Frankie and Schlitz laughed.

"Girl there' no way you could pass these tests, but for amusement reasons. I'll let you try"

"What do I have to do?" Helga asked intently

Frankie thought…

"Okay, if you can scale the wall there and hang on the window-sill I'll let you in"

He and Schlitz laughed together at what Frankie said.

Helga looked at the wall it must have been at least 9 feet till the window. "Your kidding me, right?"

"Nope, you climb that wall and I'll let you in" replied Frankie.

Helga was still skeptic. But she was also incredibly lonely….her loneliness won the battle and she swallowed and set to climbing the wall.

She grabbed a crevice between bricks and started climbing…

Helga looked down from the wall. She swallowed; "Oh man I hope I don't fall". She was about 7 feet above the hard pavement. She reached for the window-sill, but was a few inches away.

"Just a little more…"

Helga stretched her arm as far as it would go…"Yes" she whispered in triumph as her fingers curled around the concrete sill.

"Hey I did i-"Helga stopped speaking as she looked down. Her stomach felt like it was in her throat and she didn't think nine feet could look so tall. "Whoa" said Helga feeling a little dizzy; she never remembered being afraid of heights before.

"Uh…" Helga's finger's were getting tired, "…Oh".

Her finger's slipped off and she began to fall.

But she was caught before a scream could escape her lips. She looked up to see that Frankie G. had caught her.

He put her down and said, "Awesome climb, bad fall". He laughed a little at his own joke and the look of shock on Helga's face.

Why are these people talking to me? I mean surly the legendary Frankie G. has other things to do with his time. Is it because their tough? Or because they think I'm just a little girl wondering the streets at night?

Helga had these thoughts running through her head as she waited for Frankie G. to say she hadn't gotten in.

"Hey babe, that wasn't to bad?" asked Frankie.

Babe? What happened to "girl"?

Frankie turned to Schlitz and said "Hey, what if that kid Mit was talking about was a girl?"

Schlitz looked offended at the idea and looked at Frankie like he had just said an awful swear word.

"Wha? It could ha'ppen?"

He turned back to Helga. "Have you been walking around here for while?"

Was I the kid Mit or whatever-his-name-is was talking about?

"Yeah every-night for a while"

Helga thought Frankie's face lit up, but it was too dark in that ally to see well.

"Your our man, uh, I mean our woman or gir-"

"I get it" said Helga putting her hand up.