Three months later.
I pace back and for, lost in my thoughts. This was it; the big time. Soon the city will know my name.
"Erin, Erin Pesita. Snap out of it! We got a show to film!" whines Dani California, my friend, as she snaps her fingers in front of my eyes.
I smile as I scratch the back of my head, "Sorry, just…thinking." I mumble.
"You can think later! The cameras start rolling in five!" She shines, skipping to the center of the empty warehouse that was our studio. A couple feet away stood the camera man, a skinny man with a clown mask on. Which is very odd because how the heck is he suppose to look throw the view finder on the camera in that thing? "Erin, come on! The cameras start rolling in 2 minutes!!" She said, spinning around in circles.
Nodding, I join here in the center. I stare at the camera, a smile flashing across my face, "And so it begins!" I whisper.
"Bring on the chaos." Dani snickers.
I look at her, "You say something?" I ask.
Dani shakes her head, hiding a smile, "Nope, nothing." She answers back.
The camera guy counts down from 10 to one monotonously, the one just one finger held up.
"Hello party people! I'm Erin Pesita!" I chime, giving a huge wave.
Dani flips next to me, wearing a huge smile, "And I'm Dani California! Welcome to our show. This is the beginning of something big! This show is going to tell you how to get away with crime!!!" Dani yells.
"Of course your all probably thinking, holy shit these girls are going to teach us how to get away with crime? How did THAT get pass the producers?" I said, mimicking the voice of a surprised person.
"Well." Dani said, pointing at me and then at her, "We're the producers!! So no annoying red tape to cut through!"
"On this first episode, we're going to tell you how to get away with robbing a bank." I said, disappearing and reappearing with a duffel bag. I open it and inside is a ton of cash. "This is just one of the bags of cash we stole from a bank. Now you can take some pointers from John Dillenger or the Joker. Basically, the idea is to get the cash fast and get out of there before the cops come and ruin your fun. It's always important to know your bank building. You can do this by casing the place. Something else that is very important is having smart technology friendly person on your team. Their job is to hack into the bank's main frame, temporarily turn off the alarms, cut the phone lines and check the cameras to make sure there aren't a shit load of police there to with draw the money. You also need a safe cracker who, obviously, opens the safe. Then don't forget the driver and a muscle guy. The muscle guy intimidates the people and knocks out the security guard. So now that you have your team together, you are ready to rob the bank. It's best to rob the bank before rush hour traffic so there are a lot of witnesses. Have the driver wait our front, the safe cracker and the techno wiz kid go in through the back door and do their thing and you and muscle guy walk in. You scare the people into shutting up and have a teller withdraw some of the money from behind the counter. While you do that, muscle guy is tying the people's hands up so they don't do anything stupid. The safe cracker cracks the code, gets in and starts loading up the cash. Then you all exit through the back door and make your escape. Isn't that simple?" I said, finally finishing up my little speech. The sound guy makes cricket noise; I take out my gun and shoot him.
Dani smiles, "Uh, yep! Pretty much! So that's all for today's episode! We hope you tune in tomorrow for another round of criminal how-to!!" Dani chimes.
"So go rob some banks you silly gooses!" I said, smiling.
"Bye! You all come back now!" We say happily together, waving as the camera pans out.
The flashing red light on the camera darkens and I can't believe we did it. I turn to Dani and smile slyly, "So what illegal activity are we telling them how to do next week?" I said, raising an eyebrow.
"Oh I thought you'd never ask! We're teaching them how to blow up a school!" She chirps.
I laugh, "Really? Oh that sounds sooo fun! I can't wait!" I said, looking over at the sound guy, "You can get up now dude….dude?" It's then I notice the blood pool he lies in. I look at Dani, fear stricken. "H-he's dead…oh my god I killed him!!" I moan, gripping the sides of my head. I look at Dani, "The clip was supposed to be empty!! Why the fuck did you load it?!?!"
Dani's smile is unnerving as she tilts her head slightly to the side, "why so serious? So he died no problem. We can always get a new sound person." She said, continuing to smile. She then turns and walks away, leaving me to my thoughts.
It was in that moment I knew, just as Dorothy realized she wasn't in Kansas anymore; I knew I wasn't in tinsel town anymore.