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The Guardian




A short story by M. Cavalieri



Table Of Contents
1.Somewhere in Between
2.In the Beginning
3.Dark Figures in the night
4.Lady in Red
5.Pussy
6.All in a Days Work
7.Shit happens
8.Ghost is Born
9.Same shit different Day
10.Theres something about Mary
11.Wrong place at the Wrong time
12.A Gift From above




Chapter 1: Somewhere In Between

Waiting … the worst part of the job. The butterflies in the stomach stopped months ago but now its just the boredom and longing for release that eats at you. Its an easy one single no pets no alarm system should be a walk in the park. If he only knew what was in store for him when he came home after a hard day of fucking people over. Like I said these ones are easy because they deserve it. My train of thought is broken by the multiple clicks a key makes when it slides into a lock *clack*. The door opens I see his shadow against the wall. I wait silently clutching my silenced 9mm pistol. Palms not sweating heart beat not racing im very calm as I am about to end this mans life. Footsteps getting closer and closer . I notice that there is more then one person, but I must do what I have come to do. As I turn the corner I see him and a girl from the looks of it very intoxicated. With two quiet zips he hit’s the floor one in his chest one in is skull. I aim at her but she is unconscious , She should not leave her alive but I feel pity for her this prick must have drugged her. I shake her a bit she does not move , her pulse leads me to believe that she is dead. Well then I step over the two corpses I take off my mask and gloves put them into my duffle bag as I drop the gun on the floor in the puddle of blood. The car ride to the bar was relaxing as I listen to the radio I think to my self what if she wasn’t dead that would suck to wake up in a puddle of someones blood, oh well sucks to be her. Ah the aroma of liquor and tobacco fills the air of this establishment which I visit on a regular basis. I sit in the back of the bar facing the door , if someone was coming for me I would have the upper hand. Emma is the name of the barkeep she is a short irish woman with light brown hair nice woman a little old though she takes forever to bring me my drinks, so I just ask for the bottle. Emma says “What can I do for ya” I reply “Can you just bring me the bottle of Jack Daniels dear”.
As I sit there slowly drinking my self into relaxation I am disturbed by me phone vibrating. “hello” deep voice says “meet me in the back of the bar in 2 minutes “ I reply “who is this” click who ever it was hung up on me. I make my way to the back door I step outside I see a dark figure beckoning me.

Chapter 2 : In the Beginning

I was given the name Michael when I was born after my father Michael Graves Sr. he was named after the Michael the arc angel protector and guardian. I grew up a normal life in a broken household with my mom always bitching about everything and my father always getting drunk and kicking the shit out of me.
I didn’t mind because if it weren’t for them I wouldn’t of been the man I am now. All the beatings rendered me immune to pain and training in martial arts since the age of five made me a human weapon at the age of seventeen, im twenty eight now and im more into guns and knives but I resort to my hands time to time. Growing up I got into allot of fights being the only Italian and Irish kid in the neighborhood until one day it all stopped when I had beaten every single kid who fucked with me. This was not for the best I was better off being a pussy because when I was seventeen I started getting arrested for fighting even when I didn’t start it. Its not always good being a tough mother fucker it bites u in the ass in the end.
After all the court dates and hearings I stand tough an broke. No one has ever beaten me in a one on one fight yet and even when I got jumped I never hit the ground because I simply could not feel the pain. Im not a freak of nature where I don’t have feeling but im just used to getting hit and it doesn’t really bother me anymore. Since the age of sixteen I have been drinking on a regular basis because it is the only thing that helps me forget that life fucking sucks. Jack Daniels (JD) is my drink and only because I cannot consume enough beer in the time needed to get fucked up. I have a high tolerance due to genetics and alcoholism so JD is the way to go. All of my life I have had speratic income meaning sometimes I have a ton of cash sometimes im broke mainly because im lazy jobs never stuck with me until my final job which brings me to where we started.


Chapter 3 : The Dark Figures in the Night?

