Wonderfully

"Well, we certainly had a rude awakening. I think we could use a little chillaxing. Come on, and we'll smoke one."

"Smoke?! Dope?! But I just had to give a urine test."

"I just had to give a urine test,", she corrected Margaret. "And lucky for you, I didn't indulge last night."

"You didn't?", Margaret questioned.

"Yeah, I wanted to make sure I was able to give you a good time. Seems like you almost had too good of one."

"Yeah.", Margaret agreed, accepting the false memory.

"They never test you twice in the same month, by that time I'll have plenty of clean kits. You can take a pill and you're fine,", she lied.

"Oh really, I didn't even know..."

"There's a lot you don't, girly, maybe I can show you street smarts can be good in a pinch too.

Margaret accepted the now loaded pipe, and pulled the trigger.

"What do you usually do?"

"Right now I'd usually be sleeping, but I don't really feel like more of that, do you?"

"No...me neither."

"Why don't we both do something we haven't done in a while?"

"What?"

"I think we're up early enough for morning cartoons."

She clicked the TV to life and glowing right away was Maggie's favorite cartoon when she was growing up.

She handed the pipe back, and sat cross legged in front of the set, looking up.

"This is my favorite..."

She drifted out.

"Oh, how lucky...mine too!"

"Really?!", Margaret asked excitedly, never turning from the screen.

"Yeah, I've got my niece hooked on it too, she has all the toys, in her guestroom."

Margaret took another hit, deeply, and laughed at the funny action and admired the pretty colors as she thought of the toys.

"I've got an extra special surprise for you.", her step-mother rose and sauntered to the kitchen.

Margaret's gaze finally broke from the screen to excitedly watch her return.