The weekend after that party, Reggie woke up thinking about what happened. All she remembered was getting intoxicated with drugs and alcohol, grinding up on a guy who she could've sworn was Lars and running off with another guy only to sleep with him that night. She ended up getting praised by Angie and Makayla for sleeping with him. So many thoughts running through her head, she got up early because she had early morning volley ball practice. She snuck out of the house so she wouldn't have to face Ray or Otto. In fact, ever since Ray and Tito noticed money went missing, of which Reggie spent on drugs and alcohol, she avoided them.
Once at school, Reggie snuck some cocaine into her system before practice as her usual morning boost. Because she took much more than usual in the morning, she wasn't on her game and was acting rather confused and unaware during practice. Her coach noticed this and called her over.
"Rocket, I need a word with you. Girls, take five." Coach Laney said.
Reggie made her way over only for Coach Laney to say, "Whats going on? You're not into practice today and you seem dazed."
"What do you mean?" Reggie tried to play dumb.
"Reggie, are you getting sick? And why do I get the suspicion you are out all night and not getting a good night's rest like you should be?" She asked.
"Spare me the dramatics." Reggie rolled her eyes.
"One, don't roll your eyes at me!" Coach Laney snapped. "Two, you've lost a lot of weight, you're sneezing, coughing and your voice is raspy, yet you are hyper and all over the place. It seems as if you are on drugs. Am I right?"
This suspicion made Reggie somewhat nervous. This gave Coach Laney the implication that she was right.
"You're cut from the team until next year." Coach Laney stated.
"What? No! Please! I have worked too hard to be where I am this season!" Reggie begged.
"If you want, we can go ahead and do a drug test to see if I am right. Other wise, you are to sit out until next year." Coach Laney said making her desk ion final.
Reggie stood there baffled that she was cut from the team. Coach Laney then called over to Melissa, "DiMarco, you're starting next game. Rocket is out."
"Awesome!" Melissa exclaimed ecstatically and then turned to Reggie. "Sorry, Reggie."
Standing there baffled at what happened, Reggie watched Melissa gloat off to her friends about taking her place for the next game. Trish walked over to Reggie and said, "Don't let her get to you. She's just being a..."
At that moment, Reggie marched over to Melissa and attacked her. She grabbed her by the hair, threw her on the floor and started to beat her up.
"You bitch! You take everything from me! First then internship, then Trent, now this! Do you have to shove it in my face? I'll kill you, you stupid bitch!" Reggie screamed while attacking Melissa.
The others girls crowded around them. Trish and Sherri pulled Reggie off of Melissa and Coach Laney blew her whistle. Melissa got up, touching her bleeding lip, taken aback at what just happened.
"Rocket, hit the showers! You are done!" Coach Laney screamed.
Reggie pulled Trish and Sherri off of her and stormed towards the locker room. Trish and Sherri exchanged glances wondering what was up with their friend.
After her episode in the gym, Reggie saw Otto, Sam and Twister. She walked over to them and said in her raspy voice, "You won't believe what went down today. Coach said to me that..."
Twister shot her a look of disgust and stormed off. Otto and Sam looked at him like he was wondering what that was all about.
"What's his issue?" Reggie asked.
"I have no clue. He was fine this morning." Otto said and looked at Reggie, who nearly stumbled over. Sam caught her arm. Had he not caught her in time, she would've fallen.
"You okay?" Sam asked.
"I'm fine. Let go of me!" Reggie snapped.
This caused her to walk off leaving the guys alone.
"What's up with her?" Otto asked. "Kind of getting sick of it."
Sam looked at him and didn't bother answering.
Reggie was totally out of it in history class. Sam saw her with her head down.
"Falling asleep in class?" Sam said concerned.
"What the hell is it to you?" Reggie asked.
"What's with the attitude?" Sam snapped back.
He normally didn't snap at Reggie but even Sam was getting tired of this. He had a conspiracy she was on drugs but didn't want to say anything to Otto unless he was sure.
"Because you're fucking annoying!" Reggie snapped back.
Their history teacher stopped his lesson and snapped, " Ms. Rocket! Mr. Dullard! I shouldn't hear talking!"
"Well I shouldn't be in a class this lame!" Reggie snapped back.
She collected her belongings, her bag and stormed out of the class. Everyone looked at Sam asking him what her deal was.
