Chapter 1

"Hello?" I called, through the house.

The walls were peeling and yellowed. The hallway carpet was torn and topped off with rubbish from every single fast food joint.

"In here," Jake called out. He's been my dealer for a year and my boyfriend for 8 months.

Stepping over the rubbish and making my way to where Jake had called from, I began to shiver and sweat. It has been 3 days since I'd had my last hit and the pain, sweats and the shivers weren't the worst of it. Wrapping my arms around me, I continued down the hall. I turned into the lounge room and found Jake and a few of his mates, sitting on a couch.

"Back for more, huh?" Jake chuckled. "See, what I tell ya-"he said to his mates, gesturing towards me, "They always come back for more." He got up and walked towards me.

I stepped through the doorway and stopped in front of him, pulling money out of my jeans back pocket. "Here," I spoke, handing it to him, looking around.

"Where's the rest? You owe me $25 from last time." He spoke looking over at his mates, who stood up walking towards us.

"I-I-I don't have it, yet. Please can I just have the stuff, I promise I'll get you the rest of the money. I'll give you double," I asked, stepping back.

"What do you say boys? Should we let my sweet Anna pay later or make her pay now?" He grinned, his mates moving forward.

"No, please?" I pleaded, moving further away from them.

He back handed me then grabbed a fist full of my black mid back length hair. "Aaargh," I groaned in pain.

"Boys," he spoke, nodding towards me.

They ran at me, two of them grabbing my arms, and the other lifting me up by my feet, Jake letting go.

"No! Let me go!" I screamed, thrashing.

They threw me onto a bed, holding me down, Pining my arms and legs.

"I think this is the perfect way to pay me back, Anna. Don't you?" He grinned, unzipping his jeans.

"No! Jake, please? No!" I cried.

"Let her go," spoke a woman's voice to the left of us.

"Who the hell are you?" Jake asked him and his boys stopping where they were.

They let go of me and I sat up, scrambling to hold myself up against the back board, trying to get away from them with tears streaming down my cheeks. His boys pulled out hand guns from the back of their jeans, pointing them at the woman.

"You guys seem quite smart. So, I'm just wondering why you'd do something as stupid as to point guns at me," she spoke, walking towards them, her high heeled boots clicking against the floor boards.

"I'd say you were the stupid one. Walking into the home of four grown men" he snickered, walking closer to her, putting his hands on her waist.

She leant into him, with a smile, putting her lips to his ear, "Nope. You're still the stupid one."

She grabbed his right arm and twisted it up behind his back. "Still think you can beat me?"

"Hahaha," he laughed, his Boy's ready. "Shoot her."

She drew her gun out and had shot Jakes boys before they could even blink. Two of them fell to the ground and the other fell over me, his gun still in his hand,

"Aargh," I screamed, trying to push him off of me, kicking him. I was crying hysterically, drawing in quick, sharp breaths.

I looked up just in time to see the woman push Jake away from her. He turned around, pointing a gun at her, but again she was too quick. A bullet went straight through his head and he fell to the ground. I looked over at him, blood quickly pooling around his body. The woman didn't say anything; she just put her gun away and walked over to the door. I looked down at the gun, sitting beside me. Picking it up, not sure on how I was supposed to hold it, placing my finger on the trigger, aiming it at the woman and pulling it back.

"BANG!"

"Whoa." The woman turned with her hands up, moving slowly towards me. "Easy."

"BANG!"

She jumped onto the bed, slapped the gun out my hands and punched me in the face.