THE S.O.U.L

"So you are telling me that I can drive without hitting break every 5 seconds." "Yes, you can and your break will last longer!" said Louis Lambert. He is my schoolmate, (who is kindly informing me why my cycle speed won't be higher than an old man in a wheelchair) we became friends in high school and that was, April in the year 2005. To clarify, since we haven't talked much since 2004, I am not a loner and so isn't he, we have friends in quantity and quality. Louis is a Quality-Friend. Now in my second year, I am 17 years old, Gary Gunn, one of my Quality Friends, informed me about a party at Brad Brant's house. Brad is the most famous guy in the class, second only to me, and believe me I am not lying. I have a face value, he has money and those are the only reason for our fame in the classroom. I don't like him and the feeling is mutual. So, he was throwing a party and I was invited, not by him though but by Lucy, Brad invited her because he liked her she invited me because she liked me, and man, would I have sold my whole ps2 just so I didn't have to go there? Yeah, pretty much. Why didn't I want to go? I don't like Brad and have something with Lucy and would have liked to avoid them. But I went to the party, I got an invitation from twenty guys and girls and I didn't want to look nasty or rude so just planned to go say hi, good to see you, bye. That was the plan, till Ronald ****** it up, he went the distance tonight. Party started at 8:30 pm and I crashed it at 8:38 pm or something around that, with Louis and Gary. We planned to stay together the whole time, but they betrayed me because they saw Lucy rushing towards me... she was scouting for me through the crowd, that was some determination but no matter what she did, I couldn't bring myself to like her, and somewhere inside me I hoped she was a bad person 'cause that would make things a lot easier but she was too good to be 'fake' I didn't want to reject her but didn't want to accept her either. I held fear every time I had a conversation with her. Oh, I have been omitting the conversations, you say? Okay, now there will be a conversation from now on. Lucy walked near me and said with a genuine smile: "You came I thought you would try to avoid me, again." "I am not avoiding you." "Then... It seems like you are, " "I am... not... but I sure am avoiding Brad, he is an ass." She giggled at that. After that, she asked me to follow her to a silent corner. "I called you here for a reason, you know my dad is a policeman. Drugs have been on the rise these days in these regions and especially in such parties filled with minors. But it's hard for police to bust them, I just want some proof and that proof could be a kind of birthday gift for dad. Consider me a showstopper ' because I plan to do that literally and discreetly." Those fierce eyes, she wasn't joking. "You want me to... help you in, you can say, screwing Brad over and getting rid of such parties for a long time, would I sell my ps2 for FREE just so I can do that?" And we said together, "YES." We decided to split so we can find some drugs and since this isn't some horror film, we thought 'What's the worst that could happen to one of us while we are not together.' Well, so there I was walking around trying to find just one stash, powder anything I could click the photo of and call 'Drugs'. What if I didn't find it? See, Lucy had her doubts, but I knew Brad... You know all the crap I said about not liking Brad and mutual feelings, that was a lie. We 'hated' each other. I saw Gary, so walked near him but changed my direction halfway through and Louis did the same. Gary was talking with a girl, Remmi. "Man, I didn't think he would be talking to a girl, okay, that's caught me unguarded," I said but Louis was facing the other way and called out to him but he wasn't replying he wasn't even turning towards me, I could only see his back. I walked in front of him and... he was crying. "Look at our Gary all grown up now. I mean... you know... talking to someone besides you and me, never assumed he would do that Kevin." I could only shake him on the back for that with a straight, the happiest face I could make. "I saw you talking and laughing with Lucy, you okay now?" "She is fun to hang out with but you know the problem," "What were you doing before? I saw you walking here and there." He had pretty much stopped crying by right now. "I am trying to find narcotics," I said in a whisper in his ear. "Oh, it's there," he pointed to the least crowded space in the hall," they are hocking it there, they offered it to me too, but no thanks I am happy with my life." "How can they sell it so... frankly." I was taken aback a lot. "Well, I think Brad knows about it." I slowly turned my face toward him and said: "Yeah, no s**t Sherlock..." "You looking to buy it, look don't-" he was concerned about me. I waved him off and told him what was going on. So we walked casually and stood at a safe distance there waiting for our chance; we would click the picture at the exact moment when they would sell it. There was our cue, two hippies came to buy drugs and I looked toward Louis, his phone was set. We faked a selfie pose and, I remembered just the right moment, "turn off your quick flash!" Louis quickly thrust his hands to turn it off. We clicked it, triumphant! "Hey, take a selfie with me too. Oh! You are clicking a photo, not a selfie-" Damn Ronald, now drug dealers were scrutinizing us with anger and surprise. We didn't need to say anything to each other, we just ran to the entrance doors. We got a headstart. I was running and then I saw Gary still with Remmi and a few other individuals- wait a minute. Okay, what was I saying, yes? So we were outside the house or bungalow and currently in the garden and still running but they caught up and surrounded us. They were four. There was a punch in my face but I backstabbed narrowly and kicked him in the abdomen but lost my balance and boom one punch to the face and another to the stomach, there I fell to the ground and kicks and kicks and kicks and kicks and kicks and kicks, phew. Before I lost consciousness, I saw Louis in the same situation as me. "Are you stupid! Stop doing this stuff! No more parties till you graduate college and the way you are doing, you may not even graduate high school. Stay away from that girl too." She ended the call. I knew this would happen the moment I started talking. My sister is too strict with me and that's when she's overseas what if she were here? She rarely calls and the last time she talked with me was 3 years ago. Whoa,... I think I will go to the doctor again. ---- The doctor was pretty much confused and worried about his speech. He had been writing it for the whole day and still isn't satisfied with the final product. "I would like a check-up, my mind feels all fuzzy and everything seems to be shaking." "Okay sit down," said in a disinterested voice, he found it hard to focus on his speech when people were coming in and out, he thought about closing it after this was done, "state your name and symptoms." "Kevin Smith and excuse me?" "Oh! Kevin you again. Did I mess up your bandages, you just went out at 9:45 and now you are back what happened?" "I feel happy, too happy and everything seems to be shaking and it's hard to understand or speak now," The doctor looked angry, he thought for a moment and said: "You might have been drugged by your assaulters when you lost consciousness."