More Confessions: That Time I Ended Up Working for a Drug Runner Pt 4! The Secret You've Been Waiting For! 🤔😑🙄
Ok so things are dangerous- check, I am alone in a foreign country- check, I have no idea how to get out of here- check.
Well, let's keep going then. If you've been following this story until now, you're probably dying to know about this secret. This part was so challenging to put into words...Here is part 4, I'm going to let you in on a secret that you'll have to hear from me to believe. You've been anxiously asking for this so let's see what happens next!
If you missed the first part, check it out here
part 2 is over here and everyone's favorite part 3 is here before reading on :)
Confessions of a Vagabond:
The Next Chapter: "Remember the Time I Worked for a Drug Runner in Punta Cana PT 4"
A gypsy life bought to you by @heart-to-heart
From January 2014- June 2017 I have been what you would call a vagabond, a nomad, even a gypsy by definition of the words. I had what they all have in common: no fixed home...and no fixed income but the wildest stories.
I woke up to a loud noise, face down in a puddle of my own drool.
No chance was I going to open that door.
I was scared. I mean, come on, this was the second time now I had woken up like this…
Could it be the rum?
It’s possible…
Did I drink enough rum for it to be possible?
It’s possible….
But wait a minute… I was drinking water at the end.
Nothing was making sense. This time, my phone was in bed with me and luckily had some clues on it.
“Call me when you get this.” Said a message from a name I didn’t know.
FB was open to a friend request of the same name.
I did remember that before my eyes shut on me, I was sitting at a table learning all about my new ‘friends.’
I texted the number back. They asked me if I was OK and told me they were coming over.
Coming over? What are they talking about… coming over?
...
“Come downstairs!”
Someone was yelling outside of my window. I looked down, eyes fogged and saw an outline of a tall man.
“Come down!”
He yelled again.
Ugh. Ya, OK, let me just get right on that, random stranger.
I got another text-
“I don’t know what room is yours, come down so we can talk.”
Well that was good news at least. The random man didn’t know which apartment I was in, just my building. I guess I could go down and see what he was yelling at me for.
But wait… then who was knocking on my door earlier?
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Jeff was a tall, muscularly man… His eyes, deep and dark, his hair the same color of his skin, a beautiful dark tan from his days under the sun.
He said he had been living in this compound for a few years and that he’d known the gang since they got there. He asked me if I was familiar with any of their businesses. I told him I had come to work for them at the cave and on their not-so-yacht. He told me he lost track of me the night before, that I had simply vanished.
“Hey, I have a bit of an intrusive question to ask you. I’m not really sure how to go about it but… well, are you into any drugs?”
I stood there, face blank, hands on my forehead trying to shield the sun from my eyes looking up at him. I looked into his kind face, his brows narrowed.
“I’m sorry, maybe that’s not for me to ask.”
His eyes quickly dropped to the ground, searching frantically for anything else to look at other than my eyes.
“Umm… Jeff was it?”
He nodded.
“I don’t really feel comfortable with this kind of personal question, but no, I’ve not been on or using any drugs though I feel like something weird has been going on.”
“What do you mean by that?”
I struggled trying to find the right words...
“I think it’s possible that I’ve been… never mind. Nothing, it’s silly. Anyways, who even are you?”
Feeling really stupid that I was giving this stranger personal information, my mind started backing out of the conversation quick. I found out Jeff was from Canada too, he moved to Punta Cana a couple of years ago and had never been back home since. He worked down in one of the restaurants during the days and bartended a hang out spot at night. He said he’d been around long enough to know who was who and seeing me come in, new, peaked his curiosity. Especially when he found out that I lived in the same buildings as him.
If you’ve ever seen 'Melrose Place', you might be able to get a better picture of our housing situation. Basically it’s a compound with 8 different buildings that each had separate apartments within them, like a residence. In the center was a big pool and hang out area. What made this place even more attractive was that a lot of people living there were foreigners who were working in the hospitality and tourism industry so it was kind of a close knit community where everyone eventually ended up knowing each other (and all their business).
