THE DRUG IN ME IS YOU

Fourteen.

Wren was distracted the rest of the day and she had tucked herself away in the library during free period, not really trying to talk to anybody. She had been looking for old yearbooks, but somehow ended up running into Rickenberg, who begged for help with Math, and they tucked themselves in the back of the library going over their trigonometry lesson from the day before.

At lunch, Wren basically slammed herself down at the table next to Demetri. "You tell me right now why you and Hawk don't get along," she insisted. She had maybe fifteen minutes before Hawk showed up and got his food from the lunch line.

Demetri almost fell out of his chair, looking at Wren, he could almost feel the color draining out of his face. "Don't know what you mean," he tried, picking at the hole that was starting on the knee of his jeans.

"No no, don't you give me that, I had a nice visit with the trophy case this morning," she pressed.

"I am literally amazed you know nothing about your own boyfriend, " Demetri insisted, still trying to avoid the question. "Like do you even know his real name?"

"Of course I do, what kind of a question is that?" Wren gave Demetri a look.

"I mean who knows, maybe he's legally changed it by now."

"Demetri, come on."

"Fine woman." Demetri fished his phone out of his pocket, clicking through his apps, he pulled open his photos, scrolling for a hot minute before handing the phone to Wren, "I give you, Eli Moscowitz, a la the summer before sophomore year at coding camp," he pointed at the photo of the two boys, "It's like, a bunch, just keep swiping a couple times..."

Wrens eyes combed over the photos, swiping to the next, and then back, as if she had missed some details, eyes wide and mind intrigued. She knew that Eli had changed himself into Hawk, he 'flipped the script' so to speak, from what she had wrangled out of Miguel during their class together earlier that day. She literally felt like she was looking at a stranger...or like Hawk's twin brother. She swiped to the next photo of Miguel, Hawk and Demetri, all making silly faces, dressed up for Halloween, must have been last year. The next photo was of Miguel and Hawk at the beach, flexing without their shirts, Demetri standing there with his shirt on, all of them making funny faces, he had already switched to Hawk at that point. Wren swiped to the next photo of Demetri and Robby and Sam, a cast on Demetri's arm.

Wren swiped again and it looked to be a saved Snapchat video, it looked to be at a party, the camera was focused on Demetri, who stood on a small stage.

"I'd like to make a toast, to Eli Moscowitz... oh I'm sorry, some of you might know him as Hawk..," Demetri's voice rang out from the video. His eyes widened and he tried to snatch his phone back from Wren, who scooted it just out of his reach.

"Underneath that crazy clown cosplay and whatever type of magic panic he dumps in his hair, he's still good ol ' Eli... my binary brother,"

"Wren, common, give it back, " Demetri insisted, trying to reach around Wren, who kept moving the phone of his hands reach.

"You know what he is now? A real zero."

There were chuckles from the crowd, and then Hawk could be seen in the video, "Alright, that's enough Demetri," his voice sounded soft, like when it was just him and Wren alone in his room.

"He's a big softie," Demetris voice continued, "we watched every Harry Potter film together, and he bawled like a baby when Dobby died, " Wren frowned, watching Demetri fake cry on the video...now she knew why Hawk wouldn't watch half blood prince with her, or any Harry potter movies for that matter.

She could hear some muttering, maybe it was Hawk? She couldn't really make it out as the other people in the crowd laughed as Demetri continued to talk,

"I've got one more thing... have any of you ever heard of sleep enuresis?"

"Oh god," Demetri muttered behind her. She could feel somebody else's presence leaning over her, but Wren was too engaged in the video.

"That is the medical term of course, in the kings English, it's good old fashion bed wetting! and Eli here is a pro, my mom even had a special air mattress for sleepovers.... and she called it Eli's waterbed."

"You have a fucking video of that? "

Wren looked up quickly at her boyfriend, the video was still playing in her hands for a few more seconds before it cut off and Demetri grabbed his phone, scooting back in his chair, Hawk leaning menacingly over him. "Did you not learn your lesson the first time or should i break the other arm?" he questioned.

"You what?" Wren exclaimed, pushing her chair back to stand up. Robby and Chris got in the middle of Hawk and Demetri, who had finally found his legs to stand up. "There's a trophy case with your name on it buddy," Demetri spoke up from behind Robby and Chris.

"Whoa, whoa, stop stop, stop, " Wren insisted, getting in between Hawk and Robby, who looked like they were about to kill each other. "I will literally fuck both of you up to get my hands on this nerd, " Hawk snarled, Miguel and Doug ran over, grabbing Hawk by his arms, trying to pull him away.

"You wanna try? Need another foot to the face ?" Robby questioned, his hands balling up into fists.

"Stop! " Wren shouted, everybody looking at her. "Fucking nosy bitch, you just had to come over here," Hawk shook his head at his girlfriend.

"Excuse me?" she questioned, eyes wide. "What did you just call me? You better calm that attitude at me, I am not the one!" Wren exclaimed,

" I said what I said, " Hawk spat, pulling his arms from Miguel and Doug forcefully. "You don't know how to leave it Wren, at least Moon minded her own fucking business."

Wren went to lunge at Hawk and Robby grabbed her full around the waist, her legs kicking as he held her in place. "You're a piece of shit, and a bully! I don't know how I didn't see it, " she spat back at Hawk, still wriggling in Robbys arms, his grip getting stronger on her the more she wiggled. Wren reached up, pulling the necklace of her neck, whipping it at Hawk, hitting him in the face.

"Go fuck yourself!" she stated, finally getting out of Robbys arms and running out of the cafeteria, eyes stinging with tears and her ears ringing as Hawk called her name.