I woke up in front of a motel, what happened to me last night?
"Heyyy tig-" I interrupted the girl who surprised me by jumping from behind the back seat.
"Who the hell are you!?" I yelled at her.
"Boy, don't you remember? We hooked up last night. You got wasted. I'm surprised you're alive."
She was maybe 20 and her make up was smeared her lip stick had been wiped completely off. She had dark brown curls covering her cleavage, she was half naked in my car. My head was throbbing and I felt sick.
"We clicked really quick, you told me about the girl who you loved, the one who shot your ex.. Honestly she's crazy, where do you guys find these girls?" I looked away from her, I needed to get out. I stepped out of the car, the sun hit my face with its warmth. Where was I?
"Ay, hun, what are we gonna do now?"
We? There is no we? "I don't know you.." I told her pulling all the beer bottles from my car. There were a few roaches which from my guess where hers. There was a few pills and a needle. I looked away and tried to remember.
"Um yes you do, we had sex last night. You promised to take me away from this hell hole. I left my boyfriend for you." She looked at me with a faceless expression. She was being serious.
"I don't even know your name. I don't know where I am, and I have no idea what I did last night. Look I'm just gonna go home, forget this even happened." She began to cry.
"You promised me Vic, you told me we'd get out of here and you would take me with you, you really don't remember?" She grabbed her shirt and pulled it on, she stepped out of the car. I should have known, this was all too good to be true." She wiped her eyes and pulled her hair in a bun, she looked like Carolyn.
"Carolyn!" I blurted out. I remembered what happened the day before, what the nurse had told me.
"Yea, that's the girl who got shot... Your ex." She said grabbing her purse from the passenger seat.
"Look, if I promised you to get you out of town, ill get you out of here, but you can't stay with me, you'll have to go your own way..." I didn't know what I was getting into. I really didnt know.
She directed me the way back to Terrance which was 4 hours away. She told me about herself and how her boyfriend forced her to get a job as a prostitute. I guessed that that was how we met.
"So Jasmine, what did I tell you?" I was curious about how much of myself I had told her.
" pft... Vic you told me basically everything. How you left Carolyn because she didnt want you, we'll you know sexually, and that you had a thing with Rebbecca that she found out about, you also told me that you fell for Rebbecca. Which I honestly doubt."
"Why do you doubt that?" I said.
"Because the way you talked about Carolyn, the way you described her to me... Only someone who's in love talks that way.." She said smiling out of the window.
"We'll, if I did love her and if she would have loved me back, she would have accepted me." She turned her attention on me. She rolled her eyes.
"What?" I asked.
"You men, is that all you want?" She turned away again. I wanted to say no, that I knew better, but I remembered the ways of my father. He always told me that that's the way you prove your love.
"Vic, she loved you. And you hurt her. You broke her heart, but by doing that, you hurt yourself more. You made up a lie to yourself about Rebbecca, you think you love her but that's because you're denying your love for Carolyn."
I felt like everything she was saying was true. But I myself didn't know how I honestly felt.
"Even If I did. She's dead. And it's too late for me to apologize." I said.
We reached Terrence and on my way to the gas station, I saw Piper.
I pulled up next to her, she looked like a zombie, her eyes had dark circles and her hair was flat against her face. She noticed me and jumped in her car, but before she could pull out I jumped behind the car. She stated at me through the mirror inside the car. She had sadness and hate in her eyes.
"Move you moron!" She yelled from inside her car. Jasmine came out of my car.
"Vic! What are you doing!?" She said staring at me.
"Piper. Piper please we need to talk."
"No Vic. Get out of my way. Now" she said. I held my ground. I needed answers and she was the only one who knew them. She turned off her car and stepped out. I moved from the back and walked to her.
"What!? What the hell do you want?" She said pushing me from getting any closer, she was wearing all black and I noticed she had flowers in the back of her drivers seat.
"Carolyn... How is sh-" she blurted out her answer before I could even finish my sentence. Her words hit me like a bullet to the heart.
"She's dead."
