Chapter 2

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Rory and Alex instantly stopped fooling around. They heard several loud crashes and people running around downstairs.

"Fuck!" Alex yelled dropping Rory, but luckily she was slightly prepared and landed on her feet. For a minute her mind was foggy, she was still stoned and the hangover was lingering. Needless to say she felt like shit. Then she realized what was going on. Someone must have said something about the business… and now the cops were crashing it.

All of a sudden something clicked in her mind and she started looking for a way out of the house. There was no way that she could go downstairs. She'd be arrested and that was the last thing she needed.

"Shit, Alex how the hell do you get out of here, "she yelled over all the commotion going on downstairs. She quickly looked towards the door to make sure it was still locked, even though when the cops got up here it wouldn't exactly matter for very long.

"Look hold the fuck on I'm trying to figure this out!" He yelled with an angry face. But Rory could see the real panic in his eyes.

"Oh my God we're dead" she said panicking. It wasn't that she'd never been somewhere where there had been a raid. But the situation here was worse. She'd been a solid customer since freshmen year and never had there been problems. And now she was upstairs and locked in a room. Definitely the worst situation yet.

Alex came towards her and grabbed her by the neck. "Shut the hell up and let me think" he commanded letting her go.

Rory didn't even bother getting upset since she knew it wasn't the time. Later he'd pay for pulling that.

She quickly took the pack of weed out of her purse. If she got arrested she didn't want evidence on her. She looked around and noticed a window. She ran and unlocked it. Looking out there was a smaller roof under her of another apartment since they were in a small broken down lot of them.

"Alex get your ass over here!" she yelled. Even if he wasn't the best guy in the world she didn't want him to get arrested. He quickly ran to her, stumbling into an end table that tipped over with some packs holding small white tablets falling out of the drawer. Ecstasy. Rory wanted to grab it but the no evidence rule was still prevalent in her mind.

"Let's get out of here."

Rory quickly stuck both feet out the window and shoved herself down. She landed on the roof. Thankfully it was flat because if it was a slope she'd be dead due to how wet it was. Of course the way her luck had been going today it had started raining while she'd been inside. She started moving along the roof to get farther away from the house when she looked back, remembering Alex. She was about to call to Alex to come on when she saw cops swarming the room.

"Shit" Rory whispered and stood up. She wobbly ran to the edge and looked down. It was about a 7 foot drop. She looked back over the couple of roofs she had passed over and saw Alex getting cuffed. She decided it was worth breaking her leg on the jump.

She quickly sat down and pushed off. She landed with a loud, hard thump on the pavement. Unfortunately she was off balance and her torso fell forward. She felt a horrible pain in her stomach and figured she'd hurt a rib; her right arm hit the ground at a bad angle. She knew there would be a large bruise there later but she couldn't care less at the moment.

Rory looked around and decided to hide behind a large garbage bin. She knew there was no way she'd be able to get to her car since it was probably right near the cop's ones.

While hiding, she examined herself and realized that she still had no shirt on. It was back in the room. How had she not noticed?

She was soaked to the bone from the pouring rain, her hair in her face and her arms around her shaking self. The high she had been on was, disappointingly, mostly gone.

After a while she heard them leaving and she ran stealthily back to where her car was parked. Thankfully no one was there. She quickly unlocked it, got in and drove away. She had a pounding headache and all she wanted to do was go home.

When she got home it was around noon. She ran upstairs and collapsed on her bed, falling into a deep sleep.

It was around 3:00 when Rory woke up. She looked around and realized where she was and the events of the day hit her like a cold breeze. She was at a crack house where she was fooling around with a drug dealer while stoned when cops that were probably alerted by some nark had raided the place and arrested Alex, and she escaped the house by jumping off a roof.

That was when she also realized she was supposed to be at Jamie's.

"AHHHHH" she screamed, jumping out of bed. She quickly leaped into a hot shower, the warmth feeling wonderful against her skin. In a matter of 15 minutes she was ready, her hair still slightly wet, she ran down to the car and hopped in, popping in some pills for the major headache she had. She drove to Jaime's where she parked kind of messily and got out. When she walked in she saw the gang at a table in the corner.

She quickly walked towards them.

"RORY HAYDEN!" Finn yelled when he saw her. He jumped out of his seat and bowed down in front of her. "Rory, love, I've missed you, my love for you will never die. I've realized that I can live without you no longer. Please give me the honor of becoming my extremely hot, sex toy of a wife. "

Rory burst out laughing and sat down in an empty seat. She was used to Finn's flirting, but now was definitely a good time for it. She needed cheering up.

Everyone was sitting at a large round booth/table. On two sides there were booths and on the other two there were seats. Tristan was on one of the chairs with Griffin and Louise next to him. Then on the two booths there were Colin and Paris, and on another Logan, Madeline and Adi. Then on the other chairs there was Finn.

It looked like they were done with their food already. Rory was disappointed because by now she was starving.

She looked at Paris and saw that she was glaring angrily at her. Great.

"What took you so long to get here?" Paris demanded, "you said you'd be here and you show up an hour late. What the hell's the deal with you? You seem to be breaking a lot of promises today Hayden." Paris looked at her with venom in her eyes. Everyone looked at her in amazement. They didn't often fight with each other. Paris usually argued with them but the meanness directed towards Rory was, well, strange.

