Chapter 8- anger management

Chapter summary- Drew is on his way to a reform school for a year. How does he deal with being there and who does he meet?

Drew approached the reform school, to him it looked more like a prison a place he will spend a full year getting better. The cop opened the door and led him to the main building, the cop talked to the director while Drew sat waiting. The room had an eerie cold feeling to it, the kids were all staring at Drew like he was crazy. "Drew Welsh?" Drew looked up to see a man at least 40 years old holding some of Drew's bags. Drew nodded, "Follow me to your room please." They walked down this long hallway that Drew thought would never end. There were rooms up and down the hall way with no walls. They stopped in front of room 826 and when they opened the door and there was already a kid in there.

"Drew Welsh, meet Jack Sanders your roommate." The man walked away and shut the door, Drew put his stuff on the empty bed and then there was an awkward silence. Jack looked over "so what did you get sent here for?" Drew looked down at the floor he was embarrassed to admit what he did. "Look man what ever you got sent here cant be worse than what any other guys here have done." Jack said trying to get it out of him. Drew rolled his eyes "It's a really long story." Jack pulled a pillow over and put it behind his back, "I have all day."

Drew sat down on the bed and spilled his whole story. "It started when I started at this new school Degrassi community school, and I met this girl named Ellie." "She was so beautiful, I was totally in to her and we started going out." "Ellie wasn't the most stable person, she was into her best friend Marco but he turned out to be gay. "Than her life came overwhelming and she was a cutter for a while." "We were going out only for 3 weeks and I am in love with her, it was crazy but it was the greatest feeling I would call her all the time to here her voice it was so soothing." "One night she went out with her friend Marco and I accused her of being still into him and I did the un-thinkable, I hit her." "But it didn't stop there, when she tried to break up with me I totally attacked her, scratched open her cuts, through her down the stairs, and knocked her out."

"Wow man that's sick." Jack interrupted. "Do you want me to finish the story?" Jack asked annoyed by the comment. "Sorry I didn't mean to offend you or anything but it is still pretty sick." Drew nodded in agreement "I know it is and it gets worse." Jack looked a little worried about what he was dealing with.

"This kid Sean stopped me from hurting her, and I noticed they were getting close." "I was worried I would loose her forever, everywhere I turned there she was followed by him and a group of her friends." "That night I went over to her house smashed her window open with a gun and threatened her to stay with me, and threatened Sean." "She listened to me and starting ignoring all of her friends, she wasn't happy but I was and I didn't care about how she felt." "The next thing I know I am at her house trying to have sex with her, Sean calls and she is screaming on the phone to him, but I hang up." "Than I duct taping her mouth shut so she won't wake her passed out mother up." "I pull a knife out and keep it next to her bed, than suddenly Sean and Ellie's friend Paige come in through her window." "I pull the knife up and I cut Sean's arm, than I run because Sean takes the knife from me." "The next thing I know I am being taken from school in a cop car." "They pressed charges, gave me what I deserved, and now I am here for a year."

Jack was taken back by the story her just heard, "wow man, how could you do that to someone?" Drew gave him an angry stare "what did you do to get here?" Jack looked around, "Well I didn't do something as bad as you, but I will tell you anyway." "I got into this gang at school, they were really hard-core with the things they did." "I thought I was such a bad-ass, I was on top of the world." "At first we did minor crimes you know stealing from the store, cutting class, and the occasional fight." "Suddenly things changed we were on a corner of this fucked up town dealing and buying drugs." "I started getting scared they were buying guys and all these other weapons." "I wanted out so badly, that night I went to see them to tell them I was done with them." "They were dealing at the time so I just waited there for them to get done, but than the cops showed up." "They arrested me to, I didn't do anything so when I explained the whole story, the whole truth I get sent here."

"Man that's so fucked up, you didn't even do anything." Drew said in shock of the story. Jack shrugged "its how the world is what are you going to do, you know." Drew laid back on to his bed and re-played the past week in his mind over and over again. He felt like a monster how could he ever do something so vicious.

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Ellie woke up the morning after the trial and rolled over on top of Sean "Good morning," she giggled. "Someone is really happy this morning." Sean said as he kissed her. "It is Sunday, we can sleep in late, and than maybe go out to the mall later and see a movie, I can do anything." Ellie said with a sense of freedom. "Wow El you sound like you just got released from jail." Ellie laughed at the comment "being attached to Drew is like being in a prison so don't mind me." Sean rolled over on top of her now "we could stay in for the day." Ellie started getting un-comfortable because this is just how, "No Sean stop get off!" She screamed tears stared to form in Ellie's eyes. "Ellie its okay I am not going to hurt you." Ellie turned and looked at him, "that's how the thing with Drew started so can you cool it please?" Sean nodded and left the room for her to be alone for a while.

A/N- sorry it took so long for this chapter I was so wrapped up in school I didn't have any time.