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Teenage chatter broke through the trees, and we stepped into the flood of sunlight. There weren't a lot of kids there today. It was only Thursday. Come Friday or Saturday, the place would be crawling with half of the student body. But, like most nights, I just needed somewhere tohangfor a while before heading back to the apartment, and other than Billy’s house, this was the only place to go.
“Hey, look, it's Levi,” Billy said, dropping his bike at the edge of The Pit.
I left mine beside his. “Yeah, so?”
“Got any money?”
I couldn't help but laugh at that. I hardly ever had money. “I spent all of my money on lunch.”
“Okay”—he shrugged and dug out a ten-dollar bill from his pocket—“no biggie.”
I followed Billy to where Levi—a guy too old to be hanging out with us—stood with his arm around a hot blonde girl I didn't recognize. The guy was nineteen, six years older than me, and I stood eye-level with him.
Gramma had always said I was big for my age. Or maybe it was just that everyone else was small.
“Hey, Levi,” Billy said, talking to him like they werepalsbut I knew better. “Do you have any of those … you know …”
Levi looked me over, his gaze meeting mine with a hardened edge I didn’t understand. What was his problem? I barely knew him, and we never spoke, so I couldn’t figure out why the hell he’d be looking at me like he couldn’t trust me. But then, he pulled his eyes away from me to give the girl a kiss on the temple. She didn’t seem to notice though. Her gaze was on me, just as his had been, but hers lacked the judgmenthisheld. Instead, she looked hungry as she bit her lip.
I didn't think I liked it, but then again … I found I maybe liked it a lot.
She raked her eyes over me as she asked, “What’s your name?”
I watched Billy hand his ten dollars over to Levi with a heavy dose of confusion as I replied, “Uh … Soldier.”
She laughed like she thought I was kidding. “No. Are you serious?”
That was when I decided I didn’t like her at all as I glowered at her and her sarcastic grin. “Yeah. Why?”
“Just making sure.”
She looked over me from head to toe as she licked her lips—in a different way than Mrs. Henderson had—and there came that stirring again between my legs.
“How old are you, Soldier?” she asked me.
“Thirteen.”
“Hmm, too bad,” she replied with a pout of her pink lips. “You're a really big boy.”
No. Idefinitely didn’tlike her.
I dragged my scrutinizing glare from her and back to my friend, who was now waiting as Levi removed a plastic baggie of little pink pills from his jacket pocket.
Wait, wait, wait, wait. What’s happening here?
“Ten bucks only gets you one oxy,” Levi said, opening the bag.
Oxy…
There had to be fifty pills in that bag. Fifty pills that looked an awful lot like the ones Mom liked to take. The kind that made her drop onto the couch and stare at the TV until she passed out.
Where was Levi getting them from?
And why did Billy want one?
“That’s okay,” Billy said. “We can split it.”
Split it? Wait … what? Split it with who?
