I'm God
Clams Casino & Imogene Heap

I'm trying, will somebody make her shut up about it?
Can we settle sown, please?
It's what...
I think...
Bite tongue, deep breaths

"We gotta go." Sarah frantically says

"We looked her in the parlor, but gotta go."

"Okay, that code red. That's code red!" JJ says as we all try to pull John b back up.

"We have to go!" I yell down to John b.

"Let's go. John b! Get back on, man!" JJ yells

Everyone's just yelling over each other and we all try to pull on the rope to get him back up but he's not there. We all frantically yell for him until we hear him trying to say something.

He yells something but it's all muffled.

"What's he saying?"

Then he yells everyone's name.

"Yo, he's drowning! We gotta pull him up!" Sarah says.

Everyone gets back to the rope and we all try to pull him back up.

But then that crazy old lady comes down with a gun and starts shooting everywhere and we all scream.

"Shit!"

"Jesus!"

"Shit! Hang on!"

JJ ties the rope to a pole so John b wouldn't fall and so everyone could hide. I hid with Kie and Sarah.

"She can't aim for shit." I say.

"She can't see." Sarah looks at me.

"She's blind."

She starts shooting and we run away to not get shot. I get separated from Sarah and Kie and I'm now sitting behind a wooden boxes.

She keeps shooting everywhere and I hear pope and JJ yelling then i feel someone next to me. I look over and I see JJ.

We hear more shooting and JJ grabs my hand and we run outside to the van right behind Kie.

"Get in the car!" Sarah yells.

"Come on." JJ says. Kie to open the door and everyone all pile in and JJ drive away fast. I'm in the back with Kie, Sarah and pope.

"Why are we always getting shot at!" Pope yells as johnb runs to the van as we drive away.

Johnb jumps in.

"Oh my god!" Pope says.

"Shit!" Kie says.

"You smell like shit!" I laugh.

"JJ, drive!" Sarah says.

"Go, man!" Pope says.

"Oh my god!" JJ laughs.

"God!" Kie yells.

"Are you okay! Are you shot?" JJ keep looking back at Johnb who's out of breath.

"No." He says.

"You good?"

"Yeah, yeah."

"I think I'd know if I was shot, right?" I say feeling my body.

"You look disgusting." Pope says to Johnb.

"God, you smell like ass." Kie says.

"What the hell just happened?" Sarah says out of breath.

"All-time pogue hall of fame, baby." JJ says from the drivers seat.

"Hell, yeah." Kie says tapping jjs shoulder. "Thatbitch is possessed."

"That bitch can't aim." I breath out resting my head on Kie shoulder.

"How does she move so fast?" Pope asks.

"She possessed." Sarah says.

"I don't get it."

"She's blind." Kie says.

"Like master yoda." JJ says.

"Dunno."

"It makes not sense, scientifically." Pope says.

"She does yoga. Pilates." Kie says.

"Oh, god."

"Oh my god."

I see Johnb with something in his hand. "What is that?" I ask him taking my head off of kies shoulder.

"No, you didn't!" Sarah yells as she see its gold.

"We did it, baby!" Johnb yells.

"No, you didn't!" Sarah yells again.

"I did it!" Johnb yells.

"Oh my god!" JJ yells.

Everyone's just yelling now and we all celebrate.

"Wait, wait." Kie says. "Guys, we're gonna be rich!"

"Full kook!" Johnb yells.

"Like kook rich." Sarah and I say.

"Full kook! Full kook! Full kook! Full kook! Full kook! Full kook! Ay-ay-ay!" We all chant.

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"He said it looked something like this." Kie says as Sarah and I look at a poorly drawn concept of a machine to get the gold out of the well.

"So..." Sarah drags out not understanding.

"That's 50 feet down, and they're using 100-feet rope. So I guess this little wagon will go..." the three of us laugh a bit. "...straight to the gold room."

"Who drew this?" I laugh.

"Who do you think?" Kie laughs and the three of us look over at pope who's already looking over at us.

"Syd! This better work. We can't pawn this if there's a giant wheat symbol on it." JJ says walking over to the van and dropping the gold in front of me.

I reach over and pick up a blow torch. "It's gonna work." We put the gold in a pot and I melt it with the blow torch.

Then we drive over to the pawn shop to get the money for it.

"Hell of a job melting it down, Dr. Frankenstein." JJ says as we all get out of the van.

"Like you could've done better." I say rolling my eyes.

"I could have done much better. I took a welding class."

"When?" I get sassy.

"Whoa, whoa. Hey. Sh!" Johnb gets in between us. "Chill out, okay?"

"Easy for you to say. You're not the one that has to pawn this piece of shit off. How did I get this job anyway?"

"'Cause you're the best liar." Pope says and we all walk in.

"Afternoon, ma'am." JJ says to the old woman behind the counter.

"Afternoon." She replies.

"I see you buy gold."

"That's what the sign say, don't it?"

"Well, I sure hope you buy a lot of it, because I'm about to blow your mind." JJ goes on as the rest of us just look around the store.

