Saturday, February 1, 2014

AIN SOPH Part 3


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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