Chapter 15

Shane and Alice are helping Jodie out of the car and into the emergency room.  Shane called Sam on the drive over and told her that based on the call Jodie heard, Amy must have drugged Bette’s drink.  Sam tells them to stay with Jodie and not let her out of their sight.  Alice called Dana to meet them in the emergency room.

“How long do you think we’ll have to wait?  She’s in a lot of pain.”  Alice hands the papers that Jodie filled out to the nurse and waits for an answer.

“As you can see, the waiting room is pretty full.  We’ll see her as fast as we can. I’m sorry I can’t tell you more.”  The nurse was kind, but you could tell she was exhausted.  Alice knew Jodie would live…and right now it was hard to muster up a whole lot of sympathy for her.

“Thanks…just let us know as soon as you can please.”

Alice turns to go sit with Shane, Dana and Jodie when she sees Dawn Denbo run through the waiting room.   On the run from Bette’s floor, Denbo lost her wig and baseball cap and is recognizable to everybody.  She pushes a little boy to the floor and runs out the door to a parked van.  Running behind her is one of the security personnel that Alice recognizes from outside Bette’s room.

“Oh my god!!  Shane!!  Dana!!  Look!”

Shane, Dana, and Jodie stand up just in time to see the van that Dawn ran to speed away.

The 3 friends look at each other.  “What the fuck?”

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Dawn locks the door to her private hideout and pulls out her phone.

“Hey, I’m going to be away for a little while.  I need you to keep an eye on Gabby for me.  If I’m not there to stop her, that bitch will start acting like she owns the place.  I would hate for her to mess up our ‘arrangement’.”

Amy answers, “What’s going on?  Why aren’t you going to be around?”  Amy recognized Dawn’s threat to her sweet deal to move product through She-Bar.

“I went to the hospital.  But I couldn’t get past the front desk to get to Porter’s room.  Tina saw me in the hallway and started yelling!  A security guard chased me and I dropped my gun.  I know Tina wants to be with me…she’s just scared of Porter and all those guards around her.  I’ve got to think about what to do next.”