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Carla, Carla.' I called shaking her. She wasn't answering.
'Carla,' I called again, biting my lip to subdue the terror building up within me. She still wasn't answering. Her lips were changing colour and her eyes were listless, her hands were hanging in the air. And the black mini-dress she was wearing somewhat resembled a funeral shroud.
'Carla, answer me Dammit!' I screamed in frustration but she remained as she was. 'Help. Somebody help me.' I cried but the sound of the pounding bass in the nightclub overpowered my voice.
I grabbed onto the shirt of a one of a complete stranger. 'Please help me.' I begged. 'M- m- my friend, she's unconscious. She wont answer me. I don’t know if she’s breathing.' He turned and glared at me scornfully, snatching his shirt away like I had stained it somehow. I heard the word 'druggie' form on his lips.
I pulled out my phone and quavering I dialled for the police. The rest of it went like a blur. I don’t know what I said to whomever answered the call, all I remember is the sound of flashing lights.
I blame myself for what happened. Carla is in a coma and it's all my fault. If only I had stopped her, told her that it was dangerous. If only...? No, she wouldn't have listened to me anyway. I am the passive one, she is the risk taker and that’s the way it goes. This time when she gets out of the coma, I'm going to set it straight. She's got to pick one...
/Yesterday/
One. Two.
I counted as I kicked the sandbag over and over again. I ached all over and I couldn't see any of my effort reflected on the sandbag.
Die evil mutant. Die!
I screamed internally of course, I'm not completely cuckoo and there were people in the room. I was dripping in so much sweat I might as well have poured a bucket of water on myself before going to kickboxing practise.
'Jane, you're doing it all wrong.' My lazy ass of a teacher complained.
'I've been doing it this way since I started this class one month ago.' I said emphasising on 'month'. I don’t know what possessed me to go join some kickboxing class.
One. Two.
'Yes. I know when you started but you're still doing it wrong.' He replied
One. Two. Three. Rip.
'Well this is how you taught me!' I screamed and stormed out of the room still in my sweaty tracksuit bottoms and a black string top.
'So you finally quit eh?' Carla asked well she didn't ask. She just mentioned it in a scathing way.
'No, I just yelled at Hudson for nothing and ripped what I hope is a big hole in the sandbag.' I answered.
'I knew you would quit.' She thrilled blotting out what if i do say so myself was wonderful sarcasm. Jumping down from the fence. 'Lets go.' She said pulling my arm.
'No. I'm not doing this. I don’t want to.' I hissed underneath my breath.
Her face fell. 'But it's more fun with you.' She wobbled her bottom lip and stared at me with tear filled eyes.
She's faking it. Don’t fall for it. She's faking it you dolt! Faking I-
'Okay but only this once, and you cant use.' She nodded but I knew she was going to. 'Promise me.'
She stared right into my eyes again and mouthed the words 'I promise.' And that was when I knew she was going to be completely out of her mind.
'I missed you so much' She squealed in her larger than life voice. I hated to admit it but I had missed her too. Both the old her and the new her.
'So you're going to stop, yeah?' I asked bluntly pushing aside all pleasantries.
'Yeah, I promised. Don’t you believe me?' She asked her eyes pooling with tears. Her words stung but I knew. I knew she was lying, I knew it was just an act.
'Of course I do.' I lied swallowing nervously. 'So where are we going?'
'ENVY' She said. 'And I've got dresses for both of us. It will be just like old times before you got weird. Right?' She asked glaring at me. Daring me to say no.
'Right,' I said. I was scared of her. Her petite frame boasted none of her psychological prowess. She made monopolising me seem so easy. I let her do it because she scared me. What she was scared me.
-/-
ENVY: 11:00pm
The air was stale. It smelt like sweat, alcohol and mingling bodies possibly even sick. Myself and Carla walked right into the club without queuing, Carla knew people. People who would get 16 year olds into an Over 18s nightclub no hassle.
The strobe lights covered the room as did the people, the music sounded like the drowning of several kittens yet several people threw themselves into dancing with such fervour.
Carla was dressed in a tight black mini-dress and I was in a copy of the dress only in white. When she dressed me up in it she said 'You are the Yin and I am Yang together we restore balance to the universe.' I didn't know what to say then so I busied myself with the mascara brush.
Carla left me at a table and returned with two bottles of WKD and a coke. She smiled pushing the coke towards me. 'For the martyr.' I smiled back at her and reached for the bottle of WKD. There was something about Carla that made you want to impress her.
She grinned and downed her bottle. 'Welcome back. I thought I had lost you for good.'
And the night went downhill from there on. Carla had so much drink while I pretended I was drinking as much as she did...I even did something I detested. I faked being drunk.
It was alright until Carla was offered some tablets. I told her not to have them but she smiled at me and halved it. 'Here. It'll make you feel better.'
'You said you wouldn't use!' I screamed
'You said you would stay sober.' She counteracted and dropped the pills on the floor
'I never...' I started but she wasn't listening to me anymore. She was heading for the bar, I ran after her.
She was holding two bottles 'Here, drink up.' she ordered thrusting the bottle into my hands.
'No.'
'More for me then.' She said and she downed the contents of the bottle.
'Look. Carla you-
She held her hand out to stop me from going on. 'I didn't take the pill so stop harshening on my mellow.' She said coldly taking another gulp of the bottle.
After a while the bottle was gone and Carla was falling all over the place.
'Lets dance.' She garbled staggering over to the the dance floor and disappearing into the crowd of people. She still had my bottle and would soon be starting on it. She was normally a lightweight but with the amount she has had she shouldn't even be able to walk.
I pushed through the throng of people covering my mouth with my hand. The air was suffocating and I could almost taste the sweat as I searched the dance-floor.
I needed her to be alright, I needed her to be OK, just this once I wanted her to stand next to me and tease me for my constant worrying. I spied her long coal black hair in the corner slumped on the ground. My bottle completely empty.
Oh Crap!
'Carla, Carla.' I called shaking her. She wasn't answering.
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