Franky Is Lucky

CHAPTER 6

PLAN B


I had too get to a computer.

What's today? Sunday? I confirmed with my cellphone. So that meant the library and the college were out of the picture.

Where to go?

I drove down the strip and saw what I was looking for an electronics store. One problem the parking lot was full.

This being the billionth dilemna today made me feel exhausted. I could use the energy, but wasn't that wrong? I shook my head. It was my only choice.

I pulled off the access road and into the parking lot. A front spot opened up for me right away I parked, got out and walked inside. I was glad that I had dressed the way I had so that people would think I was browsing and not messing around. I went inside and headed to the computer section located at the back of the store. I walked up to a random laptop and pulled up the internet browser and went to google. I typed in Aster Grant and Hughes Genetic Research. It took a few seconds for the results to pop up. The wifi was terrible. When the results came up I pulled the tag from the front of the laptop I was at and wrote down the address, as I was closing out of the browser and putting the paper in my pocket a young salesman walked up.

"Hi ma'am how are you? I see your looking at the HP there did you need help with anything?" He was charming in an "I smell commision" kind of way. I turned to him and looked at him for a brief second.

"I am okay thanks. I am just looking." I had to get out of here. He looked at me and then he started talking again. Oh Jesus.

"You know we have a credit card promotion going on right now. If you are approved or deal will excempt you from interest and payments for ninety days. Also..." I tuned him out at this point. I was thinking of an escape plan. As I looked around I saw families walking around the store, teenagers looking at MP3 players and cellphones and a couple holding hands looking at movies. I was taking in the moment trying to think of what to do next when I realized that I had been listening to the salesman for a while. I looked up at him just as he was saying.

"So do you think you would like to apply for that card and see if you can take that HP home today?" I was going to say no but all of a sudden there was a huge crash. I jerked my head in the direction of the noise. I saw that one of the mounted TV's had fallen off the wall onto a person. Then the screaming started.

The salesman stood on his toes looking with shock in the direction of the crushed customer. He looked so shock and then he said "Oh shit. Did that really just happen?"

Yes it had and I needed to get out of here before anything else did.

I went to walk past the salesman but I heard something right about me snap and I pushed him out of the way just in time. Glass shattered behind us what looked like a flourescent light bulb had fallen from the ceiling. The guy started stammering and shocked. He was crawling away from where the light had fell. Realizing how close he had been to being impaled. He was in my way though so I pushed myself off the ground and bolted from the store. I tore through the chaos out the front doors and hurdled myself into my car. I had to get the hell out of here before the place blew up. I sped out of the parking lot onto the access road and almost clipped a SUV.

Great! Perfect!

I almost screamed I was so frustrated.

Way to go!

On the brightside I had got what I needed. But was there really a brightside to all of this? I drove just thinking and by time I came back to reality I realized I was on the other side of town. I looked at the streets and figured that I was about forty minutes from where I needed to be. Where did I need to be? Endangering more people? Performing a suicide mission to rescue Amy? My heart wrenched with that last one. What was I thinking? I owed it to Amy. I really did. Then again she had endangered herself. I had warned her to stay away, I had tried to convince her that I was not a good person to have around. And she had conned me she had used my guilt and desperation against me. She had brought Brent's wrath on to me and herself. I hated this. I loathed this more than anything. I would take all the lonely days the world had to offer to get over the agony of this guilt. I had been fine. I was dealing and then Amy came along.

I pulled over and starred out the windshield for a few minutes. So what do you want to do?

"I don't know Okay!" As the words passed my lips I realized how crazy it was too be screaming at myself. I had to decide. Was I going to drive away and never look back? Was I going to abandon the only friend because things had gotten rocky? Was I going to let her die?

I sat for what was probably twenty minutes and then I decided. I would go to AGH I would do what I could to save Amy and then I would figure out the rest.

But I had to think about this though. I couldn't just waltz into the front doors of a AGH. I had no idea if they knew who I was and if they were the ones looking for me they would definitely recognize me right away. Well I guess it is disguise time, but that meant another store. Where was a store that potentially sold disguises that would not be crowded? And then I had a flashback to the day my mother had taken me out shopping. We had gone to buy my first set of makeup. It was one of those ridiculously high priced stores located in a secluded shopping center. Money wasn't an object so I headed there.

As I drove I had to think of what I would do when I got there. There would be people there working and after the last incident I had serious doubts about whether or not people would live this time. I had to calm down. Breath Franky Breath. I had to do this. I had too. There was no other way. I couldn't just walk into that building after all.

As I found my resolve I drove into the parking lot of the shopping center. I parked and walked towards the building. I went through the front doors and my first thought was Why are there so many people here? There had to be about thirty people packed into a small area in the store. I heard the booming voice of the person addressing them talking. It must be a demonstration.

"Don't you hate unsightly hair on your face, legs and underarms? When you use normal waxes your skin can get irritated and it is painful. Don't fret though ladies we have a solution to your woes, the new and improved antiwax. Our patented formula eliminates the need for wax by utilizing natural chemicals to gently disolve hair folicals and eliminate unwanted hair." She was cheery and persuasive. I walked to the big wig display and pulled a blonde one from one of the manicans. I grabbed a pack of hair socks and a thing of ponytail clips and bobby pins. I b-lined for the register and placed my items on the counter. The gum chewing teenage girl at the counter looked snottily at me and started to ring up my items. As she rung them up she started talking in a condescending voice.

"Would you like to sign up for an instore credit card and save ten percent on your next purchase?"

"No thank you." Did she really expect to get sales?

"Did you want to add any soap or shampoo? We are having a buy one get one free sale."

"No I am fine thanks." I said

"Alright will this be all?"

And then I heard it. A woman screaming in agony. I wearily turned my head and looked in the direction. From where I was I could see a woman holding her leg and crying in agony. My eyes followed her arms down to her leg and I could see even from that distance that large boils were forming over the surface of her skin. No way! I had been in here for what ten minutes? This was bad. What was going on? The girl at the front desk was starring with a apathetic curiosity. It was a curious looked at the digital display that showed my total two hundered and fifty dollars. Well I guess it was worth it. I slapped three hundred dollars on the counter and told her to keep the change and I grabbed my bag and walked out. Jesus. I was shaking by time I got to my car but I had to move forward I had to perservere.

I sat in my car and pulled out the ponytails clips and bobby pins. It took me a few times to get my hair into the pontail because I was shaking so bad. Once it was finally up I secured everything with the bobby pins and placed the hair net on and then secured the wig. I looked strange. The wig was realistic but my eyebrows are as dark as my hair. I remembered that I had my sunglasses and I grabbed them from my satchel. I looked like a whole other person. It was funny. I started laughing hysterically. Once I got over my giggles I became solemn and I realized when was going to happen next.