***** Chapter 1: Becky *****
***** Finders Keepers *****
Rebekah Hawkins didn't know where she was. She looked at the sleeping form next to her, and didn't know who she was with.
"Great." She thought sarcastically, "I hope I can get dressed and get out of here before they wake up."
This wasn't the first time Becky had woken in a strange apartment next to a mystery person. It was probably somewhere around the 4th or 5th time this had happened. To be fair, it was the first time this year. But it was only January 12th.
Becky looked around for her clothes. The search took awhile, it was almost like playing one of those hidden object games you can get for free on the app store. There was junk literally everywhere: Empty beer bottles and cans, pizza boxes, clothes, video game cases, drugs....
"This is drunk me's fault for apparently sleeping with a hoarder." Becks thought to herself. "Hungover me is too tired to be mad at drunk me though."
Over the next 10 minutes she found most of her belongings, picking through the mess in the single-room apartment until she managed to hunt down a wayward piece of clothing. She found her panties on a blade of the ceiling fan, slowly spinning in the air above her while she searched. She stood on the edge of the bed and tried to reach up for them, but she still couldn't. So she pulled the little cord to increase the fan speed, and they went flying.
She also found some goodies, including a pack of smokes, a lighter, a twenty dollar bill, and a bag of THC gummies that looked fresh and delicious. None of it was actually her's, but finders keepers.
She chewed on one of the gummies and decided to give up the search for her missing bra and left sock. She still needed her coat and phone, but she spotted the latter hanging from a rack by the front door. Searching the coat pocket, she quickly found her phone. It was nestled right next to a small round device.
"An airtag, maybe?" Becks wondered. "Where did I steal this from?"
With a sigh of resignation that she'd never find her missing bra, she pulled a clean looking man's sock from a dresser and put it on before pulling her shoes on.
Becks briefly wondered if the sock and bra had fallen for each other and taken the opportunity to run away together.
"Or they ran away from my dumpster fire of a life..."
The gummy was already kicking in, but her stomach was starting to feel like it had a few objections to how much she had to drank last night. Just as she was turning the front door handle her stomache lurched, and she ran for a door that she hoped had a bathroom in it. Finding the toilet with no time to spare, she threw up everything she had consumed over the last 20 hours. Feeling dizzy, she steadied herself for a minute before making her way to a sink. She found a half tube of cheap toothpaste, which she used to wash her mouth several times. She rinsed off her face, gazing in the mirror as she did.
Becky Hawkins was an 18 year old girl. She was 5'1, very curvy, with black hair that reached halfway down her back and pretty brown eyes that looked like they were always relaxed and ready to have fun. She was very attractive, and she was very aware of it. As were most boys. And many girls.
She carried a couple extra pounds. Part of it was her lifestyle - lots of alcohol and fast food. But she had a high metabolism, and pretty much ate what she wanted without gaining too much weight. Some of her extra weight came from her exceptionally large breasts, which were huge for her size. And although they were very perky and shapely, she found them to be a pain in the butt at times.
But they were also something that boys were hyperaware of, and she liked to use that to her advantage whenever she could. Just casually bouncing her tits in front of a boy could often get her whatever she wanted or needed from him. The boob bounce, as she liked to call it in her head, had worked on more than a few girls as well. It was how she had first gotten her current girlfriend's attention.
Becks looked in the mirror a moment longer, wishing that her eyes didn't have bags under them. She also briefly wondered how she ended up short with black hair and giant tits, when her mom and sister were tall, blond and athletic.
"Missing sister." Becks thought. "Abby left 3 years ago...I have no idea what she looks like now."
Becky rubbed the back of her neck, something she always unconsciously did when she thought about her sister. She let out a sad sigh, pushing the thoughts away, and glanced at the shower. She should use it, but it looked filthy and she wanted to get out of there.
Instead, Becks pulled out her cell and looked at it. "Awesome." She thought, "2% battery." She opened her message app and saw that her girlfriend, Beth, had blown up her phone with messages. She looked at the first unread one.
