What Is Lace's Short Story: A Day At Home

It had all started at about three AM. Lace had been one of the main streets of the slums at this time of night the street was alive with the homeless, the drunk and drugged and the all around bad and as usual Lace seemed slightly out of place. Perhaps not as badly though. She had found a jacket a week earlier with a hood and it had kept her mostly safe from both the cold and any watchful eyes. Her reason for being here though was not at all out of place. Hands stuffed in her pockets she quickly made her way across the street, over the path and then down some stairs that lead down to a basement door. Lace knocked five times, dropping her hand away then and cringing to herself as she waited for someone to answer. She was not looking forward to this.

She was let in by a large man dressed in black. He gave her a silent look, knowing who she was by sight alone and closing the door behind her once she had come in. She flashed a quick and thin smile at him, a smile that gained nothing in return from the doorman. Though Lace was not surprised. A few times she had been past him, enough for him to know her and they had never said so much as a word to one another. Continuing on through a few dim lit rooms …show more content…
She had come in hopes of becoming a smaller, much smaller street dealer. As she grew older, thieving became both harder and more dangerous and begging for money here and there was beginning to come with some really unsavory conditions in a few years time, getting caught thieving would mean she would get serious time. She had been pointed to Danny, who after hearing her pitch to become one of his many corner dealers on the street, laughed in her face. He told her that he was not about to hand a little girl drugs to sell on the street. It had taken a lot of convincing but eventually Danny had offered that she 'run' orders for him. Meaning she would carry larger orders for bigger clients, clients he trusted to pay. The job had seemed