overdose

Chapter I - LA

Chloe POV

     It was my first official day of work in LA. I had just accepted my dream job as an ER nurse in LA's most prestigious hospital. Sadie, my best friend and I moved here from a small town in New Jersey right after graduating from nursing school. We both felt like we needed to get out of there and get the best fresh start we could. We've spent the whole week doing interviews and settling into our new apartment. Thankfully our first days were both on a Friday and we didn't have to work again until Monday, so we had the whole weekend to explore LA.

     I walked into our apartment and threw the keys onto the counter. I let out a sigh of relief knowing the long day was over and I could get out of my scrubs. I called out for Sadie and I heard no response so I assumed she was still at work or on her way back. I decided to hook up to our front speakers which immediately filled our small apartment with music. I hopped right in the shower to rid my body of the smell of the hospital.

    I took my Warm Vanilla Sugar body wash and washed my body from head to toe. I stood directly under the water letting it practically burn my skin as I enjoyed the scent of my favorite body wash. I heard the door of our apartment open meaning Sadie was home. She never minded the music because we roomed together in college and she was used to it. I decided to hurry up because I know she wanted to shower just as bad as I did when I came home.

    I quickly put the shampoo in my long blonde hair rubbing it into my roots before washing it off. I usually use a huge amount of conditioner just because I have a lot of hair that took a lot of heat damage during school. Sadie and I partied a LOT in college. We were out almost every day of the week and blacking out every weekend all while keeping 3.8 GPA's. The thing I miss the most about college was the parties and drinking. We haven't had a night out since we moved and we desperately needed it.

    After I was done my shower I wrapped the cotton towel around my body with a similar mini holding my hair up. I quickly grabbed my phone and left the bathroom making it available to Sadie. I went into my room and threw on some leggings and a t-shirt. I brushed out my hair continuing to rub it with the towel to take most of the water out. I've always let my hair air dry so I just brushed it and let it do its thing.

"Sadie? Are you back?"

"Yeah, I'm back im in my room. Are you done with the shower?

"Yessir, its all yours. Do you want me to go get the stuff for tonight?"

"Yes if you don't mind. I've had a rough day and I want to relax a little before we go out tonight"

"Of course I got you. Text me the addy?"

"Bet"

    I pulled out my phone and saw she sent me the address. I put it in the GPS to check the distance and it was 15 minutes away. Not bad at all we'll definitely end up as regulars with how close they are. Our dealer back home happened to know someone up here that could help us out. The only thing was we didn't know anything about them, not even their name.  It was definitely risking me going by myself, but I wasn't scared, we trusted our dealer.

   I told Sadie was leaving, slipped my flip flops on, and grabbed my keys, walking out the door and locking it behind me. I whipped out my phone to text my dealer back home for the number of the dealer up here. He sent back the number and I clicked it to send a new message.

To: 274-374-2859

Hey, this is Chloe Jake sent me this number about buying.

From: 274-374-2859

Hi. Come whenever. When you get here just come in. 

   I liked the message and sat down in my 2007 Honda Accord. It was beaten up and I hated that I had to drive it around LA with all the nice sports cars. However, nursing school wasn't cheap and I wanted that to be paid off before I even thought about getting a new car. Especially when this one works.

   I turned the ignition and heard the grumbling of the engine. While propping my phone up on the dash,  I started to blare my music through my speakers. I had always loved driving. Blasting your music with your windows down was always relaxing. I hit start on the GPS and carefully pulled out of the parking lot. I pulled out onto the main road and sang along to A Boogie, who was my favorite artist. Before I knew it was at the house and boy was I in shock.

   I pulled into the abnormally long driveway and my eyes were immediately on the white Maserati Ghibli. That's been my dream car since I was 18. It made me check that I was at the right house because i've never seen one in real life before. The house was just as perfect as the car. First off, it was huge. It was probably three times the size of my childhood home. The front was a tan/beige color with many fixations and beautiful glass windows. I wasn't sure how he knew Jake from back home because this lifestyle was foreign to us. My only thought was with all this money he better have the best of the best.

  I put my car in park next to the Maserati. I had kept my distance from it scared of getting nervous and accidentally hitting the beautiful car. I put $100 in my pocket and grabbed my phone leaving my car. I closed the door and locked even though I knew no one around here would possibly want what I had in my car.

  I walked up to the door and reached for the handle. This wasn't my first deal, but this was my first feal where I didn't know what I was in for.

   I slid the door open slowly and peeked my head out. I called out hello to see if I would get any response and I heard a cough to my right.

"Wow, you look even better than he described."

When our eyes meant my jaw almost dropped to the floor.

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Okay, im going to be honest, I know no one is going to read this but I've had this idea for a while, and now that we're quarantined might as well am I right? I'm a very bad writer and I know this but I really want to put something out in the world. Anyway, enjoy if you do read :)