Emily came out onto her patio and saw Jeff and I outside talking.
“Jeff! Good to see you, how are you?” She yelled down.
Jeff started looking incredibly uncomfortable, he shifted around on his feet and yelled back up-
“Hey Em, I’ve been good, I’ve been good. How’s the baby?”
“Why don’t you two come up here and we can all hang out a bit, I’m lonely!”
Jeff looked at me, then back up at her.
“I actually have to go to work, but I have tonight off- maybe later?”
He smiled at me and started taking off across the court.
“I’ll catch up with you both after work! I hope you feel better kiddo.” He yelled back over his shoulder.
That was so strange I thought. I wonder what he wanted. Now Em’s attention was on me.
“Come up here! I’ve been trying to get a hold of you!”
“Ya OK, one second… I need to lock the door.”
I thought seriously about just staying in my place and ignoring her but I thought if anyone was the good guy, it would be her so begrudgingly I drug myself over to her place and up those awful stairs.
...
“I came over this morning and knocked like crazy. Where did you go last night?”
“What do you mean?”
“Babe, you straight up vanished from the bar. James and I were so worried about you!”
“Umm… to be honest, I really don’t know.”
“I saw you in the bathroom and you were not looking so good, I went to get you water and when I came back you were gone.”
“I… I don’t know Em… I don’t remember... Is there anything I should know about?”
“We’re going to need to get you feeling better! Kyle is about to come over and he’s super excited for us to get the cave open!”
“Em… I can’t handle anything right now, I think I just need to…”
The door swung open and broke my train of thought in half.
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Adam! Finally Adam was here!
“Holy *&%$ honey, what happened to you?”
He asked me. My eyes were rolled back into my brain, my head was flung back onto the pillows behind me and my face was a creamy pale white (despite my usual tan.)
“Probably the rum.”
I said to him, half smiling. Then I motioned for him to come over to me and we hugged- this hug was so powerful. It was a connection to home, trust, years of loyalty to one another. I was feeling like he was my savior. I still needed the money and he would keep me safe, I knew it.
When Adam arrived, it was so much different for him, Kyle and James took him out, bought him dinner, showered him in drinks and he was so caught up, he couldn’t be bothered by anything. I tried to confess to him that I was worried about what was going on but he assured me it was fine and told me to relax.
“Adam, seriously, I need to talk to you alone.”
“Honey, I can’t talk to you alone right now, we’re out with everybody, just relax. Let’s have some tequila- I know you love tequila. What do you say?”
“Well, Ok you’re probably right. I am probably just overreacting. You said you’ve known them for a long time, right?”
Cheers!
Adam kissed me on the cheek and told me to go shower and get ready because we were about to 'live it up.'
When I walked in the door to my apartment, I noticed the door was unlocked.
I was thinking the worst and started fearing that my stuff would be gone when I got in. Nothing looked different except… that wasn’t my shirt on the sofa. Those weren’t my shoes at the door. That wasn’t my bag in the kitchen… someone else was in the house.
I went out to the patio and could see that Emily was sitting on hers, smoking. I started gesturing like a mad woman to get her attention, pointing inside and mouthing wild versions of “SOMEONE IS IN MY HOUSE!”
It looked like a light bulb went off in her head and she got excited.
“Must be Anna, she works for us! Say hi!”
Well, why wouldn’t they tell me they were putting someone else in the house? I was having a meltdown trying to figure out what to do.
Just then, the bathroom door opened and this beautiful girl walked out in a towel.
“Hola...” (Lots more Spanish that I didn’t understand.)
“Umm… Hi. I don’t speak Spanish… yet… I’m sorry.”
“Me… Anna.” She said pointing to herself, then grabbed my hand and brought me into the other room. She motioned towards her things and then laid down on the bed and motioned for me to join her.
I’m not the world’s best charades player but I gathered she was telling me she would be living in this room.
I smiled at her, (the universal language) and sat down beside her. I was hoping I could get some information from her.
“Can you speak any English?”
“A little.”
“AHHHH! Great!” I squealed with delight! “So you work for Kyle and James.”
