Scenario: The four horsemen

"Dang," whispered Luke, as he swatted his palm with the black leather glove he had removed from his right hand. He watched as the doctor walked away and turned to face the two men behind him. Matt and Mark stood up as he turned and Luke saw twin looks of anticipation on their faces. He motioned them over to a corner in the emergency area waiting room. They were conspicuous enough in regular clothes but even more so while standing in the head-to-toe black garb from their recent rodeo performance. Each of the three were over six feet tall and in their mid thirties.
"Jake has a broken rib and fractured wrist," Luke said. "Doctor says he'll be laid up a good while."
Mark shook his head, "I knew he shouldn't have rode out today."
"When can we see him so we can get out of this smelly place," asked Matt. Matt looked around the hospital waiting room with a deep crease between his brows. "I ain't fond of hospitals."
Luke smirked at his friend. "Yeah, Matt, you've been here enough times. We know."
Luke waited for their attention again and said, "Doc says we can see him but I think we need to talk about something first. We need to talk seriously about a replacement for Jake."
The two other men looked down but nodded in agreement. Luke waited a moment and went on. "I think we ought to ask Tommie Brinks."
Both friends stared up at him in amazement. "What?" asked Mark. "Did you forget the name of our act is the Four HorseMEN. She doesn't exactly fit that bill."
Matt began to grin forgetting his displeasure of being at a hospital. "Dang, but she is hot. She's hot enough to light the fire tricks!" He grinned at his own joke.
Luke waved his palms to calm them down. He glanced over to the rest of the room to make sure they hadn’t disturbed anyone. Luke went on, "She's been riding most of the same rodeo circuits as us. She’s a demon on that black horse of hers. We could bring her up on some of our tricks before our next gig and we wouldn't have to cancel."
"Yeah, but", Mark straightened out to full height and moved his hands up and down, "she ain't exactly, well. She ain't exactly…"
Matt smiled nodding, "Whoa, exactly!"
Luke glanced at Matt but answered Mark. "We are all dressed the same, ride in real tight the way we do and it will be a while before the audience can distinguish her. By then the tricks will have their attention and if she doesn't work out it’ll buy us time to find someone else. If she does work out, we got ourselves a new buzz to market. People will come see."
Mark shook his head, "What if she can't do the tricks."
Luke squinted his eyes, "Have you seen her full throttle on that horse of hers while roping? Both hands on the rope with the reins in her mouth? Then off the horse like nothing!"
Matt's eyes were sparking now, "I'm sure she looks great with something in her mouth."
Luke gave his shoulder a shove. "Hey, quiet."
Mark held back a smirk, "What about Jake?"
"Jakes been wanting to stop for a while. He'd rather manage and this might be the time."
Mark said, "Okay,” nodding. “Have you asked her?"
"Nope", said Luke. "Not yet." He pulled out his cell phone and waited. After a moment he was explaining Jake getting hurt and the need to fill a place with the trick rodeo team, The Four Horsemen.
"Would you be interested?" Luke held the phone to his ear looking up at his two friends. There was pause at the end of the other line and then a dusky voice finally answered.
"Cool."
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