Love, Drugs, and High School

Chapter Nine

Chapter Nine

Ryan

          It was a Saturday night and I had no plans whatsoever. Usually there was some sort of party that I could have gone to, but there was nothing. I called Annabelle, but I didn’t get an answer. There was always one thing I could do…

          Once I found my bag, I searched through it, hoping to find my weed. After going through it once, I found nothing. Where could it be? I knew that I put it in here.

          Checking it over and over, the final result was still the same; I didn’t have it. Would Annabelle really have taken that from me?

Annabelle

          “What the hell do you think you are doing, getting mixed up in this? Did you not see me arrest Ryan? It’s all because of this, Annabelle,” he said, pointing to the drugs on the floor.

          At first, I was quiet as he lectured me. “Do a finger-print test then if you think that I’m so at fault.” The firmness of my voice caught him off guard. I had been pleading to him that it wasn’t mine and that someone must have accidentally put it there, but he wouldn’t listen. Now I got his attention.

          He looked at me and grumbled. He was clearly displeased about all of this that was for sure. I couldn’t believe that he thought that I would do something like this.

          This should have been a reminder to me. This should have told me that Ryan was bad for me. All of this gave me reasons why I shouldn’t be with Ryan at all, but there was something that I couldn’t put a finger on, but I was sure that there was something about him…

Ryan

          It was Monday. I got to see Annabelle, hopefully, because she hadn’t been answering her phone at all.

          “Linzie,” I said, seeing Linzie standing by herself.

          “What do you want?” She asked me with a disgusted look on her face.

          “Have you seen Annabelle lately? Heard from her at all?”

          “Why do you care?”

          “Can you just answer my question? I know that you don’t want to talk to me so the quicker you answer it the quicker I will get the hell away from you. I don’t want to be talking to you very much, either.”

          “No,” she said, looking like she had won this little discussion, but it was evident that she hadn’t.

          I nodded my head and lit up a cigarette. Annabelle and I really didn’t cross paths very much during the day, but I would see her at the library. That would be the time I was looking forward to.

~<3~

          The only thing left that I had left was hope. Seeing Annabelle made everything just that much better. Not much, but enough.

          When I walked into the library, I saw that almost everyone else was there but her. She’ll get here, I tried to reassure myself, but I knew that it wasn’t true.

          About ten minutes into everything, I skipped out the back door and walked home. There was no way that I was staying here.

Annabelle

          Someone knocked on the door. I was skeptical to answer it, but made my way down to see who it was. Ryan.

          Opening the door for him I said, “Aren’t you supposed to be at the library?” He just looked back at me with a smirk. This irked me more than it probably should have. “So I bet you are wondering where I was today, or where you precious drugs are. I trusted you, Ryan. I haven’t done that since-since...” I stopped. He didn’t need to know that.

          His face was trying to make out everything that was happening. “Why would you do that, Ryan? Do you even understand what kind of a day you just caused me? But I bet that you don’t care. You never care.” I slammed the door in his face and leaned against the door, finally letting the tears out that I had been holding in for far too long.

~<3~

          It was dinner time. I forced myself to get up and go downstairs. I didn’t want to talk to my uncle at all. My day couldn’t have gone any worse.

          “Annabelle,” he said as I took a seat at the table. “I have been thinking about everything that happened earlier and, well, you are right. You would never do something like that. I should have taken your word for it and left the matter alone. Although, I am very interested to know who the drugs belonged to, because I am very sure that they did not belong to you.”

          It felt like his gaze was penetrating my skin. Telling him wasn’t an option. I didn’t say anything, but I held his gaze.

          He nodded his head, picking up on the fact that I wasn’t going to tell him. “Uncle, if I knew where the drugs came from, I would tell you. Someone must have misplaced them in my bag at the party.” By the look on his face, I could tell that he didn’t buy it.

          I picked at my dinner, not really eating any of it. “I’m going upstairs.” As I walked up the stairs, I knew what I had to do.

          When I opened the door, I went straight for the last box that I had to unpack. I knew what was in it, and I sure didn’t want to open it up.

          I thought back to his kiss. It made me feel something different than I hadn’t felt since Emmett. Ryan healed the wound to my gaping heart. We weren’t good for each other. I had my problems and he had his, both of which were not going to be fixed easily.

          Tears streamed down my face as I grabbed the picture frame and set it on my dresser. It was the good times. When it was ok to laugh and cry and have feelings, because you knew that everything would be ok.

          Sobbing overcame me, as I lie on my bed and just let it out. I had hardly showed emotions in the past couple of months, and this was me letting it all out. I didn’t like it, but I was hurt, twice. Ryan…why did I trust him? I promised myself never to trust anyone; to let anyone in. Why was this so hard? Then I remembered as I looked at the picture one last time. It was my text message, my fault. I killed Emmett.

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A/N

Ok, so I know that this was a kind of depressing chapter, so sorry! But I do want to say that I have most of the rest of the book planned out and I think that you guys are going to like it! Oh, and if anyone wants to make me a banner, I would appreciate it! I will dedicate :) Oh and I finished nanowrimo! I am so proud of myself because I completed a novel in a month! I should be posting that soon! But now with that being done, I am able to update regularly, so with this story, I will update probably weekly or so. Thanks :)