Never Fall

11) That Sinking Feeling

Chapter 11

I giggled, puffing out a breath of smoke. Shane laughed along with me, "I'm hungry.." He whined, leaning his head on my shoulder.

I grinned, "That's why I got this!" I chirped, excitedly, showing him my bag of goodies. It had cupcakes, chips, candy and Arizona.

"Yes!" He moaned, as he ripped open a package of cosmic brownies. I chuckled, munching on my Munchies;cheese fix.

As we put out our blunts, I saw figures approaching our spot. We were currently sitting on a dumpster in an abandoned alley, as we had previously been smoking.

I threw my head back and laughed, uncaring of the shadows coming towards us. When I finally decided to look, the people were blurry and I couldn't focus on their faces. A familiar voice made me narrow my eyes, I finally recognized Jesse as he was right in front of me.

"Ariana, what are you doing here?" He snapped, I giggled a little, then I remembered our previous encounter. "What does it look like?" I asked, trying to sound intimidating, but it sounded slurred and unsure.

I recognized Jesse's friend; Rico, the one we had met outside of his house to get some bud. They were probably both here for the same reason that me and Shane were.

"Ariana." Jesse said firmly, tilting my chin up to look at him. His eyes were cold and angry. I slapped his hands away from my face, "What do you want?" I asked.

"I want to know why you're here, with this pot head." Jesse said, gesturing to Shane. Shane chuckled, oblivious to the tension between us.

"He's my friend." I stated, rolling my eyes.

"You don't need friends like this." Jesse said. I snapped my head towards him in anger.

"You have no right to tell me what friends I need or don't need, you're not the boss of me!" I exclaimed angrily, my hands flailing around. I hopped off the dumpster.

"I was trying to look out for you." Jesse said like it was the most obvious thing in the world, like he had every reason to.

I scoffed, "oh, Please. look out for me, how? If it's about Shane being a stoner, then you're a hypocrite because me and you smoked together before. Soooooo, that being said, that you are a stupid." I told him, holding my head up proudly. It was really hard to speak clearly for some reason.

Jesse sighed, "Fine whatever. Just get out of our spot." He snapped, rather rudely.

"Your spot? No way ! Me and ShaneyPie have been coming here for like ... ever - forever!" I spat back. Jesse was just annoying me so bad right now! I wanted to gouge his balls of eyes out.

"Well, i dont give a f*ck. Me and Rico are staying here so get lost." He scoffed.

"F*ck you, you stupid lama." I muttered bitterly and dragged Shane away. "Whatever." Jesse responded coldly.

Me and Shane turned the corner and began our attempt to sneak back into school, I looked around and saw no one. "Coastie is clear," I whispered to Shane, he nodded giddily and we both swiftly turned around, coming face to face with our principal.

"Ohhhh sh*t" Shane blurted, then smacked his forehead. "F*ck sorry. Crap I mean .. I mean --"

"You two, my office. Now." Ms. Marling seethed, her eyes were ablaze and her face was red. We gulped and exchanged worried looks, but reluctantly followed the witch.

Mind you, we were high.

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"This is all your fault!" I shouted at Shane. He rolled his eyes, "You were the one who suggested getting baked and ditching school! Not to mention deciding to go back! Who the hell goes back to school after they've ditched it?" He asked incredulously.

"I was high! But at least I kept it together in her office! You called her "hot"! If it wasn't for that we probably wouldn't be suspended right now." I shot back.

"Oh please, it's only three days. It's not that serious." He said. I rolled my eyes.

That's when I realized the bell rung like 3 minutes ago and it was regular dismissal time. "Catch ya later, Shane." I said, and we parted ways.

Now, to find Jesse. Even though I was mad at him he was still my ride home. And finally the marijuana wore off.

I made my way into the parking lot, finally spotting Jesse's car.

But what shocked me was what was in front of it, Jesse and some random girl making out. His hand was up her shirt, the scene made my blood boil, and something in my stomach dropped.

Then I noticed the people gathering around the scene, and staring at me. I realized how it looked, Jesse was "cheating" on me. Once again, my reputation was ruined and my ego was shot.

I walked right up to him, he pulled away from her and smirked, that's when I slapped him .. hard. There was an unreadable emotion in his eyes. Tears of frustration brimmed my eyes, "F*CK YOU!" I spat. His features softened for a second, but then they were back to the cold hard mask of emotion that he did so well. I stomped off in anger.

I felt like such trash. I didn't know why it hurt so bad, I just knew I was angry. I started walking home, alone. That's when a car slowed beside me, for a second I got scared, but I realized it was Blake when he rolled down the window.

"Need a ride?" He asked, softly. I dont know what came over me, but I opened the car door and got in.

"Where to?" He asked with a dazzling smile.

"Anywhere but here." I told him,

"Then anywhere it is."

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A/N : sorry it was short & not edited.

~ Kyara ♡