As I reach for my weapon I hear the voice “\Relax its me Nino “ I reply “Fuck that’s a relief I thought I would have to bury someone tonight” Nino says “Is it done” “ya” “Alright here is what I owe ya” Nino hands me a stuffed yellow envelope. “Ok Nino call me tomorrow about that other thing” . He walks out of the alley and gets in a black caddy with tinted windows and gold trim. Hmm nice pay for a days work fifty grand this should float me for a while, back to the bar as I finish off my bottle im only slightly drunk, I toss Emma one hundred fifty dollars fifty for the bottle one hundred for her just because im a nice guy and I know that she has four kids to feed . As I stumble to my car notice another dark figure waiting by my car covered in blood a jump to it a put my blade to its throat . I hear a squeal in a woman’s voice I release my grip and sheath my knife “who are you?” “I was in the apartment with the man you murdered” “ what?” “You were the only one who left the building after his death “ I think to my self should I ? she says ‘I just wanted to thank you and let you know that I am not going to say anything. That man had drugged me and was going to rape me if It weren’t for you “ I reply “ Ah are you alright” she said “Yes thanks to you”. “Well don’t you have somewhere to go I an give u a ride”. she replied “That would be kind of you “ . So we got in the car and then I asked her where she wanted to go. She said “Maybe I could go back to your place and clean off some of this blood im to shook up to go home alone”. Now In my mine I swear I know im gonna hit this tonight but I make believe all she is going to do is come over to shower and hang out a bit.

Chapter 4 : Lady in Red

Mike and the girl make their way to Mikes apartment which was on the third floor of a run down apartment building despite the exterior looks .Mike had an astonishing layout of all modern furniture and appliances it looked like something from a space ship. Most of the gadgets He had designed himself. He is a bit of an inventor alcoholic chain smoking hit man. As she gets undressed in the bathroom to shower Mike pours out two glasses of homemade wine and heats up some dinners he had already prepared a few nights ago. He lights some candles and slips into some comfortable grey sweatpants and a white tee shirt. She finishes her shower and comes out in just a towel walks over to the kitchen and asks if he had anything she could wear her clothes were covered in blood. He gave her a Scarlet valore bathrobe and told her to bring her clothes out. She walks out with her cloths in hand he takes them and tosses them into the lit fire place. She asks why he did so, he replies no evidence. He gestures toward the table and says would you join me for some dinner or should I eat alone with a smirk on his face. She sits down graciously and indulges in his fine cuisine of steak coconut shrimp and string beans topped in a garlic butter and chives sauce. They sit there for a while drinking wine and conversing. Mike asks her “by the way what is your name, She replies Mary. He says ah Mary so why did you come over to my place if u suspect me of killing someone in front of you “, she replied “well your very attractive and you’re my guardian“. Mike say s “well I was just doing my job but I had to show you some hospitality since you were standing in front of my car covered in blood looking for answers“. She says “well I thank you but are we gonna sit here all night or are you going to fuck me”. Mike is shocked by this smiles and says “well then let me light some candles and put on some soft music”. They get over to the bed after dancing shortly Mike throws her on the bed and starts to take his clothes off she does the same. He starts by kissing her from her lower abdomen up to her lips. She grabs his cock and starts to suck him vigorously . He grabs her hips and flips her onto her hands and knees and tears it up doggy for an hour or so until his legs were soaked in her cum, then he pulls out and blows a massive load on her face. He lays back into his pillow lights up a smoke and then hears something really loud saying “HEY!” “GET UP”. Mike wakes up with his face planted into the bar counter the loud noise is Emma waking him up. He had never left the bar he wakes up saying “What the fuck did I just dream all of that” . Emma says “Honey you have to go home now its 5:00am and were closing. Mike grabs the yellow envelope and heads for his car. He notices he has a hard on and needs to get some pussy so he heads down to where the whe high class hookers are.

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Chapter 5: Pussy

There are only 3 drugs Mike is addicted to 1. Alcohol 2. Nicotine 3. Pussy and he needs number three because this lucid dream has got him waning some release. He scouts out some high class pussy in a strip club the kind that will run three grand a fuck. He picks the one closest to the girl Mary in his dream and he tries to mimic the dream the shower the wine the food all in detail up to the load in the face he pays her tells her to get the fuck out. He lights up a smoke and then shortly after that passes out. He wakes up around 5:00 pm with a hangover so he takes a red eye to the face. A red eye is an old school remedy for hangovers raw egg, Tabasco sauce , salt, pepper, and bourbon . About a half hour later he feels better and starts his daily workout , one hundred pushups and crunches. After that he has an egg white omelet with some wheat toast and a glass of lemon water. It doesn’t matter what time of day when he wakes up Mike ha breakfast . By this time it is 8:00pm the phone rings, Mike doesn’t pick up because he doesn’t care he is in the middle of a meal. After his meal he checks his caller id and it was Nino he calls back “hey Nino what’s up” “I got another job for you “ “so soon” “ well it’s a rare occasion “ “ ok email me the resume and I will go to the interview” “no problem this job pays one hundred thousand a year” “ok well ill be very eager to start” “chow” “see ya Nino”. Nino and Mike always talk in code because phones are tapped these days and thy know what they mean so it doesn’t matter. Pretty much mike just got a hit called in bounty is one hundred grand and Nino will email him the details on the hit.

