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Chapter 17 - Dinner

After waking up and having a fairly normal day at school and while on my way out of the school June grabs me and asks "Hey Butch would you like to have dinner with me and my family"

"I'd be delighted to have dinner with you and your family should I bring anything"

"Well we're having gumbo how about you bring some meat for it if you don't mind"

"No June I don't mind at all my beautiful girlfriend"

"Hehe see you at 8 then Butch"

"See ya June"

After saying goodbye I run home so I can shower,shave, and grab some soft shelled crab along with a little bit of steak and some nice flowers along with my Colt 45 and have Fritz hop in the the driver's seat of my car so we can get going.

"Now Fritz we're going to my girlfriend's house and I want you to know that she is black now that isn't going to cause any problems is it "

"No sir it won't it won't I never agreed with the German government on orders such as that and I once murdered a Gestapo officer I saw about to execute a Jewish family so it's no problem Sir"

"Okay then Fritz since we understand each other let's get going my friend we don't wanna be late"

After saying that we drive the two miles to June's house and as we pull up I see June and Bubba waiting for us on the porch

As we get out of the car June says"Hey Butch who's your friend here"

"I am Fritz Krieger young miss it's a pleasure to meet you and your father" Fritz says with a smile a small bow to show respect to June and Bubba

"Nice to meet you too Fritz" June says while Bubba nods in his direction

"C'mon y'all let's git inside so we can eat"Bubba says with a laugh

Right as we start moving to the door I hear a quiet "woof" so I turn around and look in the back seat of my car and I see Richter just sitting there panting while wagging his tail.

"Richter when did you get in the car. Hey Bubba can I bring my dog to dinner"

"More the merrier boy c'mon let's go on in"

As we get in I see two women o e standing and the other in a wheelchair and as I get in they both turn and smile and the woman standing says" hello there you must be Butch I am June's mom but you can call me Marie and that's my mother in the wheelchair and who is this handsome fella" she says as she starts petting Richter who rolls right over while she pets his belly which is where I notice that she has a large burn across the left side of her face

As I look away so as not to stare Bubba walks up and whispers in my ear " The Klan didn't take kindly to a nigger policeman so they tossed a Molotov cocktail in the front window of the house and Marie ran back in to get Ma' petite out"

I say back to him " I understand Bubba I can't stand people like that"

As we finish as we finish talking June's grandma says in broken English"here you come boy so grann take a look at chu"

While walking up to her in say in Creole while smiling" Of course grandmother what do you need"

While laughing June's grann says in Creole" Impressive young man not many people bother to learn Creole but I hear you always carry a gun whatchu bring"

While smiling I pull out my Colt 45 and eject the mag while also ejecting the round from the chamber and hang it to Grann while saying "here you go Grann it's a Colt m1911a1 with night sights and a threaded barrel so I can mount a suppressor for quiet work"

"Nice choice son but I prefer my daddy's ole peacemaker" she says as she pulls out an old nickel plated peacemaker with a 4 inch barrel and sandlewood grips and hands it to me saying "my daddy carried that for the 30 years he was a bounty hunter ain't no one ever could beat him to the draw either"

"It's a beautiful weapon and you've taken good care of it but that's enough about weapons let's eat everyone"

June's mom Marie walks up and says "Of course Butch what meat did you bring"

While pulling out the meat from the butcher shop I say " I got some soft shelled crab and some nice big shrimp is that good Marie"

"That's perfect Cher let me toss this in the pot"

As the gumbo cooks Fritz stands up and says "if you'll excuse me I have to check on something for a moment"

(Fritz pov)

As I get outside I see a group or racist morons in what looks like white bedsheets spilling gasoline all over himself because he has it in a leaky bucket while his friends try to put a cross in the lawn.

While watching the racists I decide to deal with these wastes of human flesh so I light a match and toss it at the moron holding the bucket and watch him burn and his friends run away.

After the others ran away I walk up to the burned man and he starts crying for his momma so I pull out my Luger screw on it's silencer and put two bullets in his head and after that I grap a tarp wrap him up and toss him in the truck and then I walk back in the house to enjoy dinner.

(Butch's pov)

5 minutes after Fritz left he comes back so I ask him "we were wondering what was that whoosh noise outside"

"Oh there was a large truck whose tire popped so I helped him fix it and he went on his way"

"Oh okay c'mon Fritz let's eat buddy"

After we finish talking we all enjoy dinner and just have an enormous amount of fun and food with Grann playing with Richter and we leave after I help clean the dishes.

As we get in the car I ask Fritz "So Fritz what really happened outside the house I know it wasn't a truck"

"To be honest Butch I stopped a group of racists were about to burn a cross on the front lawn so I lit one of them on fire and then shot him in the head and put him in the trunk"

"Okay Fritz you can dump the corpse after you take me home because my policy is that you take out your own trash am I understood"

"Yes sir I understand"

After saying all that we get home and I go to bed while Fritz dumps the body in the lake