Little A

I am out with friends at a block party and get separated from them. I end up at this drug house. There isn't much furniture and it's not very clean. I am looking for my friends when I run into the main dealer (Tom) of a new drug. The drug is called 'little a'. He shoots me up with a dose and locks me in a bathroom. He tells me that I'm not going to be hooked, but I will like the experience. He also tells me that I am going to owe him and will have to do what he tells me to even out the score.

I finally come around from the high and manage to pick the lock on the bathroom. I stumble away from the house down the street. I fall and draw the symbol for 'little a' so that when people who are hooked, or want to be hooked, can follow the symbols to the drug to get dosed.

Tom finds me again and tells me that it's my job to bring people to him and to the drug.

I am walking down by the river and see two guys, about 15 or so, and this older guy who is about 30. They see some of the symbols and I convince them that we should follow them and figure out what they mean.

We follow the symbols down through drain pipes and ditches. We come across a sand filled drain ditch. There are broken houses and cars half buried in sand in the bottom of the drain ditch. I ask the older guy what happens to it all when it rains. He points to houses that are close to the drain ditch and says it's the folly of man to build where he should not. He says that the house that remains undamaged was lucky once, but luck couldn't hold out forever.

I really don't want to lead all these people into addiction, but I have no choice. Tom is making me do this for him. The older guy seems really eager to solve the mystery of where the symbols lead and the symbols are getting closer together and easier to find.

We come out near this mall and I pretend to have second thoughts in hope of the younger boys will want to turn back. They tell me that we are too close to figuring it out to turn back now.

We climb down near a river and Tom steps in. He does the three people I brought to him and pretends to dose me so that nobody gets suspicious.

He congratulates me because he has never seen anyone be such a natural at getting people to him, at manipulating people to figure out what the symbols mean.

He lets me leave and some of his other guys drag the drugged victims away.

Later I go down to the room he is renting, he told me I was always welcome. I pass his neighbors who all say that Tom is the sweetest guy and the nicest guy and the best person they've ever met. I go into his apartment and watch episodes of a show that is similar to The Unit or The Wire. I figure out that he might not be as bad as I first thought and I leave.

As I'm walking up this steep hill on a college campus, my friend Aaron from high school meets up with me. He has just finished his class and saw me. He hands me this huge stack of notebooks. It is journals/notebooks from high school kids that Tom 'borrowed' from their lockers. Aaron tells me that Tom wants me to study them so I can get to know the kids. By getting to know the kids, it will be easier to gain their trust and lure them to Tom.

I ask Aaron if Tom is a good guy, since he and Tom are good friends. Aaron says he's a great guy, one of the best. Aaron leaves me with the stack of notebooks.

The end.