by D L Jones
“Oh Shit… He’s not there… how the fuck…” the man puts the phone in his pocket and runs back towards the door.
He makes it to the now broken door opening about to enter.
SLAM
Chauncy slams into the man, lifting him off the ground. He runs a few feet then dives off the side of the building. The fall is cut short by the fire escape. Chancy lands with his shoulders smashing into the man’s chest on impact. It knocks him out. Chauncy rolls over and falls off the fireplace, falling 3 floors to the ground once again.
This time Chauncy gets up a little slower, he takes a few slow steps then burst into a full run, still reeling from the drug his speed is extreme. He makes it down the street and disappears around a corner. Leaving his car.
Chapter 13
Rebecca was walking through the mall. She has just finished a little shopping and was headed to the food court.
“Hi Rebecca!” Rodney yells out to her.
Rodney had just walked out of a clothing store and saw Rebecca walking. Rebecca looked around and noticed it was Rodney that called out to her. She headed over to him.
“Hi Rodney. Enjoying your day off I see” Rebecca said.
“Yes, I’ve been working hard lately with this new position”
“How is the new position going by the way? It's been 3 weeks, right?” Rebecca asked.
“Yep, 3 weeks since I was in the hospital. I’m really grateful to Mr. Peters.” Rodney said.
Rebecca talked to Rodney a few minutes more then they both parted ways. She headed over to the food court where Lisa was waiting for her. Lisa was an old friend. She stands as Rebecca approaches. They hug then both take a seat.
“Damn Lisa, girl you are wearing that dress! Zumba?” Said Rebecca.
“Zumba?” Lisa responded laughing.
“Girl Hell no! I wouldn’t get caught dead in any of those group workout classes.” She added.
“Well you are obviously doing something…”
“I’m all about the personal trainer these days. It's nothing like getting your workout on, then getting worked on” Lisa said with a smirk.
“oooo girl, no you are not screwing your personal trainer”
“What can I say, I’m a slut! I realized several years ago that once I admit to that fact, I was able to enjoy my life a whole lot more!” Lisa said laughing.
Rebecca gives her a look.
“Im Joking! No Im not fucking my personal trainer” Lisa continued.
“Oh I was about to say… I need to keep you away from my man if you are now just saying you are a slut and proud”
“Who… Chauncy? Or uhh…”
“Shut-up!” Rebecca laughed.
They both get up from the table and walk over to a clothing store. Lisa start thumbing through a rack of tops while Rebecca picks up a dress.
“I’m going to go try this on”
Lisa also grabs a dress and joins Rebecca in the dressing room.
“So what’s been going on with Chauncy? You sounded a little stressed when you called this morning.” Lisa asked.
“Girl, I don’t know. Its weird. For the past few weeks he’s been coming home all worked up and sexing me like he had never one in all the years we’ve been married.” Rebecca answered.
“You can’t complain about that can you? We'ren’t you two trying to get pregnant?”
“Yes… and… Girl, I found out I was pregnant about a week ago. I haven’t told him yet.” Rebecca said.
“Why not?”
“I want to give it some time, the last time I got pregnant, I got all excited then… you know what happened”
“Oh, That’s when you lost the baby?”
“Yes.”
“Ok, I understand that.” Lisa added.
“But… the sex…” Rebecca said.
“No, you are not about to brag about your sex life to me are you?” Lisa laughed.
“No. I was going to say, the sex… it's actually getting pretty scary. He’s so aggressive. He was never like this” Rebecca added.
“Aggressive? Hmm… if he’s too much for you, send him my way.” Lisa laughed.
“Funny Lisa. But seriously, if he doesn’t calm down, I think I will send him your way.” Rebecca said.
They both continued to try on different dresses till Rebecca decided on the one she wanted to buy. Lisa couldn’t make up her mind so she put everything back. They both walk to the check-out counter. Lisa pulls out her wallet to pay.
“So, wait… Girl you just said you are pregnant! Congratulations! I know you said you don’t want to get your hopes up too quick but are you excited?” Lisa said.
“The funny thing is. His aggression… it seems to always be there.” Rebecca said, not registering a question was asked.
“Not just in the bedroom. I’m actually a little worried.” Rebecca added.
“the last time we talked, you were telling me about him always sleeping… that still happening?” asked Lisa.
“Rebecca finished up at the checkout and they both walk out the store.
“Yea, he still sleeps a lot. Every day almost all day. He pretty much promoted that idiot Rodney at his store to run things while he stays home. Rodney is pretty much running the HD shop by himself now.” Rebecca explained.
“mmm… Rodney. That boy gets off those cigarettes and I would make him my full-time boy toy.” Lisa said.
“Okay… Opposed to your part time boy toy. Girl you wouldn’t give him the time of day even if he had never smoked a day in his life.” Rebecca said as she brushed up against Lisa.
“Becca… You know I slept with him, right?”
“No, you didn’t… For real Lisa?”
“So… what about you being pregnant, are you excited? And no, I didn’t. I would, but I was just playing around. That boy is fine. For real though, I’d see what he is about… if he cut out the cigarettes.” Lisa said.
