I walked home from soccer practice, grinning to myself. I was gonna visit Ali before I went home to Ma. I blushed at the thought of my girlfriend, but the thought also made me grin.

"Hey LaRusso! Where ya goin?"

I turned to be face to face with Robert, Edward, Lee, Thomas, and Jackson. I raised an eyebrow at the delinquents, who were always ditching class.

"What do you guys want?" I muttered, stepping back a little. Edward narrowed his eyebrows, grabbing my arm with a smirk. "You're living too carefully LaRusso. And we don't like that." Edward grabbed my other arm, lifting me into the air. I squirmed, trying to get free. "Let go," I growled, Edward didn't listen to me however. "Hey Rob, got the benzos?"

My eyes widened at the nickname. Benzos...That was the nickname that Benzodiazepines was given. Benzodiazepines is an illegal (unless its you know, prescribed by your doctor) drug here in New Jersey.

"Y-you're not..." My voice came out as shaky as Robert came forward, opening the palm of his hand to reveal a handful of the blue, illegal pills. I squirmed even more, tears spilling out of my eyes.

Robert's hand was about two feet away from my mouth so I shut my month closed. I refused to be forced to take drugs. Illegal ones at that.

"Nuh uh, be a good boy and open your mouth Daniel." I didn't oblige to Edward's command, only grunting in stubbornness. Robert rolled his eyes and punched me in the stomach with his free hand, hard too.

I gasped into surprise and Robert shoved the small drugs into my mouth. Edward made me swallow them before dropping me onto the hard concrete, making me black out.