Disturbing the Peace

Chapter 5

I grab my laptop from out of my desk drawer, along with my tie-dye headphones. I look at the headphones and I almost burst out crying again. Leo got these for me for my birthday.

I plug in the headphones and the flash drive. I click on "Year 3" and check out how much footage he has of us on the flash drive. Whoa, he kept 3 months worth of footage on there. I don't even understand how that's possible. How many gigs are on this flash drive, I think. Wait, it's government technology, it must be special or something.

I click the play button, and the scene returns. We are all sitting around in the woods, each with our own joint. I skip forward ten minutes, and what I see is embarrassing as hell. We are all running through the street...completely naked.

Crap.

I watch with intent to see what we'll do next. Then, a group full of kids from school drive by. No wonder that guy always looks at me weirdly in English. I stare at the screen, wanting to scream as I jump on top of a little blue car.

I ex out, opting to watch some of "Year 5" to see what I've done this year.

It shows us smoking, and ten minutes later, I was kissing Ferris. Not too bad.

The next day, after we smoked, I grabbed some random kid from our school off the sidewalk, and started kissing him. He smiled against my lips and quickly pinned me against a tree. I gasp. I don't even know who the hell that kid is. "Shh!" I whispered in his face. "You can't tell Ferris."

I scream and then cover my mouth.

"You okay?" Rain calls into my room.

"Yeah," I call back. "Just dandy," I mutter.

The next day, the same guy came running by the sidewalk and I grabbed him again. We made out for, like, 10 minutes. Then Ferris rounded the corner, so I grabbed him and started making out with him. I'm a sleaze bag!?

Every day for the next week and a half, I was kissing somebody. Totally the opposite of me when I'm not high.

I skip all the way forward to last night. I need to know. I click play.