“Yes Lisa, I’m excited!” Rebecca said jumping in place.
“And Rodney is too young for you miss.” She added.
“What, I’m only 22.”
“You wish!” Rebecca said.
They both continue laughing and talking as they leave the mall. Lisa gets to her car first, she gives Rebecca a hug. Rebecca then walks a few more rows through the parking lot and gets to her car. She hops in and drives off heading home.
Chauncy wakes up and looked over at the clock. He rolls out of bed and looks at his phone. He has several missed calls. He thumbs through the missed calls to see if any were important. He then listens to his voicemail, he had 2 messages. He walks out to the living room then out of the back door. He heads for the garage. Once inside, he walked over to a standing locker. He unlocks it and reaches inside, grabs the backpack that was hanging inside. He looks inside and see the plain cardboard box. He opens it to see that the box was now empty.
“Damn, I used them all.” he said to himself.
He then grabs the second cardboard box and opened it. That box still had about half the vials. The feeling of relief came over him. He puts the backpack back in the locker and slams the door closed.
SLAM.
He then leaves out of the garage and slams the garage door closed
BLAM
He heads back into the house and sits down at his computer. He starts searching airline prices, looking flight times at the local airport.
“Bae… you up? What’s all that noise?” Rebecca ask as she is walking in the house.
Chauncy doesn’t respond. Rebecca walks into the room and puts her arm around Chauncy. She notices that he is looking up flight times.
“You going somewhere?” Rebecca asks.
“I was thinking about going to this expo. Just checking the times to see if it would even work with my schedule.” Chauncy answered.
“Your Schedule? HA… the only thing that’s been on your schedule lately is sleep.”
Chauncy shoots Rebecca a look that actually scares her a little. She backs up a little and changes t
he subject.
“I used your car today, Gas tank is full. Imma go hit the treadmill for a bit.” Rebecca said.
“Geez” Rebecca said under her breath.
“The hell you say?!” Chauncy said angrily.
“Nothing Chauncy… damn!” Rebecca said as she rushed out of the room.
Chauncy prints what was on the computer screen. The printer rattles and click for a while. Once it was finished, Chauncy started walking over to the printer. On his way to the printer he notices a medicine prescription laying on a counter. He picks it up and reads it. Chauncy walks towards the room where Rebecca is holding the prescription. Rebecca see him holding the prescription and she starts trembling. Not knowing what she will say.
He grabs the document he just printed on the way. As he was walking to the room, he reads over his printed document. It changes his focus. He puts the prescription back on the counter and changes direction. He heads out the front door.
Rebecca walks over to the counter and picks up the prescription.
“Prenatal vitamins…” She reads out loud.
“Damn.” She said to herself.
She looks at it for a few minutes then she puts it in her purse. She grabs her phone and makes a phone call.
“I think he just found out I’m pregnant…” she said.
Chapter 14
Tre walks across the office floor. He had just left his office and grabbed a cup of coffee from the machine in the break room. While walking, he takes a sip of his coffee. He walked into Michael’s office. Michael quickly sits up in his chair. He was awaiting Tre that morning, so his visit wasn’t a surprise.
“I have that presentation this afternoon. I want to make sure we have some footage of the mice in the maze.” Tre said to Michael.
“Yea, I think those mice are probably the most effective way to explain what this drug does. A real-world visual display of its benefits.” Michael responded.
“How are things going now, with the new batch?” Asks Tre.
“Progress is good. It will be going into final testing next week. If all is good with that, we can do another real-world trial.” Said Michael.
“Sounds good. I’m going to stop by the lab and pick up a few props. I’ll head across town to the convention center after.” Tre said.
“See you there… Good luck.” Michael said.
Tre takes another sip of his coffee then leaves Michael’s office. He then walks over to the elevator.
Chauncy walks out of the airport and heads towards the car rental booth. The paperwork he printed out the day before were flight times to Florida where Tre lives and works. He hopped on an early flight. He didn’t know why he was going to see Tre. He hoped to get more of those vials as he was running low.
“Does Tre even know that I have his backpack?” Chauncy thought to himself.
“How will I bring this up to him?” He added to his thought.
He talks to the attendant at the car rental booth and a car pulls up. The driver of the car gets out and hands Chauncy the keys. Chauncy spends a few minutes more signing paperwork then he gets in the car and drives away. While leaving the airport, he pulls out his phone. Thumbing through the list of names in his contacts, he stops at Becca. He hasn’t told Becca what he was doing, or that he was even leaving the state. He thought about the prescription he found earlier.
“She can’t be pregnant…” he thought.
He quickly scrolls by her name and gets to Tre. Decides to call.
Hello. You have reached the office of Tracy Jones. Lead pharmaceutical scientist of Offlong Industries. I will be out of the office and or unavailable today. Please hold as my assistant, Lucy Waters, takes your message.
Chauncy Hangs up the phone before the voicemails transfers him to Lucy. He continues to drive
In 500 feet, please turn left.
