One
In a small country town called Preston; on the main street is a tall building labelled ‘wolf records’ above the double sliding doors. The letters are carved in capital letters into the bricks and inside the carved out letters is green polished stone. At the top of the building, on the top left and right corners is a carved out head of a wolf’s face.
A tall man enters the building wearing a white singlet with a flannelette shirt over the top left unbuttoned.
Rusty is his name; he has olive skin and is six feet tall with short blonde hair and blue eyes. Rusty keeps his body in great shape with an abs workout. He is a protective person. He doesn’t like violence against women and he gets angry easily.
As you enter the studio of wolf records; on the right side is a counter with a grey coloured top where a clerk assists you with your enquiries.
On the left is a blank soft white colour wall, there is no clock or waiting chairs, just a few single pots with plants in them.
In the corner near, the sliding doors is a pot plant filled with red and white roses. In the middle of the wall is a pot plant filled with a small fern, it’s still growing. And at the end corner of the wall is a pot plant filled with daisy’s of pink and purple colours.
In front of you as you enter the building is a room filled with recording equipment and the door is always kept shut and is the same soft white colour as the walls. The floor inside the room is soft and thick; the colour of the carpet is a soft grey.
The floor inside the building is tiled with black and grey tiles. The room down the hall on your right, past the clerk’s station is the testing room. The walls are in plaster and filled with the colour of cream paint. No posters are hanging up on either wall; an ordinary clock is hanging up on the middle of the back wall.
Rusty walks down the hall to the second room, the door is open and he enters. The light is bright and makes his eyes hurt as if he was in a dark place walking out into the blistering sun.
Underneath the light is a timber varnished desk with a comfortable swivel chair. A man is sitting down at the desk rewriting lyrics for the next album.
Jason is Tan with the number two setting hair cut, his hair is jet black. He has a soul patch goatee; it’s a small patch of hair between the lower lip and chin.
Rusty stands in front of the desk and places his olive hands on the desk as he leans over. Confused, he says
“I thought I wrote lyrics.”
Jason doesn’t look up to see him, greet him or speak to him.
“Come on man; tell me what’s going on here.” Rusty says confused.
Jason finally stops writing and puts the black pen down as he looks up to face Rusty.
“We had a meeting today.” Jason says almost as calm as the morning ocean tide.
“Why, no one told me.” Rusty says confused with a slight tone.
“It’s because it was about you... we had to vote to keep you in or to kick you out and everyone voted you out... the reason we were told was because of your lyrics being too personal.” Jason says
Rusty’s eyes show anger as he narrows his eyebrows tightly and quenches his teeth together.
“They can’t do that!” Rusty says in anger.
“I’m sorry but you didn’t have a say in the matter.” Jason says calmly.
Rusty quickly walks past him and out the door to the counter.
A young lady in her late teens is behind the counter chewing gum while she is sitting on the comfortable chair. She is pretty with long blonde straight hair and brown eyes. She has a pale complexion with a slim built body.
The young lady love’s to flirt with Rusty every time she sees him but Rusty isn’t interested in her.
The young lady gently pushes her hair on her right side over her shoulder and leans over the counter staring into Rusty’s eyes happily.
“I’m not in the mood... I just want a summary of how much I have been paid.” Rusty snaps at her.
The young lady sighs and frowns at Rusty and turns around at the computer.
“What is your name again?” The young lady asks seriously.
“You have been working here for a year now and have been continuously flirting with me, plus you kissed me a few weeks back and you can’t remember my name... how can someone be so into someone and kiss them and not remember their name... I mean, come on!” Rusty says angrily.
“Okay. I’m sorry, I mean, you don’t have to yell at me... I’ve done nothing wrong; I don’t need you to take your anger out on me.” She says almost in tears.
Rusty breathes in and exhales slowly.
“I’m sorry... should have left the anger issues in that room... the name is Rusty Power.” He replies a little calmer this time.
“Your apology is accepted.”
She punches Rusty’s name on the keyboard and his details come up on the computer screen.
“Your middle name is Alexander?” She asks as she looks at him surprised.
“Yeah. I hate that name.” Rusty replies.
“Oh, why, I love it.” The young lady says calmly.
She looks at the computer screen and taps the down arrow on the keyboard till she sees his summary.
“Ah, here we go. You should have received $3,263.” She says calmly and cheerfully.
“Thank you.” Rusty says.
Rusty walks outside of the building, he curses out on the footpath as he is still annoyed.
Across the road is a skate park, there’s a lot of noise coming from there. It is a fairly warm night with only a few stars shinning in the sky. It’s fairly dark with only a few street lights glowing down on the road along the street.
Rusty crosses the road and walks along the dirt ground to the skate park. Bored teenagers had sprayed the skate bowls in spray paint of gang names and in rainbow colours. On the left of the skate bowls, a few feet away is a table bolted to a ten by ten metre square of cement. And a shade is also bolted to the cement covering over the table with a light hanging from the inside of the roof.
Three kids are sitting at the table, two on the left and one opposite to the two. They couldn’t have been more than thirteen sniffing glue.
On the right of the skate bowls is a car park with posts a few metres apart for cars to park up to them. There are five cars parked at the posts with their lights on and shining light into the skate bowl.
Inside the big skate bowl is a fight, everyone is cheering around the top of the left side of the skate bowl and along the top of the other two skate bowls. They are cheering while some of the others are booing and a few are yelling ‘fight’.
Two skaters were arguing over one of them being hit off his skate board and being knocked to the ground, this made them come to fists and start fighting one another, when the fight was over a guy in his late twenties started hosting bets.
