Lost And Away - The Beginning - Violet

What I enjoyed most about following Ethan to the middle of fucking nowhere was meeting Lulu.  She at the time was debating between names.
   "Lola or Lulu?  I look more like a Lulu, don't I?" 
   I was speechless.  I had never met one of her kind before.  She was gorgeous.  Her lips were much fuller than mine, and she loved to wear red-red lipstick if she could get her hands on any.  Her eyebrows were thin and shaped.  She had thick, purple hair that reached her shoulders.  And her body was large.  Not fat in any way, just bigger. I felt like a small child when she first met me and proceeded to give me a big hug which lifted me off the floor.
   "Finally, another girl to talk to!" she had said.
    I still wasn't sure about her.  She seemed strange, but I couldn't place my finger on it.  She showed me up the stairs of the broken, old house and directed me to the room with the red door.  I wanted to run downstairs to find Jericho and make sure he was alright, but Lola was intimidating.  She had a big smile, with lots of teeth.  Surprisingly they were all white.  My tongue brushed against my own. She could see me staring, so I felt compelled to explain myself.  "How--how do you get your teeth so white?  Do you have toothpaste?"
   Her face softened and she opened the red door, "Oh sweet cheeks, you are going to have fun living with me."
   The room was big enough for two people, with matching twin beds and two vanities.
   "I think the family must have had twin girls, because they left a bunch of make up," she said.  Lola opened and revealed drawers full of lipsticks and powders and creams.   She got up and grabbed my hands and sat me down at the opposite vanity.  Her hands were big too; made mine look like baby hands.  "You are going to love it here sweety.  Don't be afraid.  We're going to have a lot of fun together."
   "You're different," I said.
   That's when she started to laugh at me.  She looked like she was going to pass out from suffocation.  "Oh, sweety.  You have no idea!  Good lord, I can already tell we are going to be best friends." 
    And that's how I became best friends with Everest "Lulu" James. 

Lost and Away - The Beginning - Doc

   I remember the moment exactly.  I was sitting in what was left of the family room, my lamplight slowly but surely dying on me.  It was hard to see but I needed the herbs to be separated as quickly as possible.  The more time they spent in open air, the less powerful they became.  And the weaker the substance, the less likely my product would sell.  My hands began to shake, but I was almost finished.
   A dim light appeared in the hallway.  It got brighter and brighter, until finally a small figure walked into the room.  The kid was barely a foot tall, had very light blond hair and the biggest smile on his face.  The I-found-you kind of smile.
   And that was when I knew.  That was the moment I realized that I was going to get stuck with this kid Jericho Wood. 

The first time

Writhing.  Pain.
Twitching hands.
That initial trickle of blood you left me with.
We danced in slow motion,
I couldn't see a thing.  But I remember hands.
Your hands found me.  All over they found me.
Sometimes we choose to forget the sin,
Pinned to our mortality by our foremothers.
Just a bite of that red round apple,
Sweet, crisp taste on the tips of our tongues,
The foam, that drips off the corners of our lips,
And we readily take it all in. Inch by inch.
Surrender and sweltering pain, that thing you did to me.
Under that tree.