Afflicted One -> Carl Gallagher

Surpised

I get to my house and I find the door open.
Broken glass on the floor and my mother on the couch. A beer in her hand and on the other a cigarette half way burnt.

"Mum?" I ask and I drop my bag on the floor and walk my way to her.

I see something next to her.

Needles.
"Mum you promised. You'd never do it again!" I tell and I start pushing her left and right.

She isn't awake. She used to much.
The table beside her has marijuana, meth and heroine.

She promised she wouldn't touch a single drug. I drag her to the bathroom and take off her clothes. I place her on the bath tub and I start the water. I turn the knob until the water is lukewarm. I apply shampoo in her hair and wash her body.

As soon as I finish bathing her  walk upstairs for a blanket and her pjs I find a black and white one.

I go back downstairs and dress my mother I cover her body with a blanket.

"Damnit mum!I'm trying to fit in. You were supposed to pick me up from school and you didn't show up!You just stayed all day here getting high. I'm trying to get myself together, meanwhile your falling apart." Tears start falling down. I quickly wipe them off.

"I'm sorry about your mom." A voice says from the kitchen.
I know that voice anywhere.
Carl.

"What the fuck! Get out of my house." I yell. And start pushing him out.

"Brooklyn." He tries to stop me but I'm already fed up with him.

"Can you listen!" He yells.

I stop pushing him and he grabs me by my forearms and pushes me away from him.

Carl glances at my mother passed out on the bed.
"My dad, he's a drug addict too. He seems calmer now but a few months ago a family friend found my dad and brought him home, he was so filthy. 4 baths didn't work on him. " he walks over to the drug table.

He picks up the pack of heroine and the needle.

"This much would of cost her atleast 200. From the looks of her,She's really out cold." What he does next was unexpected, he picks up a marijuana blunt and lights it up with a lighter.

"What are you doing?"I take it from him.

"Just relax and Get high."  I stare at the blunt for what seems to be an eternity.

I've never smoked before.
In one action I put the blunt in between my lips and breath in the effect.

This is good.

"It's great isn't it?" Carl chuckles and lights one for him self.

"What are you doing here." I take a small puff.

"I wanted to say I'm sorry about Holly and the hallway scenario." He blows out a smoke ring.

"You and Holly?" I ask as I sit down in a couch adjacent from my mum.

"We're good, but not so good. She can be very overprotective. That's why you have a blown up cheek. "He points to it.

"What makes her think I'm going to take you from her?" I ask as I release the smoke from my lips.

"Cause I always hit on the fresh girls. Especially one from England." Carl smirks.

"Oh really? Quite a player aren't you Carl?" The blunt is starting to kick in now, it's getting powerful. I start to laugh, this must be how being drugged is.