Her Sinners (Somerville #1)

Chapter 3

STEVIE'S POV

True to my word, the next following day I do as my mother says, I go look for a job.

I shuffle along main street where rows of little businesses line the strip side by side.

I let out a deep breath as I looked down at my feet while I walk along the side walk singing quietly to myself, "Step on the crack you break your mother's back, step on a line you break your father's spine."

Who ever made that nursery rhyme up was a real morbid individual.

I look up towards the sky. It's painfully sunny today. Not a cloud in sight. It beats down hard on the concrete side walk.

You can see the heat waves in the distance as it fries metal cars parked parallel to the road.

North Carolina not quite getting the memo summer is over.

It's mid September but warm days could last to late October in the south.

I feel sweat drip at the back of my neck as I fan my face. I need to hurry up before I get heat stroke.

I look around at the little town of Agusto, North Carolina. It is tiny in comparison to some places in North Carolina.

We only have about 2,600 people in total, who reside here. So businesses only needed one long stretch of road in the middle of town to obtain customers.

Agusto is a up and coming town, fairly new. Once upon of time it was apart of the town about 15 minutes right outside, called Somerville.

The town Somerville is still there. I have never been. Never really needed too.

But I heard a few adults say it was nothing to write home about. Filled with druggies, delinquents and sinners or so they say.

About thirty years ago a developer came through and bought half of the town. Slapped up expensive looking condos doubling the price of a one bedroom, way more then the price of the land the condos were built on, and then a nice looking casino.

The one thing the rich like to do is gamble.

Then bam Agusto was established the new place for the elites of North Carolina to reside.

Before any one knew it, the richest of the rich bought land, building houses, malls, schools, playgrounds. Anything that was needed to make it a new town was done.

The only thing that the people of Somerville were probably not expecting was the huge gate that was built around the community.

To ensure that the quaint little community of Agusto stayed safe from any hoodlums.

As if the town right outside the gates wasn't still apart of our little catholic town.

Trying to erase any evidence that the socialites of this fine establishment would dare be caught associating with the likes of trash.

Rolling my eyes at the privilege of the rich.

Just because someone was born without the best options surrounded them, does not mean they are nothing more then a bunch of thugs.

Fucking rich people. Always thinking somehow they are the center of the world.

Girl you are rich. Shut up.

I shake head away from thoughts as I make my way farther into town. I had a destination to get too.

Making my way past captins dock. Where all the fisherman dock their boats. I wave to Sal as unetts a fishing net. Sal was a saqautch of a man with a wide body and a long beard and a good friend too my dad.