Invitation to a Better Life (Shedding Life's Miserys Part Six) (standard:drama, 6752 words) [6/8] show all parts
Author: Siobhan	Added: Oct 01 2002	Views/Reads: 2488/1843	Part vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Jessica looses control of herself at several parties when she allows grief to rule her decisions. Before she knows it, she is in Brandon's arms, but before she leaves, her and Brandon are going to have some serious issues.

Then a car pulled up and out stepped Rhonda and another girl.  The other
girl had long, straight brown hair and the stormiest gray eyes that 
Jessica had ever seen.  They walked over to Jessica and Rhonda put her 
arms around her.  Jessica leaned into the hug, fighting the tears that 
were welling up again.  She'd never had a friend who knew when to show 
up and when to hug her.  Even Anna had never known when to give her 
physical support, and even though she was resentful of Rhonda for 
trying to choose her friends and didn't trust her with her other 
friends, she knew Rhonda was the closest to a true friend she would 
ever find. 

“What's wrong?” she questioned, her silky voice purring with concern. 
Her eyes were filled with warmness and sensitivity that made her decide 
to spill her guts.  The other girl, stood quietly behind Rhonda, not 
saying a word but her eyes displayed the same emotions even though she 
didn't know her and that warmed Jessica to her.  The girl cared about 
what was going on heedless of the fact that she wasn't yet a friend and 
that was special. 

“My mom has a tumor and they can't help her,” Jessica hiccupped and a
tear dribbled miserably down her cheek.   She felt the torrent of tears 
threatening to fall and make her a babbling idiot but she couldn't help 
it.  She needed her mother more than anything in the world and all of a 
sudden there was a chance that she could be gone. 

“Oh gosh,” the other girl bent down in front of her and wrapped her arms
around her.  She couldn't help it and she began to sob hysterically.  
The expression of caring was so touching and unselfish that Jessica 
found herself, though  leaking salt tears like the Titanic, comfortable 
in the presence of the two and she trusted them both more than she ever 
had a friend before. 

“Come with us,” Rhonda insisted and Jessica obediently followed the duo
into the car.  She cried all the way to Brandon's house, unable to stop 
the unwelcome flow of tears.  The door was open by the sickly boy and 
he licked his lips appreciatively at Jessica but she did not even 
notice.  She was so distraught by what was occurring in her life that a 
bizarre boy having warped interest in her held no importance 
whatsoever. 

They slipped into the basement where pounding acoustics whelmed over her
senses.  Erica handed Jessica a beer and Rhonda nodded approvingly.  
She looked at the can with an expression of concern, she saw herself 
without a mother, her mom dying in the worse ways and all she knew was 
that she wanted the gruesome images of pain to go away. She took a sip 
hesitantly and grimaced at the bitter taste.  Brandon took the beer 
from her hand and seductively licked the rim then took a swig.  He 
passed it back to Jessica and she gulped down a huge swallow even 
though her stomach recoiled.  She inhaled the rest of the can and 
another one found its way into her hand.  She didn't want to be 
drinking and she didn't want to be there but grief compelled her into 
things she didn't even know she would do.  It did wash away the amount 
of emotional abuse that she was suffering and seemed to make everything 
look better. Several more cans of beer went down her throat, burning 
the entire way down. 

Brandon's hands were on her waist and her arms were around his neck and
his lucious lips were against her throat, kissing with enough force to 
bruise her flesh.   His fingers traced the curve of her back and rear 
end, massaging all her sore muscles.  His eyes, which held a light that 
was darker than the corners of hell, glittered insanely and burned into 
hers. 

The music pounded in her head and someone passed her a joint.  She took
a puff that caused her to gag as if her lungs were being thrust out and 
her head began to swim.  The music seemed louder and the colors more 
brilliant.  Brandon's eyes glowed a mighty blue in the hazy smoke in 
his basement and his skin seemed translucent.  His hands were upon her 
and she clung to him as if he were her support in the world.  The room 
seemed to spin and Jessica threw her head back with a laugh of 
insanity.  She would have fallen but Brandon held her up, his strength 
the only thing keeping her from the edge of death.  She took another 
deep breath of the joint before passing it on.  Another can of beer was 
in her hand and she drank it down without even thinking. 



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