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Purple Pills

Chapter 1

"No! Don't leave me!" I laughed to a friend. We were walking the streets, not in a bad way, I guess. We had all just snorted coke. And I was off the walls high. My friend had helped me on the city bus, "Stay!" She said. I felt normal, but after being put on the bus I don’t remember much, at all.

I woke up with my head on someone's lap. "Whoa fuck off ya creep!" I shout and dart up. "Calm down, calm down." The voice said. I was shaking. I couldn't tell if I had overdosed, or if I was just scared. "You're fine. You passed out. A bit too much to drink?" The guy laughed. Black hair, some eye makeup, tattoos. "Who are you?" I ask, still shaking, but sitting down. "Ricky." He said and I cocked my eyebrow. "And you?" He asked. "Josephine. But everyone calls me Jose because they're too lazy to say it all." I said and he laughed. I was so weirded out. "Who is this guy? Where are we? Why is he with me?"

"I can answer all of those questions." He chuckled and my eyes grew wide. "Excuse me?" I hissed. "You were uh… thinking out loud." He said and I groaned. "I told you, I'm Ricky. You can look me up, Ricky Olson, or Horror. You'll get results for either. We're in the library, it was the closest public place. And I found you, passed out on the bus." He said and I rolled my eyes. "I bet you drugged me!" I shout. People, not many, a lot of teenagers, looked over. "You still have coke under your nose dear." He said sarcastically. "So." I said and sat down.

I pull out my phone and looked up this guy's name. Ricky Horror he's 26. In a band called Motionless In White, I think it's him. Looks the same. "Okay Ricky, what's your deal? You seem successful. Why are you on a city bus?" I asked. "I meet some pretty chill people on those busses. So hey, why not?" He says and I nod. "You look like you do some cool stuff too. So why do you have to take the bus?" He asks. "My friends left me there." I laughed and his eyes grew wide. "Well let me take you back to your house, it's the least I could do." He said and I shrugged my shoulders. He nodded and helped me up. We stopped at the café that was in the front of the library and got a cup of coffee.

It was already really late. The sun was just about to come up. I yawned as I unlocked the door to my house. "You should go. Your band mates probably need you." I said and he nodded, but then shook his head. "I texted them and told them where I was. We're here for a while anyways." He said and I grabbed my newborn kitten, "She was born a few weeks ago. Probably like 2, I think. Her mom is in the laundry room. She tends to get out a lot. This is Luna. Her mom is Midnight. Luna's my favorite because all of her siblings are black, but she's white." I smiled and kissed her.

"She's adorable." Ricky said. I directed him to the laundry room where all the others were. "Wow." He laughed. There were 8 little babies. 5 girls and 3 boys. "You can have one if you'd like. I can't keep them all. But you can't take it for another 5 or 6 weeks." I spoke. "I'm here in Seattle for 6 months. It's my home town, we're on break. Our last show was tonight." He said and I nodded, "Nice." I smiled and plopped down on my couch with baby Luna. She was playing with my hair, it was cute, she was so cute.

I saw Ricky, who was smiling. I gave him a look and told him I was going to bed, and that he needed to leave. "MY NUMBER'S ALREADY IN YOUR PHONE!" he said as he walked out the door. I looked in my phone and there it was. Alright then. Weird ass. I changed into pajamas and fed Midnight. I went back into my room, Luna now in the comfort of her mother, and went to sleep.

~Many, many… MANY hours later~

I woke up and it looked like it was night time again, I groaned. Did I really sleep all day? Holy shit. I saw that Ricky had called me multiple times, I don't know why I didn't wake up; normally I'm a light sleeper, but today I was not. I called him back. "I guess you got my number too then." I laughed sleepily. "Indeed!" He said loudly. "Come here, we need to liven up the party!" He said. "I don't feel like it." I said and I heard him sigh. "Fine. Where?" I hiss. He tells me the address and I head over.

I get there and there's about 6 guys, other than Ricky there. "Hello." I said awkwardly. Then I saw a girl, god she was skinny. Perfectly tattooed… she was fucking beautiful. "Finally not the only girl." She laughed. "I'm Hannah." She said to me. "I'm Josephine. But you guys can call me Jose." I smile. Ricky motions for me to go over to him and I sit on the empty space on the couch next to him. "This is my band Chris, Ryan, Devin, Josh, then this is Oli Sykes, Hannah's fiancé, and Austin Carlile."

I waved to them. Austin had waves tattooed on his arm, "I love your wave tattoo." I said and pointed to him. He smiled and thanked me. Austin was cute too like fucking hell. Sorry Ricky, but Austin's hot. JUST KIDDING. Maybe…