Once down the hall, Reggie saw Lars walking out of the bathroom. She strutted over to him and said, "Just the person I was hoping to see. Everyone is being lame and..."
"Oh now you want to talk to me? After what you said to me at that party and running off with that douche you want to talk to me?"
Reggie shook her head and said, "Oh...look, I was wasted and I wasn't thinking straight."
"But you sounded serious. So I'm only good for when you need a good time? Is that it?" Lars snapped.
"No, Lars, I like you...it's just, things are complicated and i can't be with a guy right now. I just said that to...drive away whatever I was feeling." Reggie tried to explain herself.
"See, you don't even make sense right now! What is it? Did you use me because you aren't over Trent? Is that it?" Lars yelled at her.
"Why are you saying this?" Reggie snapped.
"Because you basically told me that night I was nothing to you and you were just using me! You know what, Reggie," Lars started, "I may have done shit to you and your loser friends in the past but I do not deserve to be used."
"Whatever, Lars. Fuck off for all I care." Reggie snapped and tried to walk past him.
Lars caught up to her and grabbed her bag, opening up her left front pocket. Reggie looked at him and said, "What are you doing? Don't touch my shit!"
He found a contact lense case, opened it up and found cocaine in there.
"What the fuck, man! You're still using this?" He almost screamed.
"What I do is not your business!" Reggie yelled back.
"You told me you'd stop using and it was a one time thing!" Lars snapped to her.
"Well, you know what, how about you mind your own business and stay the hell away from me from now on!" Reggie snapped and marched away from Lars.
Later that day, Twister was getting lunch in the cafeteria. Reggie saw him and caught up to him.
"Twist, are you mad at me?" Reggie asked casually.
"I don't know. The fact that you told my brother you were basically using him only for him to call me and Pi up crying is no reason to be mad!" Twister snapped.
"Twister, you don't know...wait, he was crying?" Reggie asked.
"He was inconsolable, Reggie!" Twister said. "He said how he was with you only for you to use him and run off with someone!"
"Why are you even defending him? After what he's done to you?" Reggie snapped.
"Because he's still my brother! I'm disturbed enough that you would sleep with him but for you to crush his heart like that, that's really low!" Twister said walking off.
Not wanting to put up with people anymore, Reggie decided to ditch school.
By the end of the day, Otto was at his locker putting on his helmet and knee pads when Lars approached him.
"Hey, Rocket Dork, can I talk to you?" Lars started.
"I don't know, Lars. You called me a dork so why do I owe you anything?" Otto snapped.
At that moment, Sam came by with Twister.
"Hey, Otto, Sherri had to stay after to see a teacher so..." Sam saw Lars and was interested in what was going on.
"Dude, I'm serious! Your sister is on cocaine." Lars stated.
"What? You're bull shitting! Reggie doesn't do that shit!" Otto got defensive. "How would you know?"
"Because I with her and..." Lars was cut off by Otto taking him and slamming him into a locker.
"You slept with my sister?! You little shit!" Otto screamed.
Twister and Sam pulled Otto off of Lars.
"What the fuck man?" Lars exclaimed.
"Dude, why would you sleep with her?" Otto exclaimed.
"Could you ignore that for a moment and listen! I saw on her desk a pile of cocaine and she only said she tried it once and wasn't going to do it again. But she's doing cocaine." Lars stated.
Otto shook his head and said, "But...Reggie doesn't..."
"Otto, she's lying about everything. She is being secretive and lying. That's what drugs addicts do. And I think I know what happened to the money at the Shore Shack." Sam said.
Rubbing his temples, Otto then said, "Oh man...alright, I will tell Raymundo."
"No, dude. We'll tell Raymundo." Sam said.
"I didn't think of Reggie being the type of person to do cocaine." Twister said.
"Neither did I." Otto said.
Walking around Ocean Shores for three hours, Reggie spent the rest of the day alone thinking. All she knew was her head hurt and she couldn't deal with people being mad at her. She avoided the Shore Shack ever since Officer Shirley came by. It was now 4pm and she headed home. Looking into a car mirror, she noticed changes in her appearance. She got skinner, her hair was unwashed for two weeks and her eyes looked tired with dark circles under. Otto was right about her pupils; they were larger. Cocaine took over her life. While walking up the hill, she did thinking. Once she made it to her house, she opened the door to find Her father, Otto, Sam, Twister and Lars sitting on her couch.
"What's going on?" Reggie asked.