Addicted Like Me by Karen Franklin

Author:Karen Franklin
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Seal Press
Published: 2010-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

FROM BAD TO WORSE

UPON ARRIVING IN ARIZONA, I moved in with my godmother, Mary, while my mother handled the move and looked for a house to buy. I was not opposed to this because my godmother was very lenient concerning what I did, where I went, and what time I returned home. Her big mistake was to have trusted me. After I moved in I completely took advantage of the fact that she gave me plenty of freedom to do as I wished. She wanted to believe so badly that I was a good kid. I wanted to believe that, too, but I wasn’t ready to make that step. I called her nephew, Steve, who had been my best friend since the age of three. As soon as I met up with him, my life became a 24-7 party because he was using and had an entire circle of friends and family that also used. We grew up together but had still kept in touch when I lived in Colorado. We would chat here and there on the phone about the types of drugs we had experimented with. It was only natural that I contact him as soon as I got to Arizona because he offered me friendship I didn’t have anywhere else right after the move and shared a lifestyle in which it wasn’t a problem to make addiction the most important thing.

At first he would sneak us his mother’s alcohol by pouring it into closed containers so that no one would be the wiser that he was stealing it. We would sit in his room getting drunk on that and smoking weed. Many nights I would be too drunk to go home, so I would just call Mary and let her know I would be staying the night at her nephew’s house. It was the perfect situation to party all night long and have absolutely no consequences except a hangover. Quickly, I became very happy in this situation because I was able to stay intoxicated around the clock and couldn’t feel much else besides the high. I bragged to Ryan about it. I told my brother he was missing out on so much because he had chosen to live with our dad, way out in Cottonwood. I may not have landed at Mary’s without Ryan living with my dad instead of my mom. She desperately wanted us both away from the drugs in Colorado, so she had let him go as soon as he wanted to leave for Cottonwood. I ended up at Mary’s house because my mom had to finish up her last week of work and wanted me out of Colorado, too. Ryan would come down to Phoenix for weekend visits. When he did we headed over to Steve’s house to party, so Ryan could see what I had been telling him. He couldn’t believe we were able to party, right there in the house, with Steve’s mother home and just down the hall.

Steve lived in a family of people who partied.

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