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The Twilight 25

Author: soup_lover_9

Pairings: Charlie, Bella

Rating: G

Prompt: Crusade

According to Renee, Charlie was on a crusade to keep students off drugs. He was teaching the D.A.R.E. curriculum to all sixth grade students about the evils of drugs and alcohol and was succeeding. Hesitant kids who didn't want to go were persuaded with, "I dare you to go to D.A.R.E." because no one, especially the boys, would back out of a challenge.

We had a program down here in Phoenix too; a police officer from Phoenix PD taught us about substance abuse in our classrooms during history time. I knew about this stuff since Charlie had explained it during my visit this past summer. I would space out and doodle on my notepad whenever he was in the room and I didn't care what impression I was giving him My dad's a cop and I already knew that doing drugs and drinking alcohol was bad for one's health. Why this bared repeating, I didn't know, but my grade was on the line, so I sucked it up and did the required assignments and participated a minimal amount. After all, the students were never told why we had to do this program, just that we had to do it.

Years later, I think I figured out why Charlie had made teaching students about substance abuse a passionate cause: people were trying to make marijuana legal at that time. Also, I don't think Joseph Fredrick had made things better with his "BONG HiT 4 JESUS" sign. I giggled and wondered if Edward had been there for that.


A/N: For those not familiar, here's some general information:

D.A.R.E. stands for Drug Abuse and Resistance Education and is something that many kids go though. It starts in middle school and generally extends into high school.

"BONG HiTS 4 JESUS" refers to the Supreme Court school speech case Morse v. Fredrick. The trial took place in 2002 in Juneau, Alaska. For more details, google Morse v. Frederick.