Danny: Part Twenty-Four

~ beetleypete

This is the twenty-fourth part of a fiction serial, in 726 words.

Shaking Uncle Brian out of his doldrums wasn’t easy. I had to resort to threatening to report him to the police in the end. I was bluffing of course, as that would likely have seen me end up in a children’s home, with my dad not offering to house me, and me not wanting to live with him anyway.

But it worked. Brian came off the tablets, and started to do his share around the house. He would cook meals before leaving for work, and I could hot them up when I was hungry at dinnertime.

To cheer himself up, Brian took a week’s holiday and went off to visit Amsterdam, telling me he had never been there. I wasn’t invited, which was just as well, as I wouldn’t have gone with him. To be honest, I didn’t actually believe he was going to Holland. More likely meeting some other men with similar sexual proclivities nearer to home.

The weekend when he was away, I took the opportunity to search the house properly. I knew he would have incriminating stuff hidden away, and by the time it got dark that Saturday, I had found most of it. He did hide it quite well, but chose places that I had seen used on many crime shows or films. Large envelopes taped to the underside of drawers in the bedroom, others placed behind the desk he used in the tiny spare room not much larger than a cupboard.

Most of what I found was as expected. CD-roms and home-burned DVDs containing thousands of indecent photos of young boys. Memory sticks with video clips of boys engaging in sex with older men. Including Brian, who could clearly be identified in at least a dozen clips. I replaced them all very carefully, exactly as I found them. They could wait until the time came.

Then leafing through a tattered box file that was in plain sight on top of a bookshelf, I found something that I really hadn’t expected. It was my paternal grandmother’s will, signed and witnessed on a date I recognised. My fifth birthday. It came with an accompanying letter from one of the more reputable solicitors in the town, and the contents of the will itself were very short.

She had left everything to me, her only grandson. I could claim my inheritance, which consisted of the house and contents, on my eighteenth birthday.

Nobody had ever mentioned that.

Not willing to take a chance that those papers could be destroyed, I removed them from the box file, and took them up into the loft, wrapped in tinfoil. At the back of the loft where nothing was stored, I lifted the fibreglass insulation, and slipped my little parcel under it. Even if Brian noticed they were missing, which seemed unlikely as the box file was covered in thick dust, I doubted he would ever mention it to me.

If he did, he might have to tell me what was on the paperwork.

Finding the will changed everything. I had a goal now, and a fixed date to look forward to. In less than four years, I would inherit the house. Once I had been to see the solicitor, I would give Uncle Brian the bad news. He would be out on his ear.

That gave me something I wasn’t used to, peace of mind. I became a nicer person, more content, more forgiving.

When Sandy arrived early on Monday evening as arranged, she had someone with her, a mousey-looking, quiet woman who looked to be about ten years younger than Sandy. I was a little confused at first, and asked if they wanted to both go upstairs with me at the same time. Sandy laughed so hard, she almost choked.

“Nah, nuffink like that, darlin’. Rachel’s me younger sister, ain’t she? Got the train all the way up from London just for today. She’s got the money, forty as usual”. I was in such a good mood after discovering the will, I told her that Rachel could have a freebie.

That good mood continued for the rest of the year. I did well at school, remained pleasant to Brian, and soon had almost fourteen hundred stashed. I had to use two pairs of shoes to hide it by then.

And since Maria, I hadn’t killed anyone.

Honest truth.

45 thoughts on “Danny: Part Twenty-Four”

  9. (1) “I had to resort to threatening to report him to Yahweh in the end. But it worked. Moses came off the mountain with his tablets. Unfortunately, my Israelite brethren were too busy to care. They were drinking Nescafé® Gold Blend, which is rich in calf-eine.” (Ancestor of Cecil B. DeMille)
    (2) Uncle Brian was spotted in Holland with another man and a couple of dykes.
    (3) Danny knew that Brian had either hidden all his incriminating stuff in the house, or else he had put everything in waterproof ammo boxes meant to be tossed into one of the canals in Amsterdam. (Searching the house was more convenient.)
    (4) Those indecent photos are not of young boys. They’re all midgets from the Notting Hill Carnival.
    (5) Danny was not willing to take a chance with the will.
    (6) “Once I had been to see the solicitor, I would give Uncle Brian the bad news. He would be out on his ear.” Why his ear? Danny should kick his uncle’s chafed butt out the door!
    (7) Rachel got a freebie. But did she get a bean?
    (8) “And since Maria, I hadn’t killed anyone. Honest truth.” I’m pretty sure Danny was crossing his fingers behind his back.

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  10. “I became a nicer person, more content, more forgiving. In fact, I’ve learned all the words to Kumbaya and frequently volunteer at the homeless shelter.”

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    1. He has never actually wanted to kill Uncle Brian. He has a much worse fate in store for him. As for the others, he was either angry, or seeking revenge for exploitation. Let’s see what happens next. 🙂
      Best wishes, Pete.

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