WHO: Laura and Robert WHAT: Relieving loneliness WHEN: After this WHERE: Laura's room RATING: High for drug use
The days after Lilah left the group had been hard and the first couple of days that the media started to pick up on it were hard for Laura. She'd turned to drinking and picking up guys to make herself feel better(it didn't work), but those days were pretty far behind her. In a way, it was like a loss, there was no way of knowing that they'd ever see her again, and that loss came to her in waves of debilitating sadness. This most recent one ended up being the worst.
And now there she was in her room, staring blankly at her journal, marveling at her ability to write or even read it. After a couple of swigs of rum from the bottle on the bedside table and a hit of god-knows-what from the needle that had rolled under her bed, she was pretty far gone and needed a friend.