had to be our largest crowd yet. The place was packed. These last six months our shows have only gotten bigger and better. I know its not the best thing in the world having to perform in front of seniors, but soon, well be performing our shows for everyone in town and eventually we’ll head into the city to perform and have thousands in attendance”
Bobby cut in “If you ask me, I think our best show we ever put on was two months ago about dinosaurs still existing and how they were out in the forest. We fooled all the seniors that day”
Timmy laughed and agreed. “That was a funny show”
“Oh, common on.” Kyle said, “I don’t think we fooled them. They were just playing along. Pretending it was real to make us happy”
“No way” Bobby protested, “Our acting is way to good. We can fool anyone into believing anything we say. We’ve managed to fool everyone in town with our stories at some point.” He said while laughing. “We’ve been fooling people so often the police chief suggested we start doing our acts on stage just to get us off the street. Best advice we ever got”
“I can’t blame him, we had him fooled more then anyone,” Timmy said.
Bobby looked over to Timmy “Remember last summer when we went running into the police station telling him zombies where on the loose in the forest. They sent a patrol car out there to see what on earth we were talking about”
The boys laughed.
“I felt sorry for the officer who had to drive up and down Forest Road looking for...” he paused for a moment “I don’t know what he would’ve been looking for, deranged men maybe? They could’ve actually have been looking for zombies”
Timmy agreed, “I don’t think the chief actually believed there were zombies out there, but he had took look into it. I think its safe to say, I don’t think he was happy with us”
Sam looked over to the other three “Well, lets hope we don’t have a real emergency any time soon. If we go running into the police station telling them something serious the chief won’t believe a word we say. He’ll just kick as out before we can finish speaking”
Timmy nodded “That’s why everyone in town now calls us the cry wolves gang. We’ve told so many tales no one will believe a word we say anymore, even if we told them the sky was blue,” he laughed a bit.
Sam cut in “It doesn’t matter about the past. We need to focus all of our attention on the variety show this Saturday at the town hall. Everyone in town will in attendance. The theme of this year is honoring the military. This can be our biggest break yet. We can’t settle for second place or honorable mentions anymore. We need to win it all this year. We need to make sure our skit is down pat. Ever word memorized, every little gesture and comic routine ready to go. Our skit has to blow everyone away, something that will leave everyone in this town talking about us for years to come. We have some heavy competition this year. The other groups are putting on bigger and better skits then last year. We need to steal this show”
Timmy nodded “I couldn’t agree more”
Sam spoke “We all know the winner of the variety show gets there picture on the front page of the newspaper. Well, this will be our time. This is the year we win it all. We will get the respect we deserve”
They all looked at each other and enthusiastically agreed at once.
“Winning will be so amazing” Kyle added.
“We win this show and the girls in class are sure to finally talk to us.” Sam said “Give us something to feel good about so we won’t feel so nervous around them”
The others agreed.
“I wish we had won last years show.” Timmy said, “I was sure our skit would win.
We worked so hard on it”
Kyle agreed “We had everyone in their seats laughing. Our comedic timing was right on the money. Everything went as rehearsed. Timmy looked so cool in the big dark bear suit. The way Bobby and I were dressed up as campers running around on stage trying to avoid him while he was looking through our camping gear for the jar of honey. The way we bumped into each other and fell over as we ran around in a panic. How Timmy always hid behind the fake trees on stage anytime we looked over our shoulders trying to find him.”
Bobby tried speaking while he was laughing, “And at one point we were hiding in our sleeping bags pretending to shaking in fear and Timmy decided to improvise and step out from behind the trees and started doing the chicken dance”
The boys all started laughing.
