The Adventures of Josie

After Jackie came back with the food, they ate. Jackie went outside for a cigarette and Josie went into the bathroom with the air freshener and opened the window to smoke one. After she was done she sprayed the air freshener and stuck a few pieces of gum in her mouth. She chewed for a few minutes before she began to blow bubbles. She looked at the clock, it was only 5:30. She started concentrating on her bubbles. She blew a few before getting a really good one and it was slowly growing until she heard “MALE ON FLOOR.” and moments later she had a knock on her door. Josie grumbled and got up, careful not to pop her bubble. She slowly walked to the door and opened it.

“Brian said you have an eating disorder. I need you to come out to the tables in the main hall and eat.” Mr. K said, poking a hole in her bubble with a pen.

“You can’t be serious.” Josie replied. “Besides, I have a desk. I’ll eat at my desk.”

“I told Brian I’d watch you. I can’t enter your room so you have to eat in the main hall.”

“Brian told you to watch me and you just said ‘Yea ok’?”

“Lets just go.” he said, taking her arm and puling her out of the room.

“Dinner with an escort. Nice.” Josie said.

“Shut up.” he said.

“That’s not very nice.” Josie replied as he put her in a chair in front of another over filled tray. “Lemme guess, Brian made it especially for me? Its poisoned, I’m not eating that.”

“I made it especially for you.”

“I am not eating that.”

“Just three things.” he said. Josie grumbled and spit out her gum into a napkin. Mr. K sat across from her and pulled a bunch of papers out of a folder he was always carrying. He pulled his pen out of his pocket while Josie took a bite out of a “ribwich”; a piece of over-processed pork shaped like a dogs chew toy. It was surprisingly good, but Josie figured it was only because she was high. Mr. K started writing.

“What are you writing?” Josie asked.

“I’m just doing paperwork. Can you eat any faster? I have other things I need to do.” Josie shoved the rest of the ribwich into her mouth and nodded. She chewed a lot, swallowed a few times and picked up a banana, across the table she heard Mr. K laugh softly. After the banana she grabbed a piece of carrot cake. “How did I know you were going to want something sweet, covered in frosting? I’m pretty sure I can trust you to finish that, you may go to your room now.” he said, gathering his papers and standing. Josie stayed, eating her cake while he walked out. He had a very commanding presence and Josie realized he was frightening. Terrifying, because he was always in control. His posture was perfect but yet, he always seemed cool, relaxed and calm. She’d never heard him raise his voice but she’d heard him lower it once and it was worse than if he’d been yelling. She looked down and realized she was done with her cake. Josie grumbled and went back to her room.


8 o’clock on the dot Josie walked outside the dorms for a cigarette. Not many people were out since it was late October and pretty fucking cold. Josie sat on an empty bench facing the new dorms. She lit a cigarette and crossed her legs. She looked to her left down the hill to the cement masonry building. And then she looked down at her shoulder, there was a hand.

“Hey sexy, I don’t know if anyone’s told you yet but I like girls that bite.” Josie cringed; she’d been afraid to turn around, but now she shot up from the bench and walked ten feet away.

“Just leave me alone Nick.” she said, taking a few steps back as he stood.

“But I like you-” he started.

“Yeah but I don’t like you. I’d really like for you to just leave me alone, okay?” she said. He started walking towards her and Josie started walking backwards to try and keep the distance between them.

“MISS REYNOLDS, WHAT TIME IS IT?” someone said from behind Nick.

“Um, its five past eight on my watch, Mr. K.” Josie said.

“How long have you been out here?” he asked, walking around Nick to look down at her.

“Five minutes. See?” she said, holding up her cigarette. “haven’t even smoked a whole cigarette yet.”

“I see.” he said and winked. Josie looked confused so he turned and said “Mr. Patterson, What are you doing out here without a coat?”

“I was just left the rec. I’m just going to the dorms.” Nick stumbled.

“You seem to have gone about 50 feet in the wrong direction.” Mr. K said.

“I was just saying hi to Josie. Hi.” he said, and walked off towards the dorms.

“No need to thank me. And by the way,” he said, reaching into his pocket and pulling out a bag “you’re outside the lines of the designated smoking area.” he said handing her the bag and a glove “Fill it with cigarette butts by four tomorrow.” He walked away and Josie threw her cigarette on the ground and stamped her foot on it. She put on the glove, bent over, picked it up and put it in the bag. When Mr. K was out of sight Josie ran to the ashtrays and started pulling butts out by the handful. When Josie was done she went inside and went to bed.



