the first intentional lines, dated and placed — "So Joelle was awake at 0400…"
So Joelle was awake at 0400, cleaning back behind the refrigerator for the second time, when Orin cried out in the nightmare she’d somehow felt should have been hers.
Context
The freebase love-affair's first step, fixed to a night and a reason: the first deliberate cocaine taken not for pleasure but to stay awake, on the Thanksgiving her guts told her the family could cut out her organs without blinking. The origin of the addiction is a dread it was recruited to hold off — she is at the refrigerator at 0400, cleaning, while the nightmare she feels belongs to her plays out in the next room.