Earned It

Chapter Twenty-Four: The Blame Game

"What the hell are you girls doing here?" Pat yells. "Get the hell out right now."

James slowly moves the needle away from his arm and places the syringe on the table. Jack stands slowly. "Sydkne what the fuck are you doing bringing people to my camper."

"We are here to get James. He doesn't want to do anything so stop making him." Sydkne snaps back.

James is visibly shaking in his seat and his bright, shining, sexy, ocean blue eyes are extremely dilated. I wonder what they made him do.

"Oh, so James told you where we were." Jack turns to James. "You werent having fun, faggot? Well we can have some fun with an audience."

Jack takes the syringe that James placed on the table and quickly injects the needle directly into James' arm and pushes down the contents. James lets out a loud scream and rips the syringe out of his arm. Sydkne moves forward but Pat pushes her back into me and Shannon. The three of us fall to the ground. James' arm begins to drip blood from the injection site. James tries to stand up and leave but Jack swiftly punches him in the face knocking him out unconscious. Ben moves over to stand over James to prevent Jack from hurting him any more.

"STOP!" Shannon screams. "He did nothing wrong, leave him alone you asshole."

"Better watch out honey. Your boyfriend ain't who you think he is." Pat chimes in.

What did Pat mean by that? I don't have time to process it. We stand back up and Sydkne punches Pat in the face giving me and Shannon enough time to drag James out while Ben stops Jack from coming forward. Tyler holds Jack back.

"Dude, just let them go. They aren't worth it." Tyler says as Ben follows us out the door into Sydknes car.

We lay James in the back seat as quickly as possible.

"We have to bring him to a hospital right now. We don't even know what the hell he put into him." Shannons says as she sits in the back holding James' once perfect but now bruised face.

"It was heroin. Jack was going to make us all do it before you guys stopped him. He also made James take two lines of cocaine." Ben tells us as he stares at his friend. You can tell in his eyes he feels bad about what happened.

"We have to call the police on them." Sydkne says. "I have had enough of Jack. He is such bad news and deserves to be behind bars."

Ben takes out his phone and calls 911. He lets them know what just happened. They tell him they are on their way to the camper before hanging up the phone.

"What did they say? Are they gonna arrest them?" Shannon asks, still holding James' face. He hasn't moved at all since we left.

"They told me they will handle it, whatever that means. Are we close to the hospital?" Ben asks.

"We are right around the block. Shannon and Ben should carry him in once we get there." Sydkne chimes in.

We pull into the Achenson Hospital. Sykdne drives around to the front and let's James, Ben, and Shannon out. I stay with Sydkne as we park the car before heading inside. When we get to the front desk we see Ben and Shannon to the side. Shannon is crying and Ben is comforting her.

"What did the doctor say?" Sydkne asks.

"They said they would have to give him narcan to make sure he wasn't having an overdose and that they would monitor him overnight." Shannon cries.

"Well he's in safe hands now there's not much we can do about this other than wait." Ben says as he holds Shannon in his arms.

"Do you guys wanna sit and wait in the lobby?" I ask.

"Yeah, let's go-'' Sydkne pauses as she does points down the hallway.

I do a full 180...crazy. I see 10 police officers walking down the hall holding Lorraine's mom in handcuffs.

The officer is telling her her rights as she walks by continuing to ignore the cop and tell him that this is a big mistake.

"I didnt murder her! You have the wrong person!" She shouts as she is escorted out of the hospital.

The four of us are silent.

"Uhhh . what the fuck? Was that about Angela?" Ben says.

"I've had enough of this for one day. Can we just go home?" Shannons says, wiping her tears.

We all agree and head back to Sydkne's car. Shannon let James' parents know what happened and they said they would be staying with him overnight. We are all silent in the car after the long day and Sydkne drops us off one by one. I'm the last one to go and I thank her for all of her help today. I hop out of her car and she drives away.

I notice that Harry's car is on the opposite side of the street. I walk over to the car and don't see him sitting inside of it. Where could he be? Is he in my house already?

I walk inside.

"Mom?" My voice echoes in the house, not receiving a response. I head up the stairs and hear my moms TV on. She must have not heard me over 90 day finance. (Big ed is such a creep.)

I get inside to see Harry and my mom laughing as they watch the show. What is he doing here? This is so weird.

"Oh you're home. How was your night, sweetie?" My mom asks.

"It was...interesting." I respond. "What are you doing here?" I look at Harry.

"Oh, I just wanted to make sure your mom was okay, I brought you a surprise. It's on your bed. I'll be in in a minute."

I leave the room and check on my bed. A bouquet of roses lay on my bed along with a box of chocolates.

He comes into the room and hugs me from behind as I stand over the bed.

"I have a surprise for you too." I turn and kiss him on the cheek before I whisper in his ear.

"Lorainne's mom got arrested today for Angela's murder."