“GOOD MORNING LADIES!” Josie grumbled and got out of bed. She peed, took a shower, brushed her teeth, got dressed, put on makeup and took her brush outside with her. She brushed her hair on the way to the smoking area and stopped to put it up when she got there. Jeremy and Brian was there but Jerome was missing today. Josie lit a cigarette and sat down on the curb.

“Hey Josie, you goin to breakfast?” Jeremy asked.

“Maybe later.” she said. Jeremy got up from the bench and walked down the stairs to the cafeteria.

“You’re not talking to me?” Brian asked when they were alone.

“I’d rather not.” Josie said, trying not to even look at him.

“Why?” he asked.

“Well lets see. First, you make all my business your business, then, you start fights with your room mate over it and as if that wasn’t enough you told Mr. K I had an eating disorder! He made me eat my dinner in the main entrance hall so he could watch me.” Brian laughed.

“Why’d he make you eat in the dorms?”

“I was a bad girl so I was sent to my room for three hours and thirty seven minutes.”

“He said he was bringing you dinner, I told him you had skipped a few meals and told him to make sure you ate it. So what’d you do to get in trouble?”

“Caught me and this guy Joe after a session.”

“You smoked with Joe?”

“Whats wrong with that?”

“Nothing. I just didn’t figure you’d be the type to smoke.”

“Riiight… cause I have good girl from small town written all over me. I told you I smoked the other day at dinner.” Josie said.

“Yea but I didn’t really believe you. You honestly don’t look like a pot head. How about me, look at me, do I look like I smoke?” he asked, trying desperately to look serious.

“I think you do, but only sometimes.”

“So you’re just gonna stop talking to me?”

“Yep.”

“You can’t.”

“I will and you’re going to hate it.”

“Morning Miss Reynolds, Brian. Eat breakfast yet?” Mr. K asked walking towards them.

“She hasn’t yet, sir, I was going to bring her down in a few minutes.” Brian said.

“See that you do.” Mr. K replied, walking away.

“I am not eating with you, ever, ever again.”

“Its me or Mr. K.” he said.

“I hate you.”

“I told you, you can’t ignore me.”

“I will starting now.” and she did. Josie didn’t talk to him, look at him or even walk next to him on the way to the cafeteria. Inside, she grabbed a bowl of fruit loops and sat down at a table. Right after Brian sat down she got up and grabbed a cup of coffee. On her way back to the table she grabbed her cereal and walked it down to the other end of the long table. She ate her cereal and drank her coffee before standing up, bringing her dishes to the window, and walking out of the cafeteria. She went up the hill, lit a cigarette and sat down on one of he benches. Two seconds later Brian was sitting next to her but she didn’t even acknowledge him. He’d kept trying to get her attention in the cafeteria but she’d just kept on ignoring him. Brian was out of ideas to get her attention so he started poking her in her side. Josie got up and walked away, Brian followed and poked her again. Josie crossed the road and sat on the curb. Brian sat down next to her but he didn’t poke her again, he started tickling her.

“BRIAN YOU ASSHOLE STOP!” she yelled, trying to squirm away from him.

“No one can ignore me.” he said smugly, and stopped tickling her.

“I was doing fine until you started touching me. That’s against the rules.”

“What rules?” he asked,

“Don’t touch me. that’s the only one I can think of right now.”

“You really are 16, aren’t you?”

“Yes, why?”

“Never mind. Now since there are rules, that would mean we’re playing a game, right?”

“Sure.” she said.

“What game?”

“You’ll see.” she said. She threw her cigarette, smiled at Brian, looked at her watch and then the bell rang. Josie went inside and spent the rest of the day taking tests in every subject so the teachers could tell where she needed help. Lunch was a much needed break. She went to the cafeteria and decided to make a salad instead of standing in line. She was happy to see neither Brian or Mr. K. She made a small salad and sat down with Jackie and Chris.

“This is my first unsupervised meal since lunch yesterday.” Josie grumbled.

“About that,” Chris started “Brian said to keep an eye on you.” Jackie remained silent.

