Author's Note: Here's Chapter four! Whoo.
Spinner walked right to the ravine, right where he knew he fit in. He couldn't even go home without Kendra lecturing him. He knew that he could at least feel like he belonged at the ravine, he felt equal or even above the other people there. At home he felt inferior, like his home was a totalitarian state and Kendra was the dictator.
Spinner realized he really needed a drink. When he gets to the point of comparing his life to types of government, he knew there was something wrong. It surprised him that he even knew what totalitarian meant. It was summer, there was no need to think of school right now.
"Mason, you're back!" Jay yelled from over at the fire Spinner was sitting around with the guys before. All of the guys were still there from before, Towerz, David, and even mullet guy Randy. Except this time, mullet guy Randy had his arm wrapped around Amy's waist.
"Yeah, I just had to go home, make sure my sister and Issacs didn't set the house on fire or something," Spinner lied. He didn't need to be telling Jay the truth. Not that Jay cared or paid close enough attention anyways. Kendra wasn't even still dating Toby, but would Jay ever know that? Definitely not.
"Isaacs? Now he's even dorkier than I am!" David exclaimed, goatee flopping all over the place. For the first time since Spinner has met them, the other guys actually laughed at one of poor David's lame jokes.
"Spin O. Here," Jay stated, throwing Jay a bottle of the beer that Spinner tasted before. Spinner ripped off of the cap of the beer so fast, that he didn't even realize he caught the bottle perfectly. He started to gulp the beer down, faster than he ever drank anything, even spray cheese, and Spinner held the Degrassi record for drinking the most spray cheese in the shortest amount of time.
He sighed, feeling the burning sensation roar through his throat again. This time it wasn't half as strong as it was the first time. He figured that his body was used to it at this point.
Before he knew it, he was sitting in the circle of ravine rats between Towerz and mullet guy Randy. He was in such a drunken haze at this point, he barely even remembered sitting down there. He finally gained some conciousness back, realizing that there were 3 empty bottles of beer at his feet, probably ones that he already drank. Everytime Spinner got drunk his memory and thoughts flashed on and off, one minute he'd actually realize what's going on, and the next he'd be a zombie in his own body, not even knowing who he was or where he was.
"To WERZ To WERZ!" The guys were all cheering, Spinner saw Towerz standing in the middle of the circle, chugging a huge bottle of vodka. Spinner wondered how on earth Towerz was able to do that without completely choking. Towerz finished the bottle and threw his arms up in victory. Dave and mullet guy Randy ran to Towerz, and carried him wedding style over to the other side of the ravine. Spinner chuckled as they staggered over, Dave tripping and almost dropping Towerz in the process.
The crowd that formed around Towerz during his chugging contest dispersed, all of the spectators moved on to their own thing. Some chilled by the cooler of beer, some went deeper in the woods, probably to hook up. Towerz, Dave and mullet guy Randy were all stumbling all over each other like a bunch of clowns you'd find in the circus. Maude and Melinda followed Towerz, Dave and mullet guy Randy, Spinner suspected they'd try to get one of them to give them more bracelets.
The only ones left around the firepit were Jay, Spinner and Amy. Amy took it upon herself to get up and strut herself over to Spinner.
"So Spinner," Amy muttered, if she was trying to seduce him, Spinner wondered why Amy sounded so bitter, "You haven't said a word this whole entire time. Wanna go in the van with me?" She asked, flashing her eyes at him.
Jay nodded for Spinner to go. He really didn't want to, in fact he definitely knew that he didn't want to. He knew he had to though, he didn't want Jay to think that Darcy and the Friendship Cult were still controlling him. The truth was, they weren't, but Spinner decided to clean his act up even after he quit the Friendship Cult.
Without saying a word, Spinner nodded. Jay cheered him on, and Amy linked her arm into Spinner's. Amy led Spinner over to where the van was. Despite still having being a little drunk, Spinner was starting to feel a little nervous. It's not that he was nervous about what was going to happen, it's happened to him before, but he was afraid of the unknown, which was to him, the van. The van always symbolized something completely wrong to him, he never even thought of entering it.
