Kristina goes to seven eleven once she gets home from her long drive because she obviously can't sleep high on 'the monster'. She goes in a little before four o'clock in the morning and happens to recognize the guy behind the corner. His name was Grady and as soon as she asked for an application he trys to warn her about how horrible of a job it is to work there. But high on meth she can't help herself from spilling her guts to him telling hims all about Hunter, trying to move out, trying to graduate and her desperate need for money. She bums a cigarette off of the 'slot machine guy' thinking that just one more won't get her addicted again. She sneaks back into her house quietly and wired up on drugs she wasn't going to be sleeping for days. She laid on her bed and stared at the ceiling all night thinking about what she's gotten herself back into but thinking (hoping) that it's not going to make her go back to her old ways. The next morning while Kristina was talking to her Mom she messed up and told her that seeing Robyn was great and forgot that she told her Mom before she left that she was in Sacremento at a college fair. But being on meth helped her lie like it wasn't a big deal and quickly got herself out of that mess. Her Mom then broke the news about Leigh coming in for Kristina's birthday with her new girlfriend, and that she thought it'd be a good idea to get Hunter baptized since the family was going to be in town. Kristina agree's and has been missing her sister, Leigh, anyway. Scott, Kristina's step dad, then gives Kristina a long lecture about how irresponsible she was and how she's a mother now and needs to act like it. The phone rings and Kristina didn't get there fast enough and her father leaves her a message on the answering machine talking about coming to visit for her 18th birthday.
Through out these 25 pages I read Kristina was constantly argueing with herself about whether or not she can keep her drug use to a minimum and how she think's she can have it under control. With her new born baby I can't believe that she would consider going back to the 'the monster'. I think that shows how much drugs can rule someones life and really make them not be able to think straight. And from what I know about how Leigh, Kristina's sister, feels about her father I think that it's going to be a uncomfortable family reunion. I hope that her family catches on to her and can help her overcome her addiction.
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