A Christmas Wish

Chapter Three - The Ghost Of The Present

Piper led Lorna through the halls of the Maximum security prison until they reached a large cell block. Lorna's eyes immediately began to dart around looking for Nicky. When she couldn't find her she looked over to Piper.

"Where is she?" she questioned, desperately. She didn't know how much she needed to see Nicky until she was stood in the same prison that she was in.

"Look in the corner," replied Piper, in the same tone that Alex had.

Lorna did as she was told and soon enough, she spotted Nicky, sat on a table in the corner of the cell block, on her own. Her wild her looked a little wilder, and her slim body looked a little too slim. She rushed over to Nicky, and sat down opposite her. Nicky was picking around some kind of slop that looked worse than what they served then back in minimum. 

"Nicky, hey," she spoke, softly.

"She can't hear you," Piper said, appearing from out of nowhere.

"I know," Lorna replied. "I just wanted to try to console her, she looks so broken."

"But she's a Junkie, Addict, Liar."

Lorna looked up in shock upon hearing such cold words come from Piper's mouth.

"How could you say something like that?"

"I didn't."

"What do you mean you didn't. I saw it come from your mouth." Lorna couldn't believe that Piper was denying it.

"I mean those words have come from your mouth."

"What?" Lorna still had no idea as what Piper was talking about and she was beginning to get frustrated.

"That's what you called her isn't it? A Junkie, Addict, Liar."

Of course she had. She remembered it now. It was the first time that Nicky had accused Cristopher to not being her fiancé. As soon as those words came out of her mouth, she saw the hurt in Nicky's face. She regretted it instantly.

"Nichols, cleaning duty," shouted a guard. Nicky dumped her un-eaten slop and followed the guard. She have her a cleaning cart before she began to wonder down the drab corridors.

xoxoxo

"I'm here about the thing," Nicky said to a female prison guard.

Lorna looked over at Piper confused, but she just signalled for Lorna to continue watching.

"Do you understand the payment?" the guard questioned. Nicky nodded, reluctantly. The guard began to walk over to a cupboard with Nicky a few steps behind.

The guard let Nicky into the cupboard before entering herself. Lorna and Piper also squeezed into the tight space before the guard shut it again.

She reached into her pocket and pulled out a small plastic bag filled with a white substance. Lorna gasped, finally understood what was going on and she couldn't believe it.

The guard waved the small back in front of Nicky and as Nicky reached for it, the guard pulled it back away.

"Payment first," she growled, putting the bag back into her pocket. She began to unbuckle her belt and pulled down her trousers. Nicky looked unsure. The guard placed a firm hand on the top of Nicky's head and pushed her down.

xoxoxo

Nicky made her way into her cell with the Heroin stuffed in her bra. The cell door was locked behind her and Lorna noticed how cold it was in there.

Nicky slid into the bottom bed. He roommate was screaming in her sleep. Nicky rolled over on her side and pulled the bag from her bra. She rolled it around her fingers before licking her lips and looking at it longingly.

Lorna began to beg Nicky not to take it, even though she knew she couldn't hear her. She watched as Nicky snorted the drug and her heart broke. If only she had shown her the same amount of love that Nicky did to her, she would never of relapsed. Nicky finally looked relaxed, and at ease.

"Please, please, Piper stop. I can't see anymore."

"But isn't it what Junkie, Addict, Liars do?"

"Stop calling her that!" Lorna shouted.

"Those are your words, not mine."

"Please show me something happier."

"Her life isn't happy," replied a different voice. Lorna looked round and instead of Piper, Red was standing there.