CODE RED (Book 1)

Drinking The Pain Away

(PART 2)

I pushed back my hair that had fallen into my eyes. Gripping onto the trash bag I threw it over into the dumpster and dusted my hands off.

Sighing I turned to D.C." This better be all of it."

"Yeah, it is. Finally we got the whole living room cleaned. You should consider telling your mom not to throw any more sudden parties where people will just leave their junk and break stuff." She insisted with an annoyed roll of her eyes

We both went back inside." Agreed." I said flatly.

Alex searched under the couch for any left over bottles that we had missed during the hour long clean up and came lose with an iPhone.

He looked down at it curiously before holding it up to me." Uh, Gareki. This yours?"

I checked in my pocket for my phone and felt it's solid material. " No, I have mine."

"So do we." D.C said both her and Nai holding out their own phones.

I walked over to him and grabbed the phone from his grasp, looking over it I noticed that it was my moms phone. I lifted an eyebrow in confusion.

"What the hell is this doing here? I muttered clicking the on button but nothing happened- the screen stayed black. And it's dead."

"Why's your mom's phone under the couch?" Nai asked putting the pillows back onto the couch, the ones that weren't ripped to shreds.

"As if I know. I stated. It's not like her to just leave it behind like this."

Alex looked at the clock on the microwave before saying. "We're going to need to leave if we want to have enough time to rehearse guys."

"Yeah, sure." I said slowly in distraction still staring down at the phone wondering why she had left it, even if she had been under the influence of alcohol it had worn off that morning considering she was talking to me with out a slur in her voice, it just didn't seem right that she had forgotten her phone when she normally never forgot, some thing was up I had a bad feeling rising up inside of me it may have been faint but it was still there.

It was odd how the feeling just crossed over me so suddenly.

"Just let me return this, you guys go ahead." I offered. Taking a step on the stair case.

Alex stood up and dusted himself off." You sure, I can stay here and wait for you."

"No, thanks. I looked at him. It'll just be a second." I made my way up the stairs slowly. From down stairs I heard the front door close shut as my friends and boyfriend left to wait for me outside.

I made my way to her door that was ajar, I reached my hand forward to push it open but the door moved on it's own and opened all the way up and I felt a breeze hit my face and ruffle my hair back out of my eyes.

I took a breath in threw my mouth wondering why she had both her windows open. I shook my head and headed over to one of them, putting both of my hands on the seal then pushed it down before turning the latch to locked before moving on to the next one.

I still had the phone in my hand when I pushed down on it's seal but right when it was mid way down the phone slipped out of my lose hold and fell to the floor. I stopped what I was doing and crouched down to pick it up but right when I did so I stopped in my movements and gasped in shock as I looked under her bed.

"What the . . . ?!" I ended up on my hands and knees and pulled myself down for a better look at the packages on packages of alcohol, to be more specific it was wine and liquor. I lifted myself up quickly and up to my feet before throwing her phone on her bed and leaving her room stepping three stairs down before I stopped abruptly and slowly turned to my slightly open door. I had a very odd feeling about it.