Chapter 2: The Art of Planning
Mina spent the rest of that Saturday afternoon in her bedroom closet. The door to her bedroom was locked so no one in her family would be able to barge in. With a flash light in her hand she looked through Trina's diary. Yes, indeed, she had the diary this time, and there was no way that anyone else, not even Trina's little brother, Corey, was going to find out and get his hands on it. She held up the book in front of her turning the page with only her thumb as she zoomed in with the flashlight. She had to skim everything she was reading so she could come up with a plan before dinner time. Suddenly she stopped and turned off the flashlight, placing it on the floor, and decided to turn on the lamp that was in front of her feet. She already had it plugged, in case she needed more light, though she now figured that she should have used it first instead of the flashlight. She started quickly flipping the pages, "Seen it, seen it, seen that one, diarrhea in class," she paused after reading that information then said, "Oh yeah, I remember the day that happened. I could use that for later." She slowly turned to the next page. She couldn't find anything that she hadn't already seen done by someone else, namely Trina's brother and his band. She closed the book and got up from the floor, opening the closet door and stepping out. "If only I could think of something even greater than diarrhea in class to start me off," She said. Suddenly, she thought of something clever and gasped, slightly biting her thumb. "I know what I'm going to do to her," she thought, "How about instead of diarrhea in class, I could place her into some sort of gas chamber filled with…Kon's farts. That'll be perfect!" Mina felt a sudden surge of joy as the thoughts circled around in her mind, "I'll hire Kon to fart into several jars, then I'll order a chamber that I could put into the garage and release the gas into the chamber and put Trina in the chamber. No, wait a minute; why not make a profit off this idea? I could use a gas to make Trina go unconscious, blindfold her and tie her arms behind her back, then I'll have her stand in the chamber, make a little port in the chamber door that allows air to pass into the chamber, then have all the neighborhood kids pay to fart into the chamber for fun….and Kon can be the first one to do it. And I can charge by the minute!" Mina felt so enthralled by the idea that she couldn't help but laugh out loud at the new plan. What started as innocent casual laughter gradually turned into maniacal laughter as her eyes widened and bit her thumb harder. Things were about to finally go her way.