Earned It

Chapter Twenty Two: The Dealer

Screams fill the room as we see Hadley's dripping arm.

"Hadley!! What the hell did you do?" Fran screams.

"Calm down, fran. Please. Don't make this worse." Mr. Styles says as he moves towards the crying girl to grab the bloody scissor out of her hand.

"NO! GET OUT I WANNA BE ALONE." Hadley swings her arm around without releasing her grip of the scissor.

"OW!" Harry yells looking down at his palm.

"Did she cut you?" I look over to see his hand is now sliced. Blood begins to pour out slowly. He reaches for some paper towels and wraps his hand.

Hadley calms down after realizing she had cut her teacher and begins to cry more. Fran swipes the scissors from her hand and I go over to wrap her arm with paper towels.

We sit with her for a few more minutes letting the next period bell ring and ignoring it.

"You're going to be okay, Hadley." Harry assures her. "Trust me, this isn't the end of the world."

Hadley has finally stopped crying and listens to Harry's words.

"I just wanna go home." She replies as she stands from the toilet holding her arm with her other hand.

"I'll take you home." Fran says putting her arm around her shoulder and walking her out of the bathroom.

"You better get going. I'll see you later." Harry leaves and I head to lunch.

I see Shannon sitting with James. They look like they are arguing again.

I sit down but don't get a response from either of them.

"You always do what you want. Ya know what. I'm not going to fight with you anymore. Go have fun with Pat and Jack. I hope you OD." Shannon snaps at James.

"This is why I fucking hate you. I wanna break up with you. You can go fuck yourself." James stands from the table and heads over to sit next to Pat, Ben and Tyler.

"What was that about?" I say as I take my sandwich out of my bag

"He still wants to go to Jack's and he said that Jack was going to sell to them tonight. I don't know what they are going to be doing but it didn't sound like weed."

"We could ask Sydkne what Jack sells. She would know." I tell her.

"Ew please don't call her over. She literally murdered my baby."

"She's the only one that would tell us."

"Fine."

I call over Sydkne who is sitting alone at a table in the corner of the cafeteria. She stands and brings her lunch tray over.

"Hey girls." She sits. Shannon looks away annoyed.

"Do you know what Jack sells?" I ask.

"You guys do drugs? I wouldnt buy from him all his shit is sketchy as fuck."

"No, the football guys are going and buying from him. James wouldn't tell Shannon what they are doing."

"He sells everything it could be anything from weed to rat poison."

Shannon looks at Sydkne concerned.

"Rat poison?! You're kidding right?"

"Yeah rumor has it. Jack sold a kid rat poison and killed him."

Shannon and I are quiet.

"I wouldn't let your bf go there tonight, Jack is bad news." She continues.

"Trust me I don't want him to, but he won't listen to me." Shannon replies.

"Hmmm. I never let Pat go there when we were dating."

The bell rings.

"Welp. Good luck girls. And Shannon... I'm sorry about our fight that night. I hope you can forgive me." Sydkne doesn't wait for a response and heads out of the cafeteria.

"Good to know my boyfriend could die tonight." Shannon gets up frustrated and heads to class.

I get up and head to the rest of my classes. I text Fran to make sure Hadley is okay. She told me she has been sleeping since she got home.

It's nice to know she is being taken care of.

I finish the day and head home.

I do my homework and am taking care of my mom when I get a text from Shannon around 9.

"James just texted me and none of it makes sense. He is deff on something. We need to get him out of that camper right now."

"I don't know where it is."

"Sydkne probably does, can you ask her?"

I text Sydkne to see if she knows where Jack's camper is.

"I only remember visuals of how to get there. He never gave me a location. If you want I can take you there."

I ask Shannon if she wants to go with Sydkne and she says yes.

I wait for Sydkne to pick me up in her car. I notice that the car is filled with a lot of her stuff; clothes, her backpack, blankets, pillows.

"Thank you so much. This means so much."

"I owe you." She smiles and we head on our way to pick up Shannon.

She hops in the car quickly and is blatantly freaking out.

"He keeps texting me nonsense."

"Do you know what he did?" Sydkne asks.

"No, he refuses to tell me anything anymore."

We drive and I try and calm Shannon down as we enter a camper development.

"Do you know which one is his?"

"I haven't been here in awhile, but they usually don't move the campers." She replies. "We should be there in a minute."

Jack's camper is very old. The outside is very dirty and looks like it hasn't been cleaned ever. We hear loud music coming from inside and see heads through the windows.

"This is it. Dirty as always." Sydkne says as we all hop out of the car.

"We have to get in there right now." Shannon rushes up the steps of the camper and slams the door open. She screams.

I rush in to see what's going on.

James is sitting on the couch with Pat Tyler and Jack. He has a string tied around his upper arm and is about to inject himself with a needle.