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"cant sleep" veronica thought to herself, so like any normal person who cant sleep she gets out of bed and exits her room, to get a drink. she quietly makes her way downstairs to the kitchen and flips on the light. she walks over to the fridge and opens it. the fridge has mostly leftovers and condiments. but what got most of her attention was the six pack of beer that her dad bought yesterday. veronica grabs a can from the box and opens it. she mumbles "just this once. no one will know". she then chugs the can of beer and hides it under some trash in the trash can. she turns the light in the kitchen off and then leaves the room. she repeats this action for the next three days, during day four after drinking one can she mumbles "just one more can. no one needs to know" and she drinks another can, and as the nights go on so does the drinking. again shes laying in bed, its 3:27 AM, on a Monday, and veronica is drunk and almost passed out. and then heather chandler(ghost) floats into the room and says "y'know an apology for the whole giving me drain cleaner thing would be nice" the ghost pauses then says "hello? Veronica? stop ignoring me". Veronica sits up on her bed then says "what do you want?" she asks with an annoyed tone and speech slightly slurred, chandler responds with "well at first i wanted an apology but at the moment i want to know why you're speaking like that" veronica responds with "what are you talking about? im speaking completely normally" chandler responds with "uh huh, sure you are, and im the queen of England. all joking aside why are you speaking like that?" Veronica mumbles "i might have drank all my dads beer" chandler stares at her for a few seconds then mumbles "of course you did. im to tired to deal with you right now" she floats out of the room. veronica lays back down on her bed and goes trys to sleep. the following day she wakes up and gets out of bed dreading school. she makes her way downstairs into the kitchen. she grabs a reusable water bottle and takes off the lid. she fills the cup up halfway with vodka she took from her mom. and then she mixes it with some apple juice, and puts the lid back on, and shakes it, and then she exited her house and started walking to school. by the time she was at school her water bottle was half empty and she was tipsy. she decides to skip first period, and hide in the bathroom, mainly because shes slighly hungover, but also because shes to tired to do math or whatever they were learning. she didnt remember nor care. while in the bathroom heather duke walks in and notices veronica in a stall, and then decides to knock on the stall door, and say "yo, Veronica skipping again? really? what happened to little miss perfect? you used to get straight As now you're hiding in a bathroom stall skippin' class. crazy how things changed" and then bangs on the door and says "Veronica, open the door", after hearing this veronica is brought back to when she was hiding in her closet while JD banged on the door, out of panic she chugs whats left in her water bottle. heather duke says "oh also heather wanted me to tell you she wanted to talk with you after school. sounds like your in trouble" then snickers and exits the bathroom. Veronica groans and mumbles "what i mess up now?" and then she leaves the bathroom aswell. the rest of the school day is boring, Veronica is mostly zoned out durring class or sleeping through it, she almost got caught a few times but managed to play it off as being tired. by the time school was over she was ready to go home crack open a can of beer and take a nap, but just when she exits the school heather mcnamara walks up to her and says "hey, Veronica i wanted to talk with you" veronica replys with "oh okay, watchya wanna talk 'bout?" her speech slightly slured, McNamara replys with "i noticed you've been acting strange lately, and the last few days you've been speaking kinda strangely. also why does your breath smell like a bar all the time?" Veronica says "I've been acting completely normal.. also my breath doesnt smell like a bar, i just forgot to brush my teeth" McNamara replys with "for the last three weeks?" she asks sarcasticly. Veronica replys with "uh yeah, of course, why would i lie about that?" heather McNamara says "oh i dont know maybe because i literally asked if you brushed this morning and you said "yes"", veronica pauses for a second then mutters "okay, i might have a slight alcohol addiction" mcnamara says "is there something going on in your life like every goddamn day or did you get it from genetics or something?" veronica mumbles "probably both" McNamara says "of course its both. whatever, im going home, i'll see you tomorrow. you BETTER not be drunk tomorrow. bye" Veronica says "buh bye" then waves and starts walking home. when she makes it home her mom is at work, and her dad is drunk and passed out on the couch. Veronica looks at her dad and mumbles "like father like daughter i guess", then she walks into the kitchen and goes to grab the bottle of vodka she used to fill her water bottle earlier. she takes the vodka up to her room, and she shuts and locks her bedroom door and then sits on her bed and pops open the bottle. she mumbles "i've been waiting to do this all day" then she chugs half the vodka. later around midnight heather chandler floats in, and she sees Veronica unconscious, laying on her bed, with an empty vodka bottle in her hand. the ghost mumbles "i really thought you were smarter then this" she floats out of the room