Wednesday Evening, Christmas Eve, December 24, 2008:
Anastasa had invited Seneca to spend Christmas Eve with her, her live-in boyfriend Gintas, and other Russians. It was to be a well-dressed evening with good liquor and wonderful food! Russian parties tend to be elegant and fun. The gracious and beautiful host, Anastasia, extended the offer to Reena and Vicky when informed they had nowhere to go.
The day started out poorly, with Vicky late on preparing her food contribution to the party. Worse, she was out of Oxy, and demanded that substance be re-supplied to her before she could once again function as a human being. She was up partying on Oxy all the previous night with Kris.
Seneca had come to realize that, as cute and fiery as Vicky is, she may not be the best choice as a date.
The official name of Oxy is OxyContin, but on the street it’s often called ”oxycotton”.
When taken in pill form, as intended, OxyContin is a slow-release narcotic prescribed for pain caused by cancer, severe arthritis, sickle cell disease, and nerve damage. The active ingredient in the drug is a morphine derivative, the same as that also found in Percodan.
But when bought on the street, oxycotton is crushed and snorted to deliver a powerful and fast high that many users say is better than heroin.
Depending on the quality of heroin available to an addict, Oxy can be more powerful!
Three hours are lost acquiring product to return Sandy to functionality (getting her off dope-sickness). Her value is not soaring in the eyes of Seneca.
Vicky gets a late start preparing the food, and they are two-and-a-half hours late arriving to the party.
Seneca is extremely embarrassed.
Arriving home for a quick change of clothes just before arrival at the party, Seneca finds Sandy sitting alone. Her plans with the black addicts in Maywood fell through. He throws her in the car and takes her to the party.
Seneca and Gintas, Anastasia’s live-in boyfriend, have become good friends. Gintas is tall, masculine, laidback, and charming. His specialty is being able to get the normally non-drinking Seneca to consume copious quantities of alcohol.
When drunk, the gorgeous Reena is willing to have sex with anything that moves. When sober, she feels terrible about what she’s done. She asked Seneca and Sandy to protect her from her drunkenness, and stop her from any stupid moves she would later regret. On the day after Thanksgiving, she asked them to be her protector.
But Sandy wants to take advantage of her.
You don’t mess with Seneca’s adapted daughter!
At the party, Seneca is sitting in the middle of the couch, Gintas on his right, Reena on his left. Very near Reena, sitting on a dining-room chair, is Sandy, drunk and and high on heroin.
Sandy begins making-out with the drunk Reena.
Seneca is livid over Sandy’s violation of the trust placed by Reena in them.
Seneca grabs Reena and throws her over himself so she’s sitting between himself and Gintas. Sitting between these two, no one will mess with Seneca’s adapted daughter.
Seneca vows mentally to get Sandy out of his life as soon as possible. Seneca cannot believe he brought Sandy to this party of civilized people, and is embarrassed.
Reena is very jealous of Seneca’s entrancement with Vicky over the past two weeks, and begins calling Vicky names. Seneca strongly orders Reena to shut-up several times, and finally she does.
Vicky was supposed to spend the night in Seneca’s bed, and she changes her mind because of Reena’s conduct. Reena is successfully sabotaging the relationship.
A Russian, Sasha, asks Sandy if she’d like to go outside for a cigarette. Sandy agrees, but fails to move. Sasha asks again, Sandy agrees again, whereupon the Russian helps Sandy out of her chair and takes her into a bedroom, closing the door.
All evening, Vicky has been flirting intensely with a black guy, Nelson. Seneca cannot blame Nelson, for Sandy is a hot blonde and Nelson doesn’t know that Vicky is with Seneca. Vicky has chosen to avoid Seneca all night. Nelson is actually a pretty good guy.
Forty-five minutes later, Sandy is still in the bedroom getting diddled silly by the Russian.
Vicky and Nelson are talking about sex pheromones, believing that each are releasing chemosignals affecting the endocrine balance of the other, causing intense sexual attraction between the two. They can go fuck themselves.
Reena is asleep between Gintas and Seneca.
Anastasia and Gintas are staring into space with a dazed look, wondering what hurricane hit their home.
Seneca stands up, asks the black dude to drive Vicky home (his dream came true!), apologizes to Anastasia and Gintas, and throws Reena into the car, headed home. Sandy is left in the bedroom with the Russian.
The Russian takes Sandy to his home. The two stay in bed another day. On December 26, Seneca asks Sandy to move out of his home.
Sandy goes on a three-day heroin binge with the black addicts in Maywood, then returns to Seneca, requesting food and shelter till she can get into rehab. Seneca agrees.
In Seneca’s mind, the relationship with Vicky is over.
It indeed turns out to be over.
Both Nelson and Vicky claim nothing happened on the way home.
Nelson, you can have her!
Sasha continues to whine that Sandy will not call him.
Sasha, Sandy normally does not date white guys. You got lucky.
Reena blames herself for the Vicky/Seneca break-up, and works hard for a reconciliation.
Reena fails.
Anastasia and Gintas remain good friends with Seneca.
Reena and Seneca remain close.
Sandy’s waiting for a bed in rehab.
The Journey continues.
