Formation of Corruption

Ch 3 (Mini Chapter)

Mia and Joslyn were sitting on the torn up couch as they ate the pancakes. Joslyn had taken off her jacket and thrown it over the arm rest of the couch. The two were talking about what was going on.
"So, Roy is trying to track you down as we speak?"

"Yes, he is. But don't worry, I deactivated the phone he bought me so he can't find me that easily. I have walkie talkies upstairs." She pointed up to make her statement clear. "What if they do find us. What do we do?"
   "We kill ourselves." She says casually, making Mia very uneasy. "I know it sounds bad, but those guys are gunna try to do horrible things to us that I'm sure you won't like. Dying quickly is better than dying slowly."
  She did make a point, but the thought of killing herself just made Mia scared. She looked across the couch at the blonde woman and notices her posture for the first time.
   She seemed broken in a sense. She was hunched over, her legs apart slightly and adding to strangeness. No lady would sit with her legs open, even with pants on. Mia begins to think that Joslyn had never been in a civil area before.
  "Joslyn, where did you live before you joined that gang?" Mia asked, not thinking much before.
  Joslyn paused a moment before looking up, "I lived with my parents and my brother. I was, like, 13 or something like that when I joined the gang. Roy was still just a kid like me and we would hang out n' shit. When we turned seventeen, he asked me out." Joslyn shrugged and got up to set down her empty plate on the side table beside the couch.
Mia was in shock. 13 years old, she thought, when you joined a gang? That must've been terrible for the parents.
"What did you're parents say to you about it?"
"Oh, they were both really bad towards me and my brother. They would fight a lot, not pay attention to us, and even try to get physical with us." Joslyn told this story like it was no big deal. "It's over now, though, and that all that I think matters."