This 3 sentence summary provides the key details and events from the short story "Brown Sugar": The story follows Aster as she goes from an innocent teenage girl attending a house party with her friends, to developing a drug addiction after meeting Billy and being introduced to heroin. Over the course of a year, Aster and Billy's drug use escalates as they isolate themselves from friends and family, until the tragic ending where Billy wakes up after a heroin binge to find that Aster has overdosed and died on the couch next to him.