Come Here and Save Me.

Part 1

Chloe:

Picking myself up from the slated floor, my bare feet hit the cold concrete a lot sooner than I expected, immediately sending shivers down my spine. My eyes flickered down to the bodies sitting below me; mostly stoned and wasted, as per usual. Kicking away a glass bottle, I sighed to myself as I made my way over to the blanket layered couch. Dropping down on it, I felt sudden nausea wash over me, I had no idea why. I hadn’t drank any source of alcohol since I’d arrived neither had any drugs hit my veins, lips or nose. In myself, I was still as sober as the stone cold floor. My mind however, was the complete opposite. This is what happens when you spend so much time around people with cravings, whether it only be beer or marijuana, it still payed its effects on people around you.

Attempting to read my beaming phone screen through blurred vision and misty air, I was interrupted by an unfamiliar voice in which I was probably more used to hearing when my mind was gone.

‘Hey, Chlo! What’re you doing?’ Someone called from the circle of smokers on the other side of the room.

‘I, uh- I think I’m going to make my way home.’ I lifted a hand and gestured a wave before picking myself up once again and finding my shoes.

‘No, you can’t leave yet!’ I heard my best friend squeal.

‘You’ll make your own way home, right?’ I asked Sammie, whom was edging closer to me.

‘You’re not going anywhere.’ She giggled, looping her arms around my neck and pulling me into her embrace.

‘It’s getting late.’ I mumbled into her shoulder.

‘And? Where’s your spirits tonight?’ She questioned, now with a more serious tone.

‘Not here, clearly.’ I giggled in return.

Within a split second later a glass bottle was thrust into the palm which was pressed on the small of Sammie’s back and I was told to lighten up and lately, lightening up had been the only thing I’d been good at. 
The people around me with ‘high spirits’ wasn’t aware that they were offering me the one thing I craved.

The one thing that got me through the long days. I was living a drink-fuelled existence and alcohol was my current addiction and apart from Sammie - The only thing that kept me sane…