are seriously down and the standing side all gave a high five to each other.

  The bar was in shock and many women now had tears rolling and saying, “No way this happen to the Wiley boys!”

  Men in the bar were speechless, as a few lost many times to the toughest around. The thrilled winners went to head out of the bar and one yelled back, “Guess it shows who is really toughest around this town now, huh?”

  Another added, “Sure aren’t the Wiley boys anymore!”

  The big winners left the bar excitedly and happy due to the fact they dropped them all. That had been known in town to be very rough and difficult they were really raving on, “Man we whipped the Wiley boys”.

  “We messed them up”.

  “All right!”

  “Got um good”.

  “Wiley boys aren’t anything but wimps!”

  “Big M is gonna party”.

  All the winners walked down the street carrying on hysterically A table can always turn.

  Inside the bar behind the counter, Paul Gene yelled out to the shocked crowd of people, “We are closing now!”

  Watching and waited for the bar to clear out then Paul Gene looked at his four boys and Rodney still on the floor.

  Sebastian was still rolling back and forth holding his head whimpering when Shane grabbed onto the pool table pulling himself up and immediately leaned way down onto the pool table. Smearing blood all onto the green fabric.

  Crawling on the floor over by the pool table Seth tried hard to pull himself up, he could not get up though and kept spitting blood constantly onto the floor then suddenly vomited. Kneeling on the floor trying hard to get up, Saul kept going back down quickly. Rodney just stayed on the floor over by the jukebox holding his stomach mumbling. “Heck whoever they were, I’d say pretty damn rough”.

  Walking out from behind the counter Paul Gene went locking the front doors, as the bar cleared out.

  Wiping blood off his face Rodney looking at Saul on the floor a few feet in front of him and asked, “Pal you all right?”

  Kneeling on the floor with his head hanging down, he replied, “Just swell”.

  Paul Gene comes walking up by Saul and bent down saying, “Boy you gonna be okay?” Spitting more blood he replied, “Yeah, fine paw, never better”.

  Then Paul Gene looked at Rodney who winked at him with his good eye, as the left was completely swelled shut.

  Therefore, he turned looking back at his other three boys down, suddenly Shane started vomiting all over badly.

  Paul Gene mumbled, “Woo-wee, thank God maw left”.

  At that moment, Paul Gene ate his words when Brenda screamed out loudly, “MY BOYS?”

  “NO GOD!”

  Immediately Brenda rushed to her boys one by one and was sobbing, as she went up to boy one and knelt down onto the floor trembling said, “Sebastian?”

  That just rolled whimpering, as she cried harder saying, “Oh god no!” While she lay over him and hugging onto him tight.

  She was brushing his bloody curls back and sobbing as he whimpered,

  “Uh, maw I hurt bad!”

  Tears fell onto his battered face from his mother, as she bent kissing him saying, “Oh my poor baby!”

  Then crawled across the floor a few feet and shaking badly said, “Shane”, “Oh god Shane boy you’re a complete mess!”

  Reaching his one bloody hand out to his mother that took hold tightly crying very hard. Crawling just an inch only Brenda cried out,

  “Oh lord my baby!”

  “No god!”

  “Seth?”

  Completely battered grunting out, “Aw maw I feel such pain”, as she really cried and yelled out, “FIGHTING!”

  Paul Gene went up to her huddled over Seth and said, “Maw let’s get our boys home”. Brenda did not answer him.

  Instead she stood up rushing across the bar and right over to her oldest and dropped down on her knees by him sobbing and said, “Oh Saul”, that was a bloody mess, as his mother cried out. “My god why!”

  Looking back onto her other three bloody boy
s down, she raised her voice saying, “What the heck happen and how with y’all!”

  She sobbed, as he grunted out, “Maw don’t you cry”,

  “Please”.

  “We are strength even if fallen”.

  Saul was very bloody and blood even ran down from the side of his both ears, due to being kicked all over his body.

  With her hands to her face, she cried out, “Saul your all completely battered, I have never seen this before, not this bad!” While kneeling on the floor, Saul put his head back down groaning in pain still spitting blood.

  Brenda just knelt there next to Saul and did cry looking at her sons hurt badly for the first time ever over fighting.

  Paul Gene stood silent and watched his wife rush back and forth to each hurting boy, including Rodney that gave her a kiss on the cheek, as she really trembled crying.

  Then stood in the middle of the bar holding her locket tightly with tears rolling looking at her sons badly hurt.

  What a rough night for the Wiley’s, as Paul Gene had to close down since his boys lost in a bad way this time and had many bruises with swollen shut black eyes.

  Furthermore, word sure spread around town that the Wiley boys lost.

  Westside of Chattanooga was in shock that night probably not more than them. Paul Gene and Brenda took Saul, Shane and Seth to the hospital, the three of them suffered mild concussions.

  For the first time Shane suffered a broken nose due to being kicked hard directly in his face. Then Saul had a fractured shoulder blade and even had to get stitches from deep lacerations to the side of his face.

  Then were released two hours later and much later that devastating night.

  The badly beaten up Wiley boys were home next door at the apartment complex. Sebastian’s eyes were actually swelled shut and his wife Mandy took it harder than the other wives did, she had always been different about the bar.

  Sebastian and Mandy always fight about it too, as she accuses him of flirting with the women or even messing around.

  That Wiley has a fight every day, as him and her do not get along, Mandy wanted Sebastian to go at the hospital like his brothers did.

  However, he refused telling her that he would survive, as Sebastian was the most stubborn out of the four.