Rusty pushes his way through the crowd of people to the edge of the big skate bowl and sees just under a quarter of the end of the fight.
“Who wants to be in the next fight?” Jin asks calmly into the wireless microphone.
Rusty glances around at the crowd of people. No one steps out of the crowd so he walks down into the skate bowl to the middle where Jin is standing.
Jin is a Torres Strait Islander; he is short and stumpy with a huge beer gut. He has brown eyes with short dark brown hair which looks black. He has a scar across his right cheek and he is wearing old army clothes that look filthy.
“What’s your name son?” Jin asks calmly.
Rusty looks wide eyed at him.
“Rusty.”
Jin leans in to have a closer look at Rusty.
“No way... are you the lead singer of the band called ‘Hybrids’? Jin asks surprised.
“Yeah... was.” Rusty says.
“Who wants to fight alpha?” Jin asks excitedly into the microphone.
Everyone makes a path down the middle on the left of the skate bowl for a muscular man as if he is the king. The man is an inch taller than Rusty, he doesn’t know how to fight as he hasn’t been taught but his own moves haven’t let him down so far, he is aboriginal and is very serious.
Everyone in the crowd gave Jin money for this fight. In the crowd Sean stands, he is Caucasian with blue eyes and short brown hair that is wavy and parted down the middle. Sean is very muscular; he is five feet twelve, tan and slim with an abs workout. Jin looks up at the crowd to see Sean; Sean looks down at him with a smile.
Jin looks back at the two standing in front of him and he gives the two a wave through the middle which tells them to fight.
Rusty walks left and the man follows. Rusty stands a few feet in front of the man, the man walks up closer to Rusty slowly, as the man gets closer Rusty throws a left punch but misses. He throws a right and it hits the man on the left side of his jaw. The man puts his left palm up on his jaw and gently rubs it. The man then tries to kick Rusty in the shin and it hits. Rusty feels the kick but stands his ground, the man tries again with the same side kick but Rusty grabs his foot and pulls the man’s leg towards himself. The man’s other foot loses ground and slips from underneath him and he falls to the ground but gets straight back up.
Rusty right kicks and his steel cap boot strikes just below the man’s knee cap, all everyone can here is a sickening crack sound as the man’s face turns pale and screams in agony as he falls to the ground. He rocks backwards and forwards on his back with his left leg up towards his chest weeping. The man’s leg is badly broken with the bone protruding through the skin.
Rusty leans forward, staring in disbelief. The man grabs Rusty’s white singlet and reveals a switch knife in his right hand. Rusty instinctively puts his right hand on the man’s shoulder to stop himself from falling onto the knife. Rusty has his left hand placed against the man’s neck, all everyone can hear is a crack sound, the man falls to the ground dead with a broken neck.
Everyone stops yelling and stands in silence. Rusty turns around on the spot as he looks up at all the people starring down at him the shocked and disappointed faces. Jin walks down into the skate bowl from the left and stands on Rusty’s left. Slowly Jin raises Rusty’s hand.
Everyone glares at Jin and Rusty and then start to walk away. Two men stay behind, one is angry while the other one is impressed.
Jin is happy and excited to have won this bet.
“Alpha is the winner!” Jin says into the microphone.
The angry man gives Rusty and Jin the rude finger and walks away. Jin pulls out his wallet from his right pocket.
Sean walks up closer to Jin and Rusty.
“Hey kid, nice work.” Sean says happily.
Rusty looks up at Sean wide eyed.
“Thank you... but I didn’t mean to kill him.” Rusty says shocked.
Jin removes four hundred from his wallet.
“Here you go.” Jin says with a smile.
Rusty turns his head left to see Jin. Jin glances down at his hand of money. Rusty follows Jin’s gaze and holds out his left hand. Jin puts the four hundred in Rusty’s held out hand.
“Would you like to do some boxing, you would be a great boxer.” Sean says calmly.
Rusty looks up at Jin and gives him a nod. He looks up at Sean wide eyed.
“I will think about it.” Rusty says calmly.
Sean smiles and gives him a nod; he shakes Jin’s hand and walks away. Rusty glances at the four hundred dollars in his hand, he looks up to see Jin’s back.
“Excuse me.” Rusty says.
Jin turns around to face Rusty.
“Yeah.” Jin says calmly.
“Do you have the time?” Rusty asks politely.
Jin glances at his four hundred dollar Rolex watch.
“It is nine thirty.” Jin replies.
Rusty smiles politely to say thank you and turns around and starts to walk back the way he came. Jin watches Rusty as he walks five feet away from where he was standing.
“Hey, where do you live?” Jin asks politely.
Rusty turns back around to face Jin.
“Wolf court.” Rusty replies.
“Would you like a lift?” Jin asks.
“Sure.” Rusty replies calmly.
Jin drives Rusty back to his house and Rusty thanks him for the ride.
“Hey, on the back of the ute is a road bike, you can have it.” Jin says calmly.
Rusty glances at the bike in the back of the ute, it’s too dark to see it, all Rusty can see is it’s outline.
“It’s a Honda cbr-350, blue.” Jin explains.
Rusty looks back at Jin.
“I can’t take that.” Rusty says seriously.
“Come on man. I’m giving it to you, you will never get a bargain like this again. You’d be crazy not to take it, besides; you would be hurting my feelings if you don’t take it.” Jin says honestly.
Rusty glances at the bike again.
“It’s in good condition, it isn’t stolen and it is working properly.” Jin explains.
Rusty removes the bike from the Ute, he stands on the foot path as he waves Jin goodbye. Rusty pushes the heavy machinery into the garage and walks inside.
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