Chapter 6, WAY more drama….


Streetlights flickered off of Jazmine's face as she stared blankly out of the passenger side of the window not particularly paying attention to anything in general. Her head swam with old memories of Huey and how all the little things he did once gave her petty life happiness. Man did she have it bad.

Not until they slowed down and came to a very packed street, and very loud music playing in the distance, did Jazmine question her whereabouts.

"Umm Paige where are we?" she asked surveying her surroundings.

"My friend from a while back said he was throwing a party today and that I should come. And well that's pretty much it," she shrugged.

"Uhhh let me specify it then. What town are we in exactly, because this looks nothing like Woodcrest," Jazmine frowned slightly at all the commotion going on outside.

"Oh we're just outside of Woodcrest. From where we live this is probably like a 45 min drive," Paige replied, to preoccupied to look directly at her. She was more focused on getting a parking space before the car across from her did. And much to her luck she did.

"Ha! In your face Bitch! Go take yo ass somewhere else!" Paige cackled as if the person in the other car could hear her.

Paige turned her car off and stepped out daintily, while Jazmine got out hesitantly. She was not trying to get ran over by a car. Jazmine looked around outside as Paige leaded the way to the front door of a 2 story house. By the looks of the place it was already pretty much trashed. Squashed up empty beer cans laid littered around the yard along with other various objects and a passed out person or 2. Jazmine just followed in hot pursuit as it seemed Paige didn't care too much and ended up stepping on one of the passed out people in the yard while Jazmine stepped around them.

Paige didn't even bother ringing the doorbell, it was no use. Over the loud music no one would of heard anyways. The minute Jazmine stepped in she was bombarded by humid air and music loud enough to bust your eardrums. She definitely did not want to be there.

Jazmine looked around a bit to see if there was anyone she knew there. But much to her dismay not a single soul was present. She started to make her way over to the wall where the rest of the wallflowers were, until a strong hand gripped her from behind causing her to turn around.

"So what's your name?" a pasty faced white boy smirked at her.

"Excuse me?!" Jazmine jerked her arm away.

"Get away from her Joey, she doesn't want you!" Paige barked from outta nowhere.

"Is that Paige?! Paige Druitt?! Heh long time no see, what made you come here. Thinking you gonna score with you know who?" he teased. Jazmine's ears perked up as she saw Paige's demeanor shrink a bit.

"Shut the fuck up Joey. Besides the only reason I came was to cheer my friend Jazmine up, freak!" she snapped crossing her arms.

"Don't hate the game Paige, hate the player," Joey held his hands up in defense.

"Will you get outta here you dumb shit?!"

"Ok, ok I'm going, but I'll be back," he said imitating the terminators voice.

"Come on," Paige replied through gritted teeth pulling Jazmine toward a vacant couch.

"What was all that about?" Jazmine asked while she plopped her down.

"Don't worry about. That was just ass face Joey. If you give him free food he'll go away," she claimed.

"Oh, that's nice, but who was he talking about I meant," Jazmine questioned.

Paige gave her a solemn look before she answered quietly "Nobody,"

Of course Jazmine knew right away it wasn't just "nobody" but she wasn't gonna ask her anymore. It didn't seem right, no matter how much she wanted to know. Besides she had other things to worry about, like how she was going to get Huey to talk to her again..

After a few moments of just sitting there with their thoughts and completely ignoring the loud music and the hot and drunk bodies surrounding them Paige finally stood up.

"Well if you wanna sit on the couch and be depressed all evening because you're man left you then fine. I'm going out there and having some fun so smooches," Paige gave her, her usual 2 air kisses when she was about to leave and headed off somewhere in the crowd, while Jazmine just waved her off leaving her by her lonesome.

Saying that she wanted to party with people she didn't even know, would be the biggest lie Jazmine had ever heard. She'd admit, yes she had been dressing a little racy these past few months, but that didn't mean she was promiscuous too. Paige on the other hand was a different story. Although she mostly kept her "relationships" a secret, Jazmine had a feeling this "nobody" person was one of her old flames she had just happened to spill while talking to her one day. And the only way she had seemed to figure out they were probably the same person was because the last time he was brought up she had got the same sad look on her face. Whatever the reason though, Jazmine knew she didn't just bring her to this party to cheer her up, but for her own selfish reasons. And once again Jazmine was not surprised. Not at all.

An hour had rolled by before Paige moseyed back over to her with a white cup in her hand.

