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Yeah, so feel free to correct any grammar I might have missed :) Thanks for reading!
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I sat on the bench behind the bars waiting for my mom to come pick me up and bail me out. I spent about two hours speaking to various cops and I knew it would be another couple of hours before my mom got here, filled out paper work, and got me out of here. I’m sure my two “best friends” Marshall and Dan find this just hilarious. I decided to take a nap on the bench and wait. I couldn’t text the two ass clowns and I obviously don’t have internet or music. How did people survive in the 1940s?
Three hours later I was sitting in my room being chewed out from my mom.
“I don’t have enough money to pay for your bail AND take care of you! How did you even get money in the first place to get all of these drugs?! Is that a bong?” Smash! She flung it against the wall and it shattered. Let me fill you in on a couple of details.
I have been smoking for about two years now with my best and only friends Marshall and Dan. We normally go over to Marshall’s house because he lives alone, but today we decided an “abandoned” bridge would be different, and more fun. Marshall is twenty one and thinks he’s hot shit because he has so many snapbacks and skateboards and can legally drink beer (as if he hasn’t been drinking since he could practically hold a can). Dan, on the other hand, is a senior, like me. He’s a whole lot quieter and I’m pretty sure he was about to kill himself his sophomore year. Then I started talking to him. I told him about Marshall, who’s my cousin’s ex-boyfriend of two years, and we just kind of became a trio. Dan keeps trying to make me get gauges, but I think I’m going to wait a little while. I took him to get his second piercings (snake bites) when I got my nose piercings.
“ALICE! Are you even listening to me?” my mom cried, tears forming in her eyes. I hate when she does that. She did it when I got my angel bites, too.
“Yes, Mom.” I said, not looking her in the eye.
“What did I just say?!” She said.
I didn’t make a noise. I wasn’t listening to her at all. I was busy thinking of how I’m going to get enough money to buy a new bong. I hardly even use it anyways, and I heard you could make one with a Gatorade bottle….
“You weren’t listening. I said I’m calling your father. Maybe you’ll grow up a little bit if you’re away from two delinquents.” She said, turned on her foot, and left my room. I felt bad for not being worried. I quickly got on the computer and got on a messaging site that Marshall, Dan, and I use when our phones are gone.
Me: “Hey I may or may not be moving to Beverly Hills?”
Dan: “What?”
Marshall: “This is your first time getting caught!! And if you’re gone, who’s going to babysit Dan?”
Dan: “STFU Marsh.”
Me: “lmao I guess you two are just going to have to babysit each other ;3”
I laughed and shut off my laptop. I decided to take a quick shower and soon go to bed. When I was drying my hair, my mom came in, cradling the house phone into her chest.
“I just talked to your father. He said you two really could use some bonding time.”
“Then why did he leave?” I asked, not wanting to hear an answer, exactly.
“He found a prettier, better woman to marry and have a daughter with.” She replied, “You’re plane leaves at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon, so better be packed and ready to go to his house for a while.”
“What?! I’m moving TOMORROW?!” I shouted horrified.
“Isn’t that what I just said?” She replied and left.
About an hour later I began packing my suitcase with the essentials: Tooth brush, straightener, cute piercings, shoes, skinny jeans, and big giant sweaters. I then moved to my other clothes, hair supplies, and makeup. I also grabbed my headphones because I knew I would probably get my phone back, and if not, I’d be able to use Frank’s laptop. Note how I didn’t call him “Dad.”
I woke up this morning and got dressed in some sweat pants and a purple and gold hoodie that represents my school. I put on some black converse and went straight to Marshall’s house. It was about ten am and he was still sleeping. Typical. I thought as I beat on the door. He answered with a dazed face. I looked him dead in the eye and hugged him so tight.
“Woah Alice! What was that for?” He laughed.
“I’m never going to see you again as of 2:30 and I’m going to miss you!” I said trying not to tear up.
“Wait… you’re leaving today?” He let me go.
“I found out last night. I packed everything and came over to your house right when I woke up.” I replied, not looking him in the eye.
He brought me inside and I sat on the couch while he called Dan on his cell phone. He lived about five minutes away and made it to Marshall’s apartment in three minutes. When he opened the door and saw me, he ran straight over and hugged me.
“You can’t leave, Alice! I don’t have any friends!” He said. Marshall promptly coughed. “You can’t leave, Alice! I don’t have any friends at school!” Dan revised and hugged me again.
I laughed and hugged him back. “Dan, it’s January, you have about four and a half months left of school.”
Marshall got out a can of beer and smiled at me and then hugged me again and gave me a friendly kiss on the forehead.
I made us lunch (ordered pizza), and when we finished it, it was about one o’clock. The airport was about forty five minutes away so Dan drove me home with Marshall in the back and we went and picked up my mom and my suitcases.
After begging and pleading, my mom decided Dan and Marshall can come to the airport, too, except we’d take her car, and she’d be driving.
The three of us piled in the back and my two suitcases were in the trunk. One had clothes and shoes and the other had makeup and bathroom essentials. When we were about five minutes away, I began taking out my piercings (nose ring, angel bites, ears, cartilage, and my belly button).
I carried one suitcase and Dan pulled the other. I went through security, put my piercings back in, and hugged and kissed everyone goodbye. My mom gave me my phone back, and I texted Dan and told him that him and Marshall can stop by my bedroom and say they needed some money back that I borrowed. I hide my weed in the corners of my closet and under my sink.
I sat in a chair and put back in my piercings, getting odd looks from tons of old people and parents with young children. When I finally made it to my seat, 28C, I fell asleep and slept the entire way to California listening to Green Day, NeverShoutNever, Falling in Reverse, Avenged Sevenfold, and Suicide Silence.
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Again, I'm not finished but I hope to, considering we're on Thanksgiving Break and the fact that I have no social life ;D
Love, Kayla
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