floating

Ugh it’s such a mess down here!” a young man muttered. He looked to be in his early thirties, but was starting to show signs of gray hair on his small moustache.

He set down this rather thick, but aged, book. It scattered dust all over when he set it on the pedestal. “I really have to clean out my basement.” He told himself.

It had come, the long awaited event, 5:00 pm on Friday. Chemist Luke Osmond looked up at the clock and immediately got ready to depart. He entered the restroom to change out of his lab clothes. His brother David, and Megan, David's girlfriend, pulled up outside the lab and entered the lab.

"Hey, Mike!" David shouted, "Are you here?"

"Yeah! I'll be out in a minute!" Mike yelled from the restroom.

It goes without saying that women can, at times, be far more vengeful than any man could ever dream of being. This is a story of vengeance, misplaced trust, and helium. Mostly the latter.