3. CHAPTER: A new life
"No AJ" John Rahway said in the phone "it will be to obvious"
"But it's the only way" the man on the other side said.
"Looks like you'll need to come up with another plan" John was getting annoyed "Look, call G or Jake. I don't know who. I don't have time for this I have to do something"
"Ooooo, looks like our John is back in the game" the man on the other side laugh "just make sure you don't lose too much energy for it. You're going to need it for tomorrow. See you man" the pone went black.
"Idiot" John said to the phone. Just the right time. He thought when he saw a middle age woman with blond hair, carrying a black and green bag. She was followed by a teenager girl with a brown messy hair and swallowed eyes.
"Mrs. Simpson!" he called "Grace!"
Both of them suddenly turn their heads when they heard their names. Mr. Simpson grabbed Grace for her hand and almost run to John.
"Hi my name is Candace Simpson" she moved her right hand toward a blond guy.
"I'm John Rahway" the man took the offering hand.
"This is Grace" Mrs. Simpson showed on her.
"Hey little sis!" John mess up her hair. Like it wasn't already messy.
"Hey" She was little shy.
"Looks like my work hire is done" Mrs. Simpson said to both of them. "I'll be heading home with the next plain. You can call me any day, any time" she smile and once more shook hands with John. "Good bye" after that she turned around and got lost in the crowd.
"Com on sis" John laid his right hand on her right shoulder. "Let me help you with that" he took both of Graces bags and carried them in one hand. "I guess you have a lot of questions for me" he smiled when he looked at her. "But we can talk in the car. I'm in a little hurry. I have some undone businesses to do." He leaded her to the airport parking lot and to a really funny car.
"That's your car?" Grace couldn't help herself but laugh.
"Yea, you have a problem with it missy" John looked at her with a smile in his eyes "you have any idea how many hookers I caught with it"
"No and I don't even want to know"
"Your choice" he put her bags in the trunk and opened the passenger door for her.
She didn't say a word when she got in the car. John went to the drivers side of the car and got in. he took car keys from his pocket and started the engine.
It was true that she had tons of questions. But didn't have enough confident. She was scared if she'll ask him the question he won't like it he'll get mad. And some one being mad on her was last thing she needed.
John was her big brother, but at this moment he was like a stranger. I really need to find a dealer in this city. And fast. It's good to have some pills at least. And hell she was right.
"Why are you so quiet?" John had enough of silence "Don't you have any questions?"
She look at him "Yes, but I don't fell ready to ask you them" that was a truth. She didn't want to lie to him. The guilt of lying to her parents was killing her. And she wasn't able to hide it any more. So the tears were back. She didn't wan her brother to see them so she just looked away.
The phone in Johns pocket ring. John looked at the caller ID. "Damn it, why don't you listen to some music? Do you see the MP3 player on back seat?" he wasn't bother by ringing phone.
Grace understood that he doesn't want her to hear the conversation. "Yea, sure" she took MP3 player and played the first song that was on. "I didn't thing you listen to Nickelback"
"I'm full of surprises" he took the phone to his ear and answered the call.
"That better be important" he said little angry
"It is. Gordon wants you to pick up some things" Aj said confident. He wasn't scared of John.
"You got to be kidding me"
"Hey man you at least didn't need to be awake all night and work. But I bet you did. Who it was this time? Molly? Jane? Am I close? Or it was some one new?"
"It was Siena. Look if it's so important for me to pick up that stuff I'll be there for five minutes"
"Ok man, five minutes" Aj hang off.
"Grace" john said loudly. But she still couldn't hear him. He took Mp3 from her hands.
"What was that for?" she was really surprised when the MP3 was suddenly gone from her hands.
"I need to pick up some stuff" the car was suddenly going faster.
"Why are you telling me this?"
"I don't know I thought you would like to know"
"Dad just to drink a lot and mum was always afraid that he'll come home drunk. He never fell like telling her when he's coming home drunk. So she was concerned for him every night."
"I didn't know dad was drinking."
"Really?"
"He didn't drink when I was living with him"
"Why did you even left?"
"I don't want to talk about this"
John car was now heading to the richer part of New York. Grace couldn't help herself. She was staring at the million dollars houses and apartments.
