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Chapter 4
Joe's POV
Everything that happened at Zac's party drove around in my head.
Suddenly I opened my eyes, I was in my room. I got up slowly, my head hurts like hell.
I rubbed my eyes when I heard my phone ring.
I reach over at my nightstand and picked it up; I looked at the caller-id.
It was Ashley, I answered "hey" I didn't know what else to say.
"Hi" She said back "So what are you doing" she asked.
"Thinking" Which wasn't a lie.
"What happened last night Joe?"
I sighed "Not over the phone Ash"
She sighed "Can we meet?"
"Let me take a shower and I will meet you in the park in 1 hour?"
"Sure"
"Bye"
"bye"
She hanged up.
I went out to the bathroom and I turned on the water.
I turned to the mirror and looked at myself, I looked like crap.
And trust me it isn't a pretty sight. I took on my clothes and got under the shower.
1 hour later
I'm sitting on a bench in the park.
I'm not "High" I can tell Ashley the truth without being "high".
I looked up and saw Ashley walking towards me, she was beautiful as always.
"Hi" She said and sat down beside me.
I smiled "hey"
No one of us said anything for a few seconds.
"So about last night?" She asked and looked at me "What happened? You just ran out of the kitchen, it was like you wanted to tell me something"
I took her hands "First of all you need to know how much I care about you and I would never hurt you"
She looked at me confused "I love you Ashley"
I smiled at her and she smiled back "I love you to Joe"
I kissed her softly on the lips I pulled away and sighed "For the past 2 months I haven't been myself"
She looked at me with her cute and serious face "I know, something has changed about you"
I pulled the bottle up from my pocket "For the last 2 months I have used this" I gave her the bottle.
She took it and opened it "Cocaine?" she looked at me and disbelief, like the look Miley gave me the night before.
"Ash I'm sorry, It happened at a party 2 months ago. I couldn't stop and I don't know if I can"
"Are you on it now?"
"No, I wanted to tell you without being "high", I wanted to tell you my feelings"
She looked at me with watery eyes "Is it because off me? Am I really such a horrible person to be with?"
I was shocked; I couldn't believe she would say that.
That she actually gave herself the blame for it.
It has nothing to do with her.
"No it is not because of you, I love you. I just feel like I'm a big zero, it's my 2nd time I'm a senior. When I'm using it I feel like I'm in a different world"
I looked at her, her tears were rolling down her cheeks.
"A different world where I don't exist?" she looked at me with hurt in her eyes.
"No…I mean yes…but I'm not doing this because of you Ash, you are the best thing I have in my life, you are the most important thing in my life"
I wiped her tears away and gave her a comforting smile "I would be nothing without you"
I kissed her forehead softly and looked at her "I wanna get out of this, I need your help"
She nodded and kisses me softly.
I smiled and wipe her tears away again as they kept on rolling down her cheek.
She was beautiful when she was crying, more beautiful than ever.
"Thank you" she said
"For what" I asked
"For telling me, it must have been hard"
I nodded "I thought you would leave me"
"Never" She sighed "But Joe?"
"Yeah?" I looked at her nervously
"About the money I gave you?"
"Don't worry you will get them back"
"No it's not that…They where to Zac right" I nodded
"Because you buy this stuff from him?" I nodded again "Do you owe him anymore?"
"No, it least I don't think so" she looked at me with a worried face impression.
"What will happen if you don't give him back the money?"
I sighed "If I'm lucky I will only get some bruises, but don't worry about it" I kissed her softly on the lips.
I felt relieved telling her the truth.
All I should do now was telling my parents and my brothers.
