Chapter 48: Good girl, Bad girl

The next day, when my alarm clock sounded, I hit it and remained on my bed because I was suspended. I slept again and after two hours, I woke up. By then Mom and Dad had already gone to work.
I had breakfast and watched T.V. While I was watching TV, there was a knock on the door. I walked to the door and opened it, it was Lola.

"Lola, what a ... Surprise," I said,

"Yeah, can I come in?"

"Sure, why not," I said. Lola walked in and headed straight to the living room. She sat on the couch and looked at me,
"Angie, I heard what Jones did, I'm so sorry," she said,

"It's okay Lola, he's a jerk,"

"Yeah, if I were you I would leave him, look what he did to you,"

"We've broken up already, and by the way how did you know I was suspended?"

"Betty told me, so I thought it would be best to skip class to come to see you," said Lola

"Awww, so you skipped school to come and stay with me?"

"Yeah, why won't I? You're my girl," said Lola. "So you and Jones are no more?"

"Yeah, I wonder why he posted something like that about me on the school page," I said,

"Me too, when I saw it I felt devastated, I'm so sorry Angie,"

"Hey ... It's okay," I said and smiled, "I'm fine now,"

"Alright, so what's up, we just can't sit here and do nothing throughout today,"

"Oh...what do you want us to do?"

"Come on, get dressed and follow me," Lola said and stood up,

"Follow you to where?" I asked curiously,

"Just come on," Lola said.

I went up to my room and changed my clothes, then I followed Lola, I had no idea where we were going so I wasn't that comfortable. Lola is my friend but we barely talk. Now she came over and asked me to follow her, well I followed her and she took me to a guy's house. When we arrived at the house, I wasn't comfortable at all because he had tattoos all over his body.
He and Lola hugged when we arrived at his place and we went in. We got to his living room and I saw cigarettes and herbs everywhere on the table.

"Lola, this isn't a good idea, let's leave here,"

"But we just got here ... Come on, trust me you'll be great," she said and picked up the cigarette on the table and put it in her mouth, then smoke came out of her nose and mouth. I swear I had no idea Lola smokes.

Shortly after, the guy who we came to visit walked into the living room with a tray which had three glasses of wine. He dropped it on the table and picked one, Lola picked one they both looked at me,

"Uh ... I don't drink sir," I said,

"Bob, my name is Bob," he said,

"Come on Angie," Lola said and walked to me, "One drink won't hurt, again it's just wine, it has no alcohol in it," she said.

"Lola I don't want to drink, I don't drink," I said but she kept convincing me to drink. I picked up the wine glass and sipped a little wine from it, I quickly removed the wine glass from my mouth and looked at Lola,
"I thought you said it had no alcohol in it?"

"Just a little, come on and stop acting like a kid Angie, drink up," she said, then they both began to cheer me..."Drink up, drink up, drink up," they said, I gulped the wine once and dropped the wine glass, the taste was so harsh so it was hard for me to swallow it,
"Swallow it, swallow it, swallow it," they both said, I swallowed it, and they both cheered me loudly.

"Nice one Angie," Lola said and sat next to me, and then she placed her arms around my neck.

A few minutes after drinking the wine, I began to feel weird. I wasn't high, I'm sure I wasn't, but I began to feel sleepy. I could see Lola and Bob dancing but it was like I lost control of myself. My eyes were closing and I was extremely weak, I'd never felt so dizzy in my entire life, but after a few minutes, I slept off.

MEANWHILE AT SCHOOL...

It was noon which means it was time for lunch. Jones had already made up his mind that he was going to talk to Angie about how Lola had been the black sheep in her life ever since Jones came to the school. Jones searched for Angie at the cafeteria but he couldn't find her, then he saw Betty carrying her food tray so he stopped her,
"Hey Betty," he said but Betty ignored him, he followed Betty and called her name again but Betty ignored him, he called her again and Betty turned and yelled, "What?"

"Calm down, please have you seen Angie?"

"I've seen her, she's at home. Thanks to the stupid news you posted, Principal George suspended her,"

"Why?"

"Don't ask me stupid questions," she said and walked away from Jones,

"Wait," he said, Betty turned and looked at him,

"Please can you come and sit with me, there is something really important I want to tell you,"

"If you want to tell me anything you must say it among my friends,"

"No no no you don't understand," Jones said,

"Then make me understand," said Betty,

Jones sighed and walked close to Betty,
"I don't want Lola to hear what I'm about to tell you,"

Betty looked at Jones curiously,
"Okay, don't worry Lola isn't in school today,"

"What?"

"I said Lola isn't in school today, she wanted to stay with Angie so she won't feel lonely," said Betty.

"Shit," Jones said and ran out of the cafeteria leaving Betty worried. Betty dropped her food tray and ran after Jones.
Jones got into his car but before he drove off, Betty yelled his name and asked what was going on, then Jones told her he don't have time to explain and she should get in, while they are on the way he would explain what is going on.