NOTE: This tale also appears in David Bain's GREEN RIVER CRIME STORIES collection..
Heather is the only friend Jay has left, and she's questioning him. And here's Brenda, who just wants attention - and someone to fight her boyfriend. Already beat up on the inside, will Jay go for feeling beat up on the outside as well, or will he take Heather to "A Deeper Level"?
"Obviously she wanted Byron to see her with me; obviously she wanted Byron to see me driving her car. Maybe there’d even be a fight - maybe, in that case, I could take feeling beat up on both the inside and outside to a deeper level. Or maybe I could play this situation my way, on my own terms."
David Bain is the author of the Green River Crime & Horror, the Will Castleton psychic detective and the Riders of the Weird West series as well as lots of other novels and short stories.