Love, Drugs, and High School

Chapter Three

Chapter Three

Annabelle

          “So just go to the library after school and the librarian will help you out. I let them know that you would be coming and that you were new to the school,” my uncle informed me on the way to school.

          I didn’t want to do this. Staying at school longer than I had to and socializing was something that I didn’t want to do. Normally, I would have asked if my mother put him up to this, but I didn’t want to offend him.

          “Have a good day,” my uncle said smiling at me as I got out of the car.

          Before I knew it, it was lunch time. “There you are!” I heard a familiar voice exclaim. Linzie came up to me a huge smile on her face. “Are you ready for lunch?”

          “I guess,”

          “Come on!” She said, grabbing my hand and dragging me through the crowd.

          She sat down at a table and I joined her. “So I was thinking,” Linzie started and I fought off the urge to roll my eyes. Whenever someone started a sentence like that it never ended well. “Would you want to come over and maybe hang out?” She asked tentatively. That was the first time that I had heard her not one hundred percent certain about something.

          “I would love to,” I said, “but I have to go to the library today after school for my uncle. He wants me to help the librarian or something. I don’t really know. It just meant a lot to him, so I said yes.”

          “Oh,” she said, giving me a funny look. “You’re crazy. I could never do that. How does your uncle know about that?” She asked.

          “He’s the police chief so…” I drifted off when I saw that she had gotten my point. I really didn’t want to say any more than I had to.

          For some reason though, Linzie was repulsed by this idea, making me a little scared at what was to come this afternoon.

Ryan

          I was here too much, but that didn’t mean that I cared. “Come in,” the principal called.
          “So Ryan, you were skateboarding in the hallway again. I’ve told you that that is not permitted in school.” I was looking right through her. I just wanted to get out of this hell hole.

          “I didn’t want to do this Ryan, but you have left me no choice. You are going to have to stay after school today and help the librarian in the library. I can’t keep keeping you after school, Ryan.”

          “I’m not doing shit.”