
Kayla. 11 years old. She pulls out her pack of Sovereign from her purple handbag and gets ready to wait for Dan. Tonight she looks at least 16.
In the reflection of the bT phone box she examines her little face, to make sure the drizzle didn't ruin her carefull make up or mess up her hair. She wants to look older and she wants hair extensions. Taking her first drag two 35 year old men walk past and wolf whistle. Out comes the mobile phone, Dan you see, is late. "Alright. Yeh. Ok. Bye." She meant to shout at him but he couldn't make it, his car is broken or something, so instead she sighs and decides to meet Lisa and Craig.
She gets to Lisa's front door at half 6 and is let in by her mum Jessie, small scruffy and smiling. "Alright Darling! How's mum? Oooo and baby Brandon?! Yeah well ...I think those two are upstairs, Knock if I was you. " She smiled again and hurried towards the smell of burning. Kayla walked up the carpeted stairs successfully despite her new 4 inch wooden heels.She knocked on Lisa's bedroom door, just making out the sound of laughter and rap music. It opened 10 minutes later to two grinning 11 year olds. Craig was going to be 12 in 3 months though. "Babe! Hows you and that?" they chorus, following Kayla into the messy blue room. They all sit on the bed and Craig pulls out three rollies. They light up and look at each other. " What you at tonight Lisa?" Kayla asks flicking ash into a mug. "Me and Craig were going down to the park, Cuz Matty and that are getting some alcohol offa James Huddies crew." "what getting?" She replies. Lisa smiles and says" VODKA!" "Thats the stuff ey Kayla." Craig laughs. Kayla had a bad experience on vodka a couple of weeks back, involving loosing her clothes at the end of the night. "Shut it you two. I can drink it still. I had some last night. Some of me dads." They go quiet and finish the fags. Craig and Lisa begin kissing and playing and Kayla looks at the teddies lined up by the cd player. They look bored.
Kayla ,Lisa and Craig approach the crowd of about 20 people between 14 and 18, all in the darkest corner of the park, by the kiddies bit. Most of them have caps and big coats on, Kayla doesn't recognize them yet. There is only 3 girls there, all dressed up, they look impatient. Kayla winces as she sees one of the boys faces. It is a boy who wouldnt stop kissing her last weekend, until his girlfriend came back from the club and slapped them both. She couldn't quite remember his name. "Alright little Craigy! Loverrrs I have 2 bottles and some more goodies. How much you have on ya?" It's James, skin head, tall, good looking. "Alright Huddy. I hav a tenner, the girls got the same between em." Craig gets out his new wallet. They exchange goods and then talk quieter away from the crowd. A group of boys nearest Kayla were looking her and Lisa up and down and talking. She sighed and looked down the park at the road. Lisa tried to pull her tiny white skirt down a bit. "How are you ladies doing tooonight?"The one witha quiff sneered. "Want some shit? We got an ounce?" "No thanks." Lisa replied quickly. "Want some fucking real dick then?" He leered back. "We don't fuck wankers, sorry." Kayla replied quietly. "What you jus say you little fuck?!" He sounded angry, but the others pulled him back. "Twat." She said under her breath.
An hour had past, and Lisa was about to be sick under the slide. Craig was trying to kiss her. Kayla was pissed but bored. She stumbled over to where the kids had been before and sat on the bench. She heard something beind her, in the bush where the path was. A cough, she heard it again. She got up and went over to it. There was 4 of the blokes, all sitting in a circle, passing a rolly around. "You smoke sexy?" Said the nearest one, in a low voice. "Yeh." She sat on a log next to a tall bloke with big baggy nike trousers on. He stroked her leg and passed the funny smelling cigarette to her. She jerked her knee back and took a drag. She coughed. "What?" "It's hash betty hash. Take it deep." "OOOOoooo."Kayla understood now. She knew some of her friends smoke dope, the older ones, but she had never tried, because her teacher said you see stuff. It was nice. The bloke stroked her leg again, but this time she let him. She was enjoying this hash. The blokes exchanged glances and cracked open a beer for kayla.