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windshield of Frank’s car.
“You look like hell!” was Allen’s greeting when Frank opened the front door.
“I feel like hell, too.” He concurred.
“I brought you some iodine pills we had from our earthquake box, and some iodine heavy protein bars. And some terracotta.”
“Hey-you really are a good friend.
Thanks for-“
Allen cut in by placing a curled up brown paper bag in his hand, which had Frank lost for words. When he unrolled it, he started smelling its contents and immediately knew.
“You brought pot? What the hell for? I’m not going to prom, I have radiation poisoning.” He shot Allen a mocking but subversive look. Allen took off his shoes.
“Jen’s nana had cancer … she smoked it after her radiation treatment to relieve the symptoms. Frank was in disbelief of Allen’s shamelessness, but his college-born curiosity got the best of him. This was where they usually got together and drank a row of shots before going out on nights like these. Allen made for the kitchen.
“Don’t go there! I think that’s where the—”
Allen quickly turned on his heel and ran toward the living room. There he took the iodine pills he brought out of a plastic bag and handed two to Frank to drink down. As he did, he pulled out a stereotypical joint out of a film canister and went outside.
“Where’s the radiation from?”
“Allen, I … ”
“Yes?” AllenAllen was ecstatically eagle-eyed.
“ … ..I wasn’t being careful in the Lab last night.”
They sat on an old bench behind the house. Allen lit the skewedly rolled cone and handed it to Frank.
“You wanna tell me what the hell’s going on?”
Frank looked at him with a guilty smirk while holding his breath, trying not to burst out with laughter over the absurdity of it all.
“I do. But let’s wait a few minutes.”
The smoke struck them without warning.
The best thing to do was to break it to Allen easy. Now that Allen facilitated such an option, he felt he could tell him everything.
“Do you believe in the possibility of extraterrestrial life? He toked a several more times and handed it to Allen.
“Well … what … like … ET?”
The both looked to the sky, expecting a UFO. All they saw was one bright star that stood out on its own, low in the sky.
“Yeah, basically.” Frank agreed after a while.
“You know … it might be a planet.
It’s pretty bright.” Allen said.
The star started flashing and they both sighed, disappointed. Frank bore the bad news.
“It’s just a plane.”
“Too bad.”
The ‘plane’ moved sideways quickly, then faded and sped off upwards, then vanished.
They both sat, all frozen, mouths open.
There was no point in hiding it all from Allen.
“Okay, so where do I begin?”
Fifteen minutes later, when Allen had heard all Frank had to say without saying so much as a word himself he finally pronounced his thoughts.
“You WHAT? You had the fucking alien in your coat the whole way from the beach?”
His voice went from surprise to coarse disbelief.
“ … Then how come “I” didn’t get sick?”
“It was wrapped in a coat. That might’ve shielded the radiation from getting too far out.”
Allen was starting to get a bit annoyed.
“What, do you have a lead coat?”
When Frank looked him in the eyes
they could only burst out laughing.
Little did they know that when new Lab equipment came in, the suits that arrived were dark gray. The company just sent a replacement free of charge.
Frank ’borrowed’ the lead coat from the lab home without anyone’s particular permission or intention of returning it, and started wearing it around as his downtown-jacket, which afforded him a shield from the rays from his cellphone in a dose of healthy paranoia.
“By the way, Steve called me this morning.
He sounded fine.”
This sentence brought some relief.
At least he was the only one who was sick.
He wouldn’t be able to live with himself if he got either of them sick.
“Wait. So you
“You look like hell!” was Allen’s greeting when Frank opened the front door.
“I feel like hell, too.” He concurred.
“I brought you some iodine pills we had from our earthquake box, and some iodine heavy protein bars. And some terracotta.”
“Hey-you really are a good friend.
Thanks for-“
Allen cut in by placing a curled up brown paper bag in his hand, which had Frank lost for words. When he unrolled it, he started smelling its contents and immediately knew.
“You brought pot? What the hell for? I’m not going to prom, I have radiation poisoning.” He shot Allen a mocking but subversive look. Allen took off his shoes.
“Jen’s nana had cancer … she smoked it after her radiation treatment to relieve the symptoms. Frank was in disbelief of Allen’s shamelessness, but his college-born curiosity got the best of him. This was where they usually got together and drank a row of shots before going out on nights like these. Allen made for the kitchen.
“Don’t go there! I think that’s where the—”
Allen quickly turned on his heel and ran toward the living room. There he took the iodine pills he brought out of a plastic bag and handed two to Frank to drink down. As he did, he pulled out a stereotypical joint out of a film canister and went outside.
“Where’s the radiation from?”
“Allen, I … ”
“Yes?” AllenAllen was ecstatically eagle-eyed.
“ … ..I wasn’t being careful in the Lab last night.”
They sat on an old bench behind the house. Allen lit the skewedly rolled cone and handed it to Frank.
“You wanna tell me what the hell’s going on?”
Frank looked at him with a guilty smirk while holding his breath, trying not to burst out with laughter over the absurdity of it all.
“I do. But let’s wait a few minutes.”
The smoke struck them without warning.
The best thing to do was to break it to Allen easy. Now that Allen facilitated such an option, he felt he could tell him everything.
“Do you believe in the possibility of extraterrestrial life? He toked a several more times and handed it to Allen.
“Well … what … like … ET?”
The both looked to the sky, expecting a UFO. All they saw was one bright star that stood out on its own, low in the sky.
“Yeah, basically.” Frank agreed after a while.
“You know … it might be a planet.
It’s pretty bright.” Allen said.
The star started flashing and they both sighed, disappointed. Frank bore the bad news.
“It’s just a plane.”
“Too bad.”
The ‘plane’ moved sideways quickly, then faded and sped off upwards, then vanished.
They both sat, all frozen, mouths open.
There was no point in hiding it all from Allen.
“Okay, so where do I begin?”
Fifteen minutes later, when Allen had heard all Frank had to say without saying so much as a word himself he finally pronounced his thoughts.
“You WHAT? You had the fucking alien in your coat the whole way from the beach?”
His voice went from surprise to coarse disbelief.
“ … Then how come “I” didn’t get sick?”
“It was wrapped in a coat. That might’ve shielded the radiation from getting too far out.”
Allen was starting to get a bit annoyed.
“What, do you have a lead coat?”
When Frank looked him in the eyes
they could only burst out laughing.
Little did they know that when new Lab equipment came in, the suits that arrived were dark gray. The company just sent a replacement free of charge.
Frank ’borrowed’ the lead coat from the lab home without anyone’s particular permission or intention of returning it, and started wearing it around as his downtown-jacket, which afforded him a shield from the rays from his cellphone in a dose of healthy paranoia.
“By the way, Steve called me this morning.
He sounded fine.”
This sentence brought some relief.
At least he was the only one who was sick.
He wouldn’t be able to live with himself if he got either of them sick.
“Wait. So you
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