‘Next time I saw her she was completely fucked again, I hate seeing her like that but she just won’t listen.She doesn’t have any real friends, just hangers on who get her fixed up whenever she wants,’ Austin’s voice was anguished. She cared for her despite her anger. She continued in a quiet tone.

‘Maggie almost got into big trouble when Ash dumped her at a party. She just took off and left with some random chick and a stack of some guy’s drugs. He assumed Maggie knew that Ash had set him up. Things were getting nasty when the police broke the party up. Maggie only got out of it cos she called our mom.’ Well that would be a good reason to hate someone.  

Austin’s mom was a hot-shot lawyer and brokered a lot of the top deals in the entertainment business. Hence the mega mansion and influence. The millions probably helped too! I was always surprised Maggie and Austin were so nice and not complete bitches. Lucky me I guess.

‘Why was she at the party if she did that?’ It didn’t make sense.

‘She went to rehab and got out a few weeks ago. Seemed to be doing good so Maggie invited her to the party. She’d come to a couple just after she got back and had something going with Maggie and Caitlin.’ Oh. I think the mysterious ‘she’ Caitlin mentioned had just been identified.

‘I saw her a couple of times with Caitlin then Maggie, she seemed fine. Must have taken something though if Maggie told her to fuck off. They’re like sisters. Well…incestuous sisters!’ Oh Lord, what had I jumped in the middle of?

‘Just leave it Spence. Leave it alone.’ were her quiet words.

I was inclined to agree. Why couldn’t it be a simple case of girl meets girl. Girls fall in love and have hot monkey sex for the rest of their lives? Just wasn’t going to be that lucky was I?

Austin headed home soon after and I was left with my brooding. Deep stuff huh? Well, I’m a pragmatist and thankfully don’t worry about things out of my control.

I would mourn my loss later. Fuck, sounds like she’d be lucky to make it to her next birthday at this rate.