”“Love you, pumpkin.”I smiled. “Love you, too, my sexy, mad scientist.”He let out a cheesy, fake laugh before I hung up.I set my phone down ...and stood up, walking to the lab storage. I pulled on the rubber gloves and safety goggles, grabbed a test tube and stopper, and searched the shelves for the bottle of phosphate-3-fluoride-2-benzoid. It was a florescent-green liquid. I carefully poured it into the test tube. Then, feeling bold, I grabbed another two test tubes, filled them, and slipped them. “Most of the girls were way higher than the boys, weren’t they?” I asked softly. Emma looked at me and she knew. I could see it in her eyes.“I guess,” Lana said and my heart broke all over again. I saw those names in a whole new light now. I wanted desperately to find everyone on that list and hurt them.“How many girls are we talking about? Not how many you want help with, but how many were there?”“Probably ten or twenty that weren’t on the list. Most of them are being treated pretty badly at. I needed a wake up call so I was waiting also. I started up some small talk with the guy and found out his name was Josh and he was a project manager building an office building. We both talked to the clerk and went to the elevator. I asked what floor and he said 10 I pressed the 9 for me and the 10 for him and we stood there in silence until the door opened for my floor. I said have a good night he said the same. I got off the elevator thinking why did I not ask him to come over to my. It was evening, so only a shadowy form of Sweetness could be seen in the narrow light passing through the tent’s closed entrance. Sharon sat with her knees pulled up to her chest and her arms nestling around her legs, staring into space, depressed, anxious and bruised. How long would she last until she was discarded or worn out? It was while these dark thoughts ran through her mind that she was suddenly startled by a loud bang and a sudden burst of light which briefly illuminated the contours.