He hadn't shot up enough to get to a pleasurable high, just enough to make him feel his usual state of normalcy and to stave off the dopesickness.
This really bums me out, even though I know it's a thing. Like even with caffeine, it's a thing - you drink too much coffee, and suddenly you need caffeine just to avoid the headache you get if you don't get enough caffeine, and never mind actually using it to wake up or whatever.
He hated it on principle.
I'm curious about this, because I don't know if Rhys hates it because he has to be there/might have an STI, or if it's because he has some sort of moral/political/social justice sort of problem with PP.
So I know Rhys is the point here - especially with the bombshell at the end. That said, Leah really disappears in this section. Like she drives him to the clinic, she follows him inside, and then...she's gone. Is she sitting beside him, trying to pretend she doesn't see the questions he's answering? Does she wander off and flip through an informational pamphlet or start talking to a patient who's there alone and looks a little lost? Does she sit in with him on the actual tests, or does she remain behind in the waiting room? Is she even there when he finds out he's pregnant?
I think I just noticed this because I'm actually terrible at keeping track of multiple characters in one scene, especially when what happens to one of them is particularly important. But Leah's so supportive of Rhys/tries to take care of him, so I'm really curious about her reaction to this news/the tests/the fact that he's got cocaine in his system because he shot up right before she took him to the clinic (she didn't seem to notice when he got in the car, but somehow I just expect her to always know).
Otherwise, I think this twist really starts putting us on the path toward a clear plot - because Rhys is kind of directionless, he's been running into a lot of trouble, and I can see potential plot lines developing with Lip and his mom, but I feel like this pregnancy is the first real curveball he's been thrown that he has to really deal with. So it's not like his drug use etc doesn't have lasting consequences, but he's sort of...fallen into a rut, I guess, where he just kind of keeps doing drugs because that's what he does and it means he doesn't have to deal with other things.
Whereas, you know, he has to deal with this pregnancy one way or another, because if he doesn't deal with it he's going to have a baby in nine months (or thereabouts), like it or not. So this is something that is definitely going to force him into some kind of action, which gives it a lot of good plot potential.
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