"Uau, this got to be expensive"
John couldn't help but smile at the way she said that.
"What's so funny?"
"Nothing, I just remember something"
"What did you remember that's so funny?"
"I told Siena to come tonight"
"Who's Siena? Your wife?"
"Do I look so old to have a wife? No, she isn't. She's just a friend."
"You know, that friend part sounds funny" they both laugh.
John parked his car on the driveway of really beautiful house. "You want to come with me?"
"Yea sure" it wasn't important how beautiful the house was. Its driveway was scary. The trees on the side were like the Jurassic park and in the middle of them there were even a green eyes looking from the dark. Grace wasn't sure that they were cat eyes.
She almost ran to John.
"Scared of the dark?" John was having fun.
"Kind of" she looked at the floor.
"So you sleep with night light?"
"No way" she laughed. "Yesterday I watched the Jurassic park. Yesterday...mum and dad were still…alive" tears were back and this time she couldn't look away from John. He already noticed.
"Com hire" he hugged her for more than 5 minutes. "Every thing is going to be Ok. We'll get thru this together"
It was first time for a really long time that Grace felled like worth living.
"John not hire, you have your house and your driveway. Do it there." Grace and John both looked at the tattoo covered guy. "Isn't she little young?" he laughter.
"Grace, this is Aj. Aj this is Grace." John introduced them.
"Nice to met you" Grace looked at the blond man.
"Don't be shy. You're John sister you are the part of the family." He took a cigarette out of his pocket and lightened it.
Grace couldn't help herself, but breathing deeper and trying to get more and more cigarette smoke in her. She wasn't far from taking the cigarette from Aj hand no meter if John could see.
"Want one?" Aj asked John and showed him the box of the cigarettes.
"No, thanks"
"How about you?" he asked Grace.
Damn it. She thought. She would love it. But not hire with John. Damn, damn, damn!
"She doesn't smoke" John answered instead of her.
"Are you sure?" Aj asked John. He saw the way she was looking at the cigarettes and how deep she was breathing.
"Yes, she's just 15"
"I was 12 when I started" Aj smiled at Grace.
"Do you smoke Grace?" John looked his sister.
That was too much for her. She could fell the pills in her pocket. "Can I use the toilet?" She looked at Aj.
"On the right hall third door on the left" he smiled at her. He didn't know why did she need to use the toilet, but something was telling him that she isn't going to do something legal.
Grace went in to the house. When she was sure they couldn't saw her she started to run. Ajs house was enormous. It seemed like it passed the eternity before she got to the third door.
When she got in she locked the door and looked at the person in the mirror. She was looking at some one familiar, but she still couldn't recognize herself in it. She took the pills from her pocked and looked at them. They were like the little lights in the dark. They were the only key she had to the world without pain. She took just the half. She didn't want John to be suspicious and she also needed some of them for later. She wasn't sure if it will be lot better. But she was sure it will be better and that was enough, for now.
She drank some water after swallowing the pills she waned to make them to start working fast as possible. She didn't want to be suspicious so she waited a little and just enough long for the pills to started working. She could fell the sadness disappearing.
She looked at the mirror again. This time she saw herself just the way she was before the nightmare. She was smiling. It was like sadness left the world and there was nothing to worry about.
She unlocked the door and went outside. The dark suddenly didn't look so scary. It wasn't important if John figures out about drugs and cigarettes. The world was so beautiful. It wasn't the same like H, but it was better than nothing.
"Ready to go?" John asked Grace when he saw her.
"Yes" she looked at John carrying two boxes that looked really heavy "can I help you with that?"
"No, I'm ok"
"You're choice" Grace sat on the passenger seat and watched John and Aj putting suspicious boxes in the trunk. "How much hors power does this car have?" she looked at John "something is telling me that it doesn't have enough"
"Ha ha ha, really funny Grace if it won't have enough power you're staying here with Aj till the morning when I'll come and pick you up"
"Hey, why make me a babysitter?" Aj looked at John.
"Why not?" Grace looked at him.
John sat in the car. "Ok than, 22.00 tomorrow at the club"
"Ok man, see you and Grace it was nice meting you" he smiled at her with his devil smile. He got a ton of hookers with it.