Episode 35

Caffeine, Francesca

 

The sun is beaming bright and hard.  Francesca feels her skin starting to burn from the sun.  Caffeine, is covered with scarves and coated with the highest SPF sunscreen.  After running away from the warehouse located in an industrial area, they stop look back.  They see a woman running away from the building. 

 

"Could that be…?" Caffeine asked.

 

"Sharalonda." Francesca answered but unsure.

 

"You better hope that she don't go to the police or bring any type of negative attention to our family," Caffeine warned.

 

"I'm not done with these people yet.  You don't know what I have been through all these years of torment," Francesca said.

 

"Woman, it has been ages that has passed and you are holding on to school yard bully shit.  Move on.  It's a new day and look at you running around like Uma Thurman from Kill Bill," Caffeine said.

 

Francesca thought to herself, 'I don't care.  They must pay.'

 

"Do you hear what I'm saying to you?  Or do we have protect our family reputation by any means necessary, and you do know what I am talking about," Caffeine warned.

 

"I hear you Caf, loud and clear."

 

"Let's get out of here.  Boy's let's go!" Caffeine summons her guards.

 

A Range Rover pulls up near them and they get inside.  As they are riding down the dirt road, they see a woman with dust covering her clothes.  "That's her, Caffeine!  That's that bitch!" Francesca yelled.

 

"We just talked about this, Fran."

 

Francesca elbowed Caffeine in the nose without a second thought, climbed on top of her, and continued to punch her in the face.  Caffeine feels helpless so she screams for the driver to stop, but under the spell of Caffeine, he was overwhelmed and kept driving but now faster.  Caffeine feels the bruises on her face swelling and blood flows out of her nose.  Francesca proceeded to choke her while kneeing her in the ribs.  The Range Rover swerves left and right on the road throwing the two around in the back seat.  The driver is out of control and the engine is revved up to it's full capacity. 

 

An oak tree off the road brought the vehicle to a fast and hard halt.  Francesca has a surge of energy while Caffeine lays defeated in the back seat.  The driver of the Range Rover died on impact of an air bag and a tree branch that shattered the windshield and penetrated his lung.  Francesca climbs over Caffeine and opens the door.  With no injuries, she is free to pursue Sharalonda and continue to collect the rest of these parts.  The parts that make up the torment that she suffered tremendously and affected her adult hood.

 

Francesca looks around to find her prey, but Sharalonda is nowhere in sight.  Passing vehicles honk their horns as they are passing on the road but do not stop to help.  She hears sirens in the distance, "somebody must have called emergency," Francesca mutters to herself.  She walks through the wooded area not wanting to be seen by anyone so that she would not have to answer any stupid questions.  As she is walking, the weeds are growing the size of NBA players and every other living thing is running rapid and loud at whatever noise that Mother Nature has provided them.  This is driving Francesca more insane than she already is.  She is fanning and slapping her face and body from flying insects and weeds that wrestles with her.  She no longer has the energy to fight nor the visual to see where she is going.  It is extremely hot and her skin sweating and she is beginning to feel tightness from the burn.  Francesca legs collapses and she passes out right next her prey, Sharalonda.

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Sirens blare and emergency workers voices are getting closer.  She can hear them but her body won't allow her to speak loud enough.   A whisper barely escapes her voice, "over here, over here".  The tall weeds being chopped down and slowing grows back.  One of the rescue workers asked, "What kind of plants are these?  They just keep growing."

 

Meanwhile…

 

A stretcher carries the dead driver and another one carries Caffeine.  "I'm okay!  I'm okay!" She screamed.  The EMS workers energy is surged from the spell and they are moving in a rapid pace. 

 

"We need to take you in for observation.  What is your name?"

 

"Caffeine, and I don't think that will be a good idea," Caffeine says as she tries to lift herself off the gurney.

 

"Caffeine?  That's your name," the EMS worker asked unsure that maybe Caffeine just wanted some coffee.

 

"Yes, that's my name," Caffeine answered and the back of the ambulance door closed.

 

The further the ambulance drove away the weeds stopped growing.  However, the ambulance and all the equipment were going haywire.  The paramedics seemed confused and high at the same time.  The medical equipment is malfunctioning and the emergency lights suddenly burst leaving broken glass on the road.  An EMS worker shots Caffeine with a sedative once he got his balance.

 

"What is that!?  What…is…that?"  Caffeine manage to speak just before her body drifts to sleep.

 

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Francesca vision blurred as if she is looking under water.  She sits in the corner of a classroom.  The teacher stands in front of the chalkboard, her mouth is moving but sound like men talking on CB radios.  Francesca is snatched up and lifted out of the classroom; she looks up at the familiar men.  One looks more familiar than the other does and she realizes it her father.  He looks angry and takes no mercy on the 9 years old Francesca.  She once again feels humiliated.

 

"Ma'am! Are you alright?" a rescue worker asked.

 

Francesca slowly comes to.  She realized she had a dream and it made her feel small and powerless.  When her eyes completely opened, she only had one thing on her mind and that was to kill Sharalonda. 

 

"Yes, I'm fine, thank you," Sharalonda answered.

 

"Why did you run all the way out here?"

 

Francesca slaps his hand from touching her.  He was only trying to help her off the ground.  "There was a girl here.  Where did she go?"

 

"Oh the ambulance already took her to a hospital."

 

Francesca starts to growl and the three men looked at her with fear.  She looks around at the men and tells them she feel faint.

 

"Boy's, let's get a gurney over here.  What's you name lady?" the worker asked.

 

"Jaliska.  My name is Jaliska Brown," Francesca lied.

 

Francesca lays on the gurney and the men transport her to the ambulance.  "What's the name of the hospital were going to?"  Francesca asked.

 

"Central State Hospital."

 

"Is that the same hospital that girl went?" Francesca asked.

 

"Were not sure ma'am.  Maybe.  Why?  Was she in the vehicle that was involved in the accident or was it just the three of you?"

 

"She was in the vehicle too, she's my sister.  Is she okay?" Francesca asked.

 

"Yes she was okay.  She checked out of the hospital.  She had no injuries and we couldn't keep her due to population.  Maybe she's waiting on you."

 

The ambulance pulls up at Central State Hospital.  Francesca jumps out of the back as soon as the doors opened. 

 

"Jaliska! Jaliska Brown!" the worker yelled and looked confused.

 

 

To Be Continued…