Two Bulls

"Get out!"

I opened the door and jumped out of the car. I slammed the door shut and walked away from the side of the road. Benji opened the driver's door and climbed out. He shut the door and rested his arms on the window.

"Just what are you doing?" He asked Robey.

Robey fired the gun off beside Benji's head.

"Jesus, god!" Benji yelled as he slapped his hands over his ears and fell to the ground.

Robey slid into the driver seat and sped off down the highway.

I ran to Benji who was kicking dirt in the direction of his car. He was still holding his hands over his ears.

"Benji, you dumb fuck,: I said.

"He stole my car!" Benji said. He looked up at me.

Flash had spread some pictures he had taken out over the kitchen table. Even came up behind him and looked over his shoulder.

"Hey," she said. "These are good. There as good as my dad's, or at least as good as the ones I've seen."

"Really," Flash said.

"They sure are," she said. She picked up a picture and studied it closer.

"Where is your dad?' Flash asked.

"He's dead," Even said. "Died the day I was born."

Flash looked up at her.

"He was trying to get back to the rez. He was on some kind of assignment when he heard that mom had been rushed to the hospital. He was on a helicopter and it crashed just inside the rez boundary. It killed him and the pilot."

"I'm sorry," Flash said.

"It's okay," she said. "It's kinda hard to miss someone you never knew. Moms got lots of his pictures. If you would ever come with me to her place I could show them to you." She pushed Flash's shoulder.

"Maybe some day," He said. "Even, can I ask you something."

"Sure," Even said. "You know you can ask me anything."

"You got a boyfriend?" Flash asked as he stacked up his pictures and placed them in his camera bag.

"Who me?" Even laughed. "Not hardly. I mean look at me." She looked down at herself. "Not many guys want to spent time with a girl as big as a cow." She laughed.

Flash got up and turned toward Even. His expression was serious.

"Don't do that," he said.

"Do what?" Even asked.

"Put yourself down like that," Flash said. "You are a very beautiful woman and any man would be proud to be seen with you."

Even began to blush.

"Yeah, well not around here," she said.

"Evening May Two Bulls!" Shouted Robey. He was standing outside Even's house, with a bottle of whiskey in one hand and a coal forty-five in the other. He was leaning up against the fence post where the gate use to be. He was waving the gun around in the air.

"Send that sorry excuse of an Indian boy out here." Robey yelled. "Send him out here so I can put a bullet between his eyes."

Even popped her head out the front door of her house.

"Robey, what the hell are you talking about?" Even asked.

"Even, don't try and hide him." Robey yelled. He staggered away from the fence post and toward the house. He lifted his hand and pointed the gun toward the front door.

Even ducked back inside.

"Robey Iron Legs," she shouted. "You're drunk."

"Evening May, you're my woman," Robey shouted. He lifted the whiskey bottle to his mouth and tilted his head back, draining the last of the whiskey from the bottle. "Everybody on this rez knows you're my woman. Now you send that sneaking, back door dog out here so I can shoot him dead."

Even popped her head out the door again.

"Robey, what did you say?" she asked.

Robey stood there with his gun still pointed toward the house and the empty whiskey bottle dangling from his other hand. A tear ran down his cheek.

"Even, don't you know that I love you," he said.

Even stepped onto her porch.

"Where's he at Even?" Robey asked.

"He ain't here," Even replied.

"Even, wide you hiding him?" Robey shouted. "Do you love him?"

"For god's sake no!" Even shouted back.

Robey tried to take a step toward the house but he only managed to step backwards.

"Robey, honest, he ain't here."

Even started to say something else but she stopped.

Flash had been in his tent around the back of the house when Robey started yelling. He crawled out of his tent and picked up a baseball bat that was lying in Even's back yard. He ran around the side of the house and behind Even's car. He crouched down and moved from Even's car to Benji's. He moved along Benji's car and came up behind Robey.