Instead of partying with a crowd, Brendan drives her to a secluded grove of evergreens.
She raids her savings and asks him to buy her some meth before he picks her up. She gets into an argument with her mother, which causes Kristina to vow to try harder to break her growing addiction. Still riding the effects of meth, Kristina barely makes it through the first day of school. He takes her to a well-known party spot, and the two drink beer and get high. Although still grounded, Kristina calls Brendan to help her sneak out of the house. Her chance comes two days before the beginning of school. She spends the rest of her summer doing extra chores and watching television, which gives her more time to plot ways to party with the monster. Her mother orders her Grounded Until Further Notice or GUFN. Kristina revels in the boys’ attention until her mother notices a tattoo that Adam inked on her thigh. The other is Chase, a boy from school with a bad reputation.
While there, she again pretends to be Bree and flirts with two boys. Kristina attends her stepfather’s company picnic at a water park. She wonders how sincere his feelings were for her, especially when he tells her that they should be allowed to date other people. When she calls to talk to Adam, she learns he is visiting an old girlfriend in the hospital. Initially, Kristina struggles to fit back in with her family. She and Adam get high several more times before Kristina heads home to Reno, Nev.
From that experience, she is hooked on the intense rush the drug gives her. She wants to try the drug her father takes that makes him high for days.Īdam gives Kristina her first hit of methamphetamine, or “the monster” as she calls it, in a back room of the bowling alley where her father works. She agrees, but doesn’t like the mellow feeling marijuana gives her. Bree is confident, brazen and flirtatious.Ī week of clandestine talks and kissing lead to the night when Adam asks Kristina to get high with him. Attracted to him, she pretends to be Bree, the person she is in her daydreams. Left alone for most of her visit, Kristina meets Adam, a young man who lives in the same apartment complex. He smells of smoke and works in a bowling alley. When she arrives in Albuquerque N.M., she finds that he isn’t quite the man she’d imagined. Sixteen-year-old Kristina Snow embarks on a court ordered visit with her father, whom she hasn’t seen or heard from in eight years.
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