The Girl.

  Suddenly three older men approached her they were wearing baggy jeans and black steel toe boots with denim jackets.

  One really tall and slender built man with dark hair asked, “Is this Sebastian Wiley’s room?” In tears, she turned around saying, “Yes it is”.

  “Were Sebastian’s uncles”.

  She gives a little smile looking at Danny Ray, John and Marty Wiley.

  All three Wiley’s gave a slight grin back to her and she started to tell them what has happen and how bad their nephew really was. Maryann with Sebastian’s three uncles went over to the waiting room and sitting down as she told them how she met him actually and about Mandy.

  The three original Wiley boys had serious looks on their faces John sat next to his brother Paul Gene that did not look good at all.

  Noticed this was too much for their oldest brother’s age and health condition. Fifteen minutes later, Brenda and her three boys comes out of Sebastian’s room in tears, as Paul Gene said, “The bars on fire boys a nurse just told us a few minutes ago”.

  Meanwhile, when the Wiley men all made it back home and to the bar which no longer stood, burnt down to the ground?

  The wives and children were all standing around in shock and the Wiley men were speechless. Their two uncles Danny Ray and Marty had tears then Danny Ray told his nephews, “Get the women and kids home, I’ll wrap this up with the cops”.

  Stunned and at a loss for words, as they took their family’s home next door. Marty looked at the burnt down bar and mumbled, “Slimy slugs always crawl out”. Walking up next to him, John knelt down brushing soot off the sign and looked up at his brother asking, “Think their back?”

  “Not them, I fear their kids are and blame us, its revenge?”

  Glanced down on the ground at the sign Wiley’s Pub that lay in ashes and soot choked up; as it was his paws bar and dream once.

  Danny Ray stood talking with three police officers and the firefighters.

  Shane with his family went into the door to their apartment and he said, “Aw, okay boys to bed.” “Scoot”.

  Looking at his battered face Josh asked, “Daddy you going to be okay?”

  Nicky shrugged looking at his eyes closed practically.

  Little three year old Lance pointed his finger saying, “Boo-boo,” as Shane give a small grin. Tara than grabbed him up taking him to his bed, as she checked in on the baby asleep. The two older boys still just looked at their dad, as his eyes were even blood shot red and barely open.

  Shane give a small grin and replied, “Of course I’ll survive, names Wiley”, and his two boys smiled going down the hall to their rooms.

  Tara cuddled up in bed, gives a yawn, as Shane was by the kitchen sink washing up. While in his boys bedrooms both of them lay in their beds trembling with their eyes huge looking at two very big people with ski masks on.

  The people both had to be at least six-foot-three or even four, they were tall and scary and Joshua had tears.

  His brother Nicky shook with fright and whispered, “Mommy”,

  “Daddy!”

  Meanwhile outside.

  Danny Ray had finished with the police and he and his brother headed back to the hospital, as all heck was about to go down.

  Inside the apartment building.

  Shane turned away from the sink walking through the kitchen very slowly and sure felt the pain from the beating he endured.

  However, would not let his boys know and worry them, while he moved like a turtle, suddenly Tara screamed out quietly of course,

  “Oh help me Shane!”

  Halfway down the hall and could not hear her soft cries for help.

  Reaching him and Tara’s bedroom, Shane opened the door going in, squinted, strain to see, because his eyes swollen badly and from that far away did not notice a man raping his wife. His vision was blurred but heard her sobbing though and squinted more asking, “Tara?” Gasping saying, “Shane help me please!”

  The person thrusting roughly inside of her got very angry and stuck a knife deeply into her side, she gurgled out, “Oh Shane!”

  Going further into the bedroom, suddenly a baseball bat coming from behind split the side of his head open?

  Instantly dropped to the floor in a pool of blood and the man who just raped Tara literally started strangling her.

  She gave a struggle, which was no use and was crying with many screams of torture that were low that no one could hear.

  After a few minutes out cold, slowly lifted his head up in a blur, as blood rolled down into his eyes.

  Wiping some blood off Shane heard a bunch of guy’s deep voices laughing, when he sobbed heavily saying, “Aw man please, let my girl alone, take anything just go”.

