Degrassi Season 16
"By Now" Episode 9
Kitty is dodging people in the hallway at Degrassi. She's trying to catch up to Milo who is several people in front of her.
"Milo!" she called from the sea of people. However, Milo didn't look back. "Milo!" Finally, she's able to reach, grabbing his shoulder and panting. He snaps out of his trance and turns to face her. "Didn't you hear me calling?"
"Sorry, Kitty, I must have been spacing," Milo apologized.
"I know, you've been spacing for a while now," Kitty pointed out. "You were even spacing all through movie night last night. I mean, I know you don't know Lindsay very well, but..."
"Oh, no, it's not that," Milo interrupted. He pivots and continues his way down the hall, Kitty walking besides him. "It's just, I think Esme has Miles doing drugs."
"What, like marijuana?" Kitty asked. "I thought Miles was already some what of a pot head."
"Used to be," Milo corrected. "But I'm talking prescription drugs."
"Whoa, like Xanax?" Kitty asked.
"I don't know," Milo replied. "All I could see was a bag of pills falling out of Miles' pocket. He swept them up faster than I could make out what kind they were but I know they were some kind of medication."
"Are you sure his therapist didn't prescribe them?" Kitty asked.
"I'm sure because therapist don't prescribe medications, psychiatrists do," Milo explained. "Miles doesn't have a psychiatrist."
"So then where do you think he got them from?" Kitty asked.
"Who else?" Milo asked rhetorically. "Esme."
"You really think so?" Kitty asked. "She doesn't seem like that kind of person to abuse drugs."
"Well, she steals boyfriends," Milo grumbled. "Why not add pill popper to the list?" They stop in the middle of the hall. "I don't know why he's acting like this, Kitty. One minute, I'm boring and no fun, the next he's begging me to stay friends. Is he bipolar?"
"Maybe he's just confused," Kitty suggested. "He was fine until his dad came back into the picture, right? Obviously, his dad is his trigger. Miles just doesn't know how to handle his trigger, so he becomes reckless, like taking pills and skipping class."
"You think so?" Milo asked in reassurance.
"Trust me, I know, my dad's my trigger, too," Kitty confessed. "But, Esme is his enabler. She's his escape because you refuse to entertain his addiction and his behavior when he gets like this, which is a good thing. Enablers are the one who encourage this bad behavior and make that person think they need their addiction when they really don't. He's only with Esme because he's craving that escape and she gives it to him." Milo thought about this for a moment. He pulled out his phone and called Miles. "What are you doing?"
"Miles and I need to have a serious talk," Milo replied. "The phone continues to ring but no answer. "That's funny, he's not answering his phone. I hope he's okay."
The scene cuts to Miles phone buzzing on the night stand in his room. Miles wakes up, the sand still in his eyes. He squints at his phone and picks up, but has stopped ringing. He tosses it back on to the night stand and rolls over, where he comes face to face with Esme. They open their eyes, and gaze at each other, lovingly.
"Why is your girlfriend calling you early in the morning?" Esme joked.
"I don't know what you're talking about because she's laying right next to me," Miles blushed, leaning in to kiss Esme.
"We're going to be late for school," Esme gushed in euphoria.
"It feels more like a skip it kind of day," Miles smiled, leaning in to kiss her her again as the theme music begins to play.
*Enter Theme Music*
SCENE 1
Danielle is sitting at a cafeteria table before her first class starts. She's reading a book that she has to do a report on for her English. Rose enters and storms over to her. She slams her hands down on the table, startling Danielle.
"Where in the hell have you been?" Rose roared.
"I, uh, uh," Danielle stuttered.
"You haven't been to conditioning in three days," Rose pointed out. "Are you done trying to chase this so called dream? Because I'm done having my time wasted. I put off a lot of free time to help you because you seemed determined to make it happen, but I see I need wag a cheeseburger in your face for you to make any sort of movement."
"Shut up!" Danielle shouted. "Why are you being so mean? You sound just like everyone else!"
"I'm not being mean, I'm being strict," Rose corrected.
"Really?" Danielle asked. "Because it sounds like you're making fat jokes."
"I'm trying to motivate you," Rose explained.
"Well, you're doing a great job coach," Danielle said sarcastically. "Just take my insecurities and just throw them back in my face, because that's really gonna motivate me." Danielle runs out of the cafeteria. Rose watches her runaway confused. The whole cafeteria watches and whispers.
SCENE 2
Kitty and Tristan are walking into their next class. Tristan is filling Kitty in on the details of his most recent date with his boyfriend, Jasper.
