TheJunkiesFaust#12(FTDParish)

So, three weeks later I was working construction. Nothing fancy, just house remodeling and whatnot. I carried shingles or two by fours or stripped out old plumbing, seperating the copper out and throwing the rest away. I swept and shoveled and ripped out old plaster and pushed a broom alot. It was hard work, but it paid well. We'd found an apartment and bought some used furniture from a second hand store.............

Dirt and Maya were firing by now. Started off, Maya said we'd just snort it, wasn't addictive that way.....right. So now they were firing....main line injecting heroin. It never costed me anything and they didn't eat much. They'd run out and Maya would leave for awhile after I got home from work. While Dirt paced around scratching his arms and whining, wanting her to hurry back, I'd use that time to try and talk Dirt into laying off, getting well and finding a job, but he just wanted Maya........and the smack. She'd come back a coupla hours later with a bag.

The last time Maya said she'd been invited to an underground party and she'd talked them into letting Dirt and I come. I wasn't sold on the party. Here Maya was disappearing all over the western U.S. and coming back with seemingly free drugs. How the fuck was she doing that? And what kinda people were we gonna be partying with?

Of course Dirt was all about it. He was already junked and he was very much interested in how Maya was scoring all the free shit. You know, just in case anything ever happened to her, he'd have to know where to get it.

No matter how much I argued, Dirt was adamant. I could stay home by myself if I wanted....or I could go out with them......maybe try to find a girlie to bring home........I hadn't fucked Maya since that first time she brought the smack home. I'd never even gone out since I started work. I didn't have much extra money since I was payin all the bills and I didn't like leavin Dirt alone with Maya any more than I had to. I felt responsib;e for the dick head.

Lately I'd been suspicious of Maya......I know, I know, but while it was coke............well, I like coke. Sure it was weird, but the whole fuckin thing was weird. So now, here we were, Dirt and me....and Maya. Like I said, I felt responsible for Dirt, and I didn't know how to get us outta this. I agreed to go to the party. I wanted to keep an eye on everything. And if I had a chance, I'd lose that fuckin bitch.