  “Y’all win!” Sobbing and bleeding badly.

  Immediately a big boot kicked him directly in the face and Shane rolled over in pain crying. Then Shane reached his hand up begging for mercy, “Please stop hurting us.” A buck knife swept down fast and a finger fell on the floor, as Shane really rolls in excruciating pain.

  Tara barely alive stretched her bloody arm out reaching by the nightstand trying to grab her mommy whistle.

  She struggled to get hold of it and the men were all on Shane beating the heck out of him now. Shane Wiley took two brutal beatings this night and still messed up from the first fight. Tara cries out softly, “Their going to kill my husband, how can he take anymore?”

  Shane proved strength to the fullest extreme, as he took such a beating and his finger taken right off.

  Tara within a few minutes gasped a deep breath out and her bloody arm dangled off the side of the bed, as she lay silent and very still with no movement.

  The four big disguised people kicked Shane rough and many times that he was out cold a second time.

  Beating him again awfully bad and senseless, Shane was hurt bad this horrible night and totally covered in blood now.

  One of the people wearing a ski mask motioned to another hidden faced person and in a deep voice said, “It’s time”.

  “Open the closet now”.

  Therefore, the person went over opening the closet door, as a teenage girl with gray duck-tape over her mouth and her hands were tied tightly with rope stood shaking in fear. You could actually see her knees knocking together in fright, as she had a little pink skirt on with a white knitted shirt.

  The people all laughed very wickedly as the person with the girl drug her out by her long golden brown hair.

  The one person with the deep voice bent down yanking Shane’s head back and said, “Well time to prove you are a disgusting Wiley”.

  Blood rolled heavily down Shane’s face, as the girl trembled in fear before him. Forty minutes later, in the boy’s bedroom, they had heard screaming and yelling with even cheering.

  Both boys restrained and had gags in their mouth along with rope tied tightly around their hands.

  Oldest Josh tried hard unloosing his hands, he was a Wiley boy determined, as he did get free. Quickly, freed his brother Nicky and Josh then hurried over by youngest Lance that was sitting on the toddler bed looking up, not touched, but saying, “I scared!”

  Josh bent lifting him up and the boys snuck quietly out the window with Josh holding his baby brother with all his might. Making it out the first floor window, Josh set little Lance down and Nicky was fidgeting saying, “Come on hurry, we left baby Sabrina in there”.

  Josh looked down at his youngest brother and said, “Run Lance”.

  The three young Wiley boys took off fast as lightning to get their two uncles.

  Within minutes, comes running into Shane and Tara’s apartment they quickly went into the bedroom.

  Finding Shane sitting on the bloody bed rocking Tara in his arms, as he was crying and Saul said, “Call help Seth”, as he run stumbling back out the door.

  Saul went over by the bed and said, “Oh brother, what the hell.” Looking at Shane covered in blood and eyes were swollen shut there was blood running down the side of his
head.

  In addition, through a sock that he tied tightly around his hand with the other missing finger, which only the tip was cut off.

  Rocking his bloody wife in his arms, Shane sobbed saying, “My tiny lady someone hurt real bad”, and Tara never even moved, worried Saul yelled,

  “HURRY SETH!”

  Back at the hospital.

  Sebastian lay in a bed hooked up to many machines that helped him breathe, it was a very sad sight looking at a young strong man giving his biggest fight ever.

  For life.

  He lay very still in a coma, as his two parents sat there next to his bed.

  Brenda kept wiping tears looking at her boys face that was all swollen and totally blue and purplish color with many multiple stabs wounds everywhere.

  Pretty Sebastian Wiley looked very bad and was all cut up and completely burned, as it did not look like him at all.

  Furthermore, the doctors had told the family it was too soon to tell how badly his face was damaged and if permanently.

  From what they could observe is that the wounds covered his whole facial and neck area.

  What the doctors discovered, is that Sebastian’s left eye, had been damaged beyond saving, as it may have to be removed.

  They scheduled surgery if he pulls through the night.

