My Friend Johnny (chapter 1)

The speedometer needle is almost reading 100MPH and is steadily rising. The engine continues to roar as the Chevelle speeds down the dark highway and leans into a sharp right turn.

“OH fuck, Johnny push down the god damned pedal! We’re gonna lose him!” the passenger frantically screamed.

“I’m going as fast as I can you fucking twit! Besides none of this would have happened if it weren’t for you, what the hell were you thinking!?” Johnny was covered in blood; he tries to wipe his face clean of it as he drives.

“Hey fuck you, man! How was I supposed to know that this dip shit was going to jump in front of the guard, huh?” Daniel was pointing at Hector who was doubled over in the back seat clutching his stomach, screaming. “Hector, keep it down man! We are going as fast as we can! I can’t take that screaming anymore; it’s been almost thirty minutes!! SHUT… UP….”

 Johnny reaches to his left side with his right hand and slides his .357 Magnum out of its holster and pushes the barrel onto Daniel’s cheek. “I’m going to say this once you maggot; talk to him like that again, and you will die. You are the reason he is bleeding out on my back seat, you were the one who shot him three times, YOU WERE THE ONE THAT FIRED YOUR WEAPON WITH YOU EYES CLOSED!! I oughtta’ pull this trigger right now and put you out of your misery, cocksucker. Anyone that is as stupid as you should be put down.” He pulled the hammer back on the revolver and rested his finger on the trigger. “I hope you hear his screams until the day you die.” Johnny then lowered the barrel to Daniels knee and blew a hole in it. Daniel fell over grabbing at his leg, the look of absolute terror on his face, “NO, NO, NO, NO, NO….!”

Johnny focused back on the road and pushed the brake pedal; he veered the car off of the asphalt and put it in park. Hector looked up, his face extremely pale; he has lost a lot of blood. He tried to speak but Johnny motioned for him to stop. “Don’t worry buddy, this won’t take long.” Hector coughed hard, blood oozed from his lips; he lay his head back down. Johnny pushed the door open and got out of the vehicle; he fingered his long black hair out of his face as he walked around the front of the car. The headlights displayed the crimson that was covering his right side; his green eyes seemed to glow demonically. He got to the passenger door and threw it open. “Johnny please, man, I’m sorry Johnny!” Daniel pleaded.

Johnny smiled as he pulled Daniel out of the car by his hair. Daniels left leg was barely intact; hanging on by shredded muscle tissue and tendons. He was screaming and crying, begging for his life to be spared. “Okay Daniel, since you seem to have such a great will to live, I will give a fighting chance here…”

 “Oh, thank you Johnny, thank you!”

 “I will give you the same treatment you gave to our old buddy Hector!” Daniel grew very quiet. “I’ll just shoot with my eyes closed! That’ll be fair, right?” Johnny pointed the gun at Daniel and waited for him to speak; once he opened his mouth to yet again, beg for his life; the barrel of the magnum was shoved down his throat. “Now here we go Daniel... are you ready?!? Ill close my eyes now, okay; on three…ONE, TWO…”  The shot echoed across the desert. Johnny opened his eyes and rubbed the fresh blood off of his face and brushed the bits of skull from his shirt. Daniel’s eyes were wide open and staring; his left eye was dramatically forced upward and to the left. Johnny went to the trunk and pulled out a small tarp and some bungee cords; he started wrapping Daniel up, making sure that the tarp covered all of him and that the cords were tied as tightly as they would go.

 He then went back to the trunk and grabbed a gas can and a large box that had a set of speakers inside. He pulled the electronics and all of the Styrofoam out of the box, and then proceeded to put the Styrofoam into the gasoline; he watched as it dissolved in the liquid.  “Alright Danny boy” he said while pouring the mixture inside the tarp, making sure it thoroughly soaked his recently departed friend.  “You always said you wanted to go out with a bang! Well, here we go; I have personally mixed up a nice cocktail of napalm for you. Now what we are going to do, is take you over to that bridge and light your head on fire; but we have to be careful and move fast once we do this because napalm burns very hot and fast! Hell, you can even light it on the water’s surface and it will burn! Anyway, after you become a human torch I am going to push you over and watch you fall all the way down to the water and hope you continue to burn… it’s almost an eighty foot drop! I hope you survive the fall… oh wait… hahahaha!”  Johnny grabbed Daniel’s feet and began to drag him to the bridge; once they got there he hoisted Danny up and rested him on the ledge of the bridge.

 Johnny pulled his zippo out from the chest pocket of his leather jacket and struck the flint. The flame swayed and danced in the gentle breeze as Johnny put the fire to Daniels head. Daniels eyes shot open and they were pitch black; the fire engulfed him. “YOU WILL NEVER GET AWAY FROM YOUR SINS, JOHNNY. YOU WILL ANSWER FOR ALL OF YOUR WRONG DOINGS IN THE LOWEST CIRCLE OF HELL. YOU WILL SUFFER!!”

 “This isn’t possible”, Johnny stammered, “I blew your god damn brains out! YOU’RE DEAD!”

 “YOU PATHETIC, NAÏVE, CHILD! I WILL SEE YOU AGAIN, JOHNNY. VVEERRYY SSOOONN”

The flames had completely covered him and flesh was beginning to melt off of his bones. Johnny kicked him in the stomach and sent him sailing all the way down to the river.  Johnny watched as the body slammed into the cold water and flames were thrown all around. The napalm clung to the body and continued to burn strong; Johnny was pleased at this and walked back to his car. He jumped into the driver seat and put the car into drive and moved on down the road. “Well, we got that prick taken care of, didn’t we Hector?” there was no reply, “Hector?”

Johnny turned around to see a horrible twisted face staring back at him. Hector’s skin was grey and his eyes were clouded white; he was dead. “NO, NO, NO!! Come on man you have to come back! We are almost to the hospital!”