Harry's P.O.V

*flashback*
(One month later)

I awake on the floor of Cara's friend's apartment. I sit up slowly, back aching from the obviously uncomfortable position I had taken up for the night. I looked around to see several others sprawled out around the room. My mind floods with memories of the previous night. Heavy drinking, weed, and some random pills Cara's friend had bought. Crap, Cara. I look around frantically for my girlfriend. When I don't spot her in the room I get up to search the apartment. I find her in the bathroom laying in the tub. I kneel down next to the sleeping girl.

"Babe." I whisper in her ear. She stirs but then stills once again. "Cara, baby, wake up." I try again. Still nothing. I slump back against the wall across from the tub and run my hands through my hair. This is how most of my days have been since that day Cara and I tried shrooms. After we had both returned to reality she had been so excited that she wanted to do it again. We ate more during the next few days, enjoying our escape from reality together. Shrooms led to other things and we just started getting accustomed to our little escapes.

My friends don't really know what it is that Cara and I have been indulging in but I'm sure if they did, they would be furious. My mum has been noticing that I'd rather spend time with Cara than with the lads but it seems that she's decided it's just because she's my girlfriend now. If she knew, I know she would lock me in my room for the rest of my life. I have even become worried about what I'm doing to myself but every time I try and talk to Cara about it she just says that I need to relax and then we end up trying some new "relaxer" as she calls them.

I am taken out of my thoughts when I feel my phone buzz in my pocket. I answer it without looking at the caller ID. "Hello" I greet, my voice still raspy from sleep.

"Oi! did you just wake up mate? It's nearly 3." Niall says through the phone. I raise an eyebrow and check the time on my phone and sure enough he's right. I hadn't realized it was that late in the day.

"Wow. Yea I uh, I got home pretty late from Cara's. What's up Niall?" I lie.

"The lads and I are going to a party tonight and wanted to know if you and Cara would like to come?" He asks.

I look at my still passed out girlfriend and wonder if it's such a good idea. Then again if we don't go we'll just be stuck here repeating the cycle from last night. "Yea mate, sounds good." I reply.

"Great! See you tonight. I'll text you the info." He says excitedly and then hangs up.

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Cara and I arrive at the party and walk straight to the kitchen for drinks.

"I'll make us our drinks babe." Cara offer with a smile on her face. I smile back and plant a firm kiss on her mouth. She smiles and walks away.

"HEY MATE!" I hear Louis yell. I turn to greet my best mate. I feel like I haven't seen him in forever even though we go to the same school. He jumps into my arms and I catch him and laugh at his crazy antics.

"Hey Lou!" Just then the rest of the lads come into view. Liam is holding hands with his new bird Danielle and Zayn is walking fairly close to a purple hair girl who I haven't met. "Hey lads. Danielle. And who's this Zayn?" I greet the rest.

Zayn smiles and puts his arm around the girl's shoulder. "This, is Perrie. Perrie, this is Harry." She smiled and waved to me.

Seconds later Cara approaches us. "PERRIE!" She yells causing the lads and I to jump.

Perrie squeals and jumps into Cara's arms. "Hey!"

"You two know each other?" I asked them. They nod simultaneously and Cara explains that they go to school together. What a small world eh?

After a few drinks and some dancing we all go outside to a fire pit that had been set up. We chat for a while and have loads of laughs. Suddenly Cara reaches into her bag and pulls out a little bag. I take a glimpse and notice its a bag of relaxers.

"Cara. Put it away." I warn her quietly.

She rolls her eyes and opens the bag. "Hey, do you guys want one?" She asks the group.

"What is that?" Liam asks curiously.

"Cara..." I warn again but she ignores me.

"They're relaxers." She smiles. Everyone exchanges weird looks, trying to figure out what that means. Cara laughs "Okay. I've got Zoloft, volume, oxy..." She rambles on and everyone's eyes widen. I close my eyes and take a deep breath. "So? Anyone? Or is it just going to be Harry and I?"

My eyes fly open and I glare at Cara. The last thing I needed was for them to know what I've been doing with her. The guys give me mixed looks, Louis and Niall look incredulous, and both Zayn and Liam have a mix of disappointment and anger on their faces. "Cara, can I talk to you for a moment?" I grit as I stand and pull her with me. Once we're out of earshot I face her. "What the hell Cara?!" I yell.

