That night Joel was playing cards with Benji, Billy, and Paul downstairs in the kitchen. They had the radio on low and they had a dull light on. The yellow light hung over the table. The kitchen was painted yellow and for them just getting home it was pretty messy.
"I bust!", Joel said leaning back in the wooden chair as the cards he held in his hand were not good at all.
"Joel stop being a f*cking wimp, you bust all the time", Benji told his brother as he dealed some cards to Billy. Joel took a sip of his beer and put it back down ont he table.
"Stop picking on your brother", Paul interjected. Benji gave Paul the finger as they continued the game. Jina walked down the stairs in one of Joels MADE shirts and just her underwear underneith. She walked into the kitchen to get something to drink. She silently opened the white fridgerator door and took out a beer.
"JINA!!!!!", Benji yelled as he watched her shut the door and open her beer.
"Hi Benji Whatcha all play'n?", she looked Benji.
"Cards wanna play baby?", Joel asked patting his lap.
"Nah I'll just watch", she walked over to Joel and sat on his lap. She layed her arms around him. Billy looked at his cousin wondering why she just forgets about everything that had happend.
"This shit is soo good", Jina moaned as her and Eddie stood in an alley the next night smoking. The dark alley was filled with garbage and the bricks had grafetti all over them. Jina listened closley to hear sirens that seemed to be in the distance, but her orientation was all off so she payed no attention to them. She looked over at Eddie was out of it. He came over to her and started to fool around a little. She just stood there.
"HEY YOU TWO FREEZE!", someone yelled from behind them.
"Shit run Jina", Eddie stated as he ran ahead of her. Jina started to run as well she felt the cop gaining on her bacfk. Jina tried to run but her asthma got to her she began to feel dizzy and weak and she just dropped to the ground alowing the cop to grab her and cuff her. The sweat poured down her face like a leakey faucet. Her eyes were red and dilated. She looked up at the cop and passed out.
Jina woke up in a single jail cell in the back of the town jail. Her inhailer lay beside her and her bag as well. She rubbed her eyes which hurt. Her throat hurt and her chest hurt. She forced herself to get up and look around. She looked around the cell and realized she was in jail. She grabbed her pink inhailer and sprayed it into her throat. When she was done she put her head in her hands. This wasn't the first time she had been in jail in the past 7 months since Joel was gone nor was it the first time ever. She went there in Highschool twice and a few times after that.
"How could i be so f*cking dumb", she questioned herself.
"She's in here", she heard a male voice say. She looked up to see Billy walkking into the room. He was wearing a level 27 shirt with blue dickies. His hair was spiked like always and his eyes were wide. The two walked closer to the gate and the old man that was walking with Billy grabbed the keys from his pocket and opened the cell door. She grabebd her stuff and headed towards Billy. She smelled her clothes which smelled like marajuana. She shyly looked up at Billy.
"Marajuana, Jina? is that how you spend your life now?", he questioned seriously. She just stared at him. He seemed really angry at her so she didn't want to say anything to him that would make him mad.
"This isn't the first time ive had to bail you out of jail, lets go", he forcingly took her arms.
"Thank you, officer", Billy told him and took her out to his blue mustang.
Jina got in the car and her and Billy drove away. Billy was stopped at a red light when he noticed tears falling from her eyes.
"Jina I know that shit is addicting but you really need to stop im not f*cking kidding around with you do you think I want to see my cousin dead?", he questioned. Jina sat there in silence. Billy looked at her and rolled his eyes. Billy pulled up to his house. His house wasn't that big since he lived there himself. He had a small white house. Jina sat in the car looking at the house as Billy got out of the car. He walked to her side and opened the door.
"Are you coming?", he questioned. She looked up at him unbuckling her seat belt and worrying about what he had planned to say to her. Billy was younger than Jina but he was the one who always looked out for her. She got out of the car and Billy put his arm around her.
"Im not trying to be mean, you do know this I just want to help you".
"I know Billy but I dont need your f*cking help to tell me that I have a problem because I do know that for a fact I just choose to not do anything about it", she told him.
"Where do you think your going now?", Billy questioned her as she walked down the paved drive way.
"Im going home", she told him.
"Dont do anything your gonna regret", Billy stated as she walked away.
Jina walked down the street her head hung low and she held her inhailer tight in the palm of her hand. She sprayed it in her mouth every once in a while to keep herself from passing out. She looked up to see Joel walking toward her. He never walked any where since he had gotten his drivers liscens she thought.
"Jina you were in jail again?", he questioned her.
"S*it what does the whole world know now?".
"Calm down. Billy told me".
"WHAT? well listen Joel I'll be fine by myself and I dont need you to lecture me now about going to jail! I just want to be left alone and I dont want to be here anymore I just wanna leave f*cking Maryland and get away from everybody for a while".
"That would be where you were going any way", Joel told her.
"What do you mean?", she questioned.
"You're going away for a while to a hospital thats going to help you with your problems it's in NYC Billy and I signed you up", he told her.
"What without my f*cking permission. Im NOT GOING AND NOR AM I EVER SPEAKING TO YOU AGAIN.. STOP F*CKING WITH MY LIFE JOEL!", she punched Joel in the eye harder then he had expected.
"Bitch!", he yelled. He walked down the street to Billy's house.
"Joel, shit what happend to you?", Billy asked answering the door.
"Your cousin thats what happend to me", he told him. Billy invited Joel inside.