She called Billy
on his pager. Pagers were already old-school back then but Billy didn’t trust
cell phones or land-lines. Before he called back, Adriane’s mind was made up.
She wasn’t all that sure whether her mind had anything to do with it but just
the thought of fixing awoke the hunger. Those vodka hangovers were getting
worse and she needed something that could get her through the day. Letting go
of resistance is a relief of sorts… Billy could fix that…
The hunger grows.
That is what it does. It has a mind of its own and she was… her dreams… her
hopes fade to black… black tar consumes what is left of them. It becomes what
she was… a junkie… a tar baby. Adriane knew; so many times she’d gotten clean.
Life began to look good again… the scars on her hips ankles hands and arms
started to fade… but somehow that wasn’t ever good enough. There was this
appetite that couldn’t be quenched. She often heard people say that all that
was needed would be a good job, some meaning and purpose to a junkie’s life… a
Hollywood love-life… a spiritual awakening… It didn’t matter to her… even God
can’t do enough for anyone to relieve this craving. What is that? Where does a
junkie go from where she dwells? She’d tried it all. One rehab after another...
one spiritual path after another… anything to take away this craving…. What could
she do but surrender to it?
She told herself,
“I will just do muscle-pops from now on. I’m not putting tar into my veins. It
isn’t as quick but it does the job and I don’t have to fumble around, probing
for a vein that isn’t collapsed. I just put that spike in my butt and act as
though everything is just fine. No tracks to hide; no long sleeved shirts; no
rush either but that’s okay. No one can tell I am a junkie unless they get my
pants off. Who is going to get that far with me unless they know already what I
am about?”
Billy talked about
old times and eventually they went to bed. After she got what she wanted she
was done, she pushed him off… off and away, “You have to go now, Billy.”
“But, Adriane,
why?”
“Because, I have
other things to do,” she was transfixed on the tin foil that opened up showing
the gooey tar. That alone was on her mind. She just wanted to have sex after
they’d hit-up and Billy was compliant. He left the house disappointed because
she wouldn’t let him stay. It is always that way with sex. She wanted the
fuckers to go away no matter how close they’d been. After all, she paid for the shit with cash
and not her body. Sure, she had sex with him, and that was for herself, but
after that she wanted nothing more but to get with it on her own.
She hit up again;
heroin came on to her at the cellular level. It didn’t talk to her brain… it
talked to her body… relaxed the muscles… it hummed through the blood stream… a
gentle orgasm… “Here I am, dear one… you have been waiting so long for this… I
am here.”
And her body answered …. “Aaaah.”
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