Loving Away the Grumps: A Jarhead Short

by Sean Michael
11 pages / 3300 words
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Whether Rock is in a rotten mood from getting the runaround at City Hall, or it's Rig who's out of sorts from a bad day, the Jarheads know just how to cheer each other up. Rock, Dick and Rig know the best remedy for a case of the blues is some pizza, a few beers, and some hot lovin', Can they get over what ails them together?

Sample

It was after dark before Rock finally got home, stressed and pissed off and entirely out of sorts.

The stupid fuckers at city hall kept changing the God dammed rules and he'd spent the whole fucking day jumping through hoops, three-quarters of which he'd already jumped through. Some of them more than once.

First, their licence had needed to be renewed once every five years, now it was once a year and if he didn't get down there today and get a new one, they'd be fined. Then, while he was there, they asked him about the height of the fucking ceilings. The height of the fucking ceilings. Like he knew that by God damned heart. He'd had to go back and get the plans, and then hang around some more to be seen again.

If he and Dick hadn't studied the guidelines when they'd first built the place and made sure they followed them perfectly when they'd renovated it for the gym, he wouldn't be so pissed. But they had. There was no reason for anyone to be questioning them on it at this point.

Problem was, the new administration thought they had to have their hands in every pie or they weren't doing their jobs.

Assholes.

And not the kind of asshole he wanted to spend the better part of his day and evening with either.

He let the door slam closed behind him as he walked in the house, growling at Trouble and Mutt. He was most emphatically not in the mood to get drooled on. They gave him the head tilts, and he rolled his eyes and ignored them.

Rig's head peeked around the kitchen door, grey eyes concerned. A beer was offered over with a, "Hey, Blue. Long day?"