“April 28th Plaza de toros. Madrid, Spain 3pm local time seats 45 and 46.” The note was covered with blood from the altercation, but the content remained intact and legible. Seven smiled as he placed the handwritten message in the glove compartment of the truck. He fired up the motor and began his journey back to Thomasville. The old man had invited him to his Spring Break Out. His yearly attempt at freedom from the mental hospital and to subvert the efforts of his government to silence him once and forever. Seven spent the lengthy ride to Georgia reviewing the last four weeks of his life and his interactions with his father. He found himself making comparisons between his own life and that of his father. Scary comparisons got even more frightening as he delved deeper into both of their lives.
Gilbert Andrews was a truck driver. A deliveryman, probably not his first career choice, but it was his profession. He picked up goods and transported them to various locations around the US and Mexico. Gilbert Andrews Jr. was the self-proclaimed best deliveryman in the navy. It certainly wasn’t what he wanted his military duty to be, but that’s what he was. His father made his deliveries on land; Seven did the same at sea.
Gilbert Andrews was a spy and a hit man for the government, at least in his mind. He served and killed for his country and now his government was spreading lies and attempting to silence him. Seven Andrews had worked his way into a top secret status with his government and he actually performed spy missions that he wasn’t allowed to talk about. When his final mission went bad, his government told lies and fabricated an investigation to cover up his actions.
Seven realized that he had actually become the man that his father had perceived himself to be in his flawed mind. The reality of the situation struck him harder than the beating that he received in the hospital visitation room at the hands of his father. He began to question his own sanity and the possibility that he himself could end up in a mental institution, fearful and paranoid of everything and