Krista

I walk through the kitchen, pile high with carnitas, buffalo chicken empanadas, potato chips and beer. They husbands are standing before the television playing football video games. one of them is wearing a large wrestling belt. I'd find out later that he won the fantasy football challenge. The wives are sitting on the wrap around couch watching their children climb over the frozen castle carved from blue and purple plastic. KRISTA and SAMANTHA are in the bathroom rolling cigarettes and smoking.

KRISTA:

You know what’s the deal, like they fucking, they rang my bell whatever, like what do you think I should do, and I explained the situation – what happened – and he was like just, you know, turn, you know turn yourself in and whatever and I’m thinking like these fucking like you know, but I went with a lawyer and it just so happens that the lawyer that I went with is the fucking landlord to this woman that I beat up.

We leave the bathroom sticking chip crumbs into cold queso fondito. KRISTA continues to talk as she leads Callie to the bathroom, reentering a few seconds later.

KRISTA:

And he’s like “she’s like fucking crazy, this lady. She does karate, well I’m like she didn’t do any karate that night cause I walked up like an ass, blind, oh my god it was a fucking, I had…Because I live up the block for him, she was with this guy Paul who lives up the block from my mother, so they knew who I was, and I guess it was that she supposedly was this tough girl around here – she got her ass beat and she probably felt...

HUSBAND leaving the bathroom, there is the scream of a child.

HUSBAND:

I’m sorry (laughter) sorry. It’s a force of habit. I shut the light, I turned off the light sorry didn’t mean to mess up your story, I’m sorry I didn’t mean to mess with your…

CALLIE:

Mommy!!!!

KRISTA:

You didn’t mess up my story you scared my daughter

CALLIE:

Mommy!!!!

HUSBAND:

Well I forgot and shut the light and closed the door didn’t mean to mess with your friggin crap session

CALLIE:

Mommy!!!!

HUSBAND:

He says happy birthday

KRISTA:

Happy birthday?

HUSBAND:

Yea, Nudie said

KRISTA:

Oh, Nudie says happy birthday, thank you, did he give us anything for free?

HUSBAND:

Yes, I told you already.

KRISTA:

Sweet. Thursday. I just didn’t know when I would have the kids out again, but um, I think his mom is going to take 'em, for, yea, well probably hang out on Tuesday um, he called me before, I don’t know if he called or whatever, he was like, guess what? He’s like, the guy that we get weed from, he called me and said he has E-pills, I was like really? Cause I haven’t got those in so long and I don’t do those mollies, I don’t like them anymore, like I did, but you know, for some reason. He gets this rock, like crystal, its not pressed, you break it up, it’s not a capsule, no, this is like fucking, it looks like crack, it’s like, it’s like, no really that’s what freaks me out about it, I don’t like it, I’m like, like when my friend Nuze, before he got locked up, he would give them in crack vials, it was white, it was powder, it was like white and we would, but I’m, yea, we would drink it, you don’t know what anything is really right? But you’re buying it from someone you know, trust, but um yea, but no, it, see but this stuff is completely different, like that stuff, I think the first time that I tried it was on my wedding day, um, cause I rarely ever did mollies, we just did like E-pills, you know, and um we had like 2 E-pills we were saving for so long until the night of our wedding, I had Callie but my mom took Callie to her house and we ended up doing them, my friend Nuze that we were getting weed from him, you can have these mollies, do you want to try one, and he was like alright and we did it and it was the best thing ever. I don’t know if it was because it was my wedding day or if it was like, but I was like wholly shit like these were great like I was in my heels and I couldn’t stand and I was like oh my god this is awesome – like you cant stand you feel awesome, no I just felt that mushy feeling when like you first do E, you know like that feeling, not because it was my wedding night, no I was like, we were talking, I was crying, like, it was so you know, we were just so happy and everything was like, I don’t know if it was because, it was probably because it was my wedding day also… after that we did them occasionally and I loved them… I think that one was very clean… it was not speedy… these, that we like he had gotten from this guy it started getting like, it was just speedy and I felt very antsy and that I couldn’t breathe I couldn’t catch my breath, I was like, this is like fucking meth… you know … its like rock, crystal

CALLIE exits bathroom, kisses KRISTA on the cheek

KRISTA:

Aw, you're so sweet,