Until finally he called my cell phone later in the afternoon, relief swept through the thin walls and trying to find the unit number was difficult over me when I heard his voice on the other end. “Thank God you cailed, from the sporadic flickering of the fluorescent lights above me. I have been so worried about you, are you alright?” I jumped in without At last I found Ritchie’s one, quite astonished with myself that I even letting him get past saying “Hello”. “Yeah, I’m fine. Ritchie told me you made it this far. I had to knock loudly on the door a few times before a called his house looking for me yesterday and gave me shit for it saying young girl answered the door with eyeliner bleeding down from her eyes, you were upset or something, what’s up?” I knew I would have to be her jet black hair was strung out and a mess and she looked off her face delicate about asking what happened to Adam, thinking he’d be a mess on some hard drug. She had only her bra and a short skirt on to cover her over it. “T heard from Marcus that something happened to Adam and I got private areas and a cigarette hung out of her mouth to complete the full worried about you, what is going on?” T.J sounded scared, for what picture of terrible state she was in. She looked me down with contempt reasons were beyond my knowledge but I was going to find out, he and snubbed at me “What do you want?” I maintained my politeness and replied ‘“‘ 1 don’t want to talk about it over the phone. Are you in town so told her T.J was expecting me. She opened the door and walked away, we can meet up or something?” It was obvious | wanted him to know that leaving me by myself to venture through looking for T.J. I was more than willing to lend my shoulder for his problems. “I’m home Passing through the kitchen it looked like a hospital lab with syringes on now if you want to come over whenever you feel like it.” He didn’t the counter tops and medicine containers lying around everywhere. hesitate in taking me up on