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ready after one week. He tried a couple of times and it worked perfectly on him. Now it was time to try it with his friends.
    Julien arrived at the restaurant with a little box containing the pills. He explained to his friends how wonderful the pills were and each friend swallowed one.
    After eating the cheese they waited. But little did they know the cheese chemistry combined with the pill started making them have uncontrollable, strong short bouts of flatulence.
    To everyone's surprise, the gravity started to wane and the restaurant guests began to float gently, except for Julien and his friends, which were being propelled uncontrollably across the room at every burst from their bottoms, leaving in the air a fragrance of the finest chocolate.”
    Paulo chuckled.
    As he searched online, most of the news was about earthquakes at various points on the Earth. A story about one in Arkansas and Tennessee in the United States caught his attention.
    He gave up his search immediately and pulled out his cell phone. He got a “cell towers are busy” message. Paulo dialed a local number and let it ring once before he hung up.
    He pulled up his e-mail and typed out a quick message to his daughter to see if she was alright.
     
     

6
     
    Sean Grayson and Jenny Restrepo – West Memphis, Arkansas
     
    Jenny Restrepo took out her phone and scrolled through her e-mail in the passenger’s seat. Sean glanced over at her for a moment and turned his attention back on the road. Traffic inched forward. A spray of water blasted into the air from a busted water main. Sean could see the lights from the truck, but couldn’t tell which company was handling the break while the city workers tried to repair it. They were outside his firehouse’s territory, but with the quakes, they had been pulled all over the city.
    Water rained down onto his windshield in a heavy wash as traffic pulled him forward and stopped him under the water. Sean turned his wipers on high and flipped on his headlights. He took off his sunglasses and stuck them in the center console as he squinted to see the taillights of the car in front of him.
    “I’m going to get called back in on short rest,” Sean said. “The city is a mess.”
    “They told you that already?” Jenny bent over her phone and thumbed in a message with expert speed.
    “No, but I’m sure of it. They have every company out dealing with accidents and breaks all over. They are going to burn through every shift before my off time is up.”
    “That’s too bad. Do you still want to plan on getting away?”
    “I don’t know,” Sean said. He inched forward again and water thundered on the roof. “I might ought to hang close.”
    “Whatever you want, baby. We can go another time. I’ll take off during the week in your next break, if I have to. We’ll find something fun to do close by when we pick up your boys.”
    Sean smiled and put his hand on her knee just below the end of her shorts. Her skin was warm and smooth. He glanced at her and forward again. “Who are you texting?”
    “E-mailing,” She said. She shook her head still looking down at her phone. Her dark ponytail whipped back and forth over her neck and Sean swallowed. She was almost too beautiful to look at for too long. Sean thought, she could do better; I couldn’t, but she could . She said, “My dad read about the earthquake on the Internet and is freaking out. The cell towers are out in Colombia or something, so he had to e-mail instead of call.”
    “Did they have any trouble down there?” Sean asked.
    Jenny squinted at him and laughed. “Why would they have trouble all the way down there from a little quake in Arkansas?”
    Sean shrugged. He rolled forward out of the spray far enough to see the flares in his lane ahead. He turned the wheel to follow traffic toward the far shoulder. “I don’t know. You said the cell towers were out.”
    “Oh, right.” She shrugged and stuffed her phone back into the pocket of her shorts.