Breakfast

The silence lingered for a while longer, then he stood up and went out into the hall. Jeanie sat opposite Johnny, and they looked at one another.
“Aren’t you scared?” he asked
“I’m trying to come to terms with the primal scream that just came out of that mobsters mouth. Once I figure that out, thought I know I never will, I’ll be back to being terrified,” she replied.
They sat in silence, looking across at each other for sometime. The mobster was still off in the hallway, or maybe somewhere else in the apartment, looking for whatever it is he came for. The breakfast serial and eggs sat sadly on the table top in front of Johnny and Jeanie, congealed and soggy.
“We have to do something” said Johnny
“I agree” said Jeanie.
“Where the hell did he go? Is he still here?” said Johnny
“I don’t know, but that doesn’t mean shit. Apparently there’s a lot I don’t know” she said.
“What does that mean?” said Johnny, “what do you mean by that?”
“I mean” said Jeanie “one minute I’m sitting down to breakfast, the next, there’s a mobster here in the kitchen sitting at the head of the table, with a gun and a knife”
“It ain’t got nuthin to do with me,” said Johnny
“Who the fuck is he john? What the fuck did you do?” she asked
“How should I know who the fuck he is!? I am as fucking shocked as you are” he screamed.
Jeannie had agreed to let her brother stay with her a while, he had left or been sacked from another job it was his habit to let this happen around about the end of the month, payday. Johnny would be good as gold, apple of his employer’s eye for about 2 months, and then he would start the usual self pitying chain of events that eventually led to his being fired. Of course sometimes he would just never go back, as was his preferred way. He had been doing this his whole life.
This was new though, this was bad even by Johnny’s standards.

She spoke fast, and did not take her eyes away from that of her brothers. “Listen to me you fucking looser, tell me what you did, or who you pissed off or I swear to god.”
“ I told you I don’t have a fucking clue who that guy is!!”
“Right then, HEY!” she yelled, directing it behind her brother towards the hall “hey you, you fucking nut, who the fuck are you and what the fuck do you want?”
The brother and sister went back to silence, looking into each other’s eyes. Nothing much happened for a while, for a long while.
Jeannie moved her chair back slowly, and started to rise from the breakfast table, “SIT THE FUCK DOWN” the stranger said as he made his way back in from the hall, “who the fuck told you to move? Its bad enough I gotta listen to you two bicker like a pair of fuckin school girls, now your movin around? Just sit the fuck down and be patient”.

“Who are you? What do you want? She asked
“It really doesn’t matter, I got what I came here for and I learned what I needed to learn” He replied.
“Are you going then?”
“Yeah I’m going so just sit still and be quiet”
The stranger buttoned his jacket and straightened his tie; he seemed to compose himself like he was getting ready to go on stage. He didn’t look at the brother nor the sister as he reached inside his jacket and took out his gun promptly shooting Jeannie in the face.
He did not look at Johnny when he said, “Do what your told next time, please”.