The Gps warns Chauncy about his upcoming turn and he takes the left. He looks over to the passenger seat where Tre’s backpack was positioned. He reached in and pulls out a hand full of vials. He held all the remaining vials that were left in the second cardboard box in his hand. He looks at them for a minute then tosses them back in the backpack. He decides to call Tre again.
Hello. You have reached the office of Tracy Jones. Lead pharmaceutical scientist of Offlong Industries. I will be out of the office and or unavailable today. Please hold as my assistant, Lucy Waters, takes your message.
This time he waits for Lucy…
“Hello, Lucy Waters speaking, Mr Jones’s assistant. How may I help you?” Said Lucy.
“Hello Miss Waters. This is Chauncy Peters. Im a friend of re, I think we have spoke before.” Chauncy said.
“Hi… Yes I remember you. Mr Jones just left the office. He has a presentation at the convention center later this afternoon. He will be gone for the rest of the day.” She said.
“The convention-Is it public? Can anyone attend?” Chauncy asks.
Yes Mr. Peters. Well its invitation only but anyone can get an invitation, there're no requirements or anything like that. I can contact MR. Jones and have him add you to the list.” She said.
“Oh… No… That is ok. I want to surprise him. He doesn’t know I’m in town. Maybe I will catch him later this evening.” Chauncy said.
“Are you sure? I’m sure it's not a problem.” She explained.
“Thanks Lucy, but Its not needed. I’ll catch him later” He replied.
Chauncy then pulls his car over and start searching on his phone for local conventions. He finds an article about Tre’s convention. It had the location and start time.
“12 pm…”
He then reaches over to adjust the GPS in the car. He changes the location destination to the convention center.
“I should get there around the time the presentation starts.” He thought to himself.
Chapter 15
The stage on the conference center was all white. The audience were filled with lots of doctors, and scientist. There were also a lot of people with cameras and recording devices. Reporters. Even several local news stations were there.
The stage was empty, just a white curtain and a podium. The podium stood off to the side as if there would be something displayed in the middle, behind the curtain. A man walks out. He is wearing a charcoal grey suit, a pink shirt with no tie and a fluffy pocket square. He was wearing a pair of shiny brown double monk-strap shoes. Clean shaven, glasses and a $500 haircut.
“Id like to say thank you for your presence here today for this very important press conference. What you will see here today will be truly incredible. What you will see here today will seem like magic, but believe me, it's all science. And most of all, it is all real. It is a very important and extraordinary breakthrough that will blow your mind.
I know you all are waiting with anticipation so Let's get started.
Id like to give a warm welcome to our very own resident scientist, Tracy Jones from Offlong Pharmaceuticals!” The fancy announcer claps after the introduction.
The audience applauds as Tracy walks onto the stage.
Tracy gets to the podium and reaches in his pocket. He pulls out a laser pointer. The lights in the convention center gets slightly dim. The white curtains start to rise to reveal a large screen. A slideshow presentation starts on the screen and Tracy starts using his laser pointer to point out items and speak.
“Have you ever heard that story about the mother? There was a mother driving home in her car. In the front seat was her newborn baby. She loves this baby, 2 months old. As she drives along, the baby looks at her and smiles. She smiles back. She can just feel the bond with her new child growing every second.
On this drive, the mother gets into a car accident. She was thrown from the car in this accident. Thrown from the car, hits the grown and is knocked unconscious…” Tre speaks to the audience.
Chauncy herd this part of Tre’s presentation as he had arrived the time Tre took the stage. He was making his way to the main hall. He eventually gets to the
back of the convention hall, behind the stage. There were others around and he tried to blend in, not bring any attention to himself.
“When that mother came too, she noticed her baby was also thrown from the car. She looked and saw that the baby was under the car, in the baby car seat. That car seat was pinned to the ground. The baby was crying, the mother became hysterical.
While under extreme destress and a feeling of hopelessness, she gained an unexplainable rush of adrenaline.
The mother… Scared for her baby’s life…
LIFTS
The side of the car with one arm.
Reaching in with the other arm, freeing the baby.” Tre said.
The audience erupted with applause.
“Of course, this story is made up… right? I mean, we have all heard variations of this story at one time or another in our lives. I’m sure this isn’t anything new to anyone. Yea sometimes when put in extreme situations, people are able to do things that they normally cannot. But lift a car? Really?” Tre continued.
Chauncy walks by an opening in the back of the stage where he can see Tre on stage. He notices Tre scanning the audience, his head start fanning over to Chauncy’s direction and he quickly moves to the next area. He wanted to stay out of Tre’s view.
He makes it to what looks like the preparation area for the speakers. It looks like a little office. He walks inside and closes the door behind him. By the looks of the items in the room, he figured this was all Tre’s things. He starts going through them.
Tre’s Speech continues…
“In the story, the mother of that child had such of an adrenaline rush that it gave her what appeared to be super human strength…
Like I said, we all know that there is no proof behind this story… But it does seem like it could be possible…
The brain can do some amazing things, Things that we have only just begun to understand. The body creates chemicals that do different things…
Did you know that the body creates its own chemical to reduce belly fat?” Tre continued.
