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Writers Note---Those that enjoy a good science fiction story know that they need to suspend their beliefs of the real world and allow for the possibility of things that are out of the ordinary. You will need to do that when you read this story. With that being said, while the science fiction stuff is mostly a product of my imagination, many of the smoking scenes are in fact based on real encounters and sightings that I've experienced throughout my life. Some have been modified to fit the context of the story but others remain mostly intact as they actually occurred. Lastly, when reading this I suggest that you pay attention to the timeline as it is critical to how you'll draw your conclusions over the story's ending. My email address is hotelcalifornia14@hotmail.com if you wish to discuss or comment on the story. I hope you have as much fun reading this as I did writing it. SISTERHOOD OF THE SMOKER BABES-THE SMOKING WAR CHRONICLES CHAPTER 6 - April 14, 2007 - Katie's New World Bud Algren swiped his debit card at the Stop and Shop checkout counter and glanced at his watch. He was late. He'd decided to swing by the market to pick up a few groceries but the fifty four year-old school custodian began regretting that choice when he saw how crowded the parking lot was. Tonight was Wednesday and he was now going to be late for his mixed bowling league. He'd tried to call ahead to let his teammates know but the cell phone reception on this side of town wasn't the greatest. He figured he'd try again when he got on the road. The cashier handed him his receipt and Algren wheeled his shopping cart towards the parking lot. As he pushed his carriage from the sidewalk into the main parking lot, a dark blue Chevy Cobalt stopped to let him pass. As he was pushing the carriage past the car a voice called out to him. "Hey, Mr. Algren," a voice called to him from the passenger seat. Algren turned and saw Katie Beckett, the school's star basketball player waving to him from the car. He couldn't quite make out who the driver was because the sun's glare was obscuring whoever it was. "How ya doin, Katie?" Algren replied as he started towards his car and then stopped. The Cobalt started to pull away, slowly but Algren noticed something in Katie's hand as she was waving to him. Was that a cigarette she was holding? Algren asked himself. He didn't have to debate this with himself for long. As the car continued past him he saw the girl pull the cigarette to her lips. A cloud of smoke escaped out the window as the car moved away. Algren stood in the parking lot, staring at the Cobalt as it drove away. He was more than a bit surprised at what he had just seen... Seventeen year old Ricky Berman was tired. He'd been up late the previous night studying for a chemistry test and after a long day at school, he was now in the middle of his six hour shift as a cashier at Dairy Mart. He was hoping for an easy night but the good weather seemed to be bringing everyone into his store. Up until a few minutes ago traffic within the store had been non-stop but finally the store was empty and he had a chance to snack on a strawberry toaster strudel and relax. It didn't last long. The bell over the door sounded, signaling that someone was walking into his store. He didn't look up right away, instead taking another bite out of the strudel while trying to answer one more word on a crossword puzzle. "Hey Ricky, can I get a pack of Marlboro Reds?" Ricky looked up. He recognized the girl asking him for a cigarettes but thought he misheard her. Or perhaps she was joking. "Hey dude, you are gonna sell to me right? I mean I DID let you copy me on that history test last year." Ricky was truly puzzled. Some of his classmates did come in and buy cigarettes from him from time to time. He usually sold to them if he knew them and there were no other adults in the store. But this was no ordinary classmate. This was Katie Beckett. The same Katie Beckett who was all over the papers. Katie Beckett didn't smoke! Katie was a jock and a good one at that. Ricky briefly considered that Katie was a narc working with the police in a sting operation to try and catch stores selling cigarettes to minors. But then Ricky smelled something that dispelled that theory. Katie stunk of cigarette smoke. Ricky recognized the fresh cigarette smell coming from Katie. It was the same way his older sister smelled when she came back in the house after going out for a cigarette. Katie had probably just finished a cigarette before stepping into the store, he thought. "Helloooo, earth to Ricky, can I get a pack of Reds or what?" she asked, but not in a mean or mocking tone. Actually, it was quite the opposite. She was smiling and she'd let her long blonde hair fall to one side. She leaned over the counter just enough to