"I ain't got much mind left to blow, so have at it."

"How about them gold apples." JJ says placin* the gold piece on the counter in front of the lady.

"That ain't real." She laughs.

"That ain't real?"

"It can't be."

"Feel how heavy it is." She try's to pick it up off the counter. "Mm-Hm. Mm-Hm! Let's get some light on that."

"Spray-painted tungsten."

"Spray-painted tungsten? Really? Okay. Why don't you see how, uh, soft it is?"

"You mind?"

"No, go for it." JJ replies then the lady hits the gold glob with some metal thing.

"Wow. Would you look at that?"

"Hold your horses. We ain't got to the acid test yet."

"Ooh! The acid test." He looks around at all of us. "My favorite, guys." And she pours a little bit of acid on top of the gold.

"Well, it ain't plated, and it ain't painted."

"Ma'am, I'm telling ya, this is as real as the day is long."

"It looks like somebody tried to melt it down."

"My mom. She had all this jewelry laying around the house, and she thought it was best to— to melt it down. To "consolidate" it." JJ lies out of his ass and then the lady puts the gold on to a weighing machine.

"Seven pounds? That's a lot of earrings."

"Okay, to be honest, ma'am," he clears his throat. "...it's really hard to see my mom fall apart with Alzheimer's." Kie and I give each other a weird look like what the fuck did we just hear.

"Mm-hm. Give me a minute." The lady says starting to walk to the back.

"Take your time, ma'am."

She comes back.

"So, I, uh..." she clears her throat. "I talked to my boss."

"And?" JJ snaps trying to get to the point.

"And, uh, this is what I can do." She says placing something I front of JJ.

""Fifty thousand? You think I walked in here not knowin' the spot price? Ma'am, I know for a fact this is worth 140, at least."

"Well, sweetie, you in a pawnshop. This ain't Zurich. Do I look Swiss to you?"

"Ninety, or I walk."

"Seventy. Half price... and, um... I don't ask questions about where you got this."

"I'm gonna need that in large denominations, please." We all smile at each other.

"Well, here's the snag. I don't have that much denominated, not here anyway. I can write you a cashiers check."

"Cash... No, ma'am. I want the cold hard. That's what that sign says. Cash for gold. And that's what I expect. I'm gonna get it in cold hard."

"Well, I have to send you to the warehouse. I have the money there. Is that all right?"

"Where's this warehouse?"

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We're all now driving to the warehouse that the lady told us to go to.

"So they keep money out here?" Pope asks as we drive through a really run down area.

"That's what she said." Referring to the lady but then chuckles thinking of the joke. "That's what she said."

"Stop." Pope says and JJ stops laughing.

"I've never ever heard of Resurrection Drive." Sarah says for the passenger seat.

"'Cause you're rich." JJ states.

"You've never heard if it either." I says to him.

"Thank you." Sarah says to me.

"There's nothing but weeds back here." Kie says looking out the windows.

"All right, just 'cause it's just weeds, doesn't mean it's, like..." just then we hear cop sirens behind us.

"Cops? Out here?" Kie asks looking behind us as Johnb pulls over.

"God! Are you kidding me?" JJ says.

"What did we do?" I ask.

"Why are we getting pulled over?" Pope asks.

"Stash that." Johnb says to JJ about the gold.

"Chill, guys." Kie says.

"Did you bring the gun?" John b asks JJ as he raps the gold.

"No, okay. Everybody told me to leave it back at the place." JJ replies.

"Thank god." Kie says.

Then everyone starts going after JJ asking a million question but I look out the window to see the "cop" pull a shot gun on Johnb.

My. Heart. Sinks. He looks so familiar but he has a mask on so I can really tell.

"Why don't I go ahead and see them hands in the air?" The guy says still with the gun pointing right at Johnb. "All y'all's hands up in the air now!" He yells and we all slowly put our hands up. "You, out of the car! Let's go! Out of the car! Let's go! Hurry! Let them out" he yells at Johnb. "What are you waitin' on? What are you waitin' on? Let them out! All y'all." Johnb slowly opens the back of the car. "Go on! Go on! Let's get out the car! Let's go!" I get out first and I could feel him looking me up and down. " there you go, pretty girl. Here we go! Get out the car, let's go! Hurry up! There you go!"

"We're broke—" JJs the last one to get out.

"Shut the hell up!"

"All right! All right! Just relax!"

"Shut the hell up! Shut up!"

"Chill!" I yell from a little behind JJ and he walks up to me.

"You're lucky you're fucking pretty or I'd blow your damn head off!" He yells at me shoving the gun at me.

"Lay down in the ditch! Lay down in the ditch! On your goddamn hands and knees! Down! Put your face on the ground! Stay here just like that! Put your head down!" He yells at all of us then goes to check the car for most likely the gold.

I'm literally shaking so much and I finally figured out who this guy is. I know that voice from somewhere and since that day I never forgot it.

Him and his friends were the ones that raped me.

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