Hicksville High: A Short Story

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Hicksville high is a small school where every student knows everything about the other. Among the thirty students in the senior class of 2016 Bill, Lenard and Tony were the weirdest and coolest characters that always tried a certain fad or thing first. They were the major subjects of gossip in Hicksville high and whatever little thing they did in the morning would become a huge behemoth by the time school finished for the day. Like every teenage trio BFFs, they had a nickname and were dubbed ‘The BLT’ by taking the initials of their first names and they were a BLT in their own sort of way. After all, they stuck together like the sandwich and gave flavor to every teenager’s high school life through what they did. They were always pushing the …show more content…
They’ve all heard about it and tried to do it before, but they couldn’t find a dealer in their town. Therefore, they decided to go to Westbury-the neighboring town- and get some weed from there. After they borrowed a car from Geoffrey- Bill’s older cousin- they went to Westbury and started looking for sidewalk dealers. They eventually found a dealer in the shady part of town who was reluctant to do the transaction at first and barked at them “Did the Narcs send you?”. He eventually mellowed out and sold them a couple of …show more content…
“Where’s Tony? Why did you run out of the diner? I tried to say hi but you guys seemed to be in a hurry.” replied Geoffrey.
They explained to Geoffrey what happened during the day and told him Tony was in the bedroom. Geoffrey insisted that they take Tony to the hospital, but the two didn’t want Tony’s parents to get notified of the situation. After minutes of heated debate, Bill remembered that Tony had a fake ID and they could use that for the hospital record. Then Geoffrey, Bill, and Lenard carried Tony to the car and drove to Westbury lest someone in Hicksville General recognizes them.
Once they arrived at the Westbury County clinic, they gave Tony’s fake ID to the nurse and she declared Tony should be seen in the emergency room immediately, ignorant to the con the teenagers were pulling off. The doctor examined the vitals of Tony and stated he was having an anaphylactic shock in response to an allergen he was exposed to. He asked the other three what Tony took during the day and assured them they had nothing to fear. They told him the part about smoking weed and refrained from exposing the other details of the

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