Friend Without Time

Chapter 2

                                              Just a pill a night they said to me,

                                              Nothing will happen, and it will help you function better.

                                              But what they didn't tell you was what you get for free,

                                             A long time battle with addiction, which no one will want to battle with you together.

Throughout AP Biology, I couldn't focus on the lesson that was presented to me, because all I could think about was Nick and how horrible his situation was right and that resulted in him having an indefinite future as of right now. So me being his best friend I got worried and wanting to help him in any way possible, resulting in me stressing out about the situation and forgetting about the things that were going on at the moment. Like, the whole time all I kept doing was, eyeing Pinky to see if she was doing the same thing I did and she was although I am pretty sure it was for a whole different reason. But every time I looked over at her to get some reassurance, she was looking back at me with the same worried look so that was not a plan fail for me. Now, all I could stick to was taking some good notes for my own sake, and for the later when everything was done.

Finally, the bell rang which was the sign for that class was done and so it meant that I was done with AP Biology for the day, and wanting to talk to Pinky I immediately chucked everything into my bag as fat as I can, grabbed Pinky by her hand and we both ran out of class and to the quietest corner on the fourth floor.

"Alright, so any plans on how we are going to face it," I asked her.

"I am just not going to bring it up unless he is going to since it is none of my business," she said to me. Typical Pinky, acting nonchalant at problems that do not concern her well-being.

"Come on, you know I cannot do that. It is going to kill me inside to not talk about the situation, plus you know that." I said to her.

"Exactly, which is why we are both not going to be doing the talking. Instead, let him do it for once, plus it would be a good growing experience for him," she said to me, and I looked at her as if she was being stupid.

"Um...are we talking about the same Nick? He is stubborn as a b***h, there is no way he is going to do that ever. Remember first grade, when he pushed me off the swing and refused to admit that he pushed me a little too much and wouldn't admit it until his parents forced it out of him in the principal's office." I said and I smiled a bit talking about the memory.

"Like it was yesterday, but as I said would be a growing experience for him," she said to me and I sighed and agreed but then something else came into my mind.

"What about helping him? What should we do?" I asked her.

"There is nothing we can do, she said to me. What can we do by this point? What is done is done?" she said to me.

"Don't say that. I am sure, there is something we need to seek out." I said to her, and at that moment, she placed her hand on my shoulder, looked at me and smile then said;

"Benji, I know that you are truly the kindest and the sweetest person I have met in my life. And I love your enthusiasm for always wanting to help people out in the best way possible, and for any instances, you have done this for me. But there comes a time in people's lives when they should be allowed to make mistakes and learn from their actions. And for Nick, this is one of them. Remember you are not always going to be in his life forever so maybe this could be something where he needs to learn from his actions. Just think that this is one of those times." she said to me. Wow Pinky, and mini speeches? Okay... and just as I was about to tell her something, she stopped me and just said;

"Now, I gotta go to class and so do you. So bye! See ya at lunch!" she said to me and just left me there standing and feeling dumbfounded over what the f**k happened right now. Then I just snapped out of it and walked myself to my next class which was AP Physics 2.

After walking up a flight of stairs I finally arrived on the 5th floor and made my way into the classroom. And as soon as I entered the classroom I was met with a;

"My! Oh! My! Benjamin is here without Pinky! Lookout San Francisco! There might be a blizzard hitting your way in a couple of hours!" This was by no other than my teacher, Mr. Crag Taylor whom everyone called Mr. Taylor.

"And a good morning to you too Mr. Taylor," I said back sarcastically and smiled at him.

"I am surprised that you two aren't in the same class, I kind of expected that you guys would be considering you guys do everything together. Plus I saw that both of you signed up for AP Physics 2." he told me.

"Yea, I thought we were going to be in the same class but unfortunately not. She is going to be in the last period by the way." I said to him.

"I see, well I guess I will be able to say the same thing twice to the both of you guys, which to be honest never happens in this school," he said to me. Damn! He is really in a joking mood today as well.

"Maybe change the blizzard to something else," I said to him and laughed along with him.

"Noting that down," he said and we both laughed together before going to into silence then I started to take out the things that I needed for writing such as my notebook and such as. Then the students started rolling in and it was time for class to start. 

Preoccupied seemed the theme that played today in all of my classes for the first half of the school day. And Nick seemed to be the reason I was so preoccupied with everything right now. In all honesty, I should be considering what just happened because this could really tarnish his future since this was his only shot of getting out of this city. Nick has always been great at football and has always wanted to do it professionally for as long as I can remember, and he has worked up to that level always and I don't want him to let all of his sacrifices and hard work become nothing just because of some dumb fight.

And I guessed that it was showing for Mr. Taylor, even though Mr. Horton never caught but for he did. I kind of caught on because he wasn't asking me a lot of questions and just let me take my notes silently, and refrained from doing experiments which he always did in classes which were always fun. So that is how AP Physics 2 aka my 2nd period today went by today. And soon I was done with my work and without delay, the bell rang at exactly 9:25 which was to remind us that it was finally time for everyone's favorite subject. Lunch! On that note, I packed up my things, said goodbye to Mr. Taylor, and made my way downstairs.

I took a quick stop at my locker, to change my books for my periods after class. As I was finishing that, I poked on the back by..have you guessed it? Yes, Pinky. So now I have a smiling 17-year old girl looking over me as I put my books and the rest of the belongings away because she has something to say. So I placed them all away and asked her what was going to happen now since she never waits for me at my locker unless she needs to ask me something.

"What?" I asked her, as I slumped my back onto my locker.

"Yes, so new plan about what we are going to do with Nick," she said to me and clasped her hands and looked at me with an uneasy smile.

"Did we even have a plan?" I asked her confusingly.

"Good point! But here is what we are going to do when we meet Nick okay?" she said to me as a way of validation.

"I need to know what we going to do first," I said to her, and she sighed and finally said;

"Alright, so when we meet Nick at lunch, can we not talk to him about the situation that is at hand?" she said to me.

"And the reason is?" I asked her.

"Because he blew up at Steven today when he asked him about it in Study Hall today," she said to me. Wait. What?

"But he never blows up at us," I said to her.

"Exactly, so let us take that as a sign of no talking to him about the situation okay? And before you even try to argue with me no buts," she said to me. Gahh, sometimes I really hate when she does stuff like this.

"Alright.," I said and she punched her fist into the air and linked arms as me before we started walking to the cafeteria.

The air in the cafeteria was heavy because no one talked about it and the whole situation was so awkward that it made all 6 of us not utter even a word to one another more than the usual small talks about classes and such. Oh boy, I hate this feeling.