Uncontrolled Chaos by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-07-31T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three

Ryan

Tony Rivers was barely sixteen years old when he died. He'd been kicked out of his parent's house for having a boyfriend and was on the streets nine months before he found the shelter. I met him the day after he arrived, when he was still distrustful of anyone offering help without asking for anything in exchange.

After three months, Tony was just starting to decompress and make friends with the other kids at the shelter. When I last saw him, he was eating spaghetti and laughing with his friends in the cafeteria. One week later and he's laid out in the morgue, cold and alone.

The day after he dies, my friends and I find ourselves sat up at The Refuge’s bar listening to Ben tell us what little he knows about the drug that killed Tony.

“People are calling it ‘Epic’, because that’s how the drug makes you feel. Invincible. Incredible. Like you can be and do anything. Supposed to make you faster and stronger and smarter.” Ben’s voice is laced with bitterness. “The rush is meant to be insane and lasts for ages. More addictive than heroin, apparently.”

Ben admits he doesn’t know much else. Can’t even confirm who’s selling it.

I slap a bag partially filled with blue powder down on the bar in front of Ben. "It has to be coming from the Winters."

Before the paramedics arrived to take him away, I searched Tony's pockets and found a coke bag, except the powder inside it was blue rather than white. I hid the bag of powder from the police when they showed up to question everyone. Milo and I stuck to the usual procedure of telling them fuck-all.

We can't rely on the police to help us with this. Most of them are on the Winters family payroll and even those who aren't I wouldn't trust. I've spent too much of my life viewing the police as the enemy to ever put my faith in them.

Besides, I don't need anyone to tell me who these drugs came from. All drug and weapons trade goes through the Winters. No way something new gets sold in Danger without their approval.

"But the Winters family don't sell to kids," Milo points out, looking beyond tired. He didn't sleep at all last night, which is fair, because neither did I. We lay facing one another for hours, silent and too angry to mourn. "It's their one decent rule. Has been for fucking decades."

"Yeah." Ben picks up the bag of blue powder and scowls at it like he’s expecting contrition. "But ever since Paul Winters took over, things have been different. It wouldn't be the biggest surprise if he got rid of the 'no selling to kids' rule."

Milo blows out a loud huff of air. "True." He's sat up on the stool next to me, arms crossed and resting on the bar.

"We need to get the name of who sold this shit to Tony." I cast a furious glare at the small bag of powder Ben is still holding.

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