Pill By Pill {Muke}

27 - Next Level

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. ~Aristotle 

Luke's POV

I stood behind Riley as we - meaning Barbie, Skarlet, Sammy, Karla, Axel and I - walked towards Barbie's house. Riley did not say anything to me, I said nothing to him. I just dug my hands in my pockets and kept my head down.

I felt..Nervous. Something I usually never was around this group of people. I found that every now and again I would look behind us, to see if someone was there. I took a deep breath and continued on when I realized there was never anyone.

Riley had to have picked it up, after all, a lot of the time we spent walking he seemed to be monitoring me. Everyone always monitoring. Precious little Luke had to be watched, I supposed.

When I looked up once, I caught Skarlet's eye, she gave me an odd glance but did nothing about it. Instead went back to conversation. It was weird being next to Riley, after all I usually walked alongside Sammy since neither of us ever carried conversation. But this time, Sammy was walking besides Skarlet. It left me feeling a little nervous, as if he had turned his back on me entirely; literally and metaphorically.

I took my hands out of my pockets and folded them across my chest. I was trying to listen to what was going on, what we were doing but I was completely beyond it all. I felt Riley's hand on my shoulder and jumped back slightly.

"Easy killer." He spoke quietly. "What's the matter with you, you look as if you've seen a ghost." Riley was sarcastic and mean, but even through all of that he showed through simple moments that he actually cared. This being one of them.

Now the real question is what truly is the matter with me? In all honestly I just wanted to be alone to figure it out. "Can I just go home?" I asked and it grabbed everyone's attention as they stopped walking and turned to me.

"Why? What's the matter?" Barbie asked, she seemed to be a little peeved with my question.

"I-I just don't want to.." I trailed off. I had no idea what we were doing. But I did not want to do anything.

Axel laughed lightly as he nudged Karla, who was standing with her arms folded.

"It's not a big deal guys. I'll bring him home." Riley said and then stretched with a yawn. "It's been a long day, I want to take a nap."

This is where Skarlet narrowed her eyebrows. "You're going to walk him home?" She cocked an eyebrow as she spoke. This got Riley's attention, a look of irritation on his face.

"Yeah, is there a problem with that?" Riley scoffed.

"Why don't I - "

"Pf. I can do it, Skarlet. Get over yourself." Riley cut off Skarlet's words and everyone looked a little shocked. If it was anything, you never messed with what she said. She had ultimate rule, in a sense. After all; she carried more common sense than all of us combined.

Skarlet's hand turned to a fist as it looked like she had reached a breaking point. But she said nothing about it. Instead she told Riley, "Fine, go ahead. Let me know if you need anything."

"Alright, come on Luke." Riley pulled on my arm, dragging me in the opposite direction. We walked down the path and Riley dug his hands in pockets, grumbling. "Stupid Skarlet, I hate it when she does that."

"Does what?" I asked.

"Treats you like a baby." Riley rolled his eyes. "'Oh no, you can't possibly do that with Luke because it's Luke!' Really damn annoying sometimes. Don't you think? Wouldn't you want to be treated like the rest of us?" I nodded my head numbly, I mean yeah I did but I had no idea what it meant. 

"Well then, come with me to my house." Riley gave a malicious smile. "And we can do something really fun." 

"Riley I - "

"Luke think of it like this." Riley smiled. "I"m offering you an opportunity, and if you take it now, you will get to be like the rest of us all the time and not just with me. How lovely does that sound?"  

"Um..I-I guess it sounds pretty good." I admitted and Riley smiled before patting me on the back.

"There we go." Riley said. He grabbed my wrist and tugged me towards his house. As he did so, I had a bit of second thoughts. But I mean, I always just wanted to be treated like the rest of the group and a lot less like a pet. If anyone would help me, I would guess it to be Riley. After all, I really did not know what else different it was. So there was no reason to be nervous.

I walked into Riley's house, he had a pretty nice house and his parents were never home all of the times I have been here, so I do not think I have ever met them. 

Riley placed me on the couch and patted the top of my head as he walked away, still smiling. I had a bad feeling about what was about to happen. But I said nothing about it. I mean, what would Riley do to me? He liked me, right? 

I heard a clang in the kitchen but thought nothing of it. "Do you want a drink, Luke?" Riley called from the other room. 

"What do you mean by drink?" I called back. It could mean anything, I even heard Riley laughing.

"Not alcohol, buddy." Riley responded. "I have lemonade?"

Riley having lemonade was absolutely the oddest statement I had ever heard, he even brought me a glass and it had pink lemonade in it. I almost started laughing when I remembered how much Riley actually drank lemonade - especially pink. 

After a few more minutes Riley came back in the room, he set down a tray on the coffee table and looked to me with a smile. 

"This will be fun." Riley smiled. "Can I see your arm?" 

"Um..Sure." I said and held it out to Riley. He looked it up and down, and looked at my other arm. 

"Okay, I think I'll use this one." He said as he pointed at my right arm. "Since this is your first time, I'll do it for you." 

I followed his hand to the tray and noticed he picked up a needle and I went wide eyed. 

"Don't worry, Luke." Riley said. "You'll really like this. Also if you throw up, do your best not to get it on the couch." 

"Why would I throw up?" I muttered. 

"It's happened." Riley shrugged. He then smiled. "Ready?" 

AUTHOR'S NOTIFICATION; Ariana

Lol guys I don't know anything about drugs so I'm sorry if I'm inaccurate xD I actually had to look up heroine to figure out how it works. So now that's on my search history. But hey, triple update. I might do another one too, cause I'm in the mode right now. 

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