by M. O’Keefe
“Let’s get you to the hospital,” Simon said.
“You…you don’t have to come…with…me,” I said.
“Yeah, because you can do it on your own?” he asked.
I couldn’t. But Simon didn’t make me say it. He just got me to the hospital.
I had two broken ribs. A broken nose and a concussion.
The hospital called the police, and about three hours after I got there, my parole officer showed up. The minute he left the room to make some calls, we got the fuck out of there.
It was Simon’s idea to pocket as many samples of high-level Oxy as we could shove in our pockets, which he promptly sold on the street so we could rent a room in a shitty hotel in the heart of the Tenderloin.
We lived low to the ground. Under the radar of cops and the social workers who would be looking for us. The newspaper said that the pastor died of a heart attack. His wife was moved to a mental hospital. The congregation disbanded.
Simon couldn’t claim the check for college he’d been counting on because he ran away. To get it he’d have had to go back into the system, and he had no time for that. He got his GED, applied for a shit ton of scholarships, and fuck if he didn’t get a free ride to UCLA.
I got a job working construction and did my very best not to care. Like I’d used it all up in St. Joke’s. Not giving a shit was a thing I perfected.
We didn’t hear from Carissa. Not for years.
Rosa finally turned up, but it wasn’t good.
And Beth…Beth just vanished.
Until it came time to pay the debt.
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