TheJunkiesFaust#11(FTDParish) TheUntitledSeriesNowTitled

We went to the Grand Canyon, Vegas, saw a Gwar show at the Speedway Cafe in Salt Lake City. We camped on mountains and rode a street car in San Fransisco.

I wanted to stay in Northern Califonia then. I liked the atmosphere and the nature. Some big ass trees....old, in Northern California. And I thought maybe the unease that had been building the last coupla days, the almost imperceptible pressure behind the eyes that I'd felt when I thought about LA, maybe it would get better with a stay in the Bay area and points north.

Dirt and Maya wouldn't hear of it. They argued that it would be fall soon and LA was 70' and sunny year round. It was more exciting there. Why I never could get them to explain to me, but they thought so, and I was with them. So, we eventually ended up in LA.

By now we were almost broke. We'd spent all the money we'd saved to get an apartment and live til we got jobs. We had enough left for a cheap motel room for about a week. A coupla bottles of tequila and a coupla burgers.

Just like every time we ran out, Maya left to go flash her tatoos around and see who saluted. I still wasn't pressuring Maya about the coke. I was liking it too much. All I could do basically, all over the West.........for free. Too good to be true.

We'd been smoking it since Salt Lake. Breaking it down and rockin it back up. Then packing it in a pyrex tube and using a butane lighter, we'd smoke it.

Maya'd been gone awhile. I was really wantin that pipe.

But Maya didn't come back with coke this time. This time she walked into the room, neon flashing behind her and tossed me the bag. I caught it. It felt too powdery. I looked at it. It looked like coke........ But somethin was wrong.

Maya threw herself down on the bed, exhaling sharply. She whined(a little theatrically I thought), "Couldn't get coke here tonight, so I got us some H", she said glancing at me out of the corner of her eye. Gauging me. Seeing how I was gonna react....................I freaked.

"Are you fuckin nuts!" I yelled, " Fucking Heroin Maya? Fucking Heroin? Really?"

Dirt freaked back. Jumping up, he screamed, "Don't you yell at her you fuckin prick. Stay off her ass. She's just tryin to help."

I yelled back, "You're gonna fuckin do it ain't ya?"

"Betchyer fuckin ass I am. And you will too. You need somethin as bad as us. You've smoked all the free fuckin coke she's brought, never bitchin about that, now you're gonna freak the fuck out cause she can't get you FREE fucking coke this time. Just FREE fuckin H. Shut the fuck up and do it," Dirt let me have it. I kinda deserved it, but H.............

I looked at him through my anger..........fuckin mutiny. He peered back, Maya looking on concerned.....real concern.

I put on my shoes and left. They could do what the fuck ever they wanted, I wasn't gonna get on the Hare-ON. Fuck no.

I talked the clerk into a half priced room since we'd aleady paid for a week and he had empty rooms. Half price better than no price. Right boss?

I crashed.