| "A year ago me
and my ex-boyfriend took a bottle of cider to the park and
drank it on the swings. A bit later on we started
kissing but after a couple of minutes he said he had to leave
for a short while and disappeared for about a minute or so.
"I didn't think anything then, but he came back with a
nervous grin and we continued snogging. When I got home
later that evening I had a funny taste in my mouth that I
couldn't get rid of. When I brushed my teeth I
discovered what seemed to be small lumps of diced carrot on my
toothbrush.
"The horrible truth hit me. I went to my ex with
my evidence the next day and he confessed to having thrown-up
and then had conveniently forgotten to tell me before kissing
me again. Obviously that was the moment he became my
ex."
Sinead, aged 15
|
"My
friend Debbie and I were at a party. I had one or two glasses
of wine and left it at that but Debbie just kept drinking more
and more. She told me that she felt less inhibited and that
she could be the real Debbie after a few drinks.
"It's all
rubbish because the real Debbie ended up having to be taken to
the hospital A&E after she fell semi-conscious, to the
floor. The ambulance man asked what she'd had to drink and
then asked me to come along with them to the hospital.
"Her face
had gone all grey and she was sick all over the red blanket
she was wrapped in. At the hospital I was told that she had
alcohol poisoning and that there was little point in her
stomach being pumped because she had been drinking spirits all
evening and they are absorbed quickly into the blood stream.
She was kept
under observation for the night and allowed to go home with
her relieved yet very angry parents the following
morning."
Anne,
aged 17 |
"I woke
up because something was digging in my face. As soon as I
opened my eyes my head started hurting, everything was really
bright. When my eyes became accustomed to the daylight I found
that I had been lying face down in a car park.
"I have
no idea for how long or how the hell I got there. I remember
going drinking with friends the night before but I really
cannot remember anything else at all.
"I picked
myself off the floor and wiped off bits of gravel that had
stuck to my face. I had to wander round in the freezing cold
for a while to get my bearings. I was in a car park on the
other side of town. I wanted to get a taxi back home but I
couldn't find my wallet or keys anywhere.
"I
eventually made it home by walking and phoned my friends who
told me that they said goodbye to me at 11 the night before
and I was pretty well plastered. What happened to me between
then and waking up in the car park is a mystery."
Paul,
aged 18 |