expose her cleavage underneath her lime green sleeveless top. She was wearing denim shorts and Ricky noticed for the first time that a pack of Reds was sticking out of her jeans by her belt buckle. For a split second he just stared at Katie. "Uh, yeah sure, that'll be five forty," Ricky said, slightly dazed by the fact that Katie Beckett of all people was smoking. "Cool, thanks!" she slapped six bucks on the table and gave Ricky a quick smile and pranced out of the store. Thirteen year old Abby Beckett sat in front of her computer, intent on finding some rare songs by the band Paramore that someone in a chat room told her about the previous night. She was blonde like her sister and tall for her age, only two inches shorter than Katie, a point which she constantly drove home to her older sister. She loved Paramore, the band who was fronted by Hayley Williams who Abby felt was the best singer alive. It would be so cool to tell her friends that she had found the songs that weren't on any of their first two albums. She would find them if it was the last thing she did. After a few minutes she hit pay dirt. "Rare Paramore songs download" read the link on her computer screen. She clicked on the link and in about five minutes the box on her screen said "Download complete" "Sweet!" she exhaulted, and gave herself the thumbs up sign. Her elation soon dampened however The files were on her computer but she couldn't open them. "Damn" she said. She kept clicking on the icon but nothing happened. She then went into her "all programs" menu and tried to open the mp3 files from there but still had no luck. She'd heard Katie come in a few minutes ago. Katie was good with computers. She could figure this out. Her excitement building again she got up and headed towards Katie's room. The door was 1/3 of the way open so Abby pushed it open the rest of the way and was immediately stopped dead in her tracks. Abby stood at Katie's doorway, gap. For a moment she was unable to process what she was seeing. For most of Abby Beckett's thirteen years she had never been at a loss for words. Abby was a talker, Abby was outgoing, Abby was even funny sometimes. But right now Abby was totally speechless because she couldn't believe what her sister was doing. She was on her cell phone AND she was smoking! A cigarette! Katie! For a second, Katie didn't see her sister coming in. She took a deep drag and blew a plume of smoke in the general direction of the ceiling. When she saw her sister, she put her hand over the mouthpiece and said, "oh, hey," to Abby and motioned her in and then went back to her phone call and took another drag from her cigarette. Sixteen year old Katie Beckett was on top of the world. The last four weeks had been pretty amazing. College recruiters had been calling her and she'd been invited to play on an exclusive team this summer that would travel to California for two weeks. She'd gotten two invites to the senior prom, which was almost unheard of for a sophomore. But there was more. She was always a confident girl with a lot of interests and for the most part a happy person. But now, something was changing, or maybe even growing inside of her. She couldn't put her finger on it, it was just there. A certain feeling of power. Maybe it was the new clothes she was buying which featured more sleeveless tops which left her stomach exposed. Maybe it was the way she smiled with her eyes that gave off a different vibe. Or maybe it was the way guys were looking at her all of a sudden. There was something else she realized over the past two weeks. She absolutely loved smoking. She loved the way it made her feel, she loved how she looked when she was holding a cigarette in her hands but most of all she loved the attention she seemed to garner when people noticed her and her new habit. She'd seen some of the looks when she walked through town, people's expressions ranged from mild surprise to outright shock that a girl like her, with her athletic resume, would even think about touching a cigarette. Katie would laugh to herself at these reactions. For some reason she didn't care what people thought, it was none of their business really. Smoking had unleashed something inside her and since she started she'd felt more free to be herself than at any other time in her life. Up until now she'd concealed her new habit from her family, her dad Kevin, her mom Eileen and her little sister Abby. Aside from the first cigarette she tried in her room, she'd been sneaking out the back door and smoking behind the garage. This was ok at first but when she started getting cravings in the middle of the night, going out to the garage at 2 am was becoming a pain in the ass. She decided it was time to reveal herself to the family unit. The first part of her plan happened earlier in the evening. She decided to light a cigarette in her room