HER ADDICTIONS

Chapter 5

She felt her fingers go numb as she scrolled through her phone revealing the new message she just received from an unknown number, depicting a photo with handcuffs clipped to the rusty rail of a bed with a whip on one corner of the room. By the side of the bed were photos of girls with bruises and injection marks all over their bodies. Underneath the photo read, 'I'll have you with me one way or another and then you'll be mine forever'. She stared into space wondering who could be so unreasonable to play such a prank on her. For some weeks now, she had been receiving anonymous packages and texts. 'It's probably some teenage boy who has a crush on her and is experiencing puberty changes at an early stage and didn't know how to control his hormones...she always thought. But this particular message gave her goosebumps and got her so scared. She practically had little or no friends who were just more of a bother to her than a solitude. It was now it dawned on her that her ignorant dismissals of some events could probably be connected to all the anonymous messages she's been receiving. The other day, it was a broken window she apparently dismissed as a mischief from kids playing around the block. Another day, she came back from work and realized her door wasn't locked and she blamed herself for being so careless. Oh God! she sighed and dropped her head back against the sofa. She really had enough reasons to be scared now. Could it be one of the men that she's slept with? Well serves her right for sleeping with whatever came her way. Her thoughts were interrupted by a beep from her phone. 'Date with Brandon in two hours' was what the reminder icon popped up. Well some distraction I guess, to take this all out of my mind. She picked up her phone and dialed her dealer's number; I think I'm gonna need a whole lot of coke to keep me calm and sane for this date. It's just gonna be like every other normal day; she convinced herself... except an addition of food, wine, a fine man sitting across the table savoring his meal like he should be savoring me, she smacked her upper lip with her tongue at the thought of his divine mouthful lips and his strong hands. He obviously still had his head in the clouds thinking that there could be any relationship between them apart from sex.
Soon enough, it was 6:00 pm and Brandon stared at the mirror in what seemed to be like the hundredth time. After drowning himself in his Smart's collection cologne, he called out for Mike who just arrived a few minutes ago, to inform him that he was leaving. Mike was his childhood friend who recently had financial issues and couldn't pay the mortgage on his house. So,  Brandon had agreed for him to spend a few weeks in his house till he got back on his feet. Brandon had only a few minutes before the scheduled time to meet up with Marcie. He made a stop by a flower shop to get roses for her before heading towards her house to pick her up.