Strange Life

Down The Rabbit Hole

Piper waits patiently while the phone rings "Hey are you okay?... We haven't talked for a long time" Piper hears her voice and just loses it, loses it to the point where she's sobbing and can't get any words out. Grace on the other end of the phone trying to calm her down just keeps repeating "Calm down and talk to me" " Hey its okay" Piper wipes her face and starts telling her everything, Grace having the phone on speaker having her mom listening the whole time. Piper get interrupted  "Hey send grace your address, we are coming to get you" she sends the address "Dont you worry we..." and that's all piper heard before her phone ran out of minutes, she could only hope that the text actually went through. As she sits by the window just staring at every car that drives by and as the sun starts to go down, she passes out to waking up to three in the morning in a panic "What am i going to do" Mumbling to herself while walking in circles in the living room "What the FUCK am i going to do?!" Now in complete panic mood, piper starts hyperventilating "I'm just gonna end it all now" She runs to the kitchen and grabs a knife, standing in the middle of the floor, gripping the knife tighter in her hand, breathing heavy until her breathing starts to settle. One deep breath after the next until she's calm and drops the knife to the floor and rans to her room, falling to her knees screaming "Why Me?!?!" crawling in a ball just gripping her shaggy white rug in between her fingers, running her hand through the carpet over and over again just staring blankly at the wall in complete darkness, She laid there for hours until she heard the birds chirping and someone talking outside. Piper got off the floor to see that it was just the neighbor smoking on their porch, she got her shoes on to go bum a cigarette and while standing outside taking a puff after a puff as she felt the stress leaving her body for a brief moment. A car pulls up and its Grace and her Mother, Piper takes one last drag and throws the butt to the ground to run to grace and hug her "Thank you so much" Piper runs inside to grab her bag and sees the knife still on the kitchen floor, she takes a deep breathe while reaching down and now standing over the open draw, she lays it down easy where it belongs while closing her eyes and whispers silently "Thank you" she closes the draw then walks out the door to the sun shinning in her face and to living another day. Once back at in her hometown grace's cousin Amber told her that she can stay there for awhile. Piper took the offer and moved in right away and that's honestly how it really started of just falling deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole, now so deep in the dark that she cant even see the light to crawl out any more, just completely accepting that fact that this is it, this is as far as it goes and that this is her life and who she is now. Piper spent the first three days while amber was working just laying on the couch getting high, bowl after bowl, Hit after Hit until she was calm and in a peaceful subspace in her own world with no flashbacks of the past, with no traumatic imaging's replaying inside her head, just a simple peace of mind but then the weed ran out and that's when shit hit the fan, which was a gift from amber. So piper put her shoes on and walked out of the house for the first time since being there and set off downtown stoned out of her mind, not really knowing what she was doing but she was definitely on a mission, her hair was pulled up with a black hoodie and faded jeans while wearing sun glasses on a grey cloudy day. While on her walk to pretty much no where she picked used cigarette butts off the ground and smoked the last bit of nicotine that she could even get, occasionally she would find a half of one and get really excited. Piper just happened to walk around the corner of a store and seen a whole one just lit on the ledge of the window, like someone just left it there for a second, Piper stood there thinking about it and then seen it was a menthol, so she grabbed it and walked away around the other side of the store into an alleyway and took one long puff with her eyes closed while feeling her lungs fill up with pure happiness and when she opened her eyes she seen an old man in his late 50's walking towards her saying "Hey you used to work at papa john's" they stood there talking for a minute about the usually things like how have you been kind of conversations and then he asks her "Do you wanna get something to eat? My treat"  Piper still stoned in full blown munchie mode with no money obviously said "Yes i would love to" They get in his car and he takes her to a fine and dine restaurant, not the kind that you would take just a friend either like this place was a place where you would take a wife or someone to propose to. With piper completely underdressed "Hey I  thought we were gonna go to a fast food or something small?" "Come on it will be okay?" as he gets out of the car and walks around to open her door. Piper still sitting in the car now sinking down in her seat "Dude I'm not worth taken to this kind of place" He grabs her hand and says "it is really okay, Come on" walking inside, piper feeling really insecure and feeling out of place with every guy in suits with legit ties and not the ones that just clip on and pretty dresses with ten out of ten women wearing them just staring at this nice looking older man with a hoodrat kind of a girl walking in, clearly they must think he's my dad is one of the  thoughts racing through her mind.  They sit down and he tells the waiter "Bring me your finest wine" pipers eyes about popping out of her head whispers "You do realize I'm not of the drinking age right?" he smirks "Oh i know.. it will be okay" like really dude you already know and you bought me here as she thinking she puts her head down wanting to say that but didn't, she grabs a napkin and starts ripping it to little pieces in a pile on the table just repeatedly tearing this napkin, he grabs her hands from across the table "I think your really pretty" that only being the first time a guy has ever sat there and called her pretty or anything, piper smiles and starts to blush "Thank you" they enjoy their lunch/dinner together while he sneaks her some wine when no one is looking and they go to leave, walking out the door he puts his hand on her lower back and she jumps. Just not being used to anyone doing that "Hey are you okay?" "Yea yea I am fine, just scared me a second" as she walks faster to the car, he stops her in front of the passenger side door "I would never hurt you, you know that right?" And then leans in and kisses her forehead before opening up the door and she gets in. On the way back to town, he places his hand on her knee and tells her "I do think your really beautiful" piper again feeling that sense of happiness of just being called beautiful lifted her spirits "thank you, i appreciate that" as she realizes he missed where she wanted dropped off at and says in a  panicky voice "Hey where are we going?" "Oh i got some coke at the house, and thought maybe you wanted some" piper shuts up and shakes her head yes while grabbing the seat belt at her chest and holding it tightly. Once at his house and after doing a couple bumps, piper walks to the door "Hey this was fun, thank you" he stands up from the couch now walking towards her "I'll give you three hundred dollars if we go upstairs right now" Piper thinking whatelse do i really have to lose, not having any money for cigarettes or drugs. What better way than to become a  prostitute. "Let me have the money first" as they walk upstairs and she's shovin the money deep in her tits, she see's pictures of two teenager girls on the walls and then at the top of the steps, piper walks by a room with a crack in the door and hears "Dad is that you?" "Just go back to bed honey, its me" as he opens up his door. Piper getting the creeps just stands there in the middle of the hallway while he is waiting at the door "Come on I'll give you three hundred more"
Piper walks closer "You got a deal but I'll take the rest of that coke as well" Afterwards piper goes to leave and before he rolls over in the opposite direction "listen if you ever need anymore money,  just let me know" She sneaks downstairs, does a fat line on the coffee table and puts her now six hundred dollars and a baggy of goods shoved into her tits and walks out the door. Just trying not to think about it and only thinking about what she's gonna do with the money and only one thing came to mind, within two days it was all gone. Piper gave some to amber just to be nice, bought some food for the house, a carton of cigarettes, half up her nose and the other half for weed and piper was already on the phone texting her sugar daddy "I would like to see you"