Episode 2
When she came out of that fog, Kyle
was gone too. Not gone gone, but it seemed that way to her. She had
been allowed to see Kyle once a week under supervision of Chet's
parents, and the judge promised the amount could be increased if she
proved she was off drugs for one month. Eventually Chet’s parents may be
given permission to return Kyle to Lilly’s care. Unfortunately, this
judge believed 95% clean was as good as not clean at all, and the
process dragged on.
Lilly
tried to get a job and get herself off public support, but there
weren't many jobs around town, and Lilly had not been impressed with any
one more than the next. She'd been a clerk, a food prepper, a
bartender, and once, for about a week, she was a beautician, but none
had worked out in the long run. She gave two weeks notice to each when
she found out she had three weeks to live. She found little sympathy
with the courts, who would not grant custody to Lilly even now that she
was on dialysis. She swore up and down that she was no longer a drug
addict, but because she was a drug addict, nobody believed her. The
judge told her in no uncertain terms, "That's what you said last time."
Lilly
had not been off drugs long enough to prove she could maintain that
sort of a lifestyle, even with a life-threatening condition, so she
cried in the parking lot for over an hour until she was capable of
driving home. When she got there, she dug out the laptop Chet bought
her, and looked up the game recommended by a couple college kids from
the pizzeria she'd recently retired from. There were more ways than
drugs to burn away the minutes she was stuck with on Earth.
Episode 3
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