The Austen-Kutchinskys

Joe Returns to the Party and Hunts Down the Guilty Party

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Joseph Kutchinsky, Jr.

It is 3 AM.

Joseph and Pamela have fallen into a troubled sleep. Chris is curled in her bed, alone with her nightmares.

Joe, too drunk to drive, has walked back to the scene of the party where he and Chris were earlier that night. He is determined. He mumbles to himself as he strides quickly through the street,

"I’ll kill the slimeball who hurt my little sister..."

Even before he arrives he can hear the music blasting more than a block away. Somewhere through the turmoil of his rage he wonders why the neighbors haven't complained yet.

He doesn't bother knocking at the door. Nobody would hear him anyway. He walks in and searches through the smoke for the guy who did it.

He sees him across the room. Joe walks toward him. The other guy doesn't see him coming. Joe shoves him back, hard, against the liquor table. There is a loud crash as bottles explode on the floor and the guy struggles to keep his balance. Joe glares at him and coldly says,

"That’s the last time you’ll ever touch my sister."

The guy shouts back at Joe,

"You think I'm the first one who got to her?"

He isn’t prepared for what comes next. Joe moves quickly. There is a loud, sickening crack as. Joe pulls back his bloody fist and watches as the guy drops to the cold floor. Blinded by rage, Joe drops down next to him and continues to pummel him. The boy loses consciousness.

The kids in the room are too stunned to move. It all happened so quickly. As they stand there, frozen in time, a loud knock is heard at the door. Without waiting for an answer, five policemen roughly push open the door and one of them shouts,

"Nobody move."

The teens part as the policemen make their way toward Joe, who is rooted to his place, staring down at the still body on the floor. One of them crouches down to feel the guy's pulse and says,

"He's alive. Call an ambulence."

Before Joe knows what is happening, he feels another policeman frisking and cuffing him. The cop pulls a little packet filled with white powder out of Joe's hip pocket.

"You're coming with us," he says and drags him out.

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