While squatting in those apartments, Aurora would use candle wax and crayons to paint the walls. He thinks that they had a closer relationship before she went to juvie, and that they would spend time together every day, breaking into empty apartments for a place to sleep. Lucero reveals that he and Aurora only see each other about twice a month. When he finds that she is absent, he punches himself in the face "just to clear head" (53). He goes into living room, hoping to see Aurora there. When he wakes up again, he is in the tub with blood on his chin, but he can't remember how he got there. Lucero reveals that she's "barely seventeen" (53). He falls back asleep and wakes again to see her snoring on the couch. When he opens his eyes again, she and Cut are having sex. That night, however, he had physically beat her.
Aurora begins to kiss Lucero's face, and he reveals that she "once tried to jam a pen" into his thigh (53). That evening, Aurora watches TV, sharing a case of Budweiser and doing heroin. Lucero reveals that when Aurora asks him to promise her love, his mind wanders to other girls. Their relationship seems explosive and toxic. Lucero thinks about his relationship with Aurora. Lucero and Cut work all day, and when Cut leaves to visit his girlfriend, Lucero deals alone. Lucero describes how the drug scene in their town has changed over the years and notes that even though they are making good money, it has gotten more difficult for them to deal drugs and Cut has already been stabbed once. Mostly, they deal to kids and older people. Lucero notes that none of their customers are "anybody special" (51). Cut says he's surprised that Lucero hasn't gotten AIDS yet. While they deal drugs, Cut gives Lucero a hard time about his encounter with Aurora the previous night. He notices that they are "dropping rocks all over" and that "everybody's buying for the holiday weekend" (50). Lucero and Cut go on their rounds to deal drugs. He wakes up the next morning to Cut's salsa music and discovers that she has searched and emptied his pants pockets. Lucero makes a move on Aurora, and they have sex. Lucero notices that she's "living out of her bag again" and he asks her where she has been. Lucero notices that Aurora "has the shakes," which makes it hard for him to make any sexual advances on her. He sees that she's skinny and reveals that she was released from juvie six months ago. Lucero meets Aurora in the utility room, which Cut and Lucero are using illegally after Cut broke the lock. When Aurora leaves messages for Lucero with Cut, he never gives them to Lucero, and Lucero has to find them "in his pockets and under couches" (48). Cut tells Lucero not to let her in and Lucero reveals that Cut is "not a fan of Aurora" (48).
He hears her tapping on his window around midnight. Lucero reveals that they haven't seen each other since last week, when Aurora left long scratches on his arm. Lucero expects that Aurora, his on-again-off-again girlfriend, will show up because it is a Friday, which is when Lucero and Cut usually pick up drugs. They sort the drugs over the course of four hours, and as they do so, they get high. At the beginning of " Aurora," the narrator, Lucero, and his best friend Cut go to pick up a shipment of drugs from their Peruvian supplier.
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