Stand in the Gap for Your Children by Norvel Hayes; Zona Hayes Cornelison

Author:Norvel Hayes; Zona Hayes Cornelison
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Prayer
ISBN: 9780892748860
Publisher: Harrison House
Published: 1982-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

4

Killed by the Devil

The First One to Die:

Joe was an outcast, but he wasn't a wimp, although people called him that and took advantage of him. He dealt drugs in order to be liked, and later, he began to take them himself.

We were good friends—not girlfriend and boyfriend, just good buddies. I took up for Joe all the time. In fact, all my life I have taken up for the "underdog," the person no one else likes or accepts.

Joe would sit with me at the clubs and help me cover the fact that I was pouring my drinks on the floor when no one was looking.

Night clubs are kept dark—demons like dark places— which made it easier for me to hide what I was doing. Even though my friends couldn't believe that I was downing perhaps 15 drinks in an evening, they never caught on to my trick. The owner of the club knew, of course, because every night after we had left he would have to clean up the mess I had made.

The week before Joe's death, he looked at me with tears in his eyes and said, "Zona, I wish I had never given you any 'speed'!"

"Any time you want to give me some, you just go right ahead," I told him. "I can't live without it."

Joe cried and said, "I have done this to you. I have turned you into a 'speed freak.' I'm not going to give you any more."

"What are you talking about?" I answered. "I'm not a freak. I'm having a good time. Give me some more. I need it for tomorrow." I could always talk him into giving me the drugs I wanted. Sometimes, he would even split his drug money with me. Or, if he didn't have any money, I would share with him from the small salary I made at the restaurant.

We had plans to get together the following Friday night. Joe had to work late and then help his mother, but he said he would meet me at the club. That night, I went early to the club, where there was a new band. I later learned that Joe's mother had laid out a brand new shirt and suit that he planned to wear. But when he got home that evening, he decided to lie down for a few minutes.

He tried to call the club and tell me he would be late, but the club owner would not call me to the phone. Meanwhile, I was looking all over the place for Joe. When I called his house, the line was busy.

Somehow, I couldn't have a good time that evening and Joe never showed up.

Early the next morning, when we had planned to have breakfast together, I couldn't eat because Joe was on my mind. I went home and crawled in bed to sleep for a while.

Later that morning, I was awakened by the phone ringing. I was told that that Joe had choked to death on the mucus in his throat, one of the side effects of speed.

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