Chapter Eight


Sarah felt like a used popsicle stick as stood pressed among the many passenger on the
daily 23 bus heading downtown. The heat outside the cramped questers was bad enough but 
inside it was threatning to melt all the passengers into one collective, solid, smelly
lump. The bus ground to a halt and expelled it's passengers as if giving off  pugnent
burp and then pulling away without apology. Sarah made this trip three times a week to
use the computers at the Los Angeles Public Library. It was here among the battered
books and forgotten tales she sat deligently cruising through the latest newspapers
and magazines looking for articles on her love. She pushed throug the heavy glass doors 
and felt a rush of relief as the coolness of the buildings air conditing flowed over her.
She knew from last nights entertainment program that Robert was in town at a book singing
and that he would be given filming a new movie in and round Westwood right here in California.
If she could just find some sort of time scheadule that would tell her the exzact locations
and hours he would be around. She picked two glossy magazines with pretty celbrities smiling 
brightly on their covers and a heavy nononsense newspaper that stiffy presented the various 
trajadies and news making events of the day. She arranged herself at one of the many small
round tables scattered in among the library stacks and began to sift through in the hopes
of glimmering any news, even a small amount, regarding Roberts activities. 

For Sam the knowledge of Robert Savages activities was bringing him nothing but headaches 
and certainly not joy. Today he found himself sitting in a cold, damp airplane hanger, 
sitting on the hood of a very expensive antique muscle car, in only a faded and tight
pair of jeans. A woman weatring a screaming orange blouse and day glo green tights
was intermittingly combing out his hair and clucking at each strand as if correcting 
small children who simply did not want to listen.  Another young woman came up to 
him offering him a soda. He grabbed the drink from her and took a sip. The soda was 
warm. He spat it on the ground and roughly handed the soda back to the girl. "is it too
much to ask that I get a cold soda?" he roared at her. She shrank back a little. Sam
could not believe such awful words had come out of his mouth. He was raised to never
throw such a tantrum especially at someone who was simply trying to do you a favor. 
"I'm sorry," Sam said fumbling for words. "I appreciate it, really. I just...well
you know..it's hot and everything." The girl smiled back meekly and spoke in a shakey
quiet voice "I'm sorry Mr. Savage. I didn't realize the soda had not been refrigerated
I will go and get you another one right away." Before Sam could answer she scurried away.
The woman who was arranging his hair had barely taken notice of the exchange. It seemed
to be routine behaivor for this over inflated star. Well it was not routine for Sam.
What he couldn't understand is why so much of Robert Savage seemed to be coming out of his mouth
but it was a question he intended to bring up to Al the next time his popped into Sam's life.