"I saw you leave with Trevor last night, cheating bitch. We're done."
Was Trevor the guy in the bed...? Curious, she lifted the blanket from the sleeping form and saw a man in his mid-20s. He began snoring when Becks pulled the blanket back, as if that was his way of saying "good morning!" He was kind of cute, but that mustache was terrible. It fluttered a little as he snored.
A wave of sadness briefly ran through Becky's mind. She had only been seeing Beth for 3 months, and they decided to make it more official and be exclusive only a week ago, during Becks 18 birthday party. She had been super happy about it at the time. She remembered quietly promising herself that she wouldn't mess things up with Beth no matter what. That she was an adult now, and she'd have an adult relationship.
"I'm like a tornado promising to not destroy any barns." She thought resignedly.
She sighed and headed for the front door. As she opened it, Maybe-His-Name-Is-Trevor woke up long enough to half-burp, half yell an incoherent farewell.
"ByyBuurpYyeee!!"
Then he covered his head with the blanket and most likely passed out.
Becky closed her eyes, praying for strength from whichever gods or devils might be listening, and left the apartment. She quickly figured out that she was on the 2nd floor of the building, so while climbing the stairs down she decided to rexamine her life choices.
Life choice 1: She had turned 18 a week ago, and decided to get as drunk as possible at her birthday party to celebrate her entrance into adulthood.
Life choice 2: She had turned 18 a week ago, and decided to spend every waking moment since then to get drunk, do drugs, and have sex, to celebrate her entrance into adulthood.
Becky sighed again. In a rare moment of self examination, she understood that she had actually been partying too much for years. She started when she was around 13. She dropped out of school at 16, not long after Abby had left or disappeared or whatever, and had been partying almost every moment since. So 5 years of partying total, but 2 years of heavy partying, if her math was right. Which it might not be. She didn't know, she was a dropout.
Becky desperately needed to change things. She wanted to... She always wanted to. But she didn't know how. She didn't know if there was a point. Her mom barely talked to her since Abby left, and really her mom barely talked to her when Abby was still around. Her dad had run off a couple of years ago. All of her friends were burnouts, just like she was. And it didn't help that Becky liked partying. She knew it was ruining her life though, and she didn't know what to do.
"That's enough self reflection for today!" She thought, as she opened the front door of the building and stepped outside.
It was snowing. Snow wasn't unusual for January, but Becky wasn't expecting it. Everything was covered with at least a foot of heavy snow, and it was cold out. It took her a minute to figure out where she was, and she cursed when the realization hit.
"Fuck."
She was on the south side of the city. She knew because she had bought drugs from this neighborhood before, basically right across the street, in fact. It was one of the worst areas of town.
"So I have like a 60% chance of getting murdered" she thought, then decided not to think about what else could happen. She wished she had a car. Her mom, in her infinite wisdom, had taken it away until she "shaped up'. Then she gave it to one of Becky's cousins 2 days later. Which she could do, because it wasn't technically Becks' car. It was Abby's old car, and she wasn't fond of it anyway. It sometimes brought back memories of her long abscent sister.
She didn't understand why she kept thinking about her sister today. Like she didn't have enough problems. She lit a cigarette from the pack she had pilfered earlier and browsed through the contacts on her phone. Who would be willing to pick her up and maybe let her crash for a day or two...?
"Ohhh, Kevin!" she said aloud, "You just broke up with your girlfriend a week ago!"
She started a text. "Hiya sexy, we should chill. Whatcha doin today?"
As she was about to hit send, the phone screen went black.
"Fuck!' Becks proclaimed loudly, 'Fuck, fuck, FUUUCK!!"
She briefly thought about returning to Maybe-Trevor's apartment, but she didn't think she could deal with a lovesick guy who she already regretted having a one night stand with. She'd have to talk a store cashier into letting her use the phone. Or let the boob bounce talk them into it... Maybe she could even get a free Uber ride from a cashier if she gave them her number in exchange. That would be better than the alternative.