  Sitting trembling Brenda quietly said, “Don’t you go boy that little angel already lost her mommy”.

  “Kayla sticks to you like bees to honey!”

  Brenda sat crying heavily and worried for her grandchild that needs her father, Paul Gene had tears listening.

  “Don’t leave me either boy?”

  “You’re my dear child!” Stroking his burned hand.

  “Mommy loves you bunches”, crying harder.

  Paul Gene’s head hung lower, Brenda sobbed adding, “Oh paw my once beautiful boy look what they done to him”. Paul Gene was silent not feeling well.

  “Whoever did this was beyond evil, because my child’s eye is going to be gone among his scar up body”, and Brenda cried her hardest.

  “Aw maw, I’d rather our boy lose his eye, perhaps looks, but to lose him I cannot bear”, he wiped tears and was breathing much heavier now.

  Meanwhile the nurse Maryann went down to the nurse’s station and looked at Sebastian and Mandy’s charts.

  While Maryann was standing behind the nurses desk gave a puzzled look. Her eyes were big watching a young man walk pass the desk and right up to Sebastian’s door that was closed.

  The young man hung his head of shoulder length light brown curls, and was tall around six-foot-two and slim built.

  His jeans were so baggy fitting, as he was very skinny and wore a flannel shirt.

  Giving him a longer stare Maryann thought, “I met all his brothers so who is he?” Maryann gives another look at him and the man went into Sebastian’s room, as Maryann kept sorting charts and said, “Maybe he’s a cousin”.

  A few minutes later.

  Maryann was still behind the nurse’s desk and Brenda comes walking down the hallway holding a cup of coffee.

  She passed Maryann and they both looked at each other in tears, then approached Sebastian’s room, the door opened, and the man in tears walked out.

  Suddenly dropped the cup of coffee on the floor, trembling Brenda cried out, “Shawn?” Paul Gene stood shaking and sobbing tears of joy.

  Standing right before him was the man and eyes large, Brenda went up real close to the young man and touched his face.

  “Is this real, it’s you Shawn?”

  Put his arms around Brenda and tears rolled heavily down both their faces, he replied, “Yeah maw, I’m finally home!”

  Paul Gene grabbed onto them both and all three of them cried.

  A Wiley boy finally comes home from the Vietnam War after a few years.

  Brenda in her oldest boy’s arms sobbed saying, “Oh Shawn your brother is in bad shape”. Paul Gene added, “We may lose him boy, just like the letter told us we lost you”. “Yeah paw I almost did leave this earth, but I am a Wiley strong willed and don’t go down that easily”.

  Not only strong willed like his four brothers, he was very good looking.

  Brenda cried, “Oh lord, I am in shock Shawn, because all this time we believed you left us”. “Well maw, paw, I was injured, held prisoner for some time”.

  Their oldest son added, “I am a survivor and freed myself with a bit of help”. Brenda gives a smile in tears rolling and he added, “I’ll tell y’all about it, but first my little brother surviving is most important”.

  Brenda asked, “Shawn do your other three brothers know your alive and back home?” “Yeah, I sure saw their beat up faces, that’s how I found out about Sebastian”. Hugging her son that held her tightly he added, “Aw met Ella too”.

  “Oh did you?”

  “Only for a second though”.

  “Wait until you do boy, she’s such a great woman”.

  Suddenly, Shawn flashed back into the past a brief moment.

  Riding a bicycle, the young girl with flowing red hair slid falling on the dirt road and sat there saying, “Owe my knee”, held her bloody leg ,when rushing up to her was a tall teenage boy with long golden curls that instantly knelt down asking, “Hey girl you okay?”

  Setting a duffle bag down she looked at him saying, “Yes I am fine”.

  Smiling and noticing the duffel bag asked, “Going on a trip?’

  Hanging his head replied, “No, going to war actually”, her eyes become large saying, “Really you are?”

  “Yeah girl, I am”.

  “You scared?’

  “Nah, I fear nothing”, and staring she said, “War is different and rough”.

  “Aw I know”, hung his head and she asked, “You live around here?”

  Pointing replied, “Yeah, just down the road”.