"Hmmm still moping about your failed relationship huh?" Paige had squatted down next to her, and put a sympathetic look on her face.

Jazmine just gave her a pathetic look and said nothing.

"Awww poor baby, here this will make you feel," she handed Jazmine the cup full of the red substance and watched as she gingerly took it.

"What is it?" she asked looking at the strange stuff.

"Punch," Paige said simply.

Jazmine eyed it again, even sniffed it a bit. It didn't smell to strange but it definitely didn't smell like punch.

"This doesn't smell like any punch I've had before," Jazmine scrunched up her face in confusion at her.

"Just drink the damn stuff, will ya!" Paige snapped.

For a split second Jazmine felt like splashing the whole damn drink in her face, but caught herself before she did and decided to just glare at her while she drank a bit instead. For a moment it burned a little while it went down the depths of her throat but soon the feeling subsided. And that's when she realized she had her first real taste of alcohol.

"Uhh just so you know, you're gonna have to drink a little more then that to feel better," Paige whispered to her.

"I figured," Jazmine muttered darkly, frowning at the cup in her hands.

"Hey, at least drink the whole thing before you decide you don't want anymore. Because wasting a good drink like that could be bad for health," Paige smirked turning around to leave.

Jazmine wasn't quite sure if that was her subtle way of threatening her or not. It was hard to tell with that girl at times. But if she wanted to play games then Jazmine could play right back.

"So Paige, did you happen to meet up with "nobody" by chance?" Jazmine asked as innocently as possible.

That definitely struck a chord. Paige whipped around so quick it made the hairs on the back of Jazmine's neck stand up. But what surprised her even more was that she didn't look the slightest bit angry, except for the fact her eye twitched a bit.

Jazmine heard her take a deep breath before she replied.

"Nope," was her simple answer before she took off again getting lost in the crowd.

Somewhere in between the time Paige left, and her flirtatious buddy Joey taking a seat next to her Jazmine had found that she had downed two cups of the mess Paige had called punch. She wasn't drunk, she knew that much, but she was in no condition to drive. To say the least she was just a bit tipsy. She didn't realize how strong the stuff was until an intoxicated Joey started talking to her.

"Sho pwetty lady. Whatt'zz a fwine gurl like yourshelf doin here all alone," every other word he spoke was slurred as he came incredibly close to invading her personal space.

"I came here with Paige but I haven't seen her for a while," Jazmine replied recoiling a bit.

"Paige, hey ain't she dat biotch?" he asked getting closer again.

"I guess you could call her that,"

"Oh, well I saw her weave like an hour again wit wutz his face," Joey snapped his fingers in a vain attempt to remember the guy's name.

The minute he slurred that, Jazmine's heart froze in mid beat. Paige had left her! With no way to get home, no directions, no nothing! Jazmine stood abruptly only to be pushed back down against the hard couch by Joey's forceful grip.

"Hey pwetty babeh. Jus welax uncle Joey will take care of ya," his sour breath tickled the back of her neck as he straddled her on top of the couch and unzipped her pants.

"Ugggghhh, no get off of me!" Jazmine shouted, she struggled to push his sweaty body off of her own but to no avail.

"Ey shut-up!" and with a swift movement of his wrist he had left a sweltering red mark on her right cheek.

Jazmine couldn't believe what was happening. This dude was trying to rape her! She had to think quick. To her luck he had left just enough space between them for her to knee him in the balls.

"Oh jeez!" he hollered after a moment. He had rolled off of Jazmine and held his sac, cradled in a fetal position on the shag carpet.

Jazmine had got up and grabbed an empty beer bottle on the table next to her about ready to break it over his head until Joey looked up and hollered out.

"Ey, man if yous didn't wanna do meh den why dat bitch says yous was desperate,?"

"Excuse me? Who told you that!" Jazmine demanded.

"Dat bitch, uhhh whats her face," he started again.

"Paige?!"

"Yea dat bitch!"

Hmmm this must've been her payback, bravo bitch, bravo. Jazmine shook her head in disbelief to herself.

Jazmine slowly walked away from the sight after finally throwing the bottle at Joey and leaving him to seethe in his pain once she was sure he was knocked out. He was definitely gonna feel that gash in his head when he woke up in the morning. But she wasn't worried about him at all at the moment. All she wanted to do was get away. Go as far away as possible. But she had no way of doing so.

