Twelve by Nick McDonell

Author:Nick McDonell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd

Chapter Forty-Nine

WHITE MIKE IS beeped again right after Molly leaves. He knew it was coming. He has an ounce to sell to some kid up on Eighty-eighth Street and East End Avenue. He doesn’t feel like going out this early, but it’s a whole ounce, and shit, you know.

He takes a cab up there, does the deal, and decides to walk back down to another beep on Seventieth Street. As he is passing Seventy-seventh Street on York Avenue, he sees a construction site fenced off by yellow tape. There are no workers around, though. No tools, no trucks, nothing. In fact, there is nobody around.

White Mike walks into the site. There is tape tied to sharp iron poles surrounding a hole with a ladder going down into it. The hole is well lit and looks dry. White Mike finishes his examination of the hole and goes to continue on his way, but his backpack catches on one of the poles and rips. The bottom opens up, and the ounce of weed, in a plastic bag at the bottom of his backpack, falls out and slides into the hole.

“Shit.” How weird is this.

White Mike looks around and, seeing no authority figures, ducks the tape and climbs down the ladder. A strong smell hits him as he descends, some mixture of sulfur and damp concrete. The hole is not as dry nor as bright as it looked from above. A couple feet away from the ladder on either side, in fact, it is dark enough so that White Mike is forced to bend down and search for the ounce with his fingers. There is steam coming from the walls, and it is humid like the streets in summer.

In the darkness, as he searches, a rat scurries away, bumping his foot. This scares him, but then he feels his heel on the Baggie and picks it up and climbs quickly back up the ladder.

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