it was two or three days before shera could find a gun.-she had made discreet inquiries and when she mentioned it to her sister , lonnsie , she had said her husband , nerrill had a nine millimeter that he kept locked up in the glove box in his car.- that night pablo and shera had put their clothes and toiletries and some food and drinks into sheras blue pt cruiser and drove over to nerrills house.-the night was rainy and miserable but it suited their purpose pretty well.-there should be fewer people out on a night like this , they thought.-they waited until there were no lights on in the house and then pablo sneaked into the car and with the screw driver he had brought from sheras house , he pried open the glove box and took out the gun and a whole box of ammunition.-putting it under his coat , he hurried back to where shera was waiting in her car and they took off for the seven eleven on main street.-once again shera waited in the car as pablo made a dash for the convenience store.- mindy thompson was scared within an inch of her life.-she had always hated storms and then when she was thirteen , a tornado had followed on the heels of a particularly obnoxious lightning storm and had actually picked up the almost hysterical girl and set her down again , unharmed , but literally scared almost to death.-she did n't like working the night shift by herself anyway , but she needed the work and at twenty-four everybody expected her to have outgrown all her little-girl fears.-but she hadn't.-she was sticking it out , though , in spite of her chattering teeth and wobbly knees .