Chapter 6: All in a days work

Mike Receives the email as a picture he deciphers it into a txt document which reads
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Target: Domonic Speraza
Loc of Hit: 104 Green Hill .rd
Doh : 4/12/18
Description:
Target will be at a wedding in the backyard of his nephew at the L.O.H
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Mike calls back Nino and says “hey I got hired the boss loved me ill call you when I get my first paycheck”

Mike heads down to an underground arms dealer and he starts to look around it a filthy basement with rack upon rack of guns grenades bombs u name it. He figures he is gonna have to make a shot from a distance so he picks out a 50.cal bolt action sniper rifle and a box of hollow point rounds which all runs him a little under fifteen thousand . He takes it back to his place and gets his binoculars . Mike must scout his shooting location before hand or he would have a bigger job ahead of him. The drive to Green hill road wasn’t that rough but he got a little off coarse to have a drink at a local bar. He scopes out the area noticing the backyard is open to a woodland area about 400yds from itself . He decides that is where the shot will be taken from because nobody would be able to see him from there and he can have a clean getaway. Mike heads back to his house and takes a shower , eats, watches some t.v, and goes to bed

Chapter 7 Shit happens

4/12/18 Its time to go to work he loads up his gear and heads out to the location given. Surprisingly no drinking on the day of . Drinking on this job could be fatal so Mike stays sober till he has completed his task. He gets to the spot he set up but notices a problem , There’s some type of fucking blow up ride for the kids blocking his line of sight making a shot impossible from this area. He doesn’t panic he heads to the car and puts on a suit grabs some gear and is on his way. He enters the wedding greeting people he doesn’t know he is a professional they have no idea he isn’t supposed to be there.
It is a beautiful wedding flower arrangements all over amazing food smell fills the air in an orgy with the flowers smell. People so happy children running around having fun I hate to do it this way but it must be done .Dominic Stands up to make a toast to his nephew on his wedding day .Mike waits patiently when he finishes the groom gets up o say something. All eyes are on the groom the bride starts to kiss him,

I take aim.
I Shoot Silently .
As the bullet leaves my barrel I blend into the crowd.
Target is down with one shot to the throat.
I wait till im sure he is dead .
I make my exit stealthily .
No one knows what happened .
I am the Ghost.
At least I let that pedophile make his toast before I ended his miserable existence

Chapter 8 The Ghost is Born


The ghost was born one day when I was arrested for fighting and I swore to never get caught for this shit ever again. I went to the store and bought a Halloween mask it was all black it was a cross between a grim reaper hood and a ski mask without the mouth/eye holes all black I can see through you cannot. One night these kids jumped me. Ha ha the ghost came out the next day with a vengeance black ecko hoodie black pants my mask and a night stick brought the wrath of the ghost upon five kids all hospitalized fractured skulls detached ears. They all got what hey deserved I entered their community and exited without a trace no charges against me because nobody knew what had hit them their description was a floating nightstick. It was pitch black out and starting to rain all they saw was the stick and that’s where I got my nick name the ghost. I liked to the point at which I didn’t fight any more I would get into beef and just ghost people out. And people fear this alter ego of mine. Because you cant stop what you cant see. Is it pussy I don’t thin so but if it is I don’t care because if I don’t operate this ay I will be spending allot of time in jail in my times people are cunts . People will snitch and rat on anyone hey cannot beat up in a fight thinking the law can save them but they will also feel the wraith of the ghost when they least expect it. This was the first sign of vigilance I have seen in myself ever and I liked it and so the ghost was born.

Chapter 9 Same Shit Different Day

Well my life isn’t so fucking entertaining that I can literally have every day action packed usually I drink watch TV maybe once or twice a week have a good fuck eat good meals and hope that when I die I don’t go to the fiery pits of hell for passing judgment on people, but who knows if there is a God any way some days I wonder and then some days im sure like the earth is the perfect shape and distance from the sun to house humans 1 foot closer we would fry one foot further we freeze so I have to think someone put us here but was it God? All in all I do believe in him and I wish he would give me some direction but he does not so I look forward to see him maybe I can be a heavenly warrior or some shit. But what I never understood is that there’s supposed to be a war between heaven and hell how do u fucking kill something that’s dead if your a daemon or angel your dead already so what the fuck. Oh well I guess ill just live and figure out this shit when im dead. I hear the phone ring its Nino. I go to my oasis in the city Emma’s bar and I have my usual bottle of JD meet Nino and fuckin aye I got one hundred large now im sitting on roughly five hundred thousand this life style has led me nowhere I want to be. Killing people is not fun and I finally think im done with it. There’s only one problem if this organization doesn’t like it that their main hitter is out they might try to get rid of me because I know too much. I doubt it. And as I think of all this Mary walks into the bar now by some crazy fate. This happens and I have no idea why but ill flow with it.

