Drunken Hallucinations

 He never showed, every day for the past four months he never missed a day. I stood and waited in the oddly empty diner for his bike to pull up to the diner, to joke with him, make him coffee. Maria walked out and said, "Did you hear?"

"No I haven't, no customers to tell me so."

"A tupperware party got attacked, all the women murdered."

"Do they have a suspect? Any witnesses?"

"Don't know."

 At 9 he still was a no show, Maria drove me to the grounds, where I thanked her and walked around until I found Eve.

"Seen Jimmy?"

"Yea Lissa, he's in Ethel's trailer, a bit of a warning, he is about three bottles in." She said

"Did he come here drunk?"

"Yea, I believe he had some sort of meeting to do before he showed up here, drunk and hysterical."

"Ok, thanks Eve." I raced towards Ethel's trailer, I opened the door to find Jimmy just leaning against the wall, tears streaming down his face and spilt liquor on the floor.

"We need to stop meeting like this Darling."

"You just missed the twins, they tried to..."

"Are you ok Darling?" I leaned in front of him and brushed my hand along the side of his face, he reached out and grabbed my hand, "Can we just cuddle like we did last night?"

"Can you stop drinking?" I asked

"Yea." He whispered as he lead me to the bed, he wrapped his arm around me as we laid in the position we were in earlier today.

"I saw my mother today, she told me to move on, that she was proud of sober me, that she was glad I found you." He finally said after a few minutes of silence.

"Jimmy, how much did you drink today?"

"I don't know, I started after you left for work."

"Jimmy, promise me, I mean really promise me you will stop." I pleaded

"I'll try for you." He whispered as he slowly fell asleep

 I was awoken by a knock on the door, red and  blue lights flashed outside the window. Jimmy was still asleep and thankfully his arm had fallen off of me. I answered the door and whispered, "Detective Colquitt, what do we owe the pleasure."

"Evening Alicia, Jimmy wouldn't happen to be in there, would he?" He was acting friendly, but it was clearly fake.

"Why yes he is, but he is currently sleeping. You can come back tomorrow morning though and talk, if you like."

"I'm afraid not, go get him." He instructed his officer as he dragged me out of the trailer, I heard Jimmy scream drunken slurs as he was dragged out of the trailer and against the car, Officer Colquitt holding me back.

"Jimmy Darling you are under arrest." Colquitt screamed over his slurred screams

"On what Charges!" I yelled, the rest of the show was now standing around

"For the Tupperware Party Murder earlier today."

"What! He didn't do that, he couldn't do it." I yelled

"We will just ask him." Colquitt snapped at me, "Jimmy Darling, is there any reason we found your gloves at the crime scene."

"I was performing." Jimmy slurred, "I perform at every party they had over the last four months."

"What do you perform?" He asked slyly

"I show them a good time, they like the hands, mostly the fingers actually." He said

"Get him in the car, before the sick bastard pops a hard on thinking about the murders."

"Jimmy would never kill anyone!" I yelled again, running towards him, before Maggie grabbed my waist.

 She held me as I dropped to my knees, crying as they drove him away, screaming and fighting against them. I knew what they did to the freaks in there, just look at Meep.

 I sat in Maggie's tent, she poured me a shot of whiskey, but I didn't touch it. I just stared at the corner of the tent, wondering if Jimmy really did it.

"I'm sure Jimmy is going to be ok."

"How do you know? I doubt you are even a real psychic." I laughed to myself

"You're right, I'm not." She said softly sinking into the chair across from me.

"So why are you here?" i asked coldly

"Ever heard of the Museum of Morbid Curiosities?"

"No."

"Wanna go, it is about a day's trip. I think you need to really see why Stanley and I are here." "We need a car."

"We can ask Desiree for a ride, I feel like she will want to see too." Maggie extended a hand as we walked to Dess's trailer

After a day of driving we arrived at the Museum of Morbid Curiosities and Maggie leads us right to the room filled with the remains of freaks. Right in the middle is Ma Petite, I rushed over and placed a hand on the glass, "You killed her... why Maggie?"

"Money, and I didn't Dell did. Stanley found out the secret." She directed the last part at Desiree, who just rolled her eyes.

"And now for our newest exhibit." A high pitched voice said to the growing crowd behind us, "We got this fresh from Jupiter Florida this morning."

 Just as she said that I spun my head, the sheet was thrown off and in the glass was two hands, not just any hands though, Beautiful lobster hands. Then everything went black.