“Turn around, go back,” Benjamin said.

“First, tell me what’s going on.”

“It’s that guy, Diesel Parker, the one you asked me about last time. He was the one who hurt Emma.”

“Diesel Parker!” Emmeline and Abel exclaimed in unison.

“Yes, he’s right by the roadside.”

“I’ve finally caught him!” Abel clenched his teeth and turned the car around.

“Abel, what are you doing? Why do you care about him? It’s been so long.” Emmeline worried, but Abel had. already turned the car around.

Sure enough, there was a burly man by the roadside, shirtless with his clothes draped over his shoulder, humming a tune. It really was Diesel.

“You’re wearing your uniform,” Abel reminded Benjamin.

That’s an easy fix,” Benjamin replied, unbuttoning his shirt and baring his arms.

Abel quickly parked the car without killing the engine and said to Emmeline, “Stay in the car.”

Then, he and Benjamin stormed toward Diesel, grabbed the shirt on his shoulders, wrapped it around his head, and unleashed a furious barrage of punches..

Diesel howled in pain and fell to the ground, soon becoming motionless. In just a minute, the fight was over.

Abel and Benjamin quickly got back into the car and raced away, covering a hundred yards in an instant, turning a corner in the darkness.

and anxiety. “You

way.” Benjamin smiled. “If you

will he? He lay motionless in the end,” Emmeline expressed her

we’ve all been through fights,” Benjamin reassured her. “We know how

it,” Emmeline added. “I saw Diesel in the community garden a

was he doing there?” Abel said. “Are you sure you

suspiciously under the magnolia tree

a few days ago,” Benjamin mentioned. “It was an unregistered large truck, supposedly for hauling soil for the school. The Third Division

soil for our school? Emmeline asked. “We’re undergoing

this kind of work every day,” Benjamin explained. “It could

dropping Benjamin at the entrance of the auto repair shop, Abel drove Emmeline back to Altney

the car to the side and turned

“Has

didn’t drink much at all, and I still have to drive,” Abel replied. “Come sit in

moved to the front passenger seat.

silent, simply enjoying each other’s company on the

in the night were beautiful.

pulling Emmeline into his embrace, and

a melancholy that

he dropped Emmeline off at the community gate, watching her turn

the other side of the

in the car, smoked it in silence, and

trouble, he didn’t

the drive, Emmeline’s phone call came in, and Abel had a foreboding

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