She made her way outside into the cool breeze, hot tears threatening to spill from the rims of her eyes as she took her cellphone out. She bit her lip as she scrolled through her numbers, trying to find someone, anyone she could call to come get her. She ran past Caeser's name along with Cindy's and felt a pang in her chest. She couldn't call them, not after their fall out that just happened to be her fault. With a quick shake of her head she continued scrolling and this time let out a whimper when she ran past Huey's name. She dare not call him. He probably wouldn't pick up even if she tried. She let out an uneven breath and finally found the one person she considered being able to call in a time of crisis like this. Raphael. They had seemed to have gotten a lot closer over their periods of shopping and soon he had become like a girlfriend to her. But even calling him was a bit risky, but not as big of a risk as calling Huey or her parents. Who just happened to be out of town for the weekend. Which meant calling them would result in some serious punishment she just couldn't handle at the moment.

She pressed talk and silently prayed to herself that he would pick up. And after 2 rings a very irritated voice filled her ears.

"Who is this disturbin me!? It better not be one of them damn bill collectors! Makin me miss Tyra!"

"Raphael? This is Jazmine, do you have a minute?" her voice quivered.

"Jazmine?! Honey child what the hell is yo excuse for callin me during Tyra. You know NO ONE interrupts me during Tyra, so this betta be good, and make it snappy,"

"Can you pick me up, Paige left me at some guys house stranded," Jazmine replied in between sniffs.

For a moment Raphael didn't say a thing, and Jazmine was sure he was gonna say no and hang up in her face. But to her surprise she heard him ask for the address.

"She gave it to him quickly and hung up, waiting for him to come get her. Whatever it was that made him have a change of heart Jazmine was thankful for it.

(45 min later)

Jazmine sat on the curb sniffling and wiping her nose on her jacket sleeve, hardly noticing a car pull up, to involved in her angry thoughts toward Paige, until it's bright lights shined upon her making her flinch. Before she had a chance to even stand up Raphael hopped out of his car dressed in some frilly pink pajama bottoms, a pink rob and a bandana despite the fact he was bald. He directed his attention towards Jazmine and tsked to himself pulling her up from off the ground and leading her towards the passenger side of his car pushing her in. He hurriedly got in the drivers side and took off after muttering "this don't make no damn since".

"So what happened?" he asked finally. And Jazmine told him the gruesome story from how her Huey broke up to the point where she had to call him.

Once she finished she heard him let out a sigh.

"I hate to tell you this Jazmine I really do, but I can't continue to let her play you like this. Now I've known Paige since she was 14 and since then she's grown into the evil lil gremlin you see today. The girl is not to be trusted. Not one bit. You need to get away from her pronto," he claimed shaking his head.

"She may be one of my best customers, but the girl has serious issues and needs to go down," he continued.

"Issues how?" Jazmine questioned.

"Mainly with her father. I'm pretty sure she's talked about him.." he turned to look at Jazmine only to get a blank face.

"Ok maybe not," he sighed "Her father, well lets just say he's been missing for half of her life and now is just recently trying to get in contact with her since over 12 yrs ago,"

"Whoa," Jazmine raised her eyebrows a bit. This was all news to her. No wonder the girl was so jacked up.

"But like I was saying Jazmine. Don't tell her I told you this, but oh girl needs to go down like seriously. I've seen too many girls in your position Jazmine, and believe me it doesn't end pretty, the bitch is good at what she does," he said after a minute.

"And what's that?" she was hoping she'd get a straightforward answer, but didn't.

"Just think about it, it'll come to you soon enough," he nodded.

After about 5 minutes of riding in silence and Jazmine in deep thought, they had finally reached her house.

"Well here's my stop. Thanks for coming and picking me up. I'm sorry I made you miss Tyra," Jazmine said apologetically while getting out.

"Oh it's ok child, it was just a rerun anyways," Raphael replied waving it off.

Jazmine started toward her house until he honked his horn at her, making her turn around.

"Hey, you think about what I said child," He shouted from his window.

She only nodded in reply and entered her dark house. Feeling her way upstairs she peeled off her clothes and put on her pajamas she had thrown on her bed before she left. Thinking was just gonna have to wait until tomorrow, because right now all she planned on doing was going to sleep.


Ok i'm sorry if this chapter sucked or what not, but I wasn't feeling my best when i wrote this today. One of those bastard kids at school gave me an cold over the weekend, and well this was pretty much the result. Didn't go to school or nothing. Unlike some people I don't go there sneezing all over the place and spreading my nasty germs. But enough of my ranting, if you have it in ya plz R&R

much luv,

MizzC