CASSANDRA IV:
THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL
by
Anthonystjoseph
Cassandra had become all but completely
emerged in Tammy’s life and drug trade although she did everything but sell
drugs herself. Cassandra had been
working as a private duty nurse for two hospice patients when all of a sudden
both of them had died in the same week.
Since both patients had died at the same time she was allowed to receive
unemployment benefits. The unemployment
checks were smaller than her normal income so Cassandra decided to lower her
food budget by indulging in the Crystal Meth drug that Tammy sold known as
speed since it lowered your appetite and also because everyone gave it to her
for free. They gave it to her for free
to try and garner Cassandra’s support with issues involving Tammy since Tammy
respected Cassandra’s opinion and actually sought out Cassandra’s advice on a
lot of issues. Lots of people in the
drug world actually started to revere and fear Cassandra almost as much as they
did Tammy since Cassandra seemed to be Tammy’s one and only confidant. Tammy and Cassandra had almost become
inseparable. If Cassandra was awake she
was most likely at Tammy’s side. Tammy
was so protective that she would force Cassandra to go home after three days of
drug business and tell her to sleep. Sometimes
Cassandra would go home and sometimes she would go out with her posse. Tammy was, for some reason, overly protective
of Cassandra.
Cassandra became enthralled in the world
of Chrystal Meth not so much for the drug as for the amazing human creatures it
seemed to attract. She loved most of the
people around her from the moment she met them.
Everyone who used the drug was so real and open. Little did she know that the dark side of
some of these very same creatures would reveal its ugly head. Most of these same people should and would leave
the world of Chrystal Meth behind completely.
One person who Cassandra had an extreme affinity for and he also for her
was Tammy’s number one hit man named Paige.
It was a very strong rumor that Paige had killed eleven people and
almost everyone believed it especially after meeting him in person. One time Cassandra had noticed a suspicious
person in Casa de Esperanza who was up to no good and she immediately went to
Paige’s apartment and informed him of the unknown intruder into their precious
drug sanctity. Paige jumped up from his
bed with a smile on his face and said, “Perfect! That’s just what I need to
wake me up in the morning, to stab somebody.”
You see, Paige’s weapon of choice was a knife and he loved his knives
and always carried more than one.
Paige showed his love for Cassandra one
day when he sat her down and gave her the most beautiful knife she had ever
seen. The knife had a dark mahogany wood
handle and came with its’ own case that snugly and perfectly attached to the
belt on her waist. Cassandra took to
wearing the knife wherever she went. She
even wore the knife to nightclubs on the rare occasion that she went out into
the normal world and enjoyed its’ nightlife.
Even the doormen at the nightclubs around town knew who Cassandra was
and she relished and enjoyed all the benefits of being a local celebrity.
One night that Cassandra was in a mood to
enjoy the evening and have some fun turned out to be a lot more than she
expected. Cassandra went out with her
friends and for the first time in a while didn’t have her knife attached to her
side. The nightclub bouncers had started
giving her warnings about wearing her knife and informed her that their bosses
were giving them flack for letting her in the clubs with it on, so this particular
night she left it at home. It turned out
to be a good thing. For had she had her
knife, things may have gone a whole lot differently.
So when Cassandra and her posse of local
drug celebrities walked into the nightclub, everyone noticed them. Cassandra was in the front as her group
stopped to survey the crowd. Cassandra
stood there in her attire which was comprised of her always worn eel skin
cowboy boots with tight fitting jeans with a white tee shirt of polished cotton
topped with a tan suede vest, and a suede belt to match. She also wore her Clark Kent glasses with the
lenses taken out to reveal a face flawlessly done with an impeccable makeup
job. All of the men in the club were
immediately attracted to Cassandra’s look and extremely intrigued by her posse
that seemed to cater to her like a queen.
Cassandra moved first as her posse
followed. Then all of a sudden she
stopped and they all stopped with her.
She saw him across the room sitting at the bar drinking all alone. It was none other than Steve himself. The man she had immediately fallen in love
with who had asked her to sit down and ‘talk to her’ on that fateful night in
the apartment below hers in Casa de Esperanza.
She ordered and paid for drinks for her entire crew as she always did
and then excused herself to go and talk to Steve. He seemed to be waiting. He seemed to be waiting for her; and who was
she to disappoint.
