*Trigger Possible*

-One-Month Later-

-Alan’s POV-

Brook went out with the girls to probably max out my credit card, oh well. I invited Austin over. Surprisingly he accepted. You see he’s been avoiding me as much as possible for the past month. This makes me assume that he’s still on something and that I should’ve kicked his ass that night of my wedding.

I don’t understand how Scarlett hasn’t figured it out yet. That’s what I’m so confused about, because he would be so stupid to push her away for the millionth time. Brook said that they were fine, but it is Austin and Scarlett we are talking about. There is that chance the Scar lied to my Brook.

There’s a knock on my door that should be Austin.

“Hey man!” I say finally excited to see my best friend.

“Hi husband!” We both laugh and he comes inside.

My first instinct is to see if I notice he’s on anything. I mean he wouldn’t be that dumb to come here in the first place since I already suspected him once, right?

“I bet the girls are going to cause a riot” Austin says and laughs as he raids my fridge.

“Yeah, Brook told me two things they were celebrating.” I said he now turned to me with a Monster in his hand. His eyes directly caught mine and then he looked away. He was totally hiding something.

“I’m so out of the loop, what is it!” He asked excited.

“You don’t know?” What, how couldn’t he?

“Um not in the past week, Scarlett and I kind of went on a little vacation to Mexico and didn’t tell anyone. Also why we didn’t answer our phones…” He went on vacation where it was just him and her? Okay maybe I was wrong.

“Well sit your ass down for this then” I said as we both went to sit on the couch.

“Shoot Ashby!” he said, drinking his Monster and still not making eye contact with me.

“One, Tino fucking finally proposed to Jen! Two, umm…Brook is pregnant.” I said the last part lowly.

“FINALLY TINO! AH!” He paused. “You’re going to be a dad?” he asked now looking at me seriously.

“Yeah, you’re the first person I’ve told, Brook is going to tell the girls…I’m kind of freaking out.” It was the truth, I’m such a partier, and the part we weren’t telling anyone…with everything that’s happened, Brook’s pregnancy is high risk. I feel like it’s my fault because I had sex with her, and I don’t know she’s been through so much with the car accident.

Austin caught how hesitant I was. “Alan, you’re going to be a great father and everything is going to be fine!” He smiled at me for reassurance.

“I hope man.” I said.

“You’re not alone.” Austin said and we both started laughing.

“Please don’t even start.” I said as we both continued laughing knowing what song he was going into.

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We went out for lunch since I never have food. I noticed Austin starting to tap his fingers at the end of our lunch, he never was an impatient person, and withdrawal is what this was.

He was fidgety on the ride back to my apartment. Once we got back he said he had to go to the bathroom.

I knew what he was doing. He was going to snort a pill. So giving him a minute and hearing to make sure he actually wasn’t using the bathroom, disgusting I know but hey, I opened the door to him snorting a pill.

I wanted to punch a wall. I wanted to yell, but I didn’t. He didn’t react at first, he just sat down the paper.

Silence.

“Austin, why?” Were the only words I could form.

“Maybe I want to die. Maybe I’m stupid. Maybe I’m in too deep Alan. Just don’t. With every one I do it can kill me. I know and I’m still doing it.” He said monotone, Austin wasn’t the person to take his life. What the hell happened?

“Does Scarlett know?”

“Of course not.” He said and now flushed the drug down the toilet.

“Austin. You can’t do this. I won’t let you kill yourself.”

He blew up, “It doesn’t fucking matter Alan! Just leave me alone!” he yelled.

“It does matter Austin! What would your mom say about this?” I now yelled the one thing that would anger him more, but it was true.

“How dare you!” he said as he stormed past me, now looking for his car keys.

“If you don’t fucking tell Scar by tomorrow so help me Austin, I will tell her and you know what will happen. She will second-guess everything. You’ve been doing this for months! How could you do that to her? How could you do it knowing that she would be the one to find you dead? She fucking loves you and this is how you repay her!?” I’m so fucking angry with him right now.

“Fuck off Alan.” He says as he walks out the door.

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