Puerto Rico, in the outer suburbs

Just near where the mountains and the jungle nearly reach the ocean

A new teenager walks along the beach from the hotel with whitewashed villas in the hills behind

He walks for what seems like a good ways, it's a little foggy from a light rain

The palm trees start to clear a little to his side, but the low mist hangs around

small bright spots appear when a small beam breaks through, the shadows are Jupiter atmospheric in the shady heat

He comes to a small beach clearing and some streets, he walks down one

The streets are nearly perfect squares. It's very quiet, very few people seem to be around.

After just a few blocks he comes to a bar open to street, he walks in….

waves

Hola…..

nods

Rum & Coke?

pours a glass

hands over

It's just rum…..

no response

laughs lightly

How much, que dinero?

holds out hand

5 dollars?

no response

Ok….

hands over a $10

Please…. keep the change

drinks rum

it's a fairly large glass

for a new teenager

Hey…. Got a smoke?

hands over a few Marlboros

Oh…. thanks

smokes

Ok…. well

Cerveza?

hands over beer

Thank you…..

sometime later

Alright! Thank you…..

Reasalllly gewdzz tsalkkng uj

Bye!

"walking" along

a Catholic schoolgirl on the corner makes a very strange face at him

a man passing by breathes really heavy walking by

as he goes by a open top street garbage can he puts his head over the hole and vomits into it

dazed he looks up and sees the Catholic schoolgirl pointing at him and speaking with a very hard expression for one unwrinkled

a man taps him on the shoulder, as a street dog barks he wakes up a little

"Hey, you shouldn't be here…. You could get hurt, especially in your condition"

ehhhh, I did, j, j, I'm thirsty

"Come with me, I'll take you to the beach and you follow it back to your hotel before sunset"

"Ok?"

Ya

He walked….

Home in the Sunet

Somehow we found him again the next day, or maybe the next

This one

escapes me

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