Chapter one: Issues.
"Come on, Lil! It's not that bad" Sloan said passing the bottle of Vodka over to her with a smile. Lil took the bottle and looked around at the group of people she would now be hanging out with. "We won't let you get too out of hand!" one of the guys yelled, she assumed it was Holden. She looked at the bottle in her hand before taking a big sip.
Three hours later Lil walked through her front door, drunk. Her parents were in bed, but Phil wasn't. He had been sitting in the living room watching TV, waiting for her. "Where the hell were you, Lillian?!" he was doing his best not to yell.
"I was... I was just with people." her words were slurring together and she could barley stand. "Are you drunk?"
"Of course not!" she waved her hand around and started stumbling up the stairs. Phil watched her, he never knew his sister was like this. He shook the thought off, thinking it was just a one time thing.
She woke up the next morning to a pounding on her door "Lillian, get up! You're going to be late!"
She couldn't remember anything from the night before. All she knew now is that she had a headache, felt like she was going to be sick, and didn't want to do anything. "Go away, Phillip" she said putting her face in her pillow. Phil opened the door "This is what you get for drinking. Get up. You're going to school" she forced herself out of bed and into the bathroom. She put her hair up in a messy bun and just threw whatever clothes on that she could find.
She walked out of her room holding her head. She looked up and Phil and could see disappointment written all over his face "Do mom and dad know?"
"No. You got off easy this time, I'm not covering for you again" she could tell that he was mad at her by the way he was talking. "I wasn't intending on going out and getting drunk, Phillip."
"Who were you with?" Lil looked at the floor. She knew how much Phil hated Sloan and her friends. "No one important." Phil shook his head disapprovingly. The ride to school was a quiet one. Lil didn't know how she was going to handle the headache all day.
"Hey Phil, Lil!" Kimi said walking over to them. Lil winced at how loud she was and gave her a little wave.
"What's with her?" she asked Phil "She came home trashed last night." he pushed past her and walked to his class. "Lillian Marie Jill DeVille. You, our perfect little angel never going to do anything wrong, got drunk?" Kimi put her hands on her hips and looked at her. "Yes, and I don't remember anything."
"Of course you don't, you were drunk That kind of happens when you get drunk" Lil sighed and looked past Kimi. Holden, Sloan's brother, was looking over at her with a smile. Kimi turned and looked over at who she was looking at "No way, Lil. Holden?"
"What do you mean?" Lil looked at Kimi, confused. "Was he with you last night?"
"Maybe. I don't really remember." Kimi thought about it before saying "You hung out with Sloan?!" Lil nodded "She's pretty cool. You'd know if you gave her a chance."
"I've heard of the things she does, no wonder you went home trashed. Does Phil know?" Lil shook her head "And he's not going to know." Kimi's mouth dropped "You use to tell Phil everything!"
"Well... Things change." Lil closed her locker and started walking off to her first class. She turned around and looked at Kimi "Please don't tell him" she turned back around and continued her walk to class. "No promises." Kimi mumbled under her breath.
Kimi walked into her first class and sat down next to Phil like usual. "Are you ever going to get over it?"
"Eventually. She was so.. Innocent before he broke up with her. How can a breakup do that to someone?" Kimi shook her head "I don't know. But I do know it's not just about the breakup." Phil looked at her and raised an eyebrow "She hung out with Sloan and her friends."
"Bullshit. She wouldn't" Phil didn't want to believe it. "She told me this morning. Her and Holden were making eyes at each other." he turned his head and looked over to where Holden was. "Since when?"
"I don't know. But I'd keep an eye on Lil." Phil nodded and looked down at his desk. He had never been so disappointed in Lil before.
By lunch time Lil had barley talked to any of them. Tommy sat down in front of Phil and looked over at Lil was talking to Holden. "Since when does she talk to him?" Tommy had always had a thing for Lil. He never admitted it to her, but everyone knew. "No idea. She hasn't talked to me since this morning" Kimi said "And I have almost every class with her. She's spending her time with Sloan and her friends."
"So, do you remember anything from last night?" Holden gave Lil a smile and leaned up against the wall. Lil thought hard before shaking her head "Not at all. I can't believe you guys let me do that. Phil is pissed!" Holden looked past her at Phil who was watching him "Don't let it get to you. He'll get over it."
"I'm not drinking again." he leaned closer towards her face "Then try something else" he grabbed her hand and led her out of the cafeteria. Her heart was beating fast, she didn't know what he had planned. She was nervous yet excited at the same time. "Where are we going?"
"You'll see" Lil felt that she shouldn't keep following him, but a part of her wanted to. They walked up and under the bleachers. "Holden! Lil!" she looked up to see Sloan, JT, and Ashley.
"What is this?" Sloan walked over to her and smiled "You did good last night" she said, taking a hit from her joint. "Real good" JT mumbled, and Lil shot him a look of concern "With the drinking, I mean. Why not try this?" she handed Lil the joint, encouraging her to take a hit.
"I don't know about this" she hesitated. She didn't know what to do. Holden put his arm around her "It'll be fine. It won't be as bad as getting drunk. You'll just get hungry" the group laughed and they all started encouraging her. Lil put it up to her lips and took a hit, coughing.
"You'll get use to it." Sean smiled up at her. Ashley kept looking between the two. Lil assumed that was his girlfriend. Lil decided to skip class with them, she finally felt content with what was going on.
"Where's Lil?" Kimi asked Tommy as she sat down "She's never missed class before." Tommy shrugged "I saw her go off with Holden during lunch, that was the last I saw of her." Kimi pulled her phone out and texted Phil letting him know that Lil wasn't in class.
The minute Phil got her text he got out of his seat and walked out of the class, lucky for him the teacher wasn't there yet. He knew that Sloan and Holden were close, and he figured if he knew where Sloan hung out, that's where he would find Lil. He walked up to the schools stadium and towards the bleachers. He walked to the opening of under the bleachers and witnessed Lil smoking.
"Lillian!" she turned around, too high to even care that Phil was mad. He walked up to her and grabbed her arm, pulling her away from the group. When they got out from under the bleachers he let go of her arm "What the hell, Phillip?!"
"What's gotten into you? Skipping class? Drinking? Smoking? What happened to you?" Lil covered her mouth from almost laughing. "Nothing has gotten into me, I'm still your sister!" she started walking off towards the parking lot "Where are you going?"
"Food. I'm hungry." she just kept walking. She didn't care for what Phil thought. He chased after her "Lillian! Snap out of it. Since when do you hang out with Sloan?"
"Since Sean dumped me." Phil shook his head "So you relied on her instead of your brother, or your friends?"
"Sloan is my friend, Phillip." he laughed and shook his head again "Don't mess up your life too bad, Lillian."
Phil had nothing else to say to her. If she was going to mess up her life, he wasn't going to stop her.