Drugs Destroyed a Friendship

Freshman year of high school always seems to be the tougher year. People you thought were friends end up changing their ways and become a whole new person. High school is when a person’s personality really shows. Everyone finds who they are inside, and they find others like them. Some try to move up the popularity pole, and will do anything to reach the top. Others seem to just fade away out of existence because of drugs. My friend Todd was one that just disappeared from my life.

At the beginning of freshman year, I didn’t know many other people at my school. All of my friends choose to go to another school that was in our district. I was in the cafeteria talking to one of my friends when she introduced me to a guy named Todd. We got to talking and found out we are a lot a like. We both planned on trying out for baseball in the spring, we live close to each other, and we went to the same middle school. Our humor was pretty much on the same level, I would try anything to get a laugh out of him.

After freshman year had ended, and we became best friends, I found out he smoked pot. This didn’t really bother me because he said he only did it a couple times a month. I knew he wouldn’t try to get me to do it because he was a true friend. He had a party right after school started up in August, and a bunch of our friends were there, and so was some of his that I had never met before. Weed and alcohol were at the party but he only asked me once if I wanted any. I told him no and he left it at that.

As school went on, he started to do it a little more. Again he would ask me more continuously if I wanted to do it. I held firm in my answer until he sat and smoked in front of me on night. I sat and watched him do it for a while. As all the smoke came out around me, I did feel a something, a little happier, like I didn’t care about anything at the time.