The Girl Is in Trouble Page #5

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the deeper I drifted

into my mind.

It was also that night I got the

first tremors in my hand.

Too broke to see a doctor.

All this leads to Nicholas.

He always made me feel

invisible.

No shaving...

Thank you, Captain.

And for the hundredth time,

Nicholas didn't tip.

Why not get even

for Jsus and myself?

After all, it's partly my fault

that Jsus was dead

since I introduced Nicholas to him

to score drugs in the first place.

- You still got my number, right?

- Yeah, yeah.

Pick up the water, too.

What the f*** are you doing?

The one time August retaliated,

I got fired.

That's when I remembered what

Jsus said to me once:

In life,

you either f*** or get f***ed.

Make sure it's you

doing the f***ing.

So even if I didn't trust her,

why not screw Nicholas

for 50 grand anyway?

So, you're just gonna go?

If you don't want me here,

I'll find my own way.

So what do you think?

Let's talk to him.

Nicholas wasn't all bad.

But to understand him

meant knowing his history.

His life had always been tied

to Wall Street

because his father, Charles,

created Feinman Securities in

Charles was one of the guys

who founded the NASDAQ

and revolutionized

the world of finance.

His maxed his profits by serving

only the most elite clients.

And by the 80s, Charles handled 18%

of transactions on Wall Street,

until he was hit hard

in the '87 stock market crash.

Feinman couldn't let this happen

again in the recession of the 90s,

so he created a formula to

provide

huge returns

on his clients' investments.

But he really stashed their

money into his own bank accounts

while giving them reports

of huge gains.

Soon he had billions in play,

but with the most

recent market crash,

investors rushed to cash out,

finding that he couldn't pay back

money that no longer existed.

Charles' one and only obssesion

was the company,

at the cost of other

relationships,

including with his son,

Nicholas.

Nicholas lost touch with his father

during his years at Princeton,

got tired of being

second to the company.

But after college, his desire

for his father's approval

drove him to Wharton Business School

and back into the family business.

I realize now that Nicholas was

just as lost as I was.

All that money and privilege could

never replace the love of a father.

Nicholas' most prized possession

was his violin.

Playing it was the only thing

that made him feel at ease.

But on that day, it couldn't

ease the guilt he felt

after what happened to Jsus.

She always thought fate

would bring her to New York.

She ran away to Stockholm from her

hometown of Skane at seventeen.

Though her parents loved her,

she felt they never understood her.

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