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Is Homecoming Responsible For Underage Drinking?

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Homecoming was only a few days away for the high schoolers who attend Constance in New York. This meant all the kids were eagerly waiting to hear about the biggest party of the year. Ava told her best friend Isabella to make sure the invites to her party got to every junior and senior in their school. Isabella took her responsibility straight to Thomas. Thomas, the highschool jock has plenty of experience of getting news around the school. Word got around fast and by the end of the day Liam and Amelia were certain they wanted to go. The countdown finally came to an end. It was Saturday which meant Homecoming was here. The girls Amelia, Isabella, and Ava took all day to get ready but when five o’clock hit they knew it must come to a halt. Everyone …show more content…

The officer confiscated all of his belongings including his phone. Due to his and Amelia's alcohol percentage being twice the legal limit the officer had the rights to search anything confiscated. Liam got a lecture while some officers took their time searching his phone. Liam had to sit through multiple facts from the officers. Five of them being “excessive drinking is responsible for more than 4,300 deaths among underage youth each year, and cost the U.S. $24 billion in economic costs in 2010, On average, underage drinkers consume more drinks per drinking occasion than adult drinkers, In 2010, there were approximately 189,000 emergency rooms visits by persons under age 21 for injuries and other conditions linked to alcohol, Kids aged from twelve to twenty say that about 18% binge drank in the past thirty days, and 33% drank some amount of alcohol.8% drove after drinking alcohol.20% rode with a driver who had been drinking alcohol”. These facts hit hard to Liam because he never meant for any of this to happen. Morning came rolling around and the car crash ran all over the news including the fact that many pictures were taken on Liam's phone from a party and multiple faces were pulled out of it. A ton of phone calls came ringing into the police office from furious parents including Amelia's mother Michelle. The parents demanded to know if their kids were at …show more content…

She immediately pinned all the blame onto her friend Amelia because she knew she could not defend herself. Rumors started flying and no one knew if the one in charge of the party was Ava or Amelia. Michelle caught wind of the rumor and knew it was not Amelia because she was at her house the entire house. Michelle would not let this rumor ruin her reputation in the town. Michelle gave her facts to the police department and Amelia's name was taken out of the suspect list and Ava was once again, the main suspect. Ava brainstormed with Isabella on who they could blame the party on next. They were desperate and would go after even their closest friends. It hit them. They had to blame it on Thomas, He was the only one anyone would believe. All of his characteristics match the scene. The jock, partier, popular one. Isabella helped Ava get the new accusation out on

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