Fiction Exert - Blood and Loss
By Electa Graham
CHAPTER 1
“Do you have to go?”
I sighed. That had been the tenth time she
had asked me the same question. My
roommate was driving me around the
bend.
Lena flitted around like a hummingbird,
going from one part of our tiny dorm
room to the next, getting in my way as I
tried to pack. She was lucky she was so
cute or I would have throttled her a long
time ago. Her brown eyes peeked out
from behind her Cookie Monster blue
Mohawk. She hadn’t bothered to put it up
this morning, so it was hanging down
across her face.
When she caught me watching her, she
drew her tiny bow lips into a pout and
batted her long black eyelashes. I
wondered how she could fit that huge
personality into that tiny body. If you
included her heavy studded leather belt
and soaked her to the bone, she might
weigh a hundred pounds and she was
using every cute ounce of it to change my
mind.
“You know I do. Mom and Dad have
been nagging me about Thanksgiving for
weeks. Until I graduate, they control the
money. If I have no money, then who will
buy you your drinks?”
“I buy sometimes, plus I provide all of
this.” She gestured to her body. “What
more could you want.”
I