American Fable Page #4

It... it's, it's,

just don't mind it

because, um,

I'm just retired now

but I got to keep the cruiser,

so..

Alright. Oh, um.. Uh..

Call me if you need anything.

Alright?

- Thank you.

- Take care.

- You too.

- This is just terrible.

Penny said it was

the third suicide this season.

- I'll take it.

Here you go.

- Thank you.

- Here.

- No. No.

- Please take it.

Please, please, please.

Come on, you deserve it.

- Thank you. Thank you.

- You deserve it.

- Hey, dad.

Have you ever heard the story

about the lion and the mouse?

- Yeah, the one where the mouse

hears the lion screamin'.

He finally comes across

the lion, he's trapped in a net

some hunters got him there?

- Yeah.

- And the lion begs the mouse to set him free, right?

And the mouse is terrified

but he chews through

the net anyway

lets that lion out.

- The lion's grateful... Right?

- No, the lion turns around

and eats the mouse.

He eats his whole family.

You can never trust people to

change their true nature, Gitty.

A lion is a lion.

It's a dog-eat-dog world.

- Whoa!

Dad, look!

Can we get it, please?

- Yeah. Go on, hurry up.

- Thanks, dad.

Yes, I win!

Thank you.

- Mom, I won. Cotton candy?

- I don't think so, Gitty.

- But dad promised I could

have some if I won and I did.

- Well, I didn't think

she was gonna win.

- Dad, come on.

- Alright.

- Please, please, please,

I'm hungry.

- Okay, the sooner you finish

the sooner you can have

your cotton candy.

- Nice shooting.

- Hello.

- Hi, Vera.

- It's nice to finally

meet you all.

I've heard so much about you.

- I haven't heard anything about you.

- Ah.

- We met Vera last year

at the barn raising in Iowa.

- Oh. Oh, um, nice to meet you.

- Mom? Mom, I've finished.

- Yeah, w... why don't you guys

go get some cotton candy?

And we'll meet you all

over there.

- Come on, mom, let's go.

- Hi, um,

one cotton candy, please.

- Purple, please.

- Alright.

There you go.

- Thank you.

- That'll be two dollars.

- Okay.

- Here, mom.

- And what are we gonna do

if I get caught?

What am I gonna do?

Think about that.

She's just a friend, she's just

someone I met a while ago.

She said she could help us out.

- Well, is she giving us a loan?

- She's not giving us a loan.

- She's paying you?

- She's paying me.

- For what?

- For a job, to hold something, Sarah.

To hold a package for her, okay?

- To hold a package?

What is it, drugs?

- You don't wanna know.

Sarah, you don't wanna know

- I..

Okay, so, w... why... why us?

Why did she... how did she even choose you?

- Why us?

Why it's because

I called her, Sarah.

Because I called her when I couldn't

make the payments last spring.

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