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iked me, liked having me around and passing me off like one of her

w my godmother

d she was still too young to be a mom-she's 53, and I couldn't call her Aunt because, well I just never did. We

n and I've been living with her ever since then. My

this fairly large but very old and somewhat empty apartment, in the slightly

tuff; old paintings, old flashy clothes, letters, perfume bottles, and a slipping memory

where else to be. Spending her days smoking pot and watching reality TV but

ut she never told me. W

ith walking bipolar. You couldn't predict w

sically my only family for all my life, something l

id....

just understand you'd be abl

t. Was this a joke? Did she forget to tak

why you're act

What...what the hell, Mi

ect to come back from my below-minimum-wage job, tired and hungry onl

sus

nto this, he bles

?" My eyes were gettin

ling me off to pay her debt. Not just th

d she get affiliat

to me, her beads and old jewelry jingling as she came closer, "Imagine turning o

inkled face. I know she wasn't joking, she made the phone call in f

. Irine. She sometimes calls me when she's drunk or a littl

owe

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me, Pre

what do

and the grip became tighter. "I took you in

to hold i

a roof over your pretty head.

uckled, "You owe me this, okay?" She was nodding now like she wa

e." I yanked myself away from her

run away? Go ahead." She smirked, "It's the fucking Mafia, sweetie. They know you'

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eaming and Mimi wasn't high or just joking. An hour later there wa

n black and with stoic expressions on their handsome faces. T

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dy spilling down my cheeks. I trembled under the gaze of the men as they approached me, they

ng back at Mimi,

lready waiting. I gestured inside and t

in. I kept thinking about how I could just jump out of the car or trick them o

ed in the back of the driver seats a

were they goi

ing, the windows closing and the two j

ere are you

idn't

going to

now the property of Don Damon Vyon. If w

they sounded distant and muffled. "Property

ant, I didn't

e, the ominous tone,

ough the darkening stree

head dissolved as I noticed each of the windows was tin

e arriving soon. I suggest you make peace with whatever demons ha