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The music playing in the Crown Victoria, is an old CD but a great band, The Bee Gees. McKenzie is singing along to one of the songs, 'This Is Where I Came In.' Singing the lyrics of the song has she searches through the glove box for cigarettes. She finds a open package of Marlboro Silver Ultra Light 72's. The cigarette is placed in her mouth and a person from the passenger seat ignites it with a lighter. McKenzie grabs it with her right hand and exhales smoke, "Thank you." Her eyes blow up like a balloon, full of helium, and she turns her head quickly, back and forth to the road and the person in the seat. The car swerves lanes, left to right. Vehicles beside the Crown Victoria swerve away from the demented car on the middle lane. Cars behind the Crown Victoria, slam on their car horns at the instigated vehicle.

The car straightens out, everything calms down. McKenzie is yelling and slamming her hand on the wheel. She looks over at the person on the passenger side. It's the same woman from the hospital, the young, African American lady. She is wearing the same clothes, "What McKenzie, why are you looking at me like that?" McKenzie, still frantic and full of agitations, "Why are you here, Sam?" "I thought you would want to see me." "Yeah, it was nice but I almost had a accident." "Well, I needed to see you anyways, McKenzie." "About.?." "Your case that you are on." "Yeah, what about it Samantha?" "John, he saw me." "What do you mean he saw you?" "He saw me, and I said something to him." "You mean he saw you and you told him something Samantha.?." "Yes. I told him that, he needed to listen to you and that you knew what he was going through." She calmly blinks at the open road. "McKenzie...McKenzie." She rummages through the glove box again and grabs a pill bottle. A loud pop emerges the open air in the car and a white, rounded, medium-sized pill lays in her palm. The pill flees into her mouth and is swallowed.

Samantha starts to fade away. McKenzie exits out of US Route 33 to I-270. McKenzie throws the pill bottle into the glove department and slams it shut.

Author's Note

More to come soon!