Losing His Fix

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Kit's POV

My heart raced as the wind blew through my hair. The wheels of the skateboard made the ride feel smooth and I couldn't help but smile as I thought of the picture of Roland on the underside of the board.

It's been a week since I graduated from camp and it felt so freeing. I was hardly ever in my apartment until it got dark; it felt too nice to be out in public. It's been years since I had been allowed to roam without an adult being present. Town Day had Mary, rehab didn't let us out at all, and the foster family that sent me to rehab had me grounded for months straight because of my behavior at school; this past week didn't have any of that and it was heaven.

Nathan followed beside me on the right with a skateboard he had bought when he still lived with his parents. Anthony was being a nuisance to society by riding on my left and taking up every bit of room on the sidewalk, still a bit clumsy from not riding as recently as the rest of us but managing to keep up. Cody rode behind us, still trying to figure out the mechanics of the new board he had got when he noticed the rest of us already had one and demanded to be a part of the group.

People yelled and cursed at us as we rode through town. We swerved between groups of people, screamed and laughed over the music in our ears and the loud sounds of the city, raced through the busy sidewalks, and were overall horrible people but I didn't care.

We had been out for hours at this point, just riding around and getting used to having freedom again but sweat was starting to pour down our faces and it was quickly becoming dinner times. I sighed as I turned down the sidewalk to lead us home and thankfully no one objected.

"I don't see how you people find this to be fun," Cody groaned as he flopped onto the couch face-first the second we got into the apartment, his board being discarded on the floor without a care in the world.

"No one said you had to come," Anthony said as he picked up the skateboard and leaned it up against the wall with the rest of ours.

"And be here by myself," Cody asked with a scoff. "Absolutely not."

"Then don't complain," Nathen said as he ruffled his hair before moving to the kitchen. "What are we doing for dinner? We have no food here."

"We don't have much money either," Cody said, his face still smooched into the couch cushions. "We could get some cheap takeout but that's about our only option."

"Unless someone's sugar daddy of a boyfriend wants to send us some money real quick," Anthony teased as he put an elbow on my shoulder. I pushed him off with a scoff.

"He's not a personal ATM," I said with a glare. "Besides, he needs to save his money so he's not in the same boat as us when he leaves camp."

"I was just teasing," Anthony said with a frown. "I don't want his money. I didn't think about how that would sound; sorry."

"It's okay, just don't ever say that if I'm ever on the phone with him. He would send his entire profit every time he sold a car if he heard any say we needed extra cash. Besides, I made bank last night in tips, we can afford to order something as long as someone picks it up and we don't have to pay a delivery fee." Thank god for Andrew getting me a decent job. The work itself wasn't hard, it was a high-end restaurant and waiting tables wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. The nightly tips had been a big help with the moving and weekly pay would help keep us afloat until the rest of them got their paychecks.

Andrew had gone above and beyond. He didn't have to but he offered to help my friends get jobs as well, still using places that were owned by alumni from camp. At first, they had refused, saying they didn't want to take spots from kids that would need it and actually went to camp but after several interviews with no luck they caved and Andrew had jobs for all of them the next day.

"Not it," Cody said quickly.

"Not it," Anthony said way too seriously as he put a finger on his nose.

"If I'm paying for it then I'm not getting it," I said as I pulled out the phone from my back pocket and looked up budget-friendly places in the area.

"I guess that just leaves me," Nathan said with a shrug. "I don't mind it, gives me more time outside anymore."