“I am work for Kyle.”
“Where?” I asked.
“In town. I am Kyle’s girl.”
“You’re his girlfriend?”
“Kyle’s girl.” She repeated smiling at me.
Well, now I was even more confused but yelling from outside caught my attention.
Adam was downstairs with a huge glass in his hand.
“Yo homegirl, let me up!”
“Just come up the stairs Adam, I’ll meet you at the door.”
Adam barged in and flung himself on the sofa.
“Isn’t this the most fun you’ve ever had? Seriously this is such a great gig!” He slurred.
“Adam, I really want to talk to you.”
“Get your damn panties out of their bunch. You need to shower and get ready. Wear something beautiful. I want you to be my date!”
I showered and got ready and when I came out of the bathroom, Anna and Adam were sitting on the couch laughing and having a semi decent conversation.
“Adam, you speak Spanish?”
“Well, a little, I know Portuguese. Why?”
“Ask her right now if she’s Kyle’s girlfriend.”
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Together we went back over to their apartment, but James and Kyle were flying around the place with fliers, clearly in work mode.
“Yo Adam, we have to go promote the *&%^ out of this place tonight. Are you down?”
“Hell ya I am, that’s the name of my game. Let’s do it!”
He grabbed my hand and started pulling me out the door when James stepped in front of us and blocked me out of the door.
“Well, actually let’s make it a guy’s night tonight. The girls can stay here with the baby, Kyle stayed in last night.”
With that, they were all shuffling through the door into the hallway and leaving me with a blank stare on my face. Adam didn’t even look back.
“You can go too if you want Em, I can watch the baby.”
“No, it’ll be fun for us to stay put. Let’s have a girl’s night! Want some rum?”
My mind: "Umm NO I DO NOT WANT SOME RUM! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!"
“Ya, sure.”
Do you ever go back in your head and just slap yourself for saying something stupid. I just slapped myself right now.
Em called her delivery guy and what seemed like only 5 minutes later, a knock came at the door.
I opened it, half expecting to have to pay the delivery man when I came face to face with Jeff.
“Heard there was a party over here pretty ladies, I’ve got the rum!”
We were all dancing, swinging around the small room, munching on chips and pizza we had just ordered and taking swigs of rum while the baby was sleeping in the other room.
I stumbled into the bathroom, I had never used their bathroom before but we were all pretty tipsy and after I asked Em where it was and made my way to it, I realized I was in their own personal space for the first time, it was like seeing them with new eyes.
The bathroom was a mess, stuff everywhere and bottles leaking in the sink, in the shower. I had a serious urge to clean it. I saw some powder all over the back of the toilet and wiped it off into the toilet bowl. I got some stuck to my hands and started dusting it off into the air. It got in my nose and caused me to sneeze really loudly and Em came running into the bathroom.
“Babe, why didn’t you just ask for some?”
I learned later she was responding to the now missing powder.
“For some… what?”
“You’re so funny… Here, do you trust me?” she grabbed an object, I couldn’t see what it was.
“Umm… ya Em, I guess so …sure.” I was trying not to offend her and to be honest, she was the one I would trust most out of the whole lot of them. She seemed so gentle, loving, caring... maybe it was because she was a mother.
“I know things have been tough for you, I think I have a way to make you feel so much better.”
I really wanted to feel better, it felt like I had been losing my mind lately.
“OK, now just lean your head back, it's completely natural, organic from the bushes in South America. We get it from staright from the boats, don't worry! I’m going to give this to you now, just relax.”
Mind spinning off rum, not knowing who to trust and lusting desperately for the pain in my heart to stop, I let my head fall back into her waiting palm. Holding my head with her one hand, she took her other hand and put the object into my nose.
I was so surprised by how fast it all happened that when I opened my mouth to ask her what was going on, I breathed in, heavily. (After years of working in bars and nighclubs, I had done a really good job avoiding drugs despite working along side of them and now I was knee deep in an unknown country with no friends or family around with this being the time to change all that.)
HOLY *&%$. My world was spinning.