Chapter 10 : There’s something abut Mary

I ease over to her I offer to buy her a drink and he accepts graciously. She has no idea I had saved her and she seems a little screwed in the head from the situation it must have traumatized her so she is in the bar with all the other traumatized fucks like myself. We have some small talk and we really connect I like this girl I might even be experiencing love for the first time in 11 years since my last girlfriend left my heart black and empty. It feels great but I cannot let it over come me because I have a big move ahead getting out of the game and it wont be easy. I don’t know how it happened but long story short me and Mary have spent allot of time together and we are really close. I know it a little fast forward but life is quick and if you don’t pay attention it will flash before your eyes to the point that you taking a dirt nap wondering what happened. Mary moves in with me it’s a big step for me because im used to being an asshole and the only girl I kept without cheating on was in high school her name was Gina she was a virgin and I had waited a year and a half for her to be ready, she never was I pressured her so much it had driven her away from me I have never been the same a girl that you love Is worth waiting for an I couldn’t that’s probably on of the reasons I need to get fucked up every day of my miserable life. Back to present time I still feel warm inside when I see Mary in just a tee shirt making me breakfast after a making love. I think she might be the one. I haven’t worked in a few months I don’t need to kill any more I have Mary my new job and its one worth keeping . I have decided to marry her and move to another country maybe somewhere tropical. we can live off interest of my money and drink pina coladas on the beach .

Chapter 11:The Wrong Place at the Wrong time

I get the call I wished I didn’t get for the longest time. Nino calls saying he has a job for me I agree planning to flee the country without doing the deed because I do not wish to kill any more I don’t want to add to my list of sins. Im am deeply in love with marry and I hope I can grow old with her have kids and someday be in heavenly paradise with her. I tell her what we must do and she agrees I tell her all about my life and she is socked but so in love with me it doesn’t matter. We head to the air port and fly to Venezuela. We arrive in tropics it is beautiful finally I am in paradise and im never going back to the lifestyle I had lived before I am a different man this woman has changed me it was destiny the dream I had about her was no coincidence but God speaking to me without actually proving it . We have stayed in a cabin I bought relaxing everyday making love when we feel like eating healthy living out our lives he way we choose.

Chapter 12 The Gift From Above

It’s a happy day we have been here 4 months Mary has been getting bigger lately. I ask her about it and she cannot figure out why, but the we looked at each other and smiled. Mary is pregnant with my child my life is finally coming together and im at peace with the world. I am truly happy in my life I have quit the drinking ,well not every day at least a drink here and there to ease the nerves. So Mary is going to be coming home soon I am preparing a celebration for our new baby that will arrive in five or so months.
I am on the beach in front of our house pouring champagne as I see Mary walking down the sidewalk to me. I stand up to greet her and then I feel something hot inside of my chest. I look down and I see the sand turn red with the gush of my own blood. I had been done like I have done so many people, and now I must answer to the one and only God. Empty ness fills me as my vision fades to black I wait as it seems to be hundreds of years in blackness until I see the white light and a voice calls out to me. “Michael you have done much wrong in your life but allot of good I shall give you a choice a pass if you must and now you have been done wrong do you wish to live or die“. I reply I wish to live . The voice says “repent for your sins and I shall make it so”. I repented for all of my sins thousands of them I have spent years repenting. And then I felt a jolt to my chest . I awoke in a hospital out of a coma, and amazing as it sounds at the exact same time as my wife in labor with our child. I rush over the room in which she was my child was born male eight pounds healthy. The doctors said it was a ten percent I come out of the coma and I did to see my son born I named him Michael after the Guardian Michael Graves Jr. I lived out the rest of my life at ease praying every day thanking God for giving me a second chance the mafia thought I was dead they gave up on me I watched my kids grow up at the age of 76 I died of liver failure, Now I wait at the white gates a Guardian.

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please comment me i know i have made tons of mistakes.

Eli Cash

You don't usually need a table of contents nor chapter breaks for a short story.

Are you married to having it organized that way? If so, why? If you're going to do something that far outside the norm, it should be for a very good reason that you'll be able to concisely articulate to editors/professors/agents/what have you.

Love the thread title. That's what got me reading.

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