As Bottles Call My Name

Chapter 28

Ok guys I'm really super sorry about how long the time between uploads has been recently, and I blame that 100% on my fucking retarted school -_- like, we don't even have that much homework, it's just that after a day of the bologna I have to call school you don't want to do anything except lay there and die / sleep. so, ya know. sorry c:

We slowed and came to a stop when we found the perfect place for shenanigans. The thick woods kind of opened up and there was this small grassy area that was surrounded with both broken and unbroken trees.

We breathed hard and even though it wasn't that chilly outside, we could see our breath.

All at once, we kind of threw all of our junk from our pockets on the ground and sat around it. I knew for a fact that Charlotte and I were doing all this because of severe emotional problems, but it was kind of strange for Viki to be doing it.

I decided I would ask her before we began this thing that we would regret.

Charlotte lit a cigarette and layed on her stomach on the grass, opening the bag of weed up and rolling it into the paper.

"Hey, Vik?" I asked, coughing from all of the smoke that was in my face. "Why are you doing this with us?"

She furrowed her brow and curled her lip. "What do you mean?"

"Well," I said. "We have a lot going on... and we're not in the best of states... so we're kind of just turning to substances right now. I was just wondering why you were doing the same."

She stuttered a little bit. "I don't know...."

Suddenly, Charlotte screamed and covered her mouth.

"What the fuck is wrong with you?! Don't draw attent-" I whisper yelled at Charlotte out of panic. She whispered, "We have to go. Just, leave this stuff here, and follow me. Right fucking now."

She quickly but silently started to crawl into where the forest got thick. Me and Viki followed, but I was the last one because I really wanted to see what was going on.

When I peeked through the tall blades of grass, I was suddenly blinded with the headlights of a white Escalade. I had no idea how that was relevent to any of us until Brian hopped out of the car, holding a bunch of weed and alcohol himself.

He looked around and set the stuff down, immediatly noticing everything we left behind. I gasped and his head shot up, looking around and staring directly at me,but not seeing me.

"Hey Matt," Brian said.

"Yeah?" Matt called from the car, where he was jumping out and lighting a cigarette. He walked over to where Brian was stood.

"What the fuck man you don't smoke!" Brian said.

Matt just shrugged and sat down next to the SUV, leaning up against a the tire.

"Well can I fucking bum one or what?" Brian asked, chuckling, and catching the lighter that Matt tossed to him.

They sat there in silence for a few minutes, then Matt chuckled slightly. "You know, this is exactly where we spent like, half of our teenage life."

Then Brian laughed. "Oh God, I remember the first time Jimmy got really drunk. It was right here."

"Looks like some teenagers made it their little trouble-making spot too. They know how to roll." Matt said.

When I heard my name being whispered from behind me, I noticed that Charlotte and Viki were way behind me and I needed to catch up if we were going to get away with anything.

I slowly turned around and tried my best to be utterly silent, but of course my heart started beating out of my chest when Brian called, "Hey! Who's here?"

Charlotte was jumping up and down signaling for me to come on. When she turned to leave without me, she bumped into Matt.

I had no idea how he managed to get over there.

"So, Charlotte, where are you going? Want me to drive you to the next, oh I don't know... perfect place to get into trouble?"

"I-I..." She stuttered.

"Listen. I like you, Charlotte and I look forward to taking care of you, but you're gonna have to try your best to stay out of trouble, understood?" Matt said.

Charlotte nodded, wide-eyed with a mix of fear and being starstruck.

"Same goes for you, miss Megan." Brian said, walking out from behind Brian.

At that point, I kind of just expected us to all mope home and then us girls would spend the rest of the night alone and bored in my room, but my expectations changed when Matt and Brian just sat down on the ground.

"Hey let's start a fire!" Viki randomly suggested.

I was kind of out of it so I just sat down, and dazily watched Brian get sticks, dead leaves and dry grass and throw it in the middle of us, then he lit all of it on fire with his little Bic ligher and a pretty good size flame erupted after a few minutes.

And, the night was already going by really really fast, but when Brian decided it was ok for all of us to smoke weed, the night changed completely.

We were so completely baked within the next couple of hours. I sat there, with my vision blurred and my mind in a blissful trance, and watched Viki stand up and walk over to Matt, plop herself onto his lap and begin kissing him. In under 15 seconds, a kiss had turned into a vicious, heated makeout session on the other side of the fire that had me, Charlotte and Brian feeling awkward.

Charlotte, being not really even high at all, stood up and announced that she was going to see Alex. On any other day I would have flipped out, but, I was high.

So, I decided that that would be a perfect time to go kiss Brian.

I scooted over, and he immediatly put his arm around my waist. I stared into his unfocused eyes until he looked down at my lips. I smiled and pulled his face into mine, our lips crashing and tounges dancing.

The firelight lit up the area just enough where I could see Brian's slight fatigue lines and I could see Viki and Matt ripping their clothes off on the other side of the fire, despite the fact that we were outside in some kind of public park.

I just giggled a little high giggle and continued kissing Brian. I could taste the cigarettes and alcohol, and I was enjoying every bit of it.

Everything about that man is just perfect.

And I was with him. Making out with him.

Sweet.