“Oh.” Josie said. “So he’s gotten to you guys too.” she said. Josie grabbed her tray and brought it to the window where Brian was in charge of the dirty dishes. Instead of placing her tray on the ledge she slid it right through the window so it crashed onto the floor on the other side. “WHAT THE FUCK!” Brian exclaimed when he saw it was Josie. She flipped him off and walked out of the cafeteria. She went up the hill to smoke a cigarette and after, she went to finish her tests. After class she went out for a cigarette, ignored everyone, and then went to the dorms. At 4:30 she went outside, had a cigarette and went into the rec. Down the hall to the right there was a TV room, next to that, a “card room”; a bunch of tables, not enough chairs and no cards. Down the hall to the left was the pool room; had four tables, and through that room was the exercise room. Josie got on a treadmill and walked on it for about five minutes before she became bored as fuck. She left the rec and went outside. She walked right down towards the bus stop and around the dorms to walk all the way up to the front of BC. She went around the building and walked around the cafeteria to the exit and back up the hill. When she made it back to the smoking area Joe was sitting on a bench with Brian.

“Josie come here, I got a proposition for you.” Joe said.

“She really smoked with you yesterday?” Brian asked incredulously.

“Whats up?” Josie asked, ignoring Brian.

“Put five on a bunt?” he asked quietly.

“With who?” Josie asked. Joe just looked at Brian. “No, no way.” she said.

“Please.” Joe said. “I’ll love you forever. Brian too.”

“Funny. No.” Josie said, walking away. She went around in the giant circle again and Brian and Joe were still there.

“Please.” Joe begged.

“What the fuck are you doing? Walking in circles?” Brian said

“No. I’m busy exercising.” she told Joe, but it was more for Brian, who she was still trying to ignore.

“20 pounds?” Brian asked.

“20 pounds?” Joe repeated.

“Yes, 20 pounds. I’m going to lose 20 pounds, be cute, and then I’m going to quit smoking because it’s the healthy thing to do.”

“Um, uh…” Joe stammered, not knowing what was going on.

“Well, catch you later Joe.” Josie said, walking away.

“What the fuck was that about?” Joe asked.

“I told her she needed to lose 20 pounds to be cute. And to quit smoking.”

“Well, that would explain why she doesn’t want to smoke with you.”

Josie went around one more time and when she got up the hill Joe was gone so she sat on the curb and lit a cigarette. Brian was still on his bench and she was still determined to ignore him. And then Nick was next to her. He leaned toward her and spoke low, so no one else could hear him.

“Wanna go for a walk?”

“Nick I told you to stay away from me.” she said, unable to get up since Brains eyes were glued on her and she wanted him to think she was capable of handling herself.

“Tired from all that walking you just did?”

“What?”

“I saw you walking.”

“Just go away, this is the last time I’m saying it.”

“HEY NICKY! GET OVER HERE. HAVENT SEEN YOU IN A FEW DAYS, FEEL LIKE YOUR AVOIDING ME.” Brian said from his bench. Nick got up and went to talk to him. Josie threw her butt on the ground and started for the dorms. She was able to walk about 10 feet before she was stopped.

“Miss Reynolds its quarter to five. Where are my cigarette butts?”

“Oh! I forgot all about them.” Josie said honestly. “I have them in my room. Would you like to escort me to get them?”

“Funny. I’m supervising dinner tonight. Give them to me then.”

“Kay Mr. K.” Josie said. She went back to her room and took a shower. She got dressed, blow dried her hair and went to dinner. She gave Mr. K his butts, grabbed a tray of rice, with a pork chop and a side of apple sauce. Josie filled a cup with Mr. Pibb while juggling her tray on one arm. She claimed her very own booth in a corner and sat to eat in peace. Mr. K was making his way around the room, but he kept looking in her direction. When he made it to her corner Josie asked if he could talk a minute.

“I think I could squeeze in a minute with you.” he said.

“Mr. K, I just want you to know, I don’t have an eating disorder. If anything, I eat too much. I’ve just never been a breakfast person but I’m fine eating lunch and dinner, and several snacks in between. You really don’t have to watch me. I eat.”

“Okay I’ll back off.” he said, smiling and walked away. Josie went back to eating her dinner. She had her head down, studying her rice when she heard a loud sniff behind her. Someone whispered huskily in her ear “Your hair smells good. It’s gorgeous. Wear it down more often.” The whisper had sent chills down her spine and she was afraid to turn around. She knew it was Nick. Josie shut her eyes tight, trying to think a minute. “If we ever had sex,” the voice continued “I’d bend you over and pull it while I ram my dick into you.” Josie’s eyes snapped open, her jaw fell. She tried to think of something, anything to say but she was speechless. After a moment she turned, but whoever had been whispering was gone.

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