In My Desperate Time novel Chapter 81

“Where is he?”

I put down the bowl and get up from the bed.

“The Moonlight Club.”

“He goes there to drink?”

I ask frowningly.

Wherever he goes, he should at least tell the family. He knows that our parents are so worried about him.

“No, worse than drinking.” Frances Louis looks at me, he seems hesitating to tell me the truth.

Now I am worried.

“He drinks and fights with others?”

It’s not impossible thinking of Frank Noyes’s impulsive temper.

“Damn it, he'd better not get into any serious trouble. I won't give him money no matter how big the problem he gets into. Remember, you mustn't give them any money, not a cent.”

“He takes drugs.”

Frances Louis’s words like a bolt from the blue.

I don’t know how to react.

Frank Noyes grows up disobedient, but I never thought he would take drugs.

“Bring me there.”

I go to The Moonlight Club with Frances Louis. We find the unconscious Frank Noyes in a corner.

I've heard about The Moonlight Club before, which is the messiest place in whole Virginia. The high and low are mixed together.

There is a cash folded into a strip in front of Frank Noyes.

I have seen it on TV, and I know what it is.

People who take drugs forgets everything; they don't even remember their names.

I see the ice bucket on the table, and without thinking, I lift it and pour the ice over his head.

“What are you doing!”

Luckily, Frank Noyes wakes up. He glares at me. His eyes are red and he seems having lost his mind.

Of course, he wouldn’t treat me better when he is sober.

“Frank Noyes, go home with me!”

I drag him out. We attract many eyes from the corner to the door.

But people only glance at me briefly and then fall their eyes on Frances Louis.