The pharmacy was close to home ,lucas moved there to work to supplement his income. On the days when he only worked during the day for the company, he walked through the quiet streets until he reached Dr. Michael pharmacy. "How are you, Stuart?"
That was the high school diploma kid with punk hair, the glasses on the cup, the weird sweater, and the silver ring with the black stone on his pinky finger... he usually knew the names and locations of medicines better than a college graduate.
The pharmacy was one of the few that still made prescriptions, With the development of medicine and the lack of experience of pharmacists, compounding became a headache, so it was a destination for those looking for special prescription,. Attached to it was a small room used as a laboratory, lucas sits at a small desk next to the telephone. Behind him are pharmaceutical company advertising posters depicting people with headaches and groaning in pain, or a happy man with a blue pill next to him and an ecstatic woman.
At that moment, "Sarah" entered the door.. Time slowed down a little and the voices faded before the pharmacy walls disappeared.. A song echoed in his head, "Amazing, amazing, fighting gazelle.. How many thoughts and hearts play.. He steps coquettishly, exciting....!! I don't know what... The background music insisted without permission to create an atmosphere of forced ecstasy.. He didn't know what summoned that song from the eighties like a genie from the lamp.
Sarah was just a neighbor of his building and its forbidden plain, the girl whose borders are surrounded by an electrified field and on her very, very attractive rear end is the phrase "No approaching or photographing," graceful, bronze-colored, her lips are full and her neck is long, her eyes are wide and the sea is humbled beside them, and her chin is stamped with a delicate stamp of beauty.. The one whose features you steal from the corner of your eye in the elevator in admiration before you start a meaningless conversation.
Sarah asked for Dove soap.. She asked for nothing else every time.. until lucas named her Dovey Dove.
She left the ten-euro note with delicate fingers
Lucas approached Sarah: "May I see what you took?"
In surprise, she took out the soap and handed it to him" Is there something wrong with it?"
He didn't answer her. He held the soap in his hands and breathed a sigh of relief : "Thank God."
Sarah asked him:" What is wrong with it?"
He approached her, lowering his voice: "Not everyone notices... This soap is made with pig fat."
She frowned: "pig fat..!!"
"Of course... he said it and disappeared inside, then came back carrying another box: "Here you go."
She turned it over in her hands:" But I don't see a difference."
- "These are things that only pharmacists like us know."
She sensed what was happening, so she smiled half a smile and was about to leave when he stopped her: "One second." He walked around the desk and handed her a flyer: "This is a new offer on shampoos." She looked at him sharply, then took the flyer when he added, "And creams."
She interrupted him "Do you live on the second floor?"
- "What's this? You live in the same building, that's why you looked familiar!!! ."
- "Are you the one who plays drums all night?"
He scratched his head in embarrassment and said "yes that's me."
She came closer, whispering, "By the way, your playing is terrible."
She threw these words and left, He stood for a few seconds in astonishment .
The hours passed slowly until it was nearly a quarter to three when something came in.
This person was "the automobile."
Lucas knew those characters. They came like insects around the light, seeking warmth. The pharmacy owner had advised him to cleanse the pharmacy of these pests during his shift .
With a body packed with muscles and a face full of holes like meteorite holes he said "I bought Tramadol and Abitril... Where is he?"
Lucas smelled the scent he knew so well, so he stood up and faced the dinosaur who had escaped extinction: "kleo is not here."
- "When will he come?"
- "He's not coming back.. He left the pharmacy. "
The "automobile" scratched his nose was cut by a knife blow across it and came closer whispering "So, hadn't he informed you beforehand about it?The formula that is ? "
-"Do you have a prescription?"
The "automobile" smiled dismissively. "What prescription, mate? Are you new here? "
At that moment, sturat winked his eyes in a gesture more like inflammation of the pupil or early stages of Parkinson's disease, intending to say: let it go... he's an addict...!!
Lucas returned to his chair "go somewhere else."
- "Why don't you bring the drugs and the formula? Am I not going to pay money?"
-"Come tomorrow morning to the pharmacy owner."
- "What tomorrow doctor? I need it now ."
He turned to sturat " Where the fuck is kleo?"
Stuart was disturbed and got up from his sea,. Lucas shouted "Sit down, Stuart."
Lucas turned to the"automobile" and said "I can't get you anything, look for another pharmacy."
" I'm not going anywhere,you really fucked up today."
He said it and started to fiddle with the contents of a small holder that held medicine packages, Lucas tried to pull it out of his hands, but the "automobile" grabbed his wrist with a fist that was missing two knuckles from his index finger " Don't you want to live? "
Lucas tried to let go of his hand, "If you don't leave here, I'll call the cops."
"Who are you calling the cops on? You don't know who I am? "
Lucas let go of his wrist after some effort " No, I don't know, and I don't want to know. "
Then he gathered what was left of his courage: "Come on, come on, out of here."
At that moment, Stuart jumped in front of Lucas "calm down , everyone."
The "automobile" clicked the vertebrae of his broad neck " Okay.. But by the way, engineer, you've missed with the wrong person today .. The "automobile" shouldn't be treated like this."
"There is always a first time.. And by the way, I am not an engineer."
The "automobile" gave him a lifeless look and then left, knocking the scales down with a hostile kick.
Lucas turned to Stuart : "What is this animal?"
Stuart corrected scale aside " forget about him Lucas ."
"Does this guy come here all the time?"
"Kleo was selling drugs and the formula to him until the owner found out and fired him."
"What is the story of this formula?"
"This is a special formula that "kleo" used to make for him, something that make you get really high."
"This guy's name is Antonio.,No one knows where he came from. They say he killed ten people before and the charges weren't brought against him. He stayed with Lord's sergio. They say he's the one who delivers the goods to him."
"Do you also know about Sergio?"
"Of course, doctor..." Stuart answered confidently.
"So, if is he working with Sergio? What does he need the formula for? "
"To sleep at night .. Drugs and alcohol affect the brain.. but they put everything to sleep.. Chemistry is what wakes you up."
" What else?! You turned out to know a lot of stuff. "
"Honestly, Dr. "Kleo" was excused. What would a man do in front someone like this? "
At that moment, the pharmacy shook violently as its glass shattered into small shards after a brick from the street penetrated it and landed under Luca's desk, who bent down in an involuntary reaction.
Stuart shouted "You see, Doctor... you see... that's why I Told you to give him what he wants."
Lucas rushed out of the pharmacy trying to see the perpetrator. On a nearby corner, the "automobile" man was smoking his cigarette calmly, He raised his hand in greeting and shook his head smiling before turning into one of the streets.