She walked up to Steve feeling like a
million bucks in her tight fitting jeans and on top of the world unlike the
naïve girl that he originally met. He
didn’t even look up as he said, “Hello Cassandra, I see your world has
changed.” She stared at him as he looked
at his drink and refused to look up at her and once again fell deeply in love
with his deep and hypnotic voice. Finally
she said, “So where did you disappear too? I thought I would see you again a
lot sooner than this.” He slowly
responded in his deep voice seeming to know the effect it had on Cassandra’s
entire being, he seemed to know that he owned her, she was powerless when she
was around him; he turned and looked deep into her eyes and said, “I will be
there when I am supposed to be there and eventually I will be there
always.” Cassandra’s knees got weak as
for the first time he mentioned a future, a future she had hoped for, a future
with him.
They continued to stare at each other as
he invited her to sit down. She sat down
and looked deep into his sapphire blue eyes as he seemed to undress her
soul. She was once again a naïve little
girl under his powerful stare. He
finally smiled and then chuckled as he told her, “You need to relax my little
flower.” She got her strength back at
his cheesy line and said, “A flower with thorns Mister Steve.” He said, “Oh my, I guess so! Good thing I wear
gloves.” As he grabbed her from her barstool by quickly placing his hand in the
small of her back and lifting her to his quick standing body and kissing her
deeply while all of her strength and resolve was lost to his desire and all her
desire was given to his strength and resolve.
He finally released her and continued to
hold her up as if he knew she was unable to stand on her own. He again looked deep into her eyes signing
the ethereal contract of eternal love with his intense stare as a small tear
came out of the corner of her right eye.
He wiped the tear away and then released her and bent closely to whisper
in her ear, “This is only the beginning of our love in this lifetime. I have
been waiting for a very long time for you to return.”
He told her, “I will see you soon”, and
then he walked away as she was unable to move. Her posse who had been quietly
and politely watching from a distance ran up as soon as Steve was out of
eyesight and couldn’t believe what they had witnessed. Her friend Shannon who led the posse in
running up to her spoke first, “Who was that!?!” Cassandra told them of how she had met Steve
in her withdrawn and wispy voice and said he seemed to have some power over
her. She confessed to them all that she
truly felt she was in love with him and would spend the rest of her life with
him. She had no idea at the time, she
had spent many lifetimes with him and would spend ‘all’ of her lives with him.
He was indeed, her soulmate.
Cassandra and her crew had a great time
the rest of the evening while dancing and drinking and then three girls who had
been dancing close to them seemed to take a sudden interest in them. They were standing off to the side and
whispering and then laughing as they pointed at Cassandra and her crew. Cassandra in her new aggressive Chrystal Meth
charged attitude was not someone these girls wanted to mess with and usually
her knife did the talking but tonight she wasn’t wearing it and these girls
were in for a surprise.
Then Cassandra went to the bathroom and
one of the three secretive and openly cackling girls quickly stepped in front
of Cassandra and caused her to spill her drink.
The drink had spilled all over Cassandra’s new suede vest and she was
pissed. She took a few breaths and calmed
down and excused herself to go pass them and avoid a confrontation. The three girls weren’t having it; they
blocked her way. The leader of the three
girls said, “Listen miss Ca-saaaan-draaaaah! Yeah, we know your name and we’ve
seen you around town and we know you think you’re the shit but you’re not! ...” Cassandra started to get more pissed
off! Heads were gonna roll. It was like
in her mind she was becoming Tammy in all of her tiger power. Cassandra didn’t even let the lead girl
finish her speech. In a catlike move
unfamiliar to even herself, Cassandra spun around and kicked the lead girl in
the side of her head and then the lead girl went flying into the barstools on
the side of the wall as the second girl stepped up and Cassandra slapped her
with a left handed backhand and then punched her with all of her might with her
right fist; the girl fell right where she stood as the third girl went to kick
Cassandra as Cassandra quickly stepped back and then cupped and webbed her own
hands together and caught the girls kicking foot as it missed and dropped and
then flipped her in the air just like in the movies as the girl flew up and
landed dead flat on her back. The crowd
was mesmerized by the fight and the quick action. Cassandra stood their panting and
pissed. At the same time she was pissed
she was also exhilarated with the energy from beating these three girls in a
glorious fight. Cassandra had a smile on
her face as her posse ran up and surrounded her and asked if she was okay while
the girls lay in fear on the floor.
Suddenly a bouncer grabbed Cassandra and
said, “That’s it Cassandra, you’ve been nothing but trouble with your crew and
your knife carrying ways! You are out of
here! Take your posse and leave!” Cassandra and her crew were ceremoniously
thrown out of the club as everyone watched.
Cassandra couldn’t believe the turn of events of the night and the
roller coaster ride it was. First, she
finally saw Steve again and it was everything she could have hoped for and then
she was attacked by three female hyenas that she was forced to get violent
with; all she could think of was, thank God she didn’t have her knife, she may
have ended up in big trouble. And when
would she see Steve again.
By
Anthonystjoseph
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