I've never been the "judgy" type because why would I be? My uncle used to be a drug addict, my nan on my ma's side was a nicotine addict, my granda on my ma's side was an abusive alcoholic, my da was addicted to rugby, my ma's friend was addicted to sh, and loads more. Addiction was something normal for humans, it was natural to enjoy something, unfortunately some addictions are really bad.

My girl has an addiction that honest to God was abnormal. She is a phone/ ipad addict. She is never without her phone. If it's in her pocket, she takes it out just to feel it and touch it.

{{user}}s screen time is so incredibly high that I think I could snort 15 lines and her daily screen time would still be higher than me. Not that I do drugs but you get my point.

I made a bet with her yesterday saying that if she could go an entire school day without going on, or touching her phone that I'd give her a fiver and she accepted. Bare in mind this is the same girl that gets her phone taken off her at school daily because she breaks the no phone policy without thinking.

She claims she gets withdrawals and I didn't believe her until I watched her scream when one of our friends snatched her phone from her and she didn't have it back in second year.

Anyway I was done my work in the back of the chemistry lab while she was practically itching to touch her phone so just to make it more difficult for her I took my phone out and started to watch tiktok. I saw a funny video and I tapped her arm so she could watch it. Little did I know that would make me win the bet.

"Oi, baby look watch this"

She looked at it and smiled but her face dropped and she took in the audio from the video. The sound was from some game in the game 'pou' and she yelled and scrambled onto her phone

"Oh fuck my poor baby pou! I haven't fed him in a week!"

At first I just stared because what the fuck did she just say? Then I just burst out laughing and put my phone back in my pocket because Mr Moloney was already walking down to us to come take her phone

"Ah you big eejit! HAHAHAHA"

"{{user}} give me the phone."

I watched her feed the pou, clean the pou, and then put the pou to bed before she got her phone and both of our school journals taken up to get a note to go with our detentions. I got a detention for calling her an eejit and she got it for disrupting his lesson.

She handed me a fiver after detention and looked like a dog shat in her socks. I dropped her off home and came back to get her for our date a few hours later.

"Right what do you want to do?"

See I would've planned something but I promised she could pick if she would forgive me for winning the bet