Maddie nodded, and got up to follow her.
The still tripping Caleb started to dip the bat in the wood lamenate before saying
"FUCK IT!"
And taking four fat, white pills. They had "WATSON 853" engraved on them. Pain killers. 10mg hydrocodone, several hundred milligrams of acetaminophen.
"CALEB! You're on MDMA and you've been drinking!"
He began to laugh as he reclined his head in one of the seats in the basement. It was strange how his house was laid out, but that was only because the house was built into the hill. From his position in the basement, to his immediate left was the death site of a Filipino piece of shit, beyond that was the basements refrigerator. Directly in the middle were the stairs that went up to his domain, where his mom and step-father were not for once...they wanted Caleb to have fun on his 18th birthday and were going to let Atheena stay the weekend with him...to his right, was the heating unit for the house (and hidden behind the large square piping were the various laundry and drying machines). Following that route, the heating unit led to the basement door, which was a frail glass door that Caleb shattered at some point barging in to kill Jessie. That basement door connected directly to the driveway- his mother's Lexus still blocking a straight shot from the garage to the car port, which was only about 40 feet from the road. 40 feet from the Echo Lane suburb.
He stood up and hit the large CRAFTSMAN garage door button, and as the garage door started to raise, Caleb felt the influences of a broken heart and a lot of fucking drugs and checked out Aly for a half second. He caught himself before he made a fool out of himself more than he already had. Caleb started to veer back into the basement, and he extended an index finger and his hand at the practically empty room, and turned to face Aly. His brain was currently a mess, and he half way just wanted to say "Fuck me until I forget her" but he shook his head and went back to sit down. It was likely because Aly was kind of hot, and was the only girl here. Well Maddie was here, and even if she weren't his cousin, she was so bitchy that he half way wondered if her non-existent dad was secretly a dog.
Maddie looked at Caleb and could see the gears turning.
"Caleb. No."
"What?"
"You know what. I've seen that look before because I always party with you and I've seen you give to you know who"
"And so the fuck what, Maddie? You sleep with anyone you think is cute"
"I don't sleep with people when I'm drunk or mixing substances. Listen, think about while we disappear for forty five minutes to a few hours, if you still think it's a good idea, still don't say it. Alright?"
Maddie said, gritting her teeth. She always hated it when they would do that- the two grew up together and had a lot of similar interests- including women. Maddie hooks up with a dude? No one bats an eye. She tries to get in a girls pants and then it's a family feud even before the girl says yes or no because odds are Caleb and Maddie are both chasing the same girl all night.
Maddie turned to look at Alejandro and whispered out of Caleb's auditory range.
"Please please please. If he starts to fall asleep, keep him awake. If he starts moving around a lot, sit him down, okay? We'll be lucky if he doesn't have a heart attack or a stroke or something. He's in a dark place, and he cries sometimes. It's awful, I don't know many people that can see him cry and not cry themselves so just be prepared. And if you get the chance, hide any knives you see down here and take the bullets out of that revolver. He won't fight you I don't believe, but I know him and whenever he starts hurting he takes it out on himself so he doesn't hurt anyone else-"
She began to comprehend what she just said, given the context of their situation.
"-I mean when he's like...emotionally hurting. I guess her cheating on him is emotional- fuck you know what I mean, right?" She just half smiled and started walking backwards with a half thumbs up from her right hand, her left hand clutching her head. She could feel the wound occasionally get "leaky" and drip or drop a few blood trails out from her hair and any sort of bandages that were there.