Amy walked over to the door and slid it open, just as she did, another guy dressed the same as all of the other ravine guys exited with another girl in skimpy clothing. The girl was admiring another cheap, plastic bracelet that she must have just earned. Her arm, like Amy's Melinda's and all of the other girls' arms Spinner saw, was covered in cheap bracelets, wrist to just above the elbow. He gulped, wondering how many different guys all of these girls have been with.
Amy entered the van as soon as the guy and the girl left. Spinner stood on the outside of it looking in. Was he ready for this? He did just break things off with Darcy a couple of hours before. Well, she broke things off with him, but no one had to know that right? Was it too soon?
Spinner decided that he needed to prove to himself that he was over her. Well, he knew he was definitely over her, but he wasn't sure if he was over the acceptance that she gave him.
"Ahem," Amy coughed loudly. "I don't got all night." Spinner rolled his eyes, and entered the van. The van wasn't at all what he expected. From the inside it looked like it was made in the 70s. It probably was, the old piece of junk has been in Degrassi's ravine for ages, or so Jay says. The carpet was one of the grossest shades of green Spinner ever saw. He could only tell what color it was from the assorted candles that were sitting on the floor of the van. In the back of the van were old, dirty pillows that looked like they were barely able to support anybody. Spinner scrunched his nose up, the smell in the van was rancid.
"Are you going to check out the decorations, or are you going to kiss me?" Amy asked, raising an eyebrow, hands on her hips, growing more and more impatient by the minute. They were both kneeling in the van, facing each other. Spinner didn't feel like talking to her, so he leaned in and kissed her.
Spinner kissed her lightly at first, but Amy wasn't one to take things very slow. Amy kissed him harder than Spinner has ever been kissed before. She shoved her tongue deep in his throat as if she were fishing for something. He really didn't like how forceful she was being. He opened his eyes wide and looked at her, disgusted. She was making the weirdest face in the world. Spinner normally liked kissing different girls, in fact he did it often when he was drunk. But something about Amy was incredibly unappealing.
He felt as if he were about to throw up. He couldn't take kissing Amy anymore, she kissed him so rough it felt like kissing a guy! Not that Spinner ever kissed a guy of course, it's just how he imagines it to feel.
"Um, you know what? I don't have any bracelets with me. You wait here," Spinner explained to Amy, sliding open the door to the van. He had to get out of there, and even though his excuse was rather lame, he'd take any excuse. He hopped out of the van, shutting the door behind Amy. It wasn't long before another guy sauntered over to the van and opened the door. Spinner breathed a sigh of relief knowing that Amy wouldn't be waiting for him.
He desperately grabbed a half-full bottle of beer that was on the ground and drank it. He suddenly needed that escape. He smiled, feeling the burning of the alcohol surge down his throat. It was a feeling he craved, a feeling he desired.
"Spin O!" Jay yelled from the other side of the ravine. "How was Amy man?" Jay's speech was a little slurred and he stumbled around a lot as he walked. Jay was definitely drunk, there was no way to deny that.
"Great, umm," Spinner racked his brain for something, anything to keep Jay distracted. If he found out the truth of what happened to Spinner, he'd abandon him as well. Spinner would be the laughing stock of the ravine rats, and the last thing Spinner needed was another group of people rejecting him. Spinner's eyes averted to Jay's orange civic. Perfect.
"Hey, Jay! Why don't we go for a joy ride?" Spinner thought this was the perfect idea to get Jay's mind off of what happened between him and Amy. By the time they'd return, Amy would have totally forgotten that Spinner walked out on her, plus Jay loved going for random joy rides. Even though Jay was kind of drunk, he figured that no one would be on the roads at this time anyways.
"Yeah! Spin O! Hop in," Jay yelled, exited. Spinner opened the door and sat down quickly as Jay backed up into a cooler and knocked it over.
"Whoops," Jay chuckled, brushing it off. Spinner chuckled a little too, he was still a little drunk, and hitting a little cooler wouldn't hurt anybody, right?
Jay put his car in drive, turned the wheel, and almost hit David and Spinner's car before exiting the ravine. Jay barely made it onto the main road, he kept swerving in between the lanes, and laughing like a hyena as he drove. Jay pressed his foot down on the accelerator, screaming loudly as the speedometer slowly crept up to 80 MPH. As Jay sped up, he finally was able to at least keep his car in their proper lane.
Spinner was staring to realize that maybe this joy ride wasn't such a good idea after all.