You Dirty Rat part (5 of 7)

The quartet continued the plan to catch Robert on tape and prove that he killed Justine. That night there he was back on the porch looking through the packages. He is on the phone again:

"Yea Vincent you'll get the dough for the bomb as soon as the heat cools off and the insurance money kicks in so don't worry."

Stuffing his fat face with more cake and seeing there is a bottle of Virginia's favorite Yukon Jack in a package he greedily laughs and opens it too. Calling on the phone he leaves a message for Mike saying

"I'll be at home so ring the bell instead of using the key - you have to cool it till we go to Hawaii."

Another call and " yea, honey I'll see you tomorrow at work in the office when they're all out to lunch muah."

Sam was so glad his sis was not the one on watch or she might have ripped open the door and beat the rat with her own two hands ! Reporting more damaging evidence after his watch was up was a great feeling this time. Unknown to the four friends and to the Mafia there were others also listening in on all this self incriminating evidence that Robert was piling up for them.

Virginia had to get out and walk and think so early next morning she put on her brown wig disguise and walked for a few hours ending up at her own home. No one was there so she sneaked in the back through the broken fence that had never been repaired. What a mess there was with beer cans and fast food papers all over the place.

She got the hidden key from under the fake rock she had placed next to some real rocks but the back was unlocked so she let herself in and was surprised at all the trash inside, the stacks of porn movies and photos of men in various stages of undress. Now she is so very happy the rat had not touched her in three years. Virginia thought he was just going through a stressful change but never anything what she saw in this room.

Watching and listening for any noises she went upstairs to her room and looked for her hidden jewelry box. It contained family jewelry that were sentimental to her and Sam. Then she found two pair of shoes in the back of the closet and a favorite purse Mama

had given her years ago. That was it, this place was disgusting to her so she let herself out.

Back at the basement she was missed and when she finally came in they were so upset they all made her promise to never go back there again. She did not need to promise as she had made up her mind when she walked out of that house she would never go back again. Sam was happy she had taken the jewelry box and told her so.

The flowers and packages on the porch were getting messy so they decided that Anthony would deliver more flowers with new names and tidy up the porch so he hired a couple of neighbor teens to help with the clean up. Then a small table, chair, waste basket placed in the corner and a heavy guest book were put on the porch for any new messages.

There actually were a few friends and neighbors that walked up the steps and left caring messages for Sam and his parents. A few more packages were left. Sam is now on watch and it tends to be quite interesting.

Rat comes by and checks things out and peeks in the window and tries to open the door and windows. Then his phone rings so he sits and talks.

"Whadda ya mean I'm ignoring ya honey...I gotta be careful" "The old lady just died and the cops are investigating.".

Opening the guest book he looks at some of the entries then writes something on a separate paper with a menacing laugh and shoves it into the book.

"Ok, ok I'll meet ya in the basement at work tomorrow at 12:15 pm...ok ? "

He then punches in a number saying:

"Mike we got a job to do tomorrow meet me at 12:30 pm

in the basement where I work.

Yet another call : “ Lori meet me at the pub in a half hour and order a pepperoni pizza so we can go up to your apartment and have it with a few beers and a few laughs.”

Rat then starts to go down the steps to leave when Anthony enters the living room to take over for Sam. He sees Sam's face is livid and motions he will take over. Sam could not contain himself he said he was getting ready to run out there on the porch and beat the ever living daylights out of the no good son of a bitch.

Anthony tackled him sitting him on the sofa and the girls, who were right behind Anthony, quieted Sam down.

When darkness approached Virginia, with her disguise on, crept onto the porch like a silent cat and grabbed the guest book.

Inside the basement apartment the four of them sipped on Yukon Jack and carefully, with gloved hands, read the paper Robert put into the book. “It was a fake one signed Anthony,” I will miss you Ginny from your lover boy ! True rat he was again.

Virginia said “wait I want a plain paper and a soft lead pencil so I can get a rubbing of what he wrote down.”

What came up was an excellent clue.

Apparently the note before, had been written with a heavy hand leaving an impression on this plain paper, as he had drawn a diagram of a place in the woods with a shallow grave and stupidly places a sign that says Pepeto's Pub behind the trees!

Was he going to kill honey and place her there ?

The four good friends hoped not. His dirty fingerprint secretions left a slight stain on the paper.

What a great clue This was!