Angels in Stardust Page #2

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He's a decent man.

How else am I supposed

to meet such a fella?

How 'bout a church social?

That pitiful lot?

May as well raffle myself

off at the VA hospital.

Am... Am I

hurting anybody?

Mm, mm, mm.

Hmm? If I am,

I'd sure like to know.

What are you doing?

Come on. Let's go.

Uh-uh. In a minute.

Ain't you been here before?

Uh-uh.

Jeez, you are out of it.

This is a regular

make-out zone at night.

He's got cowboy boots on.

So?

It's weird.

Uh, not around here.

Seems kind of sacrilegious,

that's all.

No, you want to see sacrilege,

you just come out here

on a Saturday night.

This is a regular

Sodom and Gomorrah.

Really?

Mm-hmm.

Come on.

Let's go.

This place is creepy without

a car under your butt

and a boy stuck to your face.

Okay.

Come on.

Come on!

Coming.

Hey, Mrs. Dinwiddie.

Hey, Tammy.

Hey, Addie.

Does she ever talk?

Not to me.

Did you have a good day?

Passable.

Put a poor soul in the ground.

Oh, no, not his soul, honey,

just his body.

How's about a lemonade?

You look parched.

Thanks.

Spot any UFOs today?

Nope, but they's out there.

I tell you, Addie,

we've been busier

than a june bee

on chocolate lately.

Oh, I heard about the wreck.

Got two

and two more from the gas

explosion at Hartley's.

Oh, I heard that was terrible.

Did they look frightful?

Picture charbroiled tater tots,

and you get the idea.

Oh, dear, you have

got a hard job.

I've had worse.

Come from tenant farmers.

Picked cotton and collards

till I was a teenager.

Oh, I hear you, honey.

Called 'em sharecroppers

back in the day.

That's where I got the lung

disease put me on relief.

Heh. My daddy worked my body

to death in them fields.

Only reason sharecroppers

have young'uns.

Oh, ain't that the truth?

Take planting corpses over

pulling cotton any day.

I hear you.

Ever been yonder?

Where?

Over by the sun.

Suppose that's

where our Pas went.

Why are you thinking about that?

It must be better there.

Why'd they go?

Why do you want to go

when you ain't ever been?

Well, nothing really

here for us, Pleasant.

Ain't you scared?

Hmm.

Scared both ways.

Hi.

Oh, you boys are

wasting your time.

Yeah, peach fuzz don't

turn Francine on nohow.

Wouldn't talk if I

was you, Big Bird.

Only thing that's

gonna mate with you

is a horny old whooping crane.

Whoo!

Jerk.

Never cared much

for that Mickey.

His buddy Old Ray's a piece of work,

too, isn't he?

I see kids going in and

out of there all the time.

What do you think they're up to?

No good, most likely.

Whoo!

What do you suppose

they're doing in there?

They're picture taking, dope.

Well, duh.

But of what?

Good question.

One way to find out.

What? Loretta!

No, wait. Damn it.

Careful.

I can't... I can't see.

Whoo!

Okay, just see if you can see.

What? Somebody

might catch us.

Do not be a p*ssy.

Come on.

Oh, my...

Whoo-hoo!

Hee hee!

Oh, my God.

What? What?

I can't really...

What the hell

you think y'all doing?

Nothing.

Uh...

We ain't doing nothing.

Mm-mm.

Come on.

Bye.

Stay away from here,

or you'll come

to no good, you hear?

Tenkill, what's going on, boy?

Hey!

Ahh.

I'll be right there, sugar.

Come on.

Think Tenkill's

in cahoots with 'em?

Let's see if

I got this straight.

We're trying to figure out

if Tenkill's doing something

we haven't figured out if Mickey

and Old Ray are doing yet?

Is that right?

Yeah.

Tough call,

but you best keep

your distance, anyway.

Hard to do.

Hey, there, girlie.

How you doing?

Fine.

You know, I seen you

nosing around my place

last night.

Ah, it's okay.

It's okay.

Maybe you'd like

to come in sometime.

Nah, it's okay.

Mm. Well,

maybe when you's

a little more grown up, then.

I think maybe you and I

are gonna do that dance then.

I tell you what, girl,

gonna change your life.

What'd you see

looking in his window?

Not sure.

Francine probably knows

what they're up to.

Francine's

worldly-wise.

Mm-hmm.

Oh, come on. Please?

Come on. Stop it.

Come on.

No.

Why not?

Francine!

I swear on my mama's grave.

We won't tell nobody.

When'd your mama die, Loretta?

I saw her just today down

at the Piggly Wiggly.

Well, she's going

to die sometime.

Forget it.

You're too young.

What is that supposed to mean?

We are the exact

same age as you.

Yeah, age don't mean nothing.

'Sides, there's no telling

what they'd do if I snitch,

so stop. Go.

Damn it.

Should've snitched.

Guess she was talking

about experience, hmm?

Yep.

Well, all I know about sex

is what I seen in the movies.

Nothing wrong with that.

But it's not real.

Nope, but it's safe.

Bad side, baby

War day or night

Bad side, baby

War day or night

Been spying on folks

a lot lately.

It was Loretta's doing.

Counting the other morning?

That was different.

Yeah, that's right.

Come on.

Jeez, Ma.

Wife's barely cold

in the grave, huh?

I'm just helping a man

through a trying time.

It's part of my job.

Till dawn?

If I wait for Mrs. Dearly

Departed to get cold as charity,

somebody else'll

sidle up to him before me.

Yeah, wow.

Doesn't seem that much

of a prize, anyway.

Look here, girl.

There's lots of men

out there, good and bad,

and it ain't easy telling

the chaff from the wheat,

so you got to cast

your bread on the water

looking for the right nibble.

But you shouldn't

be worrying about me.

Gotta be thinking

about yourself.

Well, here, what's that girl,

you know,

married the buffalo boy?

Buffalo boy?

Yeah, you know, um...

Oh, Cody and Lisa?

That's the one.

Yeah.

Well, she... she found

herself a man at 14.

Now, not that you want

to aim as low as her,

but there ought to be a

nice boy out there for you.

Just don't be coming home

with your belly all blown up,

or I'll kick your butt out.

Last thing I need

is more kids around here.

Two of youse to love is enough.

Just 'cause you and my ma

got married young, Lisa,

don't mean I'm gonna.

All I know's I like it.

That's 'cause Cody

knocked all the

sense out of you.

Loretta!

What?

It's not like everybody

can't see this for themselves,

huh?

He only does it

when I rub him wrong.

Besides, making up's nice.

I'll bet.

You know, I'll bet

that your ma just

wants you married off

so that she could be free of you,

Val.

My ma loves me as much as yours,

and you're dirt

to say crosswise.

I think her ma just

wants her to be happy.

Yeah.

It's a lot nicer being married,

doing it with

just one man, you know.

Oh.

Well, it is.

You do it a lot?

Every morn and night.

Get out.

On weekends,

he likes it midday, too.

Cody gets a stiff worked up

pretty regular.

Aw, damn. I gotta

get me a man.

I need one.

Shh. Cut that.

Here comes Cody.

Hey, Vallie.

What's doing?

Nothing.

Hey, Loretta.

Hi, Cody.

Lisa was just telling us

what a sweet man you are.

Well,

that's mighty nice

of you, sweet pea.

Just the truth.

Come here.

Wow.

We better be heading.

See you!

Bye.

Bye.

Don't do nothing we wouldn't do.

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