The Seekers

Isaac's story

"My grandmother, I have told you a lot about her-" Megan filled her throat with water gesturing for Sasha to wait.

"Yes yes, I know. What's the matter?"  Sasha cut her off impatiently.

"Well" She tried to catch her breath. "She found out exactly what she has."

"I told you this will happen eventually."

"I'm just worried about her soul not her body."

"Why is that phrase so poetic? Why couldn't you say you're afraid about her mental health or that she'd be depressed?"

"Un-Intellectual peasant. "

"Un-Intellectual?"

"Yes."

"Say it 10 times in a row."  Megan doesn't seem as sad as she really is, maybe that's why her complaints are always taken for granted.

" You think this is the right time for that?"

"So, how did she find out?"

"I left the medicine instruction, she read it. I always throw it away." Megan returned to her break-down voice. "God."

"Megan, you could have told her that it's used to treat other dangerous  diseases but can treat hers as well."

" I told her, I told her." She ran her fingers through her hair. "I'm not sure she believed it or not."

After Megan left Sasha's house. She was still on the front porch where she phoned him.

"Issac?"

"Yes." His cold voice spoke on the other line.

"Look." She bit her lips so she wouldn't cry but they quivered hard. "I think it's time. My grandmother, she's getting worse and she found out about her disease and-" She sniffed "She doesn't have much time."

"Come over at 6. I'll send the location."  He hung up.

Megan looked at her watch. The hours hand pointed to 5 and the minutes hand pointed to past 18. She didn't want to go home and face her grandmother. You know how people run away from their problems? What if your problems are the dearest person in your life? How can you run away from them?

She got in her car and drove past Sasha's house so that she's not in her sight.  She parked few blocks away from her own house.

She reached for the key and turned off the engine. She's got to plan everything. If Issac said that he's got a lab then she needs to work with him in that lab. She needs to see what things are coming to and she can't let him turn her down. She's not going to let this chance slip away from her. It's not everyday that a research pharmacist would fall from the sky and look for her granny's treatment.

What makes him able to find it? What if he never does? She shifted in her car seat and slid down with one knee touching the dashboard. She was okay with her grandmother's state and she knew that it would take her life away sooner or later. She was used to living with such agony, that by time she didn't feel the pain anymore despite full awareness of it's presence. She shifted again uncomfortably.

She checked her messages for Isaac's location and there it was: 122 freedom  street.

As far as she knew, freedom street was full of houses that's rented for young people who are here for education or whatever. It seems that it wasn't his real home. Damn it! Is she ever going to know anything about him?

It's only going to take half an hour of driving, if her memory and information are reliable.

She turned on the engine and followed the GPS directions. She didn't want to get lost or even be late.