Jeff and Emily kept going in and out of the bathroom. The energy was wild in the room, everything was amplified. I felt like I would never be able to sleep again. I couldn’t even be mad because I had this permanent smile on my face. I did start to get super paranoid though and I sat down, mind racing.
"This is natural?" I asked her.
“Honey, you’re fine. I can tell you’re tripping out. It’s all natural, I promise. Like I told you, we get it ourselves.” Em was standing over top of me, her mouth was moving in all kinds of weird directions.
“Whaat…?”
Jeff came over and stood over top of me now.
“You’ll love it girl, embrace it.”
3-4 hours later I was on the ground having what they were calling “withdrawal.” My skin was trying to expand from my bones, my heart was on fire, pushing its way through my ribs, I was crying and laughing and rolling around on the ground begging for it to stop.
I took Em’s phone and ran to the roof with it. I called my guy back in DC and he told me to stay calm. I was now hysterical, telling him how much I missed him and loved him and just wanted desperately to be with him. I told him I wasn’t safe and how things were turning out so differently than I had planned. I was scared and alone.
Just then, James showed up on the roof and took the phone.
“Hey man, she’s fine, I got her, don’t worry. We’ll have her call you tomorrow k?”
Then he hung up the phone, picked me up over his shoulder and brought me down to the couch.
“Guys this isn’t good, how much did you give her?”
“I don’t know, it seemed like she wanted it. She’s freaking out, you’re going to have to go get more, we ran out.”
"YOU RAN OUT?!"
I could hear them arguing over my sobbing that was turning more and more dramatic.
“Alright, I’ll be right back. Keep her down here.” Then James left out the door.
“Please help me” I begged. “Please make it stop. I need it to stop.”
Jeff was smoking on the balcony, Em was hovering over me stressing out.
The door flung open and in walked Kyle and Adam.
“Hey where’s James, we need to get Chris (that was a name I hadn’t heard before) out of here.”
He looked over at me and then back at Emily.
“I don’t know what is going on in here but you better get her sorted out. Chris needs to be on that boat in the morning and we have to help him do it.”
“Wait a minute, I thought he was clear, I thought they weren’t following him anymore.”
“Well Em, when you’re on the run for f*^%ing manslaughter… then take off out of the country, things don’t just stop for you that quickly. Now come on and help me plan this!”
OMG. If you want to hear the rest of this, you're going to have to wait until next time! Just wait until I tell you about Chris's story... how he ended up on the run and why they were helping him...it's too much for right now... I have to give it it's own part to do it justice. Check back in with me soon for part 5.
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This story is insane! Hard to believe it's from the person who's currently water fasting ;-)
This is one of the best comments I have received in my entire life. I feel like you know me ;) You made me laugh hysterically out loud! I had to show this comment to the person who knows me the best just to laugh together... IT'S SO TRUE... my transformation from these days is unbelievable... writing this and getting back into her head is just a trip in it's own. :P
XO,
Ha! Yes, I bet it's a head trip. It must really feel like she was an entirely different person. Amazing and wonderful how much we can change over the course of a lifetime - or even just a few years. How is the fast going?
Oh wow I missed this post! Yes, she was completely insane and I hardly ever let her out anymore :) It's true, I really love being able to look back and see this through new eyes. I wrote a bunch more of this story since this post and it's been incredible looking back.
The fast went great! I enjoyed it, I think I am due for another soon :) Hope everything is well with you! I still don't know how I missed this message!
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Hi @kiwideb :) A couple of months ago I was writing this crazy story that you liked! I took some time off as I was traveling but I have finally come back to it. Funny enough I see in our comments that when we were last talking I was fasting. I just came out of a 84hr fast yesterday- crazy ;) Anyways if you're interested in how everything turned out it's right here! =D Hope you are still Steeming :)
Ha! I've done another 84 hour fast since then as well - at the beginning of Jan. I missed a few comments about 6 days ago, so hurrying off to see if I can catch the story before the voting period ends.
Oh wow! How did it feel? I had a hard time with this one, lots of detox just put me over the edge ;) I put out 2 chapters, I'll have to get started on the next one soon!