"Sorry Paris I overslept and didn't realize how late it was." she replied. She really didn't feel like fighting.

Paris just rolled her eyes. Everyone just took it as a joke. Louise grinned and Tristan ran a hand through his hair laughing.

"Feisty Paris" he said with a smirk... Adi laughed and started putting her thick, red hair in a ponytail.

"So Rory why'd you cut? If you'd told me I would have joined you!" Logan whined. Everyone at the table was looking expectantly at her. Adi glanced up from doing her hair.

"Dad came home, fight, stress, hangover. Need I say more?"

"Aww Rory what happened? Louise asked.

"Nothing, I'm just an ungrateful bitch who hates him and should show more love or something. I mean he's gone all the time and then he expects me to like be the perfect innocent daughter he always wanted."

Everyone looked pretty pissed off by what her dad had said. It wasn't like they'd never heard it before. They had tons of times, whether it was from their own parents or they heard about someone else's parents saying it to their kid. The thing that got them so mad was that it had happened again to Rory because it would hurt her. Even if she didn't wasn't to admit it.

"Well lucky girl," Finn started saying, while draping his arm around her shoulder, "that just gives us another reason to get drunk! Let's go to my house again."

Rory was relieved the topic of today had been dropped. She'd never told anyone about Alex's business and she was never sure why.

Everyone looked at each other slightly apprehensive. When Finn got it in his mind to drink this early in the day the result was either getting arrested or him getting naked very publicly.

"Finny," Adi began carefully," I have a much better idea." Everyone, except the oblivious Finn, turned towards her with a mix of a thank god / you better have a damn good idea look on their face.

"Yes, what's that love?" Finn asked quizzically. He had no clue what was better then drinking.

"Welllllll you know how much you love dogs?" she said. Rory caught her eye and they shared a silent grin. When dogs were brought up Finn became mush. It had something to do with wild coyotes back in Australia, or something equally weird. Whenever anyone asked he gave a very garbled answer so people had just stopped bothering to ask.

Rory had to congratulate Adi on remembering this.

"Doggies! Did I hear doggies?" Finn exclaimed.

Rory saw out of the corner of her eye Colin put his head in his hands. He hated dogs. She couldn't help laughing. While this was going on she was also plucking food off of Finn and Adi's plates, trying to fulfill her hunger.

"Yup you did. You see I heard about this dog show that's going on today. It's for all these dogs that are brought in from kill shelters and you get to see them all pretty and then at the end you can buy one!" Adi said with a devilish glint in her eye.

Apparently Finn had forgotten about his last encounter with a dog show, where a Rottwieler had ended up growing vicious and biting him in his butt. He'd needed stitches it was so bad. And all because he had been playing with it's ears.

"Perfect let's go! What the bloody hell are all of you waiting for? We're done eating. Let's go!" Finn yelled and ran put to the car.

They all sat sort of stunned looking at each other. Then they burst out laughing.

"Well then I guess you guys are going to a dog show," Tristan said.

"What do you mean we? Aren't you coming?" Rory asked indignantly while grabbing her coat. Logan had already gone to pay since it was apparently his turn.

They'd been coming to Jaime's Diner after school every Monday since sophomore year. There was a rotation so that every time they came someone else would pay. It would take less time then if they had to pool their money each visit.

"Nope, I've got a date with Kiki today. I'm picking her up after some makeup test she had to take." He said with a smirk.

"Very nice," Colin said with a grin, "stupid and slutty. Perfect..." Paris hit him over the head with her purse "for you. I've got my girl right here and she's enough for me."

Colin put his arm around Paris and pulled her close. Even though she still had her argue face on Rory saw her softening.

While they began arguing she turned back to Tristan. "So when is your and Kiki's date gonna end. Because I was thinking that after we could hang out."

He ran his hands through his hair in the irritating way he always did.

"Sorry Mary it'll probably be pretty late," he said with a smirk.

He'd been calling her Mary since she was 10. Apparently to him she looked like the Virgin Mary. Holy and untouchable. Yea right.

"Oh" she said. A strange gnawing feeling began in her stomach. She assumed it was lack of food and pushed it away. Tristan could see the disappointment in her eyes.

"But if we're done early how about I come over and we watch Bambi. That good?"

He asked knowing what her answer would be.

"Yea, good" she said with a grin, her eyes getting their sparkle back.

7 years ago Tristan would have suggested Willy Wonka but the minute Rory's mom left it had been banished from the Hayden household. No one spoke of it near Rory since it brought back painful memories that she preferred to push away.

Tristan left, and for some reason she felt that same sort of stabbing in her heart. What the hell? Probably exhaustion and hunger. Yes that was it.

Coming back into reality she locked eyes with Paris and could tell she really did need to talk to her. Rory would make sure it happened later when there was more time and privacy.

As they walked back to the car talking they heard a faint chanting of " Puuuuu-pppieesss, Puuuuuu-ppppppiesss," coming from the car.

So what did you guys think? I know this wasn't the best chapter but believe me more is coming so please stay with me. I've planned out some of the story until like Chapter 12 so now I just need to get to writing it.  In the next couple chapters I'll also try to show you more of the character's personalities. Thank you – everyone who reviewed I really appreciate it and you definitely motivated me, so plz keep them coming.