Chapter 1
I was walking up the stairs to my apartment in downtown Riverside. It was a hot day, like always. "It's like we live in a desert" I think to myself every time a walk up the stairs to my apartment. But I always say to myself after I think that, "Hunter, I'm afraid it's always been that way." I'm sorry not to introduce myself, my name is Hunter, Hunter Baile. I am a 21 year old American teenage girl who can't afford Starbucks. I live with my 23 year old sister Dylan. She is my only family that I have. She is practically my care taker. She works at a pizza place called Domino's. Pretty sure you know that place. I mean who wouldn't it's the worst pizza in the history of pizza. But somebody has to pay the 200 dollars every month. We live in this hot old apartment that only has 2 beds and a old box of dominos pizza that my sister gets for free. We live on pizza and our apartment pool. Sorry back to the story. I unlocked the door and there it was. The gray rat name Vespucci that comes in every day to eat his daily dose of dominos cheese. Then the door knocked. The little gray mouse named Vespucci ran under the fridge scared as can be. I opened the door. " Hey, brought pizza." said the girl in the dominos hat. Aka Dylan. " Not again!" I yelled in my head. "We have been eating pizza for the last 2 years" I said to my sister. "It's all we can afford Hunter." Said my sister hesitantly. "Why did you hesitate to say that." I replied. " I didn't." She hesitated to say it again. " Stop lying to me, what are you hiding." "That's none of your business." She said in a rude manner. I walked away silently. Three hours past and my sister was about to leave to go to the bar for a quick drink. " Bye, see you at 12." Is said quietly. " Listen Hunter, I'm sorry about today. I'm sorry about being rude to you I didn't mean it." "Yah whatever, let's drop it." I said with a sigh. Dylan shut the door quietly. I ran to her bed because that's really the only thing that is hers. I looked under the mattress to find anything that had to do with money. There was nothing. And then I went into the bathroom to wash my face with our dollar soap from cvs. " Shit!!!" I stubbed my toe on the bathroom tile that has been pulled from the floor, thanks to my toe. Then I went down to look at it and then I saw it. The huge stash of weed hidden under that tile.
