Call Me Yours

Chapter 20 - Cocaina

Mia
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I'd gone home super motivated and studied the whole day, even rejecting Riley's offer to hang out, which I rarely did. I'd managed to catch up on my assignments. I was not going to lose my college place because of some stupid stuff happening, this was my future after all.

I walked down the hallway of my school towards the lunch hall. I felt a huge sense of relief after handing in my assignments, my teachers seemed impressed at my effort and I hoped they'd stay pleased with me. I needed them to.

I met up with Sasha and Riley in the lunch room, taking my seat at our usual table which we had basically claimed. Lucas was sat on the other side of Riley, leaning on her shoulder and feathering it with kisses. He'd really grown on me recently, he was proving to be quite the good boyfriend.

As I chatted with the girls I felt someone come up behind me, my head whipped around to see Grayson Jackson smiling behind me.

'Can I sit here?' He asked.

'Sure.'

'Sooo, I was thinking, proms coming up, and I don't have a date.' I was aware that he'd been on and off with his girlfriend Abigail for literal years now. It must've been an off moment right now. I took note of how he oozed with confidence as he calmly leaned against the lunch table while he spoke. I could never.

'Do you wanna maybe come with me?' He asked. I hadn't even decided if I wanted to go to prom yet. It seemed overrated, and I didn't have an interest in any guys at school.
'Sure, she'd love to.' I turned to see Sasha had inserted herself into the conversation.

'Ermmm, actually.' I looked back at Grayson who was waiting patiently for me to respond.
I mean if wouldn't hurt, right? It's not like I had anyone else to go with, and this was a one chance thing, I was leaving high school this year. Ugh, I hated how well I could persuade myself sometimes.

'Yeah, okay, fine.' I gave him a little smile and nodded.

'Awesome.' He got up and left back to his table of jocks who had been watching the whole time. I heard whistling and hollering as he must've told them I said yes.

'Omggg. Who'd have thought both my besties going with both the Jackson brothers to prom.' She pretended to swoon and I smacked her arm playfully.

'It's only for prom, and you're my date really.'
I knew Sasha was upset about Sebastian still, it must've been hard for her knowing she should've been going with him this year but he screwed it all up.

I pulled out my pasta that I'd brought for lunch and begun eating. As I laughed at something Sasha was saying I caught someone staring at me out of the corner of my eye. Abigail Mayfield. I tried to ignore her but she was literally staring into my soul, she looked pissed off. Maybe, just maybe it could've been because I'd just agreed to go to prom with her ex-ish-boyfriend. Yeah maybe that was a mistake.

I was impressed at how fast news spread though, it had barely been 20 minutes and she'd already found out. I watched as she stormed out of the lunch hall by herself. I actually felt kind of bad but it's not like I'd asked him.

I reverted my attention to my friends and we chatted some more until the bell rang, signalling that our next lessons had started, I said bye and left, making my way to Biology. What a bore.

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I'd tried my best to look super interested and awake through all 2 hours of my lesson, as hard as it was. When the bell finally rang I felt super proud of myself. I'd answered every question the teacher had thrown at me correctly. I was giving such a good impression. As I shoved the last of my files back into my backpack I noticed the principal enter the room. He stormed over to the Biology teacher, he looked pretty pissed off. Boy, I was glad that it wasn't about me this time.

'Mia!'

I turned my head to see my biology teacher calling me over.

'Um, yeah?'

'Follow me, right now!' Principal Matthews led me out of the room and down to his office before slamming the door and sitting me down. There was another member of staff sat at his desk already. What on earth could this be about? What had I done now?

I sat down and the Principal pointed to a few little bags of white powder on his desk. Cocaine? Why was he showing me cocaine?

'These have just been found in your locker! How do you explain this Mia?! I gave you an extra chance and this is far beyond anything I'd expect from you! How dare you bring such a harmful substance into my school!'

'Sir I-'
I went to defend myself but he wasn't having any of it.
'You're expelled! I want you out of my school today and I don't want you back!'

'But it's not mine! Someone must have put it there! Honest, I've never touched that in my life.'

'How do you explain how they did that then?! I don't want any more lies, your teachers were already worried that you appeared to have changed.'

Tears were streaming down my face now, nothing else seemed to matter as I imagined how I'd tell my mother. My plans for my life had been ruined in a few seconds. I looked the same as my father, a criminal. It wasn't mine but I doubted how I'd ever prove that to him, I was already walking on eggshells with him.

'I'm calling your Mother right now and we are going to speak through this with her.'

'Wait no, please, it's not even mine!'

'Young lady you are lucky I'm not involving the police with this! This is a very serious matter and your mother must be alerted.'
He picked up the phone and called my Mom as I sat silently sobbing, I felt pathetic. The only reason he wasn't involving the cops was because it would make his school look bad. He didn't care about me at all.

Luckily, my Mom was working so she didn't pick up. He continued rambling on about how much of a disgrace this was and his words were no longer registering. I felt numb as he spoke, I stared at the bookshelf behind him wishing it would just swallow me up. He eventually dismissed me for the last time and I couldn't help the tears that continued flowing as I walked down the halls towards the exit.

I didn't know what to do when I got home so I called Sasha. I sobbed down the phone to her and she was in shock at first.

'We'll find out who did it, don't worry! I'm coming over right now, okay?'

She stuck by that and came to my house with wine and chips. I cried some more and we drank until it got to around the time my Mom was due to get home. I sniffled as I shoved the 100th chip into my mouth.

'I love you, Sasha.'
'I love you too. We'll sort this mess, don't you worry.' She hugged me and I shoved another chip in my mouth, I wasn't sure if I believed her.

'I think you should go before my Mom gets home.' She agreed and left, telling me I could call her whenever I wanted. I loved my friends.

I laid on my back staring at my white ceiling. My life felt like a mess and I felt hopeless and out of control. I felt as if I couldn't do anything about any of my problems these days. Everything bad was just happening and I was forced to sit back and watch my life crumble.

Really, I should've stayed in my bed until my Mom got home. I should've gone downstairs and explained to her how none of this was my fault and told her the truth. I should've gone about this in a stable, mature way.

But instead, I made the slightly drunken decision to take the bad situations into my own hand and make some more of my own bad decisions.