  “Guess, we are neighbors huh”, nodding he smiled replying, “Guess we are”, and rose up slightly, helping her up, she said, “Thank you boy”.

  “Shawn”.

  “What?”

  “My name is Shawn”.

  “Well nice to meet you Shawn” .Smiling brightly.

  “Likewise girl”, and looked at his wristwatch adding, “I need to be going”, as she frown now saying, “Too bad you have to”.

  Lifting up the duffle bag replied, “Aw, I’ll be back”. Teary eyed the girl said, “I don’t really know you, but please be careful and come back”.

  “I will”, and walking away, paused, turns around and said, “Hey girl”.

  “Yes, Shawn?”

  “Be careful on that bike”, she smiles when he walked down the road and never did return until now.

  Shawn stopped thinking back gave a grin mumbling, “Ella was the girl I met”. Brenda took her boys hand tightly and said, “Come Shawn let’s go back to your younger brother you haven’t been with in years”.

  Paul Gene winked at Shawn and he smiled in tears, as Brenda felt his left hand and asked, “Shawn a ring?”

  “Maw I have been away seems like forever; yes I am a married man”.

  Paul Gene said, “Well of course boy, shoot you’re what twenty- seven”.

  Giving a small grin Shawn replied, “Paw you’re a little off”, and they all three smiled under the other sad circumstances.

  Brenda that horrible and shocking night would not let her son Shawn’s hand go at all and he would not let his maw.

  Shawn Garrett Wiley, had been over in the Vietnam War and was just nineteen- years- old the time he was drafted.

  The oldest of the Wiley boys and just a year older then Saul is, Shawn is thirty-years- old. Missed his family very much and has one recovering picture in his wallet. It was of him and his brothers all sitting on a big wagon filled with hay on their farm in Kentucky.

  They were all young in the photo and you could not notice faces really, because all the Wiley boys had real long hair.

  Even Shane that keeps his short now was once a young teenage hippy.


  The picture showed the brotherly bond between the boys.

  There was also something very strange again in the picture Shawn had, as there were six longhaired boys.

  Taking a longer look though at the picture, the one missing Wiley actually had a busty figure wearing a pink shirt.

  It was a girl no doubt and what happen to the Wiley boy’s only sister?

  Back at home.

  Seth had gone in the ambulance to the hospital with his hurt brother and wife, as Saul had stayed close to home.

  Due to all going on and even called his best pal Rodney who was on his way with a very rough crew to make sure nothing else happens to his family actually. At the hospital this devastating night for the Wiley’s.

  Paul Gene’s three brothers stood smiling at the happy reunion now taking place outside Sebastian’s room.

  Brenda kept hugging her boy with smiles and many tears when all of a sudden the little gleams turned into eyes huge and gasps.

  A team of doctors and nurses were hurrying the stretcher fast with bloody Tara. Shane was dragging on behind and had a towel now tightly wrapped around his hand with the missing finger.

  A nurse kept telling him, “Sir you really need to be checked”.

  Due to the fact he was very bloody, could not breathe, as he held his chest and wobbled, he waved his good hand at the nurse saying,

  “Aw heck lady, leave me alone, she’s my life”. Tears rolling down his battered face.

  Everyone looked on in shock again and Brenda looking onto her second son and wife such a bloody mess this night.

  At that horrifying moment, passes out cold with Shawn grabbing onto her fast, as Paul Gene yelled, “NO!”

  His two brother had tears rolling down in shock and giving an angry look youngest Marty Wiley mumbled, “Slugs!”

  Seth who was behind Shane comes up to his mother, as Shawn held her and said, “Get a doctor little buddy, fast.”

  Therefore, Seth rushed off and stumbled a few times over his swelled eyes.

  Paul Gene had to go sit down holding his chest breathing heavy and noticing his brothers mumbled, “Don’t do it brother”.

  Gritting his teeth angrily, Shawn held his mother tightly looking down the hallway at Shane. Standing in front of the big metal surgery doors with his bloody hand smearing it all the way down, as he slid down on the floor in flowing tears yelling out,