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"Betty’s a lost cause," Lucinda muttered as she applied decorative to Fiona’s freshly done acrylics "As if that woue in another man’s throat! The day she’s faithful will be the day I join a nunnery"
Other things were said Apparently a Mr Hatchet borrowed ory, in a fit of rage, kicked down Mr Hatchet’s two thousand dollar custoet a hter
Then a Gina Harding was pregnant again with baby nu with baby daddy number two
"What a cum bucket!" Fiona said I idly wondered what that was
Then a Ji to rob the convenience store on Albany road and accidentally locked himself inside
"Double crossed the Black-backed Jackal bikie gang, that idiot They caught it on the surveillance camera too Dumbass crawled under the securitysoot in! He had to wait on the ground beside the register untilHahahaha…"
They weren’t raphic stories followed I learned about the birds and the bees pree woes inhow on earth that could fit in there…
Lucinda gave ave me friendship, and my life became even more extraordinary when ht and didn’t co that ever happened to ed to differ She was in ruins; like a sunken vessel at the botto the pilloith drool and tears Then she went back to alcohol and drank herself to sleep
At twelve, things were a bit different between Jaxon and rade Though we hung out with his friends often, he was preoccupied with girls and other…not so good activities
I’d like to think it was boredo his level of stupidity was stupid in itself He liked the adrenaline and the risk and participated ina purse on the bus one day, to breaking into a house on the sa about having a pocket full of cash He’d sworn h I knehat he did was downright wrong and ," I’d tell hiet caught, you’ll be in serious trouble!"
"I’ht yet! Besides, I don’t steal froet caught, I’h at you and tell you how much I told you so!"
"Good, I hope you do" I hated that he was so nonchalant about it, like he didn’t care at all about getting caught
"You’re so stupid!" and that was usually the last words I’d say before the ht, and after a few years of getting better and better at what he was doing, I stopped that conversation with hi, he even invested in high quality lock picks he bought from a shady man I suspected worked for the bikies and carried therow up I’d always been a watcher of everything around s others didn’t, and it beca frivolous infor on theood sense of hue, and he drove the girls wild He was like his low of the start of a relationship ended faster than a speeding bullet hitting its target
Lucinda had many men in her life, and Jaxon hated every one of them For a kid who I learned never knew his father, he carried that chip on his shoulder and aier at al to work in some stupid job for ten hours a day and earn pennies when I can just find enough money for a week in one day somewhere on this street, Sara" Hewith shoppers
"You know you’re going to be old too one day," I said to hilare at a man in a suit that alked past
"So what?" he rebutted
"So you can’t be staring daggers at every older guy You’re going to be seeing thehed loudly at this "I’ for anyone I work for myself"
"YouJaxon hts He was the only person I was ever entirely open to, and it was pretty much because of the level of comfort we shared with each other It helped I was his closest friend and he wassense into hiheach other every single day, we probably hung out about three nights of the week Other nights he was out and about and stressing Lucinda over the edge I ith her alht there on the couch to coh the door I told her tiain that the toas only serous I kneas telling her a lie, but it cohts I wondered if a police officer would show up at the door and let us know that Jaxon had been arrested for breaking and entering For a reason I tried to suppress, that et one night in particular It was quarter to eleven and Lucinda had long passed out on the couch My fourteen year old self waited outside in the dark streets for any sight of Jaxon
The projects were dead quiet on this particular Wednesday night I walked down the sidewalk until I made it to the small kid’s park at the end of the street It was run-down; the slides had lost its shine, and the paint all around thechipped and rusted froard