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burgundy pair, but I nixed that. We needed to blend in, not stand out.
     
    “I can’t believe we’re doing this,” I said with apprehension. “What if we get caught?”
     
    Paige shook her head as she drove her SUV into the hospital parking lot. “What are they going to do? Tell us not to play on their computers?”
     
    “But isn’t this like breaking and entering, or something like that?” I looked at Stormi. “You’re married to a police officer…what kind of crime are we committing?”
     
    “Hey, I’m just trying to get my big acting debut in order.” Stormi was to distract the nurses while Paige accessed a computer and I would be the lookout. Paige, Stormi and I climbed on the elevator and rode to the third floor where there might not be as many people roaming the halls. We got off and headed towards the nurse’s station, while Stormi waited down the hall by a small empty waiting area. We noticed two nurses at the station. We peered down the hallways to see if anyone else was around. The halls appeared empty so we gave Stormi the signal to start the show. Suddenly we heard her howl out in pain. Paige and I looked at each. “Dang she’s good,” Paige said as the two nurses ran past us down the hall.
     
    We ran over and Paige quickly accessed the computer, typing furiously. I watched down the hallway to ensure the nurses remained with Stormi. She was putting on a heck of a show. The nurses ran to Stormi as she bent over pointing at her ankle. The nurses guided Stormi to a nearby chair in the small waiting area. She kept moaning and groaning complaining that her ankle hurt, as if she’d twisted it. It seemed she was enjoying this little ruse and being in the spotlight. All of a sudden, another nurse with a wheelchair came up to the group. They were trying to get Stormi into the wheelchair, but Stormi kept shaking her head.
     
    “You better hurry up!” I whispered to Paige. “They’re about to cart Stormi off in a wheelchair.”
     
    Paige didn’t look away from the computer screen. “She can handle it.”
     
    “Are you finding anything?”
     
    “Its Howard right….surely it wouldn’t be under Howie.”
     
    “You better try just in case,” I whispered watching the fiasco occurring down the hallway. “Hurry before they cart Stormi away to the loony bin!”
     
    Stormi was in dire straits. She had to keep up the deception of a hurt ankle but without having the nurses take her down to x-ray. I watched as she shook her head regarding the wheelchair. One nurse put her hands on her hips, obviously becoming impatient with Stormi’s reluctance to get in the wheelchair. The other nurse squatted down to examine Stormi’s ankle. She shook her head and said something to Stormi. I could tell Storm was becoming anxious.
     
    “Paige, we’ve got to get out of here!”
     
    Paige jumped up. “Okay, let’s go!”
     
    We fast walked down the hallway past Stormi and the nurses. As soon as Stormi saw us get into the elevator, she tried to get away from the nurses. As the elevators closed, she gave us the stink eye for leaving her there. I was breathing hard…this spy stuff wasn’t for me, but it seemed to be right up Paige’s alley.
     
    “Wow, what a rush!” She was definitely in her element. “This undercover business is thrilling. I may have to look into becoming a private eye.”
     
    “Go right ahead,” I said as I wiped a bead of sweat from my brow. “I’ll keep my day job thank you very much.”
     
    Paige was animated. “Nope, I think I found my destiny.”
     
    However, when the elevator doors opened we walked into chaos. A doctor grabbed Paige’s arm to direct her to the ER where patients were streaming in. They were coughing and gagging. Seems that a truck carrying fertilizer turned over right next to a factory where the ventilation sucked the fumes into the building. 
     
    I followed the doctor and Paige. I couldn’t abandon two of my friends! We stepped into the ER where