Chapter 044

Eleven years ago…

Jeffrey laughed hard at the jokes of his friend's discussion about how they approached a random lady on the street and acted as if she was about to get kidnapped. He gulped down a glass of alcohol as he laughed. He was already high from the drugs he had taken with his friends.

They were all in his father's house, but of course, his father was not around to see what they were doing. He did not get along with him since he was always about how bad his friends were and how they could lead him astray. He used to talk about how he had changed from how he used to be, from the quiet and easy going boy to a drug addict and a trouble maker. He had bailed him from the police custody a couple of times.

But Jeffrey didn't think that was his fault. He admitted that he did change a little after his mother's death from leukemia, but taking drugs relieved his stress and made him forget his sorrows temporarily. That was what his friends introduced to him to cope with the loss of his mo