We Don't Have To Dance

Chapter Three

"FUCKING PARTY!" Lyric screams, grabbing Grim's house, "Come party with us handsome"

"I would, but I think I'd get myself in trouble"

Lyric giggles, "It's just a little fun-"

"Lee, Grim doesn't want to go back to drugs" I warn "Besides, what happened to you quitting?"

"Ugh" she groans, "I was gonna" then she looks back at Grim hungrily, biting her lip, "But that's no fun"

"You've been my best friend since kindergarten" Grim chuckles a bit "I don't want to lose you the way we lost-"

"Don't talk about that!" She warns, and then me and Grim exchange glasses "We don't talk about that..."

"Just stay in tonight" I smile lightly, "We can have fun without drugs"

She bites her lip, shaking her leg, then finally huffs out a surrender, "Fine"

So Grim lets us paint his toes, and we fuck around, braiding each other's hair, and playing the non-alcoholic version of never have I ever. The nights fun, and we end up going to sleep around eleven, but when I wake up in the morning, she's gone.

"Grissom" I plead, shaking his arm

"Hm?" He stairs up at me, and I look at him desperately, he passed out at the foot of my bed last night

"W-Where's L?"

He looks around, "She's not in her bed...?"

"Does it look like she's in her bed?"

"Maybe she's in the bathroom" his head dives into the pillow, so I sigh, tossing the blanket off of me and walking over to the bathroom

"Lee?" I call, knocking on the door, then when I do, I scream "LYRIC!"

"WHAT?!" I hear Grim hop up, then he joins beside me "LYRIC NO!"

I five down to see her body on the floor, foam pouring out of her mouth, her body shaking. This must've just happened, "CALL NINE ONE ONE!"

Grim runs to get her phone, while I just hold onto her, crying, I hold her mouth head facing down to let the liquids our down, "NO NO NO!"

"Nine one one?! My band mate Lyric is ODing! Please we need help!"

"LEE!" I shake her "NO NO NO!"

My whole body shakes, then within five minutes, paramedics arrive, but she's blue, heart stopped, it's likely they can't bring her back. I get into the ambulance with her, watching as they stab her chest with adrenaline

"YOU HAVE TO SAVE HER! GIVE HER ANOTHER ONE!" I cry, then when she gets a second one, she sits up fast, gasping for air "OH GOD!"

She lays back down and the biggest smile spreads across all our faces. I cover my mouth crying, then she lays back down. "Don't fall asleep hun"

When we get to the hospital she's taken immediately, leaving me waiting for everyone, but also wondering... what's going to happen to my best friend?

The show that night; we don't play, which causes about a hundred people to ask for refunds even though we weren't even the opening band. As well as the next night, but the third; Lyric was finally released from the hospital, and even though she most definitely shouldn't have played, she did. Then when we get off the show, we go into the green room, and immediately her and Shane start snoring coke off the table.

"Lyric!" I screech "You just got out of the hospital..."

"Stop being such a control freak" she rolls her eyes