Chapter 8

MARINA

I did something terrible. I put some sleeping pills in my mom's soup and fed it to her so she would fall asleep. Then I would be able to sneak out and go to the party. I only wanted her to sleep and not realize I was gone for the whole night.

She kept her prescription pills next to her nightstand, but I managed to take one or two out each day and hide them in my room just in case I ever needed them. I've been doing that for months now, so I have at least twenty of those pills in my possession. I put them inside a Ziploc bag and hid them under my mattress.

I crushed them up and mixed them into the soup. I put a lot of seasonings in her food so she would never taste the bitterness of the pills. She drank it all without missing a beat. She complained about me being useless all day long, but she always ate everything I cooked for her.

It was going to be chilly outside, so I put on a leather jacket over a red tank top. One of my old friends from high sc