Chapter 18The next day at work was very awkward. Morgan and I worked at registers side by side and got a lot of strange looks. We tried out our paintball story on a few people, but it didn’t work. Soon everyone our age knew that Morgan and I were a couple. One day Kenzie came storming into J.C.’s in a rage and the manager had to make her leave.
Luckily the bruises and hickeys soon faded and we looked normal again. Jacob and Morgan’s birthdays were within days of each other. Morgan and I reluctantly went to Rick’s to celebrate Jacob’s seventeenth birthday. The house was completely packed, and even dirtier than last time we’d been there. Of course we smoked weed, and Morgan and I decided to mix pain pills and Xanax and got pretty messed up. People were snorting coke in the dining room and I
