Visions and pills

Part 4

Sal POV
5 minutes earlier
( Sponge Bob narrator voice)

Larry and I  stepped out of Todd's room to walk through the halls of light yellow and green. Although it had only been a few hours since we had left her, we still were a feeling a bit guilty for just leaving her in Larry's room. So we were just going back to check up on her.
" So do you think she's woken up by now?" Larry asked as we stopped in front the elevator.
"I hope so, I mean it would be nice to at least be able to know why she ended up there."I answered , quickly swiping the scanner with my elevator pass and waited until finally, the door gave out a 'ping' for the two doors to clear.

" And to know we're the hell she got those pills. Cause I didn't know that 10 year olds could be drug dealers. Dose she just go up to kid in crutches with Advil in her hands, while on her bike saying 'Hey want the gooood stuff ?!'"We both let out a laugh  and hurried into the elevator shaft.
"How much you wanna bet that, that's true?" Larry asked, swiping the key card at the respective scanner.
"I doubt that's true."
" 20 bucks ?"
" your on."

After a few seconds of waiting, the shaft came to a stop to slowly open its silver doors for the basement.
But the only thing we saw was the same girl standing in front of us!
" Holy shit she woke up!" Larry yelled out, almost freezing up in surprise as much as the girl was.

Fran POV

Fran stared blankly into space, still trying to register what had just happened. But the more she thought the less she was able to find the words to say anything. "... I- I'm sorry.. I'll be on my way now" Quickly making her way towards the to the nearest door, hoping she would not have to answer to the question of to how she got there in the first place.

"Uh wait hold on!"One of them shouted. Fran stopped in her tracks, whipping her head around back to see the  two strangers. As the brown haired one began to speak she couldn't help but notice that the the masked one just stayed there, silent. "We kinda helped you out....So can you at least tell us who you are.?" the brown haired one asked.
A chill came up her spine, grabbing a quick breath of air she and spoke in a quiet tone.
"My name is Bow, Fran Bow."
Silence took over the room for a minute before the masked one finally spoke.

"Well I'm Sal and the guy next to me is Larry." He said in a tranquil manner. But what had intrigued Fran more was to have one of them understandably surprised, and to have another not even fazed by the notion of her being there. Yet even so, they both seemed to carry a strange vibe , but she brushed it off as the pills not fully wearing off. "Sorry if we scared you or anything, it's just we've never had a person pass out in our basement before." "No it's fine I was just startled, that's all." Fran answered back, starting to become less tense as Sal continued.
"Is it okay if we ask you why or how you got here?"  She didn't answer.

As fear loomed over her waiting for her reply, she knew there was no way in being able to tell them without getting sent back. And there was no way that she was going to mess this up her one chance to see her beloved cat again. Not without know that Mr Midnight was out there..somewhere. "I would rather not talk about my past.."Praying  that they wouldn't try to question her any further about it, but to her relief they didn't.

" That's understandable. And judging by how comfortable you were on the cold, hard floor I'm guessing you have not place to stay now do you?" This time Larry reapplied in a now calmer and relaxed manner.
Fran lightly nodded
"Then I guess you could stay here for a little bit."
"Wait really?!" She asked, trying not show all the joy she had in her head.
'I won't have to go back after all' thinking as she finally had felt the warm feeling of joy hugging her tight.

Sal POV

I noticed that there was smile starting to form on the girl, as if she hadn't in a long time. Not knowing weather to feel bad or happy about her Larry says.
"Yeah sure, we wouldn't let a small child freeze in the cold. Right Sal?"
"Yeah." I quickly reply and dive back in my thoughts.
"Wait small child! How old do you guys think I am?!" Fran yelled out ,making me flinch of her sudden change in voice.
" ten?"
" eight?" We both guess while Larry quietly snickered, not even caring about how wide his grin was.
"I'm fifteen!" She huffed angrily, catching us both off guard.
" WHAT!!!!!!" Larry eyes widened as Fran started giggle. "Well I guess she's our age then, and it looks to me that you now owe me twenty bucks." I declare, while trying not laugh." Yeah pay up!" Fran added while still giggling.

Fran POV

"I hope this place will keep me safe from that monster." Fran smiled.

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