Strange Tides

8.

Do I Wanna Know - The Arctic Monkeys

          

I ended up eating all of Emily's food. She'd run out and I was going to have to pay for them, so I didn't want to feel like I'd wasted my money and this restaurant was especially good. In a way I was glad that she'd left. She'd started getting to me and now I could get to her food.

I picked up my phone and dialled Shannon's number. I needed some companionship and I didn't know who else to call. The next closest person to me was several miles away.

She picked up on the second ring.

"Hey Jasmine, howzit?"

"It's good, hey where are you right now?"

"Oh I'm with Jared right now, where are you, we'll come and get you. Jared just got his license. He's willing to drive himself to the fridge if he can." She laughed, but there was nothing funny.

"Oh, I'm by Henkies."

"Oh we're right around the corner; we'll be there now, now."

"Okay." I responded, and began a waiting period so long that felt like I'd gone to jail for 27 years and was waiting for my freedom.

I waited for her for about an hour and a half and tried calling several times, but her phone went to voicemail every single time. Eventually after the tenth ring she answered.

"Oh hey Jazz, hi."

"Where are you, if you couldn't pick me up then you could've said something, I'm about to leave Henkies right now."

"Oh that's fine, I can't really get you from directly where I am."

"Why not?"

"Because I'm already here!" She sang through the phone.

I looked up and saw her face through the window of a car I vaguely recognised. Assuming it was Jared's I approached the car and entered in swiftly.

"Heeeeeeey." She sang, near slurred really. She was drunk off her ass. The entire car wreaked the spirits and I was afraid I'd get alcohol poisoning just from sitting in their presence.

Surprisingly Jared was sober. From what I'd heard he was a bigger drinker than she was and wasn't afraid to drive while all his senses were shot.

"So you finally made it around the corner."

"Yeah," she giggled "It was a very large corner."

"I can tell." I muttered and I saw Jared look at me in the rear view mirror.

I wasn't afraid; I quite agitated so I glared right on back. In the last few months I'd lost all my rational senses of fear. People's glares didn't scare me, especially not this boy'. They were all bark and no bite, and if they did bite me, what would even happen? Would I die? It's not the worst thing that could've happened.

The worst thing would be to be bitten and to have to stay alive and endure the pain.

"You should really keep your eyes on the road." I snapped, and he looked a little longer and went back to staring at the road ahead.

It wasn't over.

The drive was made in near silence accompanied by the occasional giggle from a very drunken Shannon. She was highly annoying.

When we did make it to our destination I found that we hadn't had the same idea on where we were going. We stopped outside a small cottage that seemed to be empty. They both got out the car and I followed because they'd forced me to be dependent on them.