"And then, he pulled out a bouquet of roses from behind the tree, and it was just the cherry on top of a perfect late evening picnic date," Tristan said to Kitty as they made their way to their seats.
"Aw, Jasper sounds so dreamy," Kitty swooned as they took their seats. "You are so lucky to have found someone like him."
"Aw, Kitty, I'm sure you'll find your Prince Charming one day," Tristan reassured her.
"Nah, I don't need a man," Kitty smiled. "I just like hearing about other people getting men. It's way more entertaining."
"That's kind of sad," Tristan said in slight disgust.
"Not really, I'm perfectly happy by myself," Kitty grinned.
"You're definitely one of the strong ones," Tristan said.
"Well, being strong has nothing to do with it," Kitty corrected. "I just choose to not put myself in those situations."
"I guess you're right," Tristan agreed. "I don't know how Milo is doing it. He's definitely stronger than a lot of us."
"I wouldn't say he's stronger than us," Kitty said. "More like he can just put up with more crap."
"Wow, that's tre harsh and such an unlike you thing to say," Tristan said with a puzzling look.
"I just mean that I don't think Milo should be worried about someone who clearly doesn't worry about him," Kitty explained. "I mean, Miles has been dragging Milo around back and forth all school year and Milo just takes it."
"Maybe that's just how Milo is," Tristan suggested. "I mean, didn't his last boyfriend use to beat him? Maybe he just doesn't know how to bounce back from that."
"Yeah, but you would think he would learn from that, right?" Kitty asked sheepishly. "Not all the time, I guess," Tristan shrugged. Kitty scooted down in her seat, a look of worry over her face.
SCENE 3
Milo walks out of school. He walks through the parking lot. He notices Miles is sitting in his car that's parked in the parking lot. He storms over to Miles.
"Where the hell have you been?" Milo asked sternly. "I've been trying to call you all day."
"Well, hey, how are you doing?" Miles asked snickering.
"I'm a little pissed if we're being honest," Milo confessed. Miles shakes his head laughing. Milo studies him closely. "Are you high?"
"Like a freaking kite," Miles chuckled. Milo folds his arms across his chest.
"I'm glad that you find this amusing," Milo said sarcastically.
"This is hysterical," Miles laughed.
"Why are you even here?" Milo asked.
"Well, someone has to pick up Hunter and Frankie," Miles replied. Milo glares at him. Miles holds up the bag of pills. "Come on, Milo. Come chill out with me."
"No thanks," Milo refused. "Unlike some people, I don't drugs to fix my problems."
"Well, now, that's just rude," Miles smiled. Miles grip on the bag suddenly slips and the pills spill all over the asphalt. Miles rushes out of the car quickly pick them up. A pills rolls towards Milo and stops at his feet. Milo quickly picks it up and puts it in his pocket without Miles noticing. Miles finishes picking them up and puts them back in his pocket before anyone notices. He turns to Milo. "You sure you don't want any?" Milo huffs and walks past Miles, nudging him as he passes by. Miles watches him walk away laughing.
SCENE 4
Rose is in the library with Bentley, working on their history assignment. Bentley is going through books while Rose is distracted, thinking about Danielle.
"So, Hitler rose to power in the thirties, because Germany was suffering from being stripped of virtually everything as a consequence of World War I," Bentley said as he's looking at the books. "He used propaganda techniques to convince the German people that the Jews were to blame for the misfortunes that were happening to Germany. That sounds about right, right?" Rose doesn't answer him. Bentley looks up from the books and looks at Rose, waiting for her to respond. "Hello? Rose?"
"Do you think I'm a bitch?" she asked turning to him, completely ignoring what he had just said.
"Um, I think right now you're out to lunch," Bentley replied.
"I'm serious," Rose said firmly. Bentley sighed heavily.
"Well, you can definitely be an ice queen," Bentley replied after a short pause.
"I knew it," Rose sighed to herself. "I was totally insensitive."
"Well, you do lack sympathy," Bentley pointed out. Rose glares at him suddenly. "Hey, you were the one who asked if she was a bitch." Rose rolls her eyes. "Why do you even care? It never bothered you before."
"It's just, there's this girl that I'm conditioning and she's been skipping out on sessions, and I guess I was a little harsh with her today," Rose explained.
"So apologize," Bentley suggested. "I know that's in your vocabulary, but people tend to be receptive to that."
"I can't do that," Rose said.
"Then you're always gonna be the bitch," Bentley concluded turning back to the books. Rose puckers her lips contemplating.
SCENE 5
Milo storms into the rubber room the next morning. Grace is sitting at a table working on her laptop. Milo slams the pill he stole from Miles down on the table next to Grace. Looks at him in confusion.
