At the pharmacy…

Alice is standing in line at the pharmacy..the line is long and she is shaking with incredibly blood-shot eyes.

“Next!” the pharmacist yells.

Alice looks ahead nervously…still 7 more people ahead of her!!
She checks her watch…the time is dragging…the people are talking, chatting, clamering. The sounds of their suburban voices seem to get louder making Alice’s veins pump faster…FASTER…AND FASTER!!

“SHUT THE FUCK UP!” Alice screams as she grabs her hair and squeezes her eyes shut. Everybody immediately ceases conversation and stares directly at the frazzled Alice. An awkward silence follows.

“Next..” the pharmacist whimpers out. The silent crowd paves a path for Alice to walk through, obviously off-put by her outburst.

Alice, awkwardly walks past the crowd to the counter, giving apologtic waves and head nods as she passes through.

“Ms. Piezecki…back again?…third time this week.”

“Yeppers.”

“What will it be today Percodan? Vicodin? Celebrex? Zoloft?”

“Yes,” Alice says nonchalantly as she throws a wrinkled handful of prescription slips on the counter – the pharmacist shakes her head, and fumbles through the wrinkled pile of slips.

Alice, suddenly remembering, pops her head through the window with her elbows on the counter, “Oh, and can you…uh…hurry up with the Vicodin…i need them to cross at the same time…you know…for max effect.”

The pharmacist cuts her eyes again and heads to the back shelves.

“Thank….you…” Alice quietly says letting the sudden rush of adrenaline subside for a moment.

She hears the little old lady behind her let out a frustrated sigh…the old lady is stroking her poodle with heavy annoyed strokes.

Alice flashes around with her crazy blood-shot eyes – “Like you’re so perfect?! When I turn into one of the undead I could eat that little poodle!”

“Oh My!” The old lady says as she grabs her chest in astonishment. The old lady sets the poodle down and shuffles out of line. “C’mon Gilby,” the old lady declares, “Let’s get out of here.”

“Yeah…you and Gilby better run,” Alice says towards the old lady …her phone rings, and she jerks, having been caught off-guard by the vibrations and the happy tune of the ringtone.

She grabs it swiftly and flips it open.

“This is Alice.”

“What’s up?” It was Shane.

“Oh nothing much, just grabbing my prescriptions, threatening old lady’s and poodles. typical day,” Alice replies.

“Uh…no, what was with all the urgent messages you left this morning?” Shane asked.

“Oh yeah, my vampire embracer has come back into my life to reclaim my soul or something” – the Pharmacist hands Alice her bag of pills

….talking to the pharmacist, Alice says, “On my tab, please, yep, on my tab..”
– back to Shane – “Okay Shane…call me before Max’s party…i gotta go fight through this mob.”

“Shit Alice…you didn’t cuss at strangers again did you?” Shane asked.

“Yeah, yeah, sure did…gotta go bye,” Alice says as she flips her phone closed and back in her pocket – She turns back around and walks back through the crowd of people. The crowd scurries about to make a pathway for Alice for fear of having any contact with this obviously unstable woman.

Alice hurriedly walks to her lil’ blue car, reaches in her pockets and pulls out her keys, then drops them.

“Fuck me,” she says to herself. Her phone rings again.

“Goddamn it Shane, i told you i’d call you later!” She reaches into her pocket and pulls out the phone. The caller ID reads “Uta”..

“What the fuck? I thought I erased her from my phone…” She quietly says to herself.

She slowly opens the phone, presses “TALK”, and timidly says, “Hello?”

“Hi Alice. This isn’t Shane. You’re not avoiding me are you?” Uta says in her sexy low tone.

“Uh…no no…not at all. How did you know I was just talking to…?” Alice trails off shocked at Uta’s display of ESP.

“Don’t worry about that. What’s important is that I am back and you are ready…ready for the transformation.”

“Uta…If this is even Uta…I don’t know if this is some sort of sick joke, but I haven’t seen or heard from you in months and all of a sudden you just pop back into my life out of the…” — A flash of pain jolts through the side of Alice’s neck and she lets out a shrief of pain.

“Did you feel that?” Uta asks calmly.

“What was that? SHIT, FUCK that hurt!”

“I told you I was serious. I’m not joking around Alice. The time has come. I will find you.” — Uta hangs up.

“What the fuck is this?” Alice asks herself. She grabs her neck – The pain is gone but she can feel two little bumps throbbing.

“Oh my god! Those bites healed months ago!!”

She rapidly scrolls through her phone ‘Contact List’ and ‘Recent Calls’ but there is no ‘Uta’ listed anywhere.



***********PART 3 COMING SOON*******