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Just One Beer
They started their road trip taking the Dakota exit, towards freeway 805 north heading to Los Angeles from San Diego California. They were three best friends since their childhood, but one got away. He went to study medicine at the University of California Los Angeles. Their names were James, Franco, and Brandon. Both James and Franco stayed at a local College just waiting for something to inspire them, because they dreamt of one day opening a business and becoming filthy rich. On the other hand, there was Brandon, a little Chinese American 19 year old wanting to be a heart surgeon. He was the typical nerd who has not given his first kiss and always was a 4.0 student. James and Franco were quite different, they loved to drink, party, and be surrounded by girls. James and Franco decided to go visit Brandon for his birthday, and maybe share a couple of beers and chill out.
Finally James and Franco arrive at the UCLA campus and enter Brandon´s room by surprise, bringing him a big smile and a maybe weird feeling that something bad was going to happen in a sense of partying too hard. Brandon had an important exam next day, which meant he wouldn´t be able to drink or party at all. While Brandon was explaining his dilemma, James and Franco were laughing from the inside and insisted Brandon to go out for only one beer. Brandon kept denying, but finally they insisted so hard he accepted the invite and said “ Just one beer guys, tomorrow is the most important day of my life.”
So they were all suited up to go out and enjoy a simple cold beer out in the nearest bar. During their conversation they were having such a good time they ordered another beer and a round of shots. Time went by flying and none of them felt the clock ticking, when Brandon finally realized that it was 12 am and it was past his bedtime he began to worry. This is when Franco, the expert when it came to college life and drugs, that he decided to put a little pill into Brandon´s drink so he can relax and enjoy his twentieth birthday with his best friends. What Franco did not realize is that Brandon is so delicate to those type of drugs that he will become crazy and drink until his body can´t handle it. After a few minutes the pill kicked in and Brandon was drinking the whole bottle by himself, talking to girls, which was something he never did. This is when James and Franco knew they had done something wrong and that he will not be ready for his exam, but this did not concern them at all. All of them started to take shots and just have a really good time.
The sun began to rise at the downtown near the bar, James and Franco where laying in a bench in the streets, one of them had a black eye and the other a tear up shirt, no wallets and just one of them had cell phone. They didn’t know what time it was, they started looking for Brandon near the bar, and in his dorm but they couldn’t find him.
While James and Franco where looking for Brandon, the last one woke up in the middle of the city, he remembered toking a taxi “early” in order to get some sleep before his exam, but the taxi ended up taking advantage of him being drunk/drugged/happy. He managed to return to his dorm how he could, his cellphone had almost 15 calls and none where from his friends but from his mother who normally wishes him good luck before a big exam.
He saw James and Franco laying in his bed and sofa, they were happy to see him safe, and the first thing they told him was “why don’t you grab a beer? It’s the best thing to cure a hangover. It will just be one beer.
Juan Carlos Escalante A00815995
Jaime Gudiño Martínez A01230719