I found it easier the second time, maybe because I knew I could do it reasonably comfortably, so wasn't worried about it. The first time I was spacing out by the last morning, so thought that meant 3.5 days was my limit. But this time I felt fine at that time and did another 24 hours on just broths. I haven't retested my fasting insulin but I have kept reducing weight since the fast, so think my insulin levels must have improved this time round, which was my main goal.
Did you suspect you were going to need to detox, or was it a bit of a surprise?
I think you are right! It does seem so much easier if it's more than a one off thing! The body remembers and responds better when it knows what it's already successfully conquered before!
That is incredible! They say the best benefits come after the hardest part is over. I'm excited to see what comes next!
I bet your insulin improved. Tons of studies show incredible benefits through fasting. I'd be curious to see the firsthand stats on it. Try it next time to see =D
I believe I am really healthy so I guess I thought it would be more mental detox than physical but I forgot I had been off my schedule with my father for 3 months so I had a lot more to detox than normal and it really freaked me out haha
Of course going into a fast it's expected to cleanse but I didn't think I would be so immobile since normally I'm pretty functionable.
Since the fast I have been giving my body a break from dinner until lunch so I have over 12 hour rest periods every day and I feel incredible! I have noticed a lot more patience, energy and stability in my emotions. I really love it!
Are you going to continue fasting to see what else happens?
Finally i'm getting some time to read my favorite real life story! It's becoming more and more intense @heart-to-heart! Just wondering your state of mind after taking that stuff! Must be scary surely!
I saw the 4.5 too, so excited to read it now!
Cheers
@progressivechef
I actually couldn't think in the same way, everything was too hazy and loud. So it made it a lot harder to deal with :( But it's Kat's fault...
If only I meet with Kat ...She will know my second side for sure!
Your stories are nutso!
I absolutely agree with your sentiments ;)
XO,
H2H 💜
In case you're wondering how this all tuned out, I have gotten to the pretty intense part... I feel like anyone who started here needs to know what's going on ;) The murderer
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Yeah First time I decided to read a story in steemit and I'm just shocked what did I have just read 🙃
Hahaha well this is a pretty crazy story! I warned you at the beginning!
XO,
H2H 💜
love it, we have similar secrets....lol upvoted and followed. looking forward to more
Haha uh-oh... I hope not part of the same story -_- I didn't tell them anything! I swear ;)
Because you sent me this cool meme way back when this story was just starting, I wanted to let you know that I've written a whole bunch more to it and it's pretty crazy. i think you'll like it ;)
It's here if you're interested :)
Everything is out of control. It keeps getting more interesting.
Maybe I should stop telling you all this story... I feel like I'm incriminating myself ;)
Ahhh man...now we got some sort of murderer involved! Geez!
Hahaha well, yes. Yes we do. And I am not in any state of mind to deal with that information.
This is just incredible. At this point I am with you on the fear. You've got me wondering how you and I are talking now after all this...
Yeah... you know the me sitting there at the time, doesn't know how she's going to get out of there... but we'll get to that part soon ;)
But for real, I think I am underplaying the fear part because I'm all looped out. It was freaking insanely scary... I only laugh now!
The good thing is that you can laugh about it now!
Laugh about it with you! :)
It's pretty disappointing that I've missed following the confessions from Part I. I knew you wouldn't disappoint me @heart-to-heart. I can't be more concrete since your format is (unfortunately) still new.
Hey, why you have put your tags in quotes, like 'life', 'travel'.. you shouldn't do that. And fix the blog one - there's ] at the end :)
Hi @steemfluencer! I am super happy to hear you've stumbled upon my stories and are enjoying them! I'm sorry I'm not sure what you mean about my format being new? I am a new user, less than a month old!
It did it on it's own when I switched it from another platform I was using to write it in. I didn't realize it didn't carry over properly but it must be a glitch on their end. Thanks for bringing it to my attention :)
XO,
H2H 💜
First time im reading your stories @heart-to-heart and im loving it!!
I love that you're enjoying them @gingerninja, they are way too fun to write! ;)
XO,
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