EPOV
I had been on the Phoenix police force for about two years now. Being 26 years old and having everything you ever really wanted was amazing. Life was going well for me. The only responsibilities that I had were to keep my bills pay and go to work. I had only myself to take care of and it was great, but sometimes I felt that there was something missing. Every day of work, I went out on patrol, reported back to the station and went to an empty home at night. I was never one to dream about having a family but every day I went home I wanted someone to share my work stories with, my adventures. Yeah I dated a few time, but I learned that a lot women thought it would be cool to date a police officer and they never really wanted anything serious. I think I began to think about a family because my mother was pushing. After work every night I would get a call from Esmé, wanting to know when was I going to give her grandchildren. She would even say she didn't care if they were born "out-of-wedlock." "That had to wait" is what I would tell her "I had the people of Phoenix to protect."
That's exactly what I did. I had been doing patrol in the low-income areas of Camelback village. I would park where I couldn't be seen in a parking lot to just watch the surroundings. I had a feeling that a big time drug dealer known as Aro had business going in this area. If I brought him in or any of his gang, it would hinder his control over this area. I believe if we could get Aro off the street, a lot of girl in this area would stop run away from home as well as coming up missing. The department knows where Aro lives but we didn't have enough evidence to get a warrant. The detectives had followed this guy's trail for a year now and we weren't any closer than we were in the beginning to getting him locked behind bars in that whole year. I was not giving up. I want to get this guy so bad, I began to feel like it was my job personally to get it done.
One night I happened to be in my normal spot in the empty lot. I had been sitting there for about an hour and a half, when I spotted a girl. She was about 5 foot 4, with long, dark brown, curly hair. She seemed scared. I could since it because she was looking around all nervous like, as if someone was after her. Something was drawing me to her but I couldn't bring myself to act on that feeling just yet. Out of my peripheral I notice a man walk up to her. That caused a pain in the pit of my stomach, but I watch as she placed something in his hand and he gave her something in return. Was this beautiful girl making a drug deal?
BPOV
I just graduated from Camelback High, and I wanted to start college in the fall. My mother had passed away a few months before and there was no money left for me after the funeral. I had been living with my friend Zaphrina and her mother to finish off the school year. I had no responsibilities, because Ms. Ellison, Zaphrina's mom wouldn't let me pay anything even though she didn't have much either. Even though I had no responsibilities, life was getting worst for me. At this point of my life, I always dreamed that my mom would be there for me. When my mom and dad got a divorce, she became my rock. We moved into a low-income neighborhood in Camelback, Phoenix, Arizona. This was the lowest of the low, but this is what she could afford without having Charlie my father to support us. When my dad left it hit us hard. He moved to Forks, Washington with the women that he had cheated on my mother with and we hadn't seen or heard from him since. I don't even think he knows she's dead. That's why I had to resort to living with a friend because I had no family that I knew of.
The way things were going for me now, I could only hope that I would find a way to get out of this town and achieve my goal. Which was to one day become a nurse. I had to find a way and I did. I had heard around the neighborhood that a lot of girls were selling drugs for some guy name Aro and that they made fast money to pay their way through school. That was pretty much his punch line. I went to him and he ask me what did I want to do with my life. I told him, and he feed me this story about how he could help me achieve what I wanted and I believed him. He was so convincing.
That night I went on my first sell, and I was scared a hell but I had to do it. I couldn't think of any other reason not to. It wasn't that I was that type of girl. I was actually really sheltered. I was 5 foot 4 white girl live in a predominately black neighborhood were there was shootings and gang violence, but that meant nothing. What I was doing was not my thing and my mom must be turning over in her grave if she knew what I was doing. I went to the lot that was a ways up the street from Aro's apartment and I stood and waited for a customer that he said would meet me there. Was I really about to do this? Could I really do this? I don't know, but I really was going to try.