"What's this?" Milo asked sternly.
"Um, good morning," Grace said with attitude. "And that's a pill."
"I'm serious, Grace," Milo said. "What is this?" Grace looks at the pill and then across the room at Zig.
"Yo, Novak, come here," Grace commanded. Zig hustles over. "This is you area of expertise. What kind of pill is this?" Grace hands him the pill. Zig takes it and looks it over carefully.
"It looks like benzodiazepine," Zig concluded handing Grace the pill back.
"In English," Grace commanded again.
"It looks like lorazepam," Zig replied handing Milo back the pill.
"What does that do?" Milo asked.
"Well, generally, it's prescribed for anxiety and insomnia," Zig explained.
"Can people get high on it?" Milo asked.
"You can get high on any prescribed medication if you take more than the recommended dose," Zig replied.
"That's why he was high," Milo said to himself. Grace looks at him in curiosity.
"Who?" she asked.
"Miles," Milo replied. "He was higher than a kite yesterday when I ran into him. I don't know where he's getting it from cause I know he's not being prescribed that."
"You sure about that?" Grace asked.
"Well, he's not getting it from me," Zig said stating his innocence. "But seriously, anyone who abuses prescription drugs is not someone you wanna be hanging out with."
"Novak is right," Grace agreed. "He's probably getting it from one of his hook ups."
"I bet you anything it's Esme," Milo stated. "Something's not right with that girl. Ever since he's been hanging out with her, he's been back to his old ways."
"She's probably his enabler," Grace suggested. "But if you ask me, Money Bags was always bad news." Zig nodded in agreement.
"So, what do I do?" Milo asked. Grace turned back to her laptop.
"Not your circus, not your monkey," Grace said. "He's not your boyfriend anymore, why worry about it." Milo gripped the pill and held it to his chest, fighting back tears.
SCENE 6
Tristan is walking in the parking lot. He sees Jasper getting out of his car and he hurries over to him.
"Hey!" Tristan called as Jasper turns to him smiling. "You never called me last night."
"Oh, sorry about that," Jasper apologized. "I had dinner with my parents last night and you know how Italian food puts me to sleep."
"Right, it does," Tristan chuckled. "Well, at least now you can walk me to class." Jasper sighs and turns to Tristan.
"Well, I think I can spare five minutes for my favorite guy," Jasper smiled. "But then I gotta hit the library. I forgot to print my essay last night."
"Five minutes is still enough time to spend with you," Tristan blushed. Jasper smiles at him and puts his arm around Tristan as they walk off to school.
SCENE 7
Rose meets Danielle in the hallway. Danielle sees her coming her way and pivots in the opposite direction. Rose picks up her pace, trying to catch up to her.
"Danielle, wait!" Rose called. Danielle pauses and turns to face Rose as Rose catches up to her.
"What?" Danielle grumbled.
"I wanted to apologize about what I said yesterday," Rose started. "I was trying to motivate you and I was insensitive about it."
"Oh, really?" Danielle said sarcastically. "You know I'm insecure about my weight."
"I know, and I'm sorry," Rose apologized. "I just care about as a friend and I just really wanted to help you and it came out wrong."
"It's okay," Danielle sighed. "I know you were trying to help. It just hurt."
"I'm still willing to work with you as long as you're still willing to put in the work," Rose said. Danielle smiled.
"Yeah, I would like that," Danielle said.
"But no more self loathing," Rose insisted. "And if someone says anything to you about your weight, let me know and I'll take care of it. I can be very intimidating." Danielle giggles as they walk off to class together.
SCENE 8
Milo is sitting at a cafeteria table with Kitty, Tristan, and Maya. All three of them are having a conversation as Milo remains quiet, pushing his food around on his lunch tray. He's lost in his own thoughts. Suddenly, he hears his name being called, over and over. He snaps out of his trance.
"Milo!" Tristan exclaimed. Milo shook his head and turned in his direction.
"Are you okay?" Maya asked chuckling.
"You haven't said a thing all lunch," Tristan pointed out.
"Or all day," Kitty added.
"I'm fine," Milo reassured everyone, going back to pushing food. "I just have a lot on my mind."
"Well, talk to us," Maya said. "You'll feel better."
"I'd rather just keep it to myself for the moment," Milo insisted.
"Are you sure?" Tristan asked. Milo looks up and sees Miles enters the cafeteria. He becomes enraged at the sight of Miles. Milo gets up from his seat and starts to walk over to him.
"Milo?" Maya asked in confusion.
"Milo?" Tristan and Kitty echoed. All three get up and follow Milo at a distance. Milo finally reaches Miles.