She looks at me shocked. "W-what did I do?" She stuttered.

I run my hand through my hair frustratedly. "They don't know that I've been doing- THIS- with you!" I yell, snatching the bag of pills from her hand.

She crosses her arms "So?" She asks raising her eyebrow. "It's not that big a deal." She tries to justify.

I scoff "Of course it's a big deal. These are DRUGS Cara! I'm an idiot for continuing to indulge in them with you." I admit shaking my head. "This never would have happened if could just say no to you." I close my eyes and knot my hands in my hair.

There are a few minutes of silence before I feel Cara wrap her arms around me. "I'm sorry Harry. I didn't know you felt this way." She says into my shirt. I'm taken by surprise by her apology, she sounds truly sincere.

I wrapped my arms around her and kissed her head. "It's okay babe. I forgive you." I pull her away a bit so I can look into her eyes. "No more of these okay?" I say showing her the bag of pills. She nods and puts them in her purse.

*end of flashback*

"So after that night she hadn't brought up the pills again and I figured that was the last of it. I figured she probably was doing them by herself and while I was worried I just pushed it to the back of my mind." I tell Riley as I fiddle with my ring on my finger. She was quiet but she was staring at me intently. I looked into her eyes waiting for some type of response, but I figured I wasn't going to get any at that point.

I sighed deeply and continued. "Months went by and school had finished and things were getting a little rocky between Cara and I. We were arguing all the time. One night she invited me over for dinner because she was home alone and she wanted us to have some alone time without the lads and their girlfriends."

*flashback*

I rang the doorbell and waited for Cara to answer the door. When the door opens Cara is standing in front of me and she looks gorgeous. A smile appears on my face as I enter the house. "You look fantastic love." I say as I pull her close to me and attaching my lips to hers.

She smiles against my mouth. "Thank you. You don't look so bad yourself Styles." She says. "Come on, dinner is already on the table." She announces as she pulls me to the large dining room. We sit down and begin eating. The meal was delicious. Afterward we sat and chatted. "Let me go get you another drink." She says as gets up, taking both of our glasses.

"Oh I can get it, you've done quite enough babe." I suggest but she insists she goes. A few minutes later she comes back with new drinks. After a few sips I begin to feel really strange.

"Haz? You alright?" Cara asks. I look to her and three of her appear in front of me. I blink to try and re-focus but it doesn't work.

I stand to go to the bathroom to try and pull myself together but the next thing I knew I hit the floor and everything went dark.

*end of flashback*

The concern reappeared on Riley's face and she grabbed hold of my hand.

"So basically she drugged me that night. She claimed she hadn't meant to give me as much as she did. I was in the hospital for a week because I had a seizure from the drug and alcohol mix. My friends were furious and so was my mom. Cara tried contacting me several times but I never answered, so I hadn't seen or spoken to her since the dinner." I finished. It felt good to get it all off my chest.

Silence ensued and I could tell that Riley was just absorbing everything I had told her. I looked at the time and saw that it was well past 4. After a few more minutes Riley pulled me into a hug. I was a bit surprised but hugged her back anyway.

"I'm not really sure how to respond to all of that, but what I do know is that you're not that person anymore. You were smart and strong enough to stop it before it got out of hand." She said when she pulled away from me. She smiled at me and pulled my face to hers and kissed me sweetly.

I smiled against her mouth. I pulled away and placed my forehead on hers. "How can you be so understanding? Any other girl probably would have pitched a fit." I said.

Riley shrugged her shoulders. "Like I said, you're not that person anymore. I mean I am surprised but there's nothing I can do about that now."

I nodded. "You want to go grab something to eat? All that talking made me hungry." I admitted. She laughed and nodded her head and we both got up to leave.

Notes

So there it is. Cara got Harry into some scary stuff. so now that the conversation is over do you think that it's going to be forgotten? We haven't really seen Riley's true thoughts, what do you think she's really thinking about the situation?

hope you enjoyed. Sorry it took a couple of days to get the last part up, when I tried to put it up yesterday the site crashed.

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