Chapter 11

~ Zane ~

"Emma, what is it?" I look at the two girls in front of me, Lewis isn't far behind them. I shake my head at her, noticing the lack of Rikki with them lately.

"Rikki is in trouble, we need your help."

"Trouble?" Cleo nods and then looks at Lewis,

"There is this big party tonight, the thing is, the police know about it and about halfway through the party, they are going to arrest everyone there. We don't want to warn them all, we have to get Rikki out of there before they come."

"Why are the police going there?" I look at them confused, police don't usually plan to crash teenage parties; Not unless there was something major going on there.

"Drugs." Lewis says simply, I look away for them for a minute, trying to picture the recent Rikki in my head, trying to put it all together. Rikki was at a party full of drugs, Rikki, my Rikki... I look back at them and shake my head.

"She's not...." I trail off and look over at the sea,

"She is Zane and we are worried, please help us?"

"Why do you need my help?"

"You're the only with a car." Cleo says, I nod my head and sigh.

"We need to leave now." Emma grabs my hand as we walk toward my brand new car

"Rikki's Dad called us earlier, he told us she ran away after trying to steal pills from him. Lewis heard from two men down the marine park that there was going to be a big raid at Avril's house tonight, during a massive party that is going on tonight. Lewis immediately put two and two together, she is going to be there, she always runs to Avril and Simon." I nodded at them both, and then sighed loudly as I started the car.

"Is this my fault?" I slowly ask, refusing to look at them, only looking at the road in front of me. It would take half an hour to get to Avril's from mine, everyone knew where she lived, her house may be big, but it was worse than any trailer. She lived in the roughest part, hidden away from everyone else.

"I think... That you sent her off the edge to be honest." Emma looked out of the window when I glanced at her, and I quickly looked away.

"I didn't mean to, it was becoming so much. I saw her smoke, she started hanging around with Avril. I couldn't handle it."

"I don't know why she started doing all that in the first place, but there was something wrong Zane. You should have seen that." Cleo muttered, I nodded, knowing that I should have known something was wrong, I should have seen her pain and I should have asked her if she was okay. I shouldn't have jumped to the conclusion that she had grown out of me, I shouldn't have thought that her stupid rebellion was too much to handle. I could have helped her, I could have stopped all this.

I wipe away a tear falling down my face before anyone notices it. I still love her so much, I love her too much, I guess I didn't want to see her get hurt, I didn't want to see her pain. But I only made things worse through my own selfishness.

It's dark by the time we pull up, and the party is in full motion. I sigh as I open the car door, looking at how many people are there, and shaking my head, "How are we going to find her?" I shake my head, already defeated but Emma walks ahead of me with Cleo just behind her. Lewis shrugs at me as we follow them into the crowded building, I stayed behind them closely. Not wanting to lose them as well, it was so Smokey in here. I sighed as I watched them all smoking and drinking. I couldn't see Rikki anywhere..

"AVRIL!" I looked at Emma in surprise, she was louder than I thought, I shook my head, trying to focus on the situation at hand. I saw Avril walking towards us, drunk and smoking something. I looked away for a moment, trying to spot Rikki anywhere.

"Where is Rikki?"

"I don't know." She shrugged and then looked behind her at Simon, I frowned and then watched as Cleo clenched her fist. I nudged Lewis and made him look, I saw him roll his eyes but he didn't try and stop them. Emma slammed Avril up against the wall behind them before I even blinked, I looked at them both, shaking my head in shock. I know Rikki is their best friend, but getting caught wasn't a good way of going about this. Cleo slowly raised her hand but Avril started to shake her head,

"She is upstairs, jeez people, calm down." Emma slammed her into the wall once more before running up the steep stairs.

I gasp when we enter a room, there is Rikki sure enough, with a black haired guy, half naked and snorting coke. I shook my head, and looked away for a moment. There she was in her bra and knickers, while he was wearing just his bottoms. She looked terrible, she looked like anything or anyone could break her any minute. I didn't even want to know what they had been doing before we came in, if they were doing anything. Lewis pushes past me and grabs the guy sitting next to Rikki, I watch her face as she looks at me, she doesn't even bother covering herself up; She is that out of it.

I take off my jacket slowly and then walk over to her, not looking at Emma and Cleo as I pass them. I don't see the tear tracks running down their face, I don't see the fear in their eyes. I wrap my jacket around Rikki and she looks away from me, her hand reaching out to the drugs in front of her. I grab her hand and then lift her up, without trouble. She doesn't struggle, she just puts her arms around my neck, she doesn't kick or scream, she doesn't make a big deal out of leaving.

I smile at her as I put her into the car, her eyes are glassed over, she doesn't even know where she is probably. I put her seat belt on as she leans her head on the cushion I place by her head. I sigh and shake my head at Lewis as I start the car, "Lock the doors." Lewis whispers to me, I nod at him as I quickly lock them, not knowing what Rikki was capable of doing. I jumped in shock when I heard Rikki scream, I watched the tears falling down her face, as she banged on the window, it was like this sudden monster had been let out. She carried on screaming but I just ignored her, knowing the police would be there soon.

She kicked and screamed, cried, and shouted for us to let her out. But I kept driving to her house, not knowing the horror that was coming...