"So, you decided to come to school today?" Milo asked enraged. "Or are you just stopping by to get another fix?"
"What are you talking about?" Miles asked playing dumb.
"Oh, don't give me that crap, Miles," Milo barked. "You know what I'm talking about."
"Fine, both," Miles smirked. "Happy now?" Esme walks in, and observes the conversation from behind Miles.
"What is wrong with you?" Milo asked in anger.
"Nothing is wrong with me," Miles yelled back.
"This isn't you!" Milo exclaimed. "I don't understand what it going on with you." Esme approaches the two.
"It just goes to show how much you actually know me," Miles grumbled. "You should know by now, Milo. I'm a screw up."
"You do it on purpose, Miles!" Milo argued. "You're mad that you're parents are getting back together, so you dump me to go get high with this whore." Milo motioned at Esme.
"Excuse me?" Esme asked in offense.
"Don't act innocent," Milo commanded. "You know that's what you are." Tristan, Maya, and Kitty's jaws all drop in disbelief. "You're nothing but a home wrecker."
"Well, maybe, if you knew how to lighten up, you wouldn't have driven your boyfriend into the arms of another woman," Esme argued.
"If you knew how to keep your slutty hands off other people's men and just keep your legs closed, we wouldn't be in this mess," Milo barked back. Miles steps in,
"Stop it!" Miles demanded. "You can't talk like that to my girlfriend."
"And who are you to stop me?" Milo asked tearing up. "You break promises and you can never keep your word!" Miles just looks at him. "You said we were going to get it right this year. What the hell does that mean, Miles? As long as your dad is out of the picture and you're free to get drunk and high whenever you want, then that means that everything is going right?" Miles looks down at his feet, biting his lips. "You are the biggest asshole that I ever met. You're dead to me." Milo pushes Miles and Esme out of the way. Miles starts to follow.
"Don't!" Kitty shouted suddenly. Everyone turns to her in disbelief. Tears well up in her eyes.
"Kitty?" Maya asked.
"Don't bother chasing after him," Kitty said to Miles. Kitty gets in his face. "All Milo ever did was love you and be there for you and you just crap on him time and time again. You treat him like dirt and deserves so much more than that. He deserves way better than you will ever be. So go take your pills, go get drunk, go bang your girlfriend, and leave him alone. Don't talk to him, don't call him, don't text him, don't even think about him. You're dead to me, too." Kitty chases after Milo. Miles starts to hyperventilate. Esme reaches for Miles but he swats her away.
"Don't touch me," Miles demanded. Miles runs out of the cafeteria. Everyone looks on, all in shock and disbelief.
SCENE 9
Jasper is sitting in his car in the parking lot at the end of the school day. Tristan walks over and gets in the passenger seat.
"Sorry, I'm late," Tristan apologized closing the door behind him. "I had to check on Milo."
"Is everything okay?" Jasper asked.
"Not really," Tristan replied. "Milo blew up at Miles in the cafeteria. Kitty when in on Miles, too. I've never seen Kitty so upset. It was kind of scary, to be honest." Tristan leans in and kisses Jasper passionately. "I'm just glad we're still going on strong."
"Stronger than ever," Jasper swooned. Tristan buckles his seatbelt as Jasper starts the car.
"So, where are we headed?" Tristan asked.
"I thought we could grab some coffee at the Dot," Jasper replied.
"That sounds perf," Tristan smiled. "I could use a double shot of espresso."
"Sounds good to me," Jasper agreed. "I just need to make to quick stop first."
"Where are we stopping?" Tristan asked.
"Just sit back," Jasper grinned. "I just have to make a delivery." Tristan's foot brushes up against a plastic baggie peeking out from below the seat he looks down to see a bag of marijuana. He looks up at Jasper who is not paying attention. Tristan becomes concerned. "Sound good?"
"Perfect," Tristan lied. Tristan sits back in his seat and looks out the window in worry.
END EPISODE
NEXT TIME ON DEGRASSI...
Bentley putting his hand Rose's hand: Maybe we should go on a date sometime.
Rose laughing: I don't think so.
Sophie to Rose: Don't tell me you're passing up a chance to go on a date with Degrassi's newest heartthrob.
Tristan to Maya: I think Jasper is dealing drugs.
Maya to Tristan: How positive are you?
Tristan: Pretty positive.
Miles yelling at Esme: This isn't working anymore! Everything bad that's happened to me this year has all been your fault.
Miles on the phone with Esme: Where are you? Esme: Don't worry about. I'm getting out of your life by ending mine. *the phone clicks*
Miles screaming into his phone: Esme? Esme!
DEGRASSI!