Homeless by Ms. Michel Moore

Author:Ms. Michel Moore
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2016-04-21T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

Sunday morning, Lonnie woke up violently throwing up all the food he’d eaten yesterday. Bent over the couch, he didn’t have enough energy to get up and run to the bathroom because of the sleeping pill, so he allowed his stomach to be emptied until he began dry heaving and overheating. That’s when he fought against the sudden sickness, and slid off the couch to crawl to the bathroom. He was too light-headed to walk.

Lonnie stayed in the bathroom for about an hour trying to get himself together. With a cold towel on his neck, trying to bring down his spiked temperature, the young pill-addicted teen was trying not to pass out and die in the bathroom. It wouldn’t have been any better even if someone, like maybe the friend he once considered Kevin to be before he strangely disappeared, was here to help him. Or maybe even Trina. An absolute stranger would’ve been better than having no one at all, even under the circumstances. The oval-shaped pill he got off the street last night had him going through some wicked side effects. His body was whopping its own. Lonnie was gonna have to live that struggle all on its own until the pill worked its way out of his system. It hadn’t helped that he’d downed a cheap beer at the exact time of consuming the pill. All Lonnie could think about though, was getting his hands on another pill to help with the hell he was going through on that particular one.

Grabbing the toilet, he threw up all the water he’d been drinking from the bathroom sink faucet. In science class, he’d learned that if you are sick and to the point of throwing up stomach lining, that drinking water will give your body the fluid it needs to wash the stomach out, so to speak. He remembered the professor’s lesson as he repeated the process until his stomach finally settled.

Out of the bathroom and feeble, Lonnie couldn’t rest before cleaning up his vomit. He did so, found his couch cushions, and then grabbed a granola bar that was stuffed into the food box from the shelter to put something healthy in his stomach. Lying flat on his back on the dirty mattress, Lonnie didn’t have the energy, nor did he care about, putting the sheets back onto the bed. All he could think about was feeling better so he could hit the streets to ask a few old women coming from church for some spare change.

Not able to doze off because he was busy running back and forth to the bathroom, Lonnie finally was able to drag himself to get dressed. He was determined not to miss the after church rush. Rushing out of his apartment, he almost slipped down the stairs to the first floor, but caught himself and was out the door only breaking a bead of sweat.

Lonnie couldn’t believe the person he’d become. Although he wasn’t addicted to hard-core drugs, he was still addicted to pills.

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