The Life We Live

8.Am I Still Tripping?

Ricky stared at them as if he was absolutely fried; but on bathsalts.. he was tweeking as if he was electrocuted..

"Who the fuck are you and what the fuck are you doing in my house?!" Raven asks him trying to stay calm

Harlow steps in front of her and whispers to her looking over his side "this is Ricky.. the kid I told you about earlier." Harlow then looks back at Ricky  and yells "yo my man... the hell you doing!?"

Ricky stood there still staring at them.

Harlow slowly starts to step towards him keeping his guard up incase he attacks.

Harlow gets as close as he feels comfortable to and stares at Ricky; he doesn't seem to be looking at him but through him.

Ricky then moves his eyes and starts to look into Harlow's eyes which scares Harlow a tad bit. His piercing dark brown eyes were intimidating to him.

As the tension rises and Harlow is sure he is about to attack him, Ricky's eyes suddenly roll back and he falls face first onto the ground.

Harlow steps back staring at him wondering why he didn't even try to catch him. He laughs alittle. He then looks back at Raven who looks just as confused as he is.

They quickly pick him up and set him on the couch.

For an hour they stare at him not saying a word, feeling eachothers thoughts.

Ricky's eyes suddenly open and he throws himself up gasping for air.  "Holy shit... what the fuck was that?" He looks up seeing Raven and Harlow staring at him in a place he has never been before.

He stares at them "shit.. am I still tripping?"

Harlow laughs alittle and leans towards him "well not anymore."

Raven squints her eyes at him; confused. not sure what to say.

Ricky sees Raven look at him and feels she might kill him for intruding. He speaks loudly "okay... the last thing I remember was being at school.. and walking towards the lunch room to actually talk to you.." he points at Harlowand hesitates looking at Raven for a couple seconds then back to Harlow and whispers covering his mouth from Raven "from you know what... then he speaks loudly again "then I see McCray and Winston come at me with their god damn friends asking me where do I think you're going..."

Ricky winces clapping his hands together wide eyed "its like they knew I was coming to talk to you. As McCray and you aren't friends anymore so im sure that correlates.. but uh I looked at them sayin I was gonna go sit with you.. cause I aint gonna take their shit and be scared of them. So..they all grabbed me.. I tried yelling for you but they quickly covered my mouth before I even could."

Ricky shakes his head in disbelief "so many bystanders... doing absolutely nothing. Just looking at me getting completely trashed by a bunch of jack asses. Not even teachers or the principal came to help..." he pauses and continues "anyways after they straight jumped me in the god damn hallway, McCray threw something in my mouth and whispered something in my ear.. as he was speaking I immediately felt myself going under. I don't even remember what he said.. I wish I did. But obviously it had to have been something that involved coming here.. so...ya there's that. Ricky smiles interlocking his fingers together on his lap; sitting in perfect posture.

Harlow slightly cringes at him trying not to show that he thinks he is alittle strange, even though he guesses he's cool.

Raven looks at Harlow angrily "that mother fucker sent another mother fucker into my house?!?.. for what? What does he even get out of this?"

Ricky lifts his arms up "woah woah I aint the enemy here... I'm just another one of their poor victims that they used to do whatever dirty work they wanted to do cause they're too shit to do it themselves so they made me do it.." He puts his hand on his chest and smiles feeling slightly arrogant.

Raven scoffs rolling her eyes "unbelievable"

Harlow laughs alittle taking the joke and jokingly adds "he is right you know.." looking at Raven

Suddenly Marvin walks into the house and sees Ricky "who's this." He says looking directly at him.

Ricky widens his eyes "im Ricky." He smiles trying to look friendly

Marvin squints his eyes at him and huffs "okay..."  he then looks at Raven "who's this?"

Raven tries to explain but no real words come out and she gives up. "I'll just explain later."

Marvin hums and walks down the hall into his room.

Ricky stares down the hallway then to Raven and sighs "listen.. im sorry I intruded into your house like that.. I wouldn't actually ever do that to someone I didnt even know.. or rather anyone at all. So if you hate me that's totally understandable but I hope you understand me too."

Raven looks down and decides to accept his apology knowing who the real enemy is. "Its alright..."

Ricky then stands up and looks at Harlow "wanna try to talk another time?"

Harlow nods "ya sure." Ricky throws his hand out and does a bro handshake with Harlow then walks towards the door "nice house by the way."

Raven smiles "thanks"

Ricky smiles, then leaves.