After school finishes I dawdle home, feeling the smooth surface of the fifty that Charlie gave me. 'Why did he do that?' I kept thinking to myself throughout the coarse of the day. 'Does he really think I need it? I love my shitty old shoes'.
I turn the corner to go towards my house and change my mind, turning the opposite direction. I'm gonna go buy some new shoes.
Fifteen minutes later I receive a slight shock as I walk into the cold air of the shopping centre and I make a beeline for my favorite store to buy everything. Jay Jay's. I walk into the door I see the friendly smile of K, the clerk at jay Jay's. "Well well well, if it isn't Rachel. I haven't seen you around here for a couple of weeks. What ya lookin for?"
"Sup K, I'm looking for a pair of new shoes" I say, smiling. God he is cute.
"What?!? You never buy new shoes! Are you feeling ok?" He asks, a dramatic tone rising in his voice.
" your a dickhead" I tell him as I walk away and crouch down to look at the section with the shoes. " anything new?" I yell over my shoulder and jump slightly as I realize K is right behind me.
"What ya lookin at is what we got"
"Fair enough." I scan through the shoes and can't find anything that interests me, until I see a glint of shiny red behind a pile of adventure time high tops. I push some out of the way until I feel the smooth leathery material and get stabbed by a zipper.
"Fuck" I mutter and pull my hand out to inspect the damage done. No blood. Good. I reach back in and pull the shoes out and gasp. They are gorgeous. Darker than blood red leather, ankle high, with a slight heel and a zipper with a pointed end extending up the side of the boot.
"Yo, K" I almost screech across the store and hold up the shoes. "How much?"
He glances over. "Fifty".
Awesome! I quickly pay for the shoes and almost run home.
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"BBBBRRRIIINNNGGG BBBBRRRRRIIINNNGGG" I wake to the obnoxious ringing of my phone right in my ear. I roll over and lazily grab at my phone.
"Hhhmmpphh??" I answer the phone.
"Rachel?"
"Yeaarrgghh?" I reply sleepily "who's dis?"
"Rachel its Charlie"
"What the fuck?" I say shocked, fully awake now. "How the fuck did you get my number? We met once!"
"Umm... It was written In the boys bathroom... I guess by the dumb fuck jocks. Sorry"
"What the fuck do you want?" I grunt at him and close my eyes.
"I need your help" he sounded slightly scared.
I open my eyes and sit up." Where are you?"
"Macmorney street. Three over from school. Please hurry"
I hang up and pull on my jeans, a jumper and my trench coat. I look at my shitty old shoes and my brand new ones. I choose my new ones and start running out of the house. Before I can unlock the door, my brother, that was sleeping on the lounge sat up.
"Where the fucking hell are you going Rachel?"
"Piss off Danny, I'm going to help a friend."
"You don't have any friends mutt face."
I sigh and leave and before I can close the door I hear Danny snoring again.
I start walking towards the direction of the school, looking at the street signs for Macmorney street. I can see it up ahead when the toe of my boot catches something solid but squishy and I land flat on my face. "MOTHERFUCKER!" I scream as I roll over on the concrete and I see an old lady across the street look out her window. I stand and wipe at my slightly bloody nose and notice that I tripped on a dead animal of some sort, it was too mangled and fucked up to tell what it is. I continue walking and turn the corner at the street I need. I see a figure up ahead, and assuming it's Charlie I jog slightly until I reach the figure. Then I see the goo. I almost fluorescent green goo. Just like Charlie's eyes.
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I tear my eyes away from the curious goo and stare at the person next to me, and realize it's not Charlie, it's a woman. She's staring at the goo with a creepily distant look in her eyes.
"Hello child" her voice startles me. It was like honey coated razor blades.
" da fuck are you?"
" does it matter?"
"What is that?" I say pointing to the goo "An overpassing alien take a shit?"
"Well aren't you fuckin sassy?"
"Yeah, so? Now are you going to answer my question or do I have to punch you in the fuckin head?" I look away from her for a second as something moves just on the corner of my eye, and when I look back she's gone. I turn my attention back to the movements in the corner of my eye and see nothing. Weird. My attention goes back to the suspiciously mysterious goo. Crouching down next to it I become aware of the pungent smell that fills the air. 'Huh' I think to myself. 'Oh well. I'm going home'. I stand once again and start walking towards home. I be careful to step over that mangled animal and slam the door on my way back inside.
"Fucking move gronk" I mutter as I kick my brothers legs out of the way and sit on the lounge with a plonk. "Danny you gronk where's the remote?" I say as I slap him across the head.
"Fuck off you bitch" Danny says sleepily as he rolls over and let's out a long, sloppy fart.
"Your fucking gross, now where is the remote? I wanna watch the damn tv!"
"Here" he throws it at me, narrowly missing my face. I stand and grab the remote, walk to the other side of the lounge and use all my strength to tip the lounge over and laugh as he smacks his head on the ground.
"Ha! Serves you right! Why aren't you sleeping in your own bed?"
He groans and sits up, giving me the death stare. "Cause there's a chick in there who has her heart set in cuddling all night and it's fucking annoying."
"God Danny, who is she?"
"Dunno. Some chick from The Alley. I need to stop going to that nightclub man. It's driving me nuts the chicks there."
"Your an idiot. Wanna watch tv with me?"
Danny opens his mouth to reply but we are interrupted by the soft steps and small voice of the girl "Danny? Why are you out here?"
He looks at me with a slightly worried look on his face. I can tell he forgot her name. I mouth 'want me to get rid of her?' And he winks. I stand and look at the girl, my face full of rage.
"WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?"
She shrivels against the wall, clutching her sheet to her breasts. "I'm Danny's friend" she mumbles.
"LIKE FUCK YOU ARE! WHO IS THIS SKANK DANNY?GET YOUR SHIT AND GO DARLIN!" I push her towards the bedroom door and when I'm sure she's out of ear shot I turn and smile at Danny.
"All good now?" I ask him with a smirk still on my face.
He nods appreciatively and turns on the tv, the channel instantly falling on the news.
"Breaking news, there has been a toxic waste spillage on Macmorney street, by a hallucinative drug addict. We have had reports that she is extremely dangerous and if she has been seen please contact the police immediately on 000." Danny and I both stare at the tv screen, dumbfounded. A picture of the woman I saw earlier materializes on the screen.
"I saw her when I went out before, Danny" I tell him, still staring at the screen, my expression blank.
" well fuck Rachel, you need to call the cops and tell them. Wait.... Fuck don't tell me that you saw the toxic waste. That shit can fucking kill you."