“Everyone in the building was falling out of their seats by that time.” he added
Sam cut in. “Then I came running out as the bear tamer and tried chasing Timmy around the stage. At the end of the skit I tired to throw a net over him and it landed on Kyle and Bobby instead. Timmy ended up running off the stage and out of the auditorium roaring away with the jar of honey”
Timmy tired to stop laughing long enough to speak “We had everyone laughing. I can’t believe we lost first place to the nurses from the hospital” he said “They had the skit of being lost in a parking lot and not being about to find there car”
“It was a good skit though. They were funny” Kyle said.
Timmy nodded a bit. He knew Kyle was right.
“Well, our skit this year’s will be a thousand times better.” Sam said. He looked at the other guys “Now everyone has their lines memories?”
They all nodded.
“I know we’ve rehearsed a thousand times already,” Sam said “But I want to make sure it all goes well.” He turned to Bobby “Your military costume ready to go?”
“Sure is” Bobby answered “I even tired it on yesterday to make sure it fits”
“Good, so the skit will go like this. Timmy and Kyle will be on stage acting like two world leaders having a diplomatic meeting. I then sneak out dressed like an alien in a green outfit with long antennas and will sneak up behind the two of them and try to abduct you. Bobby will come running out dressed as a solider trying to stop me, but because your helmet is way to big you’ll have difficulty seeing anything and everything that can go wrong, does. We will be tripping and falling all over each other. The whole time all this is happening Kyle and Timmy will be completely unaware of what’s going on behind them. Remember the secret is timing. It has to be there or the humor won’t work.”
“You worry to much Sam” Timmy said, “We’ve rehearsed a thousand times. We will be perfect. Nothing can stop us now”
Sam nodded “I just want everything to go well. I know we have what it takes to win this year’s show. With the military in town, this show is going to be remembered for a long time. This could be a launching pad to fame. By the time this weekend is over our lives could be changed forever”
“It will be perfect. Kyle said, “After we win. Everything will change for us. I can see it now; we’ll be staring in blockbuster movies in no time. We’ll be the talk of the town and the world. A few years from now everyone will know are names and love us”
As they made there way further down the street they approached a driveway where a group of high school kids were hanging out leaning against a red car.
Sam was the first one to spot them. He knew all about them, but never took the time to get to know any of them. In fact everyone in town knew about them and avoided them. The first guy Sam spotted was Warren, the so-called leader of the group. Every police officer in town knew Warren. Some people say bad kids come from broken homes. In Warren’s case it was the opposite. His family was rich, polite and caring. They moved into town from the city a few years ago. He could have done well in school, could’ve had a good life, but he found small town life boring and wanted some action. In his mind rules only existed to be broken. It was if he liked being bad, just for the sake of it. He was always looking for something to do, only if it were illegal. He didn’t like school and school didn’t agree with him. When he actually was in school he spend more time in the principal’s office then in class.
Standing next to Warren was the town bad girl named Cindy. Most guys were attracted to her b
ad girl image, however they found out the hard way she truly was bad. Getting guys into trouble was fun for her. Always challenging them to do daring things. She would tell them “if you love me you would steal for me”. If they we’re caught she would take off. Never taking her share of the blame. She didn’t like staying home much, found it boring. She could be found wondering around the town in all hours of the night.
Brad was a few feet away from Cindy. He liked starting fires. Said they looked cool. His motto was “The bigger the fire, the better”. The police and fire department knew his name all to well. He always made sure he had an alibi thought.
Martin was the last one in the group. He was Warren’s slave. It seemed whenever Warren snapped his fingers; Martin was there to do whatever criminal act was needed. They were all good little soldiers to Warren.
The teenagers had it in for the cry wolves’ gang ever since they were busted a few months back breaking into the hardware store. The cry wolves had finished a show at the senior center and were on there way home when Sam noticed narrow beams of light in the darkness inside the store that could only be coming from flashlights, a few blocks later they saw a police car rolling by. Sam mentioned to the officer to check out the building. Sure enough Warren and his gang were caught inside. It was one of only a few crimes whichever occurred in Springbrook Gardens. Funny how all the crimes were linked to
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