Cooking with Gas

As the landlady snatched the money from "Brittneys" hand and gave here the receipt and key.As a joke Luc had said when asked her name "oh,Brittney Spears,at which time Mrs.Borokochec without flinching wrote that on the receipt guessing unless Brittney was on a soap(which were playing loudly in the background)Anna Borokochec would never get that joke.
Luc A.K.A Brittney was now officially on her own,and a proud renter of a serious dump.
As she opened the door to her new apartment was so exstatic.The sun was just hitting the crack
in the window just right to form a small rainbow on the wall.
She pulled the single beer she had bought from Akan at the corner market,he and his parents had been in the neighborhood for 15 yrs and seemed to know everyone.She had been in the first time when she just looking at the apartment.
This time when she told them she was now a neighbor,they congradulated her profusely and gave her a small gift basket of food and her bottle of poor mans champain,plus the gum she had come in for.
While she waited for her gifts they gave her a brief history of the neighborhood and some of the people who lived there.
Though it was an obviously a poor community it was very eclectic and artistic sure there were the negitve elements,but according to Mr Kajani they were not bad they just needed to see life from a more positive point of view.Mrs Kajani said "You cross the street if you see those guys ." Now as she observed her home from the perspective of renter she realized ther was lots of work to do.She flipped the lights as the sun was now moving elsewhere.So mrs Brocachec was right the former tenant never had it turned off.As she entered the kitchen she realized it needed serious attention walked to the stove and much to her surprise she turned the knob and the burner lit.
She was sure her parents would eventually forgive her for following her bliss.They were conservative Christian's believed if you weren't a christian you were shall we say less than.Lucs's four years at college had removed the scales from her eyes.
She had come home from college and she realized
how she had changed.She had met people who had many different points of veiw,who were great people.Her parents believed if you weren't a Christian you weren't going to heaven.
This had always bothered her as she was all about the now.If you aren't living each moment to be your best(which is also what her parents taught her)then your not following Jesus example.
So she couldn't worry about going to heaven life was happening right now.
She had gone to college to be a biologist and started helping at a local shelter(basically because she really missed her cat Spike) and it changed her mission,she had decided to become a vet.
That was the first bomb she had dropped on her parents.Not only was she going to have more schooling,but that ment she would be moving farther away.
When she had graduated from college with full honers she recieved a grant to Ventinary College stipulating she would work for two years at a
state run facility that provided animal care.
As suburbia moved out into rural america the wildlife there was being encountered,with usually negative results for the wildlife.
So Luc aka"Brittney"(she was kinda liking the name)started to work at Wild Rescue Center new life was beginning.
She would call her parents and invite them to visit and she figured by the time they said yes,the apartment would be painted and she would have enough furniture to make her parents feel comfortable.
For now the gas was on.