knowing Abby was home and invariably would come in and discover her. If it didn't happen on the first cigarette, then it would on the second or the third. Abby always came in. The two sisters were close and sisters who are close share things with each other. Katie pretended not to notice the astonished look on her sister's face when she walked in. She wanted to burst out laughing but instead played it very cool and laid back and continued her phone conversation with Alyssa while her sister stood at the doorway with a look of utter shock. She'll understand someday, Katie thought to herself. Probably a lot sooner than I did. Katie took a cigarette out of her Marlboro Reds pack and brought it to the flame that was dancing over her lighter. She took one drag and blew a couple of smoke rings which she'd learned to do with Alyssa a couple of days ago. She smiled confidently to herself. Abby was the easy part, but the parentals; well that was going to be interesting. She took one more deep drag, blew the smoke into the hallway as she left her room and headed calmly down the stairs. Kevin and Eileen Beckett sat in the living room. Kevin was watching ESPN Sportscenter and Eileen was engrossed in a Mary Higgins Clark thriller. It was a quite early spring night in the Beckett home. Abby was upstairs doing her homework and Katie had mentioned she was going to call the nursing home to see if she could pick up a few extra hours this weekend. Eileen was too engrossed in her novel, Kevin probably noticed first because ESPN was on a commercial break. At first he thought he was drunk. But how could that be. He'd only had two beers and that was over an hour and a half time span. "Mom, Dad - I'm a smoker now." Katie stood at the edge of the living room. She had a glow about her that Kevin never saw before. For a moment he wasn't even sure it was his daughter standing there. She was calm and deliberate and her tone of voice seemed to display cocky confidence that Kevin had never seen in his oldest daughter. She took a drag from her cigarette. Eileen dropped her paperback on the floor. "I started about a month ago," she began as she walked into the living room, grabbed an empty coffee cup that was on the coffee table to use as an ashtray and continued. "As I was saying, I smoke now, and I love smoking. Not how I love basketball and not how I love dogs, but it's just as intense. It makes me feel awesome and well, to tell you the truth, smoking helps me chill out which I probably need cuz I'm always waaay to intense anyway." The senior Becketts were in shock. Kevin for a split second wondered if aliens had kidnapped his daughter and left some extra terrestrial being in her place. Katie did a double pump and continued. "I'm not saying this to disrespect you but you can't stop me, and you can't talk me out of it, nobody can. It's my decision, my body and if you tell me I can't I will anyway." Katie paused for a second to take a drag. "I'm not like other kids, I'm not gonna go off and do drugs and quit school. I'm the same. I still play basketball, I still get good grades and I still want to go to college. Oh and Dad if you're worried it'll affect my running for ball, it doesn't, I just do extra cardio at the gym. OHMYGod, smoking after a workout it's like the best fucking cigarette ever... umm sorry," She took another drag. Her adrenaline was sky high, as high as it was during the state championships. "Oh yeah, Abby already knows, I think it freaked her out a little - she didn't say anything and well, Abby always says something." Kevin clearly at a loss for words, spoke first after looking at his wife. "Your mother and I will need to talk about this. I appreciate you being direct and honest with us Katie and not trying to hide this from us. Give us five minutes and we'll come up and talk to you." Five minutes later Kevin and Eileen went up to Katie's room. They didn't try to talk her out of smoking. They didn't lecture her, instead telling her she was old enough to know the risks and make her own decisions. They did tell her that she couldn't prance around the house flaunting her smoking habit and blowing smoke all over the house but would be allowed to smoke in her room. And then they said something about having to go talk to Abby. For a split second, Katie felt a bit badly that she'd upset her parents. She clearly didn't want to hurt them or make them feel uncomfortable. But she also didn't want to hide who she was, and smoking was becoming a big part of who she was. She was really beginning to like, no love, this new emerging version of herself. She smiled to herself as she drew another cigarette and flicked her lighter. Her pack was almost empty. She was going to have to take a walk to Dairy Mart before the night was over and pay Ricky another visit. |
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