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--Part: 5.
"What's going on?" Mom asks the question everyone (well almost) wanted to know.
"As you know Clu came home a few days ago for a weekend break."
"Except we found out today it wasn't because of a weekend break." Irene started and Ned finished. They paused for dramatic effects, getting everyone on the edge of their seats, I knew I was.
"He was kicked out. Failed. Expelled. Take your pick." Ned looked so upset but yet sad over the statement he just made. Clu was kicked out of college. Sure Clu isn't the smartest kid out there but he always gets by without any real struggle. He was an average student that just needed a push start at times. I couldn't believe it; no this had to be a joke. But just looking at his parents and brother told me this wasn't a joke. And there was more to the story, more we won't want to know.
"I should have noticed the signs when he was last here." Irene said in almost a whisper.
"Signs for what?" Annie decided to take over the duty of asking the group question.
"The signs he's been using drugs." Carey finally spoke up.
"What!? No way in hell would Clu do something that stupid!" Jack yelled after he jumped up from his seat.
"Yeah he has. And some serious shit as well." Carey continued not thinking twice about his foul language. The words Clu and drugs didn't belong in the same page, not even in the same dictionary. Then I began to wonder what he meant by serious shit? Sure I watch the Say No To Drug Ads and listen to guest speakers' talk about their dangers, but I don't know which are considered serious shit.
"Are you sure?" Mom has that worried mother expression on her face, I know she's thinking he's such a great kid, so is Jack and Fiona so what have they done?
"100 percent. He's pretty damn lucky he was just kicked out of school and not send to jail." While Ned was talking I look up at the staircase and see Clu listening to everyone talking about him. It's Clu all right, my honorary brother. Yet in a way it's not the Clu I adore he looks the same but there's an aura coming off of him telling me the boy at the stairs isn't the boy I left behind.
