𝙄𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙨, 𝙎𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙩 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙀𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙮𝙨

Runaway Groom [IDEA]

So my best friend is a runaway groom. Here's what happened:

Alex (that's my friend) is the youngest in our little friend group consisting of Charles (that's me) Ryan (he's the oldest) and Scott (he's the second youngest). When Alex turned 18, Scott, Ryan, and I planned to throw him a huge party with all of his friends, which worked out very well since it was the night end of year exams finished.

The party was at Ryan's house. Scott was in charge of planning and keeping Alex entertained while I went with Ryan to buy things for the party and prepare his house. The party was a huge success and everyone who came had a good time, although this is where the issue started.

The party, being the size it was, attracted attention from other teens in the neighborhood and some of them were other people from school who Alex didn't exactly like so we hadn't invited them. A few of them got in along with a group of girls who were in the year below us. One of them in particular, named Abigail, was already 18, but she was in the year below us due to some sort of school transferring issue.

The next day, when the able people had left the night before and the thoroughly smashed ones were out cold and scattered around the house, Scott and I were dragging an obliterated Ryan into the spare room in his house since we didn't feel like dragging him and his footballer muscles up three flights of stair to his actual room. When we got there we saw Alex and Abigail passed out in each other's arms. So, naturally, we woke up Abigail to get her to leave. But that was when Obliterated Ryan decided to get up from his strangely twisted position on the floor and jump directly on top of the double-A combo and wake them both up.

Alex was still pretty shattered but even in his hungover state, we could understand more or less what he was saying. He attempted to tell us how wrong we had been about "sweetheart Abi" and that he and she were now dating.

Fast forward a few months of Alex being completely whipped for Abigail and his dumbass proposed to her. I mean, come on, if you hook up with a girl when you're smashed you probably shouldn't decide you want to marry her exactly 3 months and 2 days later. I'm pretty sure they didn't even go on any real dates. But the day before Alex and Abigail's big day came, so Ryan, Scott, and I, being the best best-friends a dude could ever get, decided to help him get ready. And that was when we figured out what was going on.

Since the bride and groom shouldn't see each other before their wedding, Abigail spent the night in her best friend's house while Ryan, Scott, Alex, and I spent the night by Scott's place. The next morning when I woke up I heard Scott talking with Alex in the living room. I got up and went to the living room and found a confused and helpless-looking Alex sitting on Scott's sofa with Scott pacing around him obviously deep in thought.

"What's up?" I asked them, not caring which answered.

"Alex was drugged by Abigail," Scott said.

"Sorry, WHaT?" I asked in complete confusion.

Scotty sat me down between him and Alex on the sofa and combined they told me the story of how at Alex's birthday party, Abigail had given him a specially combined mixture of what Scott believed to be a type of ecstasy and a mild form of Rohypnol and had continually been giving it to him for the past few months. But in the excitement of the wedding day, Abigail hadn't been able to give him a strong dosage to keep him going until they would be able to see each other again. So when Alex woke up he had woken up Scott and told him that he didn't want to marry Abigail and that he can't even remember important parts of the last few months.

When the story was over I looked at Alex and saw him looking terrified and confused. I looked over at Scott.

"How do you guys know it's drugs?" I asked to which Scott replied,

"I gave him a test about an hour ago. The rest showed there were remnants of drugs in his system."

"And what did you say you believed Abigail drugged him with?"

"Ecstasy and Rohypnol."

"But isn't Rohypnol illegal here?"

"Shit," Scott commented, "I didn't get that far in the process of working through this."

10/12/2020