"I don't know," Davey said seriously, "Where were you?"
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Chapter 2
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"Screwing up my life," I said with a sigh, sophomore year was… well… one hell of an adventure, "Well Spot and I made some new friends summer after freshman year, some older friends. We started hanging out, going to a few parties every now and then. Getting wasted on the weekends."
"Well that ain't too bad," Davey started.
I laughed, "Let me finish; let me finish. Spot and I started getting drunk everyday and when that wasn't enough, we started smoking dope. Not very often, just when alcohol didn't seem like enough. Then one day the cops came."
"You fucking serious?" Davey said in disbelief.
"Yea, thank god the police here don't give a shit. I guess one of the neighbors called the cops cause they smelled the smoke. So pot was out, but alcohol still wasn't enough. So we started snorting coke," A chill ran down my spine just thinking about it.
"Addicted?"
"Oh yea," I said, still thinking about the wonderful white powder that could solve all my problems, "Coke became my life and nothing else was even half as important as when I could hit another line. My grades dropped and I was on the verge of dropping."
My throat started to dry up at the thought of my old life. How close I was to completely ruining everything I had worked for. "So how did you get better?" Davey asked.
"Theatre," I paused, "My anti-drug." Davey laughed. "About a third of the way through my sophomore year my theatre teacher talked me into trying out for the school musical. I didn't have time to hang out with Spot or any of our other friends. I had no time for partying, for drinking, for snorting, for any of my stupid shit. Since Spot dropped out I pretty much lost contact with him, so I got more involved with theatre because I had nothing left. I ruined all my friendships with the people who really cared about me. After a while I really started getting into theatre and all that, and the group really helped get me back on track, though none of them know it."
"Wow. Who did you ruin friendships with?"
"Jack, Maddie, Mush, the whole group. You and Crutchy."
Davey smiled, "Nah, we're still here for you."
"Well you are now. I mean, I didn't even know you were having all those problems!"
"A lot of people don't,"
"Yea, but I just left all my friendships at a standstill. I wasn't there for anyone when they needed me."
"You were having problems of your own though."
"True, but they were self inflicted problems. I take responsibility for my fuck ups. No one screwed up but me."
Davey laughed, "Well that's mature. I'd blame Spot."
My heart went into double time, "Actually Spot should blame me."
Davey looked absolutely befuddled, and I couldn't blame him. He was about to find out things about Spot that only I knew. "Why should he blame you?"
"Well…"
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