A Second Chance

Pushing

"This! This is not enough mija not enough at all!"

"But it's all I could get!" Mariana said almost pleading as she had come back from selling the few bags of weed Ritz had given her.

"You think I care? Huh? You must have me confused with someone that cares because I don't!"  Grabbing the young girl by her shirt Mariana was terrified to say the least and she was trying hard to get her mother to leave him and had ran off from the latest group home that she was placed in.

"No I just.....

"This ain't how it works! This ain't how my business works. You sell what I give you or you pay. You pay and it comes to me in another way.  A way you might not like to much. But maybe you will since you know looking at you, you got a tight little body." He teased now running his slimy fingers across her face as the young girl look towards her mother who was clearly strung out on the old mattress on the floor. "Ahh see you act like you don't want it. Your junkie ass mother acted like that too until I broke her in. Yeah I broke her in real good." He smirked as Mariana wanted nothing more but to break free from his hold.

"I'm not like that."

"Ahh not now. But you won't have no choice unless you bring me what you owe me mama. You a feisty little one huh?"

Staring him dead in the eyes and trying so hard not to look terrified she was. She was scared for she knew what he was capable of. She knew if he wanted he could rape her right here and now and there would be no one to save her. No one. She knew he could beat her up, kill her and just dump her  wherever he wanted and that was what scared her. That was why she wanted to get her mother out, but it was proving to be more difficult then she realized. Glancing in his hard cold eyes again the smirk remained on her face as he gripped her wrist so tight she could almost scream from the pain.

"Now you listen to me, huh and you listen real good." He began again pulling the pistol out of his pocket and running it along her face. "You gonna go out their like a good girl you are and sell the rest of my shit. Because if you don't, yall come back and your junkie ass mama will be no more. And neither will you. Got me."

"Yes." She said with tears running down her eyes as she could feel the cold barrel of the gun run up and down her face.

"Good. Real good." Leaning in he roughly kissed her face as she wanted so badly to pull way. There was just no way she could sell the rest of this in the time he needed. None but she would have to figure something out even if it was risky. But she had no choice in the matter none at all as she let go of her and she stood frozen from fear. "Luisa, Lynette let's go, you got me money to make!"

As Mariana remained where she was Ritz left the dilapidated home as the young girl looked over to her mother who was now half asleep on the mattress. Walking over to her she looked at Anna's lifeless body that had been overtaken by drugs and Mariana just wanted more then anything to help her. They had talked about it from time to time that she would get better and they would move far away and she would get custody of her again even just last week when she had been clean for a few days. However it really seemed like things were going backwards as she gently rubbed her mothers arm.

"Anna you have to, you have to stop. We need to get out of here."

But it was useless for the woman was going in and out of sleep and the young girl got up to make a bit of food while she still had time before Ritz returned and before she needed to sell the rest of the drugs.

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LENA POV

"Wow some of those kids sound worse then the ones I deal with." Stef laughed as she decided to stay for a bit and we sat together on the patio as she drank another beer and I had a glass of wine. To be honest I was excited to get to know her a little more for I had been so immersed in our conversation that neither of us  noticed any of the other guest. Yes, I could clearly see she was a tad reserved and somewhat closed up but Monte was right in the fact that she was very sweet for she was and very kind.