If this is Life, then what's Hell?

The Plan

                                                                   Chapter #14

                                                                      The Plan

"What?"

"Yolie is playing Hide and Go Seek. With us." I could see his brows flex downward.

"Ok, and what you said before, she's the nurse?"

"Yes."

"How? I saw her, remember? She doesn't look like she did before."

"Repeat that last sentence."

"She doesn't look like she did before."

"Is is dawning on you yet?"

"No...?"

"Well, let me help you out. She doesn't. Look like. She did. Before. As in. She could. Change her. Look. Got it?"

"N- ohhhh. Got it."

"Yeeeeeaaaaaah."

Nick pulled me in close, and I let myself melt to his touch. I forgot of everything going on. Hard to believe, but I forgot about Yolie, about the house-arrest, about my dead father, about everythingthing involved in what got me here, what got me this far.

"Hey- uh, well, it's getting kind of late. I better go back to the hospital to check out." Yolie waved, then walked shamelessly to Nick and gave him a hug, me being right there, in his arms.

"Bye Nick! Bye... Gracie." She sounded bored when she said my name. I just itched to punch her straight on her copycat face.

"We need a plan." I whispered what my thoughts were, even though Yolie had left through the door 5 minutes before.

"Do we need him?"

"Who- Oh yeah. We do. Alex, can you come in here? We need to talk!"

"What? If It's about that really hot nurse, I just want to-"

"No, it's not. Well, it kind of is. I mean, ugh, we need a plan! Um, and well, she's kind of my cousin."

"So what are we going to do?"

"Well, we're going to wait out the two months. I mean, there's not much time left, right?"

"It's been two days."

"Well, you want to catch this phyco, or not?" I looked at Alex dead in the eye, waiting for his response.

"Yes."

"Then stop being so negative and get with me! Us, really. We just need you to agree to the plan. Well, as I was saying, We're waiting out the two months, whether you like it or not. After that, we will call Yolie, let her know that we left. Nick, as much as I hate saying this, but you have to get close to Yolie. We need to find out what the heck her weaknesses are! Alex, are you good as geography research?”

“I guess… I aced all my classes in senior year. Got to tutor-“

“OK! I get it! Well then, you will research Los Angeles. You will look for the most likely place where someone will be hidden.”

“And you?”

“Me? I don’t know yet. I mean, I know part of it. The thing is I need to wait. Basically, what I need to do is follow the clues that she leaves behind. Follow the clues to my grandmother. But we have a limited time. She said so. If we don't find her in the time limit, she's going to... to... to...”

 "Hey, we're going to find her, Okay?"

"The plan, Gracie, is going to work."