Mindf u c k

"I guess you are right. How do you know Jose?" She asked, sitting back against the sofa and taking his coffee cup, having a sip without asking, and love every second of it. "Mm..." She purred, couldn't help it, then handed it back to him. He gave her a blank stare and then Vince smirked, and moved a little bit closer to her on the sofa. "I sell him drugs, but his brother is married to my sister." He answered. "I have something else for you though. You see when Jose came to me with this I couldn't say no, cause I owe him my life. But, I had to do a little research on you of course, before accepting such a challenge and possible headache. Ts k... you are one naughty girl Missy. Trouble is all over you." He laughed and roamed his eyes over her. "Anyway, I found something of yours that I know you will want, so come with me."

Vince then got up from the sofa, the cup still in his hand as he walked to the back door through the kitchen. Veronica took a minute but eventually got up, followed him to a shed in the corner of the small fenced backyard. He didn't say anything, just smiled at her before opening a door of the shed. What was he doing? Did he want her to stay in a shed outback? These questions ran through her mind for a moment, but as soon as she got a closer look, her heart dropped into her stomach.

It was just her dog inside the shed, Rambo. Veronica dropped to her knees immediately, smiling from ear to ear, tears developing in her eyes. Nobody understood how much she loved her precious dog. She rescued him years prior, and he is her loyal companion. Rambo, a white Shepard, a complete bad-ass. She hadn't forgotten, how could she forget him. There just wasn't anything she could do about being locked away for so long.

Rambo instantly ran full speed and jumped into her arms and pushed her to the ground, licking her face, and whining loudly. Veronica couldn't believe this, she hugged Rambo so tightly and rolled around in the dirt with him before getting up, and rushing Vince and hugging him as well, and she never hugged anyone. "Thank you, holy shxt, thank you so much." She bubbled, kissing his cheeks back and forth.

"Aha, you're welcome V, okay damn, that's enough." He said smiling and grunting, brushing her off of him. Vince, Veronica, and Rambo, then all went back inside of the small apartment and took a seat back down on the sofa. Rambo was, of course, sitting in her lap, and she now had her own cup of Joe. Veronica was stoked. Happiness wasn't something she was used to feeling. "I can't thank you and Jose enough." She said gratefully while sipping her coffee.

Vince soon looked down at his phone and replied. "No problem, here's the deal. You can stay here, I'll pay the rent. You pay for everything else you want for everyday living, tampons, all that. You can't be out working in the public for uncle Sam. You'll get busted, get yourself arrested again and your ass is going back to that place. This is your chance with my help. So, for money, you'll deal with me. You will sell what I give you to distribute, no matter what it is. No questions asked, and then I will give you a cut when it is all sold. Got it?" He asked, giving her a look of seriousness. "Aight, yeah, I got it." She said in response and nodded her head; seemed easy enough, no biggie. "Good, for now... I gotta go. I'll be back in a few days or so and make the drop-off. Do not contact Jose, nor that hospital." He instructed and tossed her an iPhone to use, and for him to contact her. Vince then got up from the sofa, sat down his coffee cup upon the small wooden coffee table, smirked down at Veronica and exited the apartment through the front door.

Now all alone in her new apartment, it sure was a rat-hole, but it was something to start with. She sat resting, looking at Rambo, so happy to see him, and have him with her again. Sipping the coffee some more, thinking again about her mama and brother, and where they possibly could be. Would they be happy she was still alive? She then thought about Ian. What had happened to him? Why was he in solitary lock up just when it was time to leave? How could he have missed it when he was the innocent one. Now she wouldn't know, she wasn't even trying to find out.

Veronica finished her first cup of coffee in months and months, then got up and shuffled weakly to her bedroom. She laid down on the futon, motioning to Rambo to join her. Of course, he did, he loved V, and now she could actually rest. For her days ahead would be a new, different life for her. Eventually, she will find out where her mother and brother are, and she will see Ian again, she has to.