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"Mike, focus!" I turned back to David, bopping my head along to the heavy beats thumping though the backyard.

"Do you want these or not?" He held up a clear plastic bag with three tiny pink pills.

I found it hard to concentrate with the alcohol running though my blood. "Yup, how much?"

"Two hundred –" He stared to say.

"Two hundred!" I said incredulously, "For three? Come on David I'm your best customer. Four and you have a deal," I begged.

"No can do Changster, the demand for E these days is incredibly high. I'm sorry, I can throw in some special k?" He enticed, swinging another bag.

"Nahh man I got plenty of that," I sighed in defiance, "give me a cap of speed and a bag of pot for one seventy."

"One ninety," he demanded. Finally I saw that shine in his eyes when he was getting weak.

"One eighty," I knew not to push him too far.

"Deal!" He grinned, pulling bags out of his back pack.

I reached into my back pocket with my other hand, that wasn't being weighed down with my half drunken bottle of jägermeister, and got my wallet. I pulled out the money that I took from my Dad's desk. I grinned as David split with the drugs. I pocketed everything but the three little ecstasies.

I popped two of the little pink pills in my mouth and sculled them down with a large gulp of drink.

The large house party was really starting to kick off now, it was 10 o'clock. The deep base beats of the music shook the walls of the house and the one hundred something teenagers grinded to the music throughout the property. The music infected my alcoholic brain and I moved to the beat, bouncing through all the hot sweaty teenagers. I felt the familiar dizzy sensation burning in my temples. I grinned as I felt it come on stronger. The rush to my head made me feel giddy as I walked down to the back of the garden. I laughed as I tripped over a couple making out and I felt my breathing quicken. I noticed a girl's face from across the yard smiling at me and motioning me to come over. I stumbled across the lawn to her as I felt my skin starting to tingle. I knew I was close now.

"Hey!" She called as I came up to her. She had short blonde hair that bounced around her face in tight curls, a nice curvy body and good set of breasts that she had no inhibitions to hide as she pushed them out. She grabbed my arm as I stood beside her.

"I'm Shoshandra," She beamed up at me, "and these are my friends; Jordan and Celeste," she said gesturing to the other two girls standing near her who also had bottles of mixed spirits in their hands.

"What's your name?" She said as she turned to face me blocking me off from her friends.

"Mike," I gave her my nickname as I felt my muscles tighten. The music from the DJ blasted out across the back yard, and I couldn't help jumping around a bit to it.

"Mike," She repeated, giving me a sweet giggle. "Well, Mike, I must say," She leant forward, reaching up to play with my hair, "You are the most attractive burnout I have ever met."

I laughed as I realized she must have seen me score off David earlier. "I was wondering," She bit her lip and looked up at me suggestively, "Care to share?" She arched an eyebrow suggesting she would pay me back. She pressed her body close to mine seductively and I felt lightheaded and nodded eagerly.

Grinning she said, "Sweet!"

I decided that she wasn't worth my last E tablet but I could spare the speed cap. I pulled out the thick capsule. She held her mouth open ready and a popped it in her open lips.

I had already forgotten her name fifteen minutes later as we danced together right next to the speakers. The music sounded loud and amazing as the beat drove straight to my feat, I was breathing deeply and looking around wildly as lights flashed across my vision. I felt like I was floating and the girl's touch as she slipped her hands around my neck, felt like fire. My vision was distorted I saw sparks everywhere coming from every movement. I slipped my burning hands around the blonde's waist and pulled her closer as we grinded to the music. Our faces were close when she slurred, "Mike, I love you." We were breathing heavily and my heart was beating at a million miles a minute. I leant down and pressed my lips to hers, she returned the kiss urgently, running her magical hands through my hair.

I opened my eyes and it was light. Blood suddenly rushed to my head and I leant over the edge of the bed and threw up. I groaned, my hand going to my head.

I tried to sit up but my head swirled. I looked back at the naked blonde lying in the bed next to me. She lay on her stomach facing away from me. The two little dimples on either side of her tailbone visible above the yellow bed sheet. I managed to sit up on the edge of the bed and rub my face with my hand.

I looked around for my boxers as I stood up and walked through the open walk in wardrobe through to the ensuite, clutching my stomach as I went. I felt the onslaught of a major hangover and coming down period as I fell to my knees before the toilet and hurled into the bowl.

After I spent at least half an hour spewing my guts into the toilet, I stood up and steadied myself against the basin and stared at my face in the mirror. My black brown hair was sticking completely on end in all directions and my eyes were a bright red color, my skin was pale and I looked the type you would cross the street to pass. I turned the tap on and splashed my face with the cold stinging water.

After finding my jeans I walked back into the bedroom and searched the room for my t-shirt. I found it under the edge of the bed discarded on the floor in the heat of last night's events. I had a sick feeling in my stomach as I pulled my shirt on. Whether it was the crashing of my high or the prospect of walking out on yet another one night stand that I would never see again, I didn't know. But I turned and left the room silently without a backwards glance.

I stepped out into the demolished hallway. I'd hate to be the parents of the host of last night's party. The effort of cleaning up this mess would be unbearable. I stepped over some people crashed on the stairs and I tried to navigate myself around broken glass and a shattered marble statue.

I wondered what the time was as I walked briskly towards the front door. I passed by the living room sparing a glance just before I reached the prospect of freedom. A sight made me retrace my steps. I walked back and eyed David slouched in an arm chair with a brunette lying in his lap. On the table beside him his prized backpack spilled plastic packets of little pills. One plastic bag had burst and the tiny tablets sprayed across the table. I silently tiptoed up to him. Taking the bag I swept the remaining pills into it and picked up two more bags filled with a dozen ecstasy pills each, I eyed the bags of speed before deciding I would only take three bags filled with three caps each. He owed me that much after the rip off last night was. After carefully stuffing the plastic bags into my pockets I walked back to the front door, smirking.

"Nice deal David," I gave the passed out boy a silent salute and left the house.

Once the door closed behind me I knew it was mid-morning, the sun was bright, too bright for my sensitive eyes as I shielded them with my forearm. I felt my reflex gag again and stepped down into the garden to vomit again.

"Ugh," I groaned, eager for water. I could go back into the house to search the kitchen and get some. But then I would be posed with the threat of David waking and discovering half his stock was gone. I decided to scatter, but not go home just yet. Even though I know Frank would still be passed out on the couch after a night of heavy drinking I still didn't fancy my chances just yet. I started walking east towards the dull beach coasting the fairly average sized town. I bought a bottle of water from a corner shop on my way.

Pretty soon I found myself sitting on the sea wall with my converse clad feet dangling a meter from the sand. My long laces untied still didn't reach the ground. The only people on the beach at this time on a Sunday were the young families' game enough to try the cold water and old people having an aerobics or tai chi class. I felt oddly calm as two police officers passed by on the morning walk chatting about some driving ticket scandal as I had a couple hundred dollars' worth of party drugs in my pocket. I smiled, the thought made me feel liberated, powerful and completely free. As if nothing could hold me down, even the law. My thoughts returned to home and the idea of returning to a drunk father and my feelings dulled almost instantly.

I stood up and decided to find a place in town to crash tonight; I didn't feel like going home. I could deal with the consequences of that later.

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ORIGINAL STORY: ECSTASY by Dess (TheVintageGrace)