My Last Hope Chapter Two
Last year…
Mina was no saint.
As she walked through the streets of Brookings, Oregon dressed in a pair of tight jeans and shirt that rose up, showing her flat midriff. The look in her eyes as she stepped into the smoky home was a look of anticipation. When a girl goes so long without her fix, she just kinda needs it.
Mina needed it.
The guys all seemed to stare at her as she made her way through the crowd. Her hair was bright red, the color she had decided on to draw more attention on herself. She looked through the crowd. The attention was nice, but Mina only wanted one man. As she made her way through the house the door with the Alien posted on it, she knocked three times. The door opened and a skinny man with greasy white-blonde hair nodded at her and she followed him in.
She sat down on the couch, and lying on the table were three needles.
"Is this the new stuff?" Mina asked, eyeing the needles. The man just nodded as he searched through the room for a belt. Once he was able to find it, he handed it to Mina, and she pulled a few bills out of her wallet, and laid them on the table. She then slid her sleeve up, revealed the round marks on the inside of her elbow from all the other times she had done this.
She wrapped the belt tightly around her upper arm and let the blonde man do his job, and give her a fix. Her pupils dilated, her mind in another place, she leaned back, she could feel heaven flowing through her veins. If her mother knew it'd be the ultimate shame… But right now it just felt so damn good.
Present Day…
Her sleeve slid up just a little bit as she sat in the passenger seat of Spencer Carlin's car. A few red marks, the scars of her past were revealed for a brief second. She thought she saw Spencer notice by the look on the blondes face, yet Spencer said nothing.
Spencer started the car, just as her phone began to ring, the polyphonic music stopping when she flipped the phone open and held it to her ear. Mina took the opportunity to study Spencer a bit. The girl had a soft face, her eyes were a beautiful shade of blue and her teeth were perfect. Mina ran her tongue over her own teeth and flinched at the crooked ones. Spencer closed the phone, and turned to Mina.
"I'm sorry, but I have to go meet my friend Ashley, would you like to come?" she asked. Mina nodded. She enjoyed escaping out into the world, something she rarely did since coming to LA, she could be going to meet Satan, but she didn't care, just as long as she was out for a bit.
Mina and Spencer drove for several minutes, before Spencer made a right hand turn down what appeared to be a new road that wound around, but the longer she remained on the road, Mina was able to see a large home coming into view, with an ornate white fountain out front.
Spencer shut off the car and got out, with Mina following behind her. Mina was in awe inside of the home. She had spent most of her life living in a small apartment or townhouse with her two siblings and her Mother, this was crazy big, the biggest house she had ever seen. They made their way up a flight of stairs that seemed to go on forever.
Once at the top they made their way down the hall and turned inside of a huge room, with a gigantic bed, and clothes flying through the air. Spencer knocked on the wall and poked her head inside of the room.
"Hello? Anybody home?" Spencer called out.
"Yes!" a voice yelled from deep inside of a closet, where articles of clothing were flying out of. Following after a pair of jeans from a brand more expensive than Mina's whole entire wardrobe, was a brunette girl dressed in a pair of tiny, denim shorts and a tanktop. This, Mina deduced, was Ashley.
"Who's the new girl?" Ashley asked, eyeing Mina.
"This is Mina, she's a new friend of mine," Spencer said, waving her arms as though she were presenting Mina to Ashley.
"Nice to meet you," Mina smiled shyly.
"I'm sure," Ashley said, looking perturbed. Spencer and Ashley seemed to have tension between them, and Mina's presence only escalated it. "Anyway, I was wondering if you could run a box down to my new apartment?"
"Sure," Spencer said, as Ashley pointed to a box on the follower. Spencer followed he direction of Ashley's finger and grabbed the box. Once she carried it in her arms, she informed Ashley she and Mina were leaving.
"Oh, all right," Ashley said, sounding slightly upset at this news.
Once back in the car Mina turned to Spencer.
"What's with her?" Mina didn't appreciate having an unwarranted bad attitude directed at her, and this Ashley girl had done just that.
"She's been like that since we broke up," Spencer said, with a hint of pity injected into her words. Just enough to register in Mina's ears.
"Broke up?" Mina asked. Was Spencer gay?
"Yeah," Spencer said, looking in the rear view mirror as she backed the car up, "Sorry if you find that horrible or something."
Mina just shook her head. What room do I have to question someones lifestyle? she thought.
