Lisa Heart—a complete amateur to golfing—was being trained on swinging form by her father. Her attention however was distracted by...
Phillip Baggio. Age 48. Twice divorced. Previous marriage produced his only biological child. Lives the affluent Oak Park gated community with his third wife, two step-children and aging mother. Works as Events Coordinator and Daily Operations Manager for the Saint Paul's Golf Course.
Phillip's workload was heavy at that moment, dealing with a technician attempting to fix a faulty golf cart and the course's entitled regulars impatiently demanding a cart he did not have.
All this, outside in the scorching June heat.
Phillip took a moment for a drink—downing half a bottled water—revealing the soaked pits of his polo.
:Squeal:
The sound of something happening with the golf cart pulled Phillip's attention back. He sat his bottled water on a nearby bench and walked off.
Lisa made her move.
I need to pee.
Lisa handed her club to her father and walked away.
Do you know where it is?
Yeah.
She snatched up the left behind bottled water as she walked by the bench and proceeded to the ladies room.
Alone, Lisa pulled from her back pocket a pocket knife and ziploc sandwich bag. Using the knife she cut the top of the bottle off and carefully placed it in the bag.
:Zip:
The ziploc and knife went back in her pocket, the remaining bottle in the trash.
Lisa returned to her father, played golf for a few hours, returned home.
Once home, she went to her room—walls covered in hearts, bed covered in plush toys, desk piled with novels—opened her closet, pulled the drawstring on her closet light, went inside and closed the door behind her.
She sat on the floor, pushed aside he shoe rack and pulled out the Coma Keeper. The title was no longer legible, blacked out with a permanent marker. Inside the instructions for use had also been redacted.
Lisa reached into her back pocket and took out the knife and ziploc bag containing the top of Phillip Baggio's bottled water.
She unzipped the large pocket in the Coma Keeper, placed the bagged bottle top inside, zipped it up. A symbol materialized in the clear plastic window: a mirrored lowercase y with an arrow pointing down into it.
Lisa drew Phillip Baggio's symbol on a free page of note paper, folded it up, unzipped the mother pocket, placed the page inside, zipped it up. A symbol materialized in the plastic window: a cigarette with an s of smoke.
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