The room wreaked of shame and cigarettes.

[Jake Dingus 18]

The kind of shame that’s best downed with a fifth and the kind of cigarettes you only smoke when you've had a fifth. The mirror was shattered, it was for the best, she never liked to look at herself on a weekday. She sat at the foot of the bed, pouring over the penny saver, a coupon for a buy one get one free order of BK chicken fries fell on her lap. A seed of happiness and hunger grew in her as she placed the coupon in her purse for later, but that was immediately replaced with sadness and disgust as the knock on the door cut through the silence of the room.