The Coldest Winter Ever (pg242-346)

     Winter still absessed with money and using people still is not living right. She has no job, degree, or place of her own. Insted she is living off of people and beging the gold digger that her mother trained her to be.
     Living with Souljah is not as bad as Winter thought it would be. She had all of the conections, a nice place, and Lauren as a friend. Laurn is Souljah's sister who is more like Winter than imagined. After a few months Winter was getting closer and closer to her goal of getting enough money and getting back in touch with Midnight who Souljah had more connections to than she was letting on. So Souljah was having an AIDS fundraiser where Winter was a colector and with about $7000 in her basket she stole the majority of it and even recieved a check for all of her work.
     On Winter's way back to the mansion to get her stuff she walked into Lauren who Souljah called the trickster for a reason that Winter would soon find out. Winter packed her studd and told a lie that she was going to see hger mother in the hospital. Lauren being suspicious mad Winter help her  with some boxes. When Winter was not looking she checked her bags and saw all that cash. So Lauren took all that cash and put bottles in the bag so Winter wouldm't notice the weight change. Winter only figure this out while she was on a bus going to Jersey. The next day it was Winter's birthday of which she forgot and a man that she ws using called  her to congratulate her and come and pick her up and take her to key west. Bullet the guy she was using said, "You know you mine's now' with Winter thinking, '...Bullet thought that he had to fight to make me his girl. I'd lett him believe it, too. Little did he know, I was when he pulled the whip around the bend" (Souljah 345-345). The only reason was because he had money, would take care of her, looked good, and she had no better offers. Winter was falling back into a cycle that her father had warned her about before which he warned would not work out. He said that she had to make her own and getting it from others never last and would hurt her in the end unless she could support herself.