Gazing at the faint sunlight trying to penetrate its way into the darkness of Kevin's flophouse through the stained shades covering every visible window, I had already accepted that Amber and I were going to miss class that day. I joined Amber on the couch after she'd passed out following being shot up with heroin and double-penetrated the previous afternoon. I held her close all night as she drifted in and out of consciousness, unable to stem the rapid thoughts racing through my mind of all the wonderful things that lie ahead of us.
I decided that we would need more guidance from Kevin before Amber ventured into the world of daily Heroin addiction alone, so staying the night would be our best bet. I began to feel Amber stir slightly and knew what was about to come next. Anticipating her needs I grabbed the pack of Newport 100's out of her purse on the table and handed them to her, as well as the yellow bic that started it all. She took the cigarettes but not the lighter and instead placed the cork-tipped filter between her lips and then peered up at me from her place laying on my chest. She squinted at me through bloodshot eyes and pursed her lips out, obviously wanting me to light her up. I obliged and flicked the lighter to life, inching the flame towards the end of the first of what would be countless cigarettes that day. Amber pursed her lips ever tighter, guiding the tip of her full-flavored menthol into the flame, needing only one strong puff to get it lit.
She then rested her head again on my chest and with her free right hand extracted the freshly-lit Newport from her mouth after a monstrous couple of hands-free drags. I watched from my perfect angle as thick smoke poured from her mouth and nose lazily, also enjoying the feeling of her smokey breath gliding across my bare chest. Amber took another triple-pump, storing each successive drag in her lungs without exhaling, before again extracting the cigarette and making a loud 'pop' and resulting 'whoosh' of snapping the smoke down into her lungs followed by a vacuum-like inhalation. She waited a few moments, letting the tar and nicotine saturate every cell of her ever-blackening lungs before audibly dispelling the smoke into the air around us.
"Where's Kevin?" She croaked weakly, the previous day's deepthroating and torrid smoking clearly impacting her tenor.
"I think he's in his room, I haven't seen him since yesterda-"
"You guys talking about me?" Came a more-jovial-than-usual Kevin from behind the couch.
He walked around, making himself visible to us and looked down at our nestling, intertwined bodies and made a mocking face.
"You two lovebirds are soooo cute." He exclaimed in sarcastic glee.
"I want more." Came the direct reply from the angel laying on my chest and chaining her way through her cigarette with impressive voracity.
"Right to business, eh?" Kevin responded with what looked to be a bit of admiration.
I smiled at the thought that Kevin was being impressed by just how resilient my tiny, and only-recently-introduced-to-substances high-school girlfriend was to the life of a hard-living junkie whore.
"That's my Amber." I beamed while running my fingers through her hair softly.
"Ok, well sure. But now that I've given you a taste, I'm gonna need to see some scratch." Was Kevin's response.
It took me a few moments to realize he was referring to money and I reached down into the jeans that were sprawled on the floor and fished the wallet out of my back pocket. I revealed a healthy wad of $20's and Kevin's face seem to light-up in a way that would only look right on a drug-dealer.
"So.. you obviously came prepared." retorted Kevin as he walked back down the hall with a bit of a hop to his step.
A loud sniffing sound caught my attention as I realized Amber had leaned out from the couch and was snorting every granule of the white powder that had been been on the mirror on the table when we'd first arrived. I watched in awe as she held one finger up to her nose and pressed one nostril closed while mashing her face against the mirror, sucking up any trace of what I could only assume was cocaine without so much as a straw to assist her. I continued watching and marveling at the tenacity with which she went after any stray powder and knew that my erection would be hard to ignore. Finally, satisfied that she had gotten it all she pulled back and wiped her nose and looked at me with a mischievous grin. I smiled back proudly, enjoying the sight of splotches of white powder covering parts of her nose, cheeks, and chin. She looked like a total fiend, and I loved it.
"That'll cost ya, girl." Came a voice from behind us.