Lately I Feel Like I’ve Been Losing My Mind
prompt: Steve getting high for the first time; this specific tweet
cw: drug use (weed), underage drinking, paranoia, out of body sensations
wc: 1k
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“And you’re sure it’s safe?” Steve asked.
“Yes, dude, positive. I know the dealer personally,” Eddie explained. “Just take one square and you’ll be fine.”
“What if I don’t feel anything?” Eddie glared at him, raising a brow. “Should I take another or…”
“Are you joking?”
“No… should I be?”
“No, Steve.” Eddie pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed. “Do not, under any circumstances, take another square. No, no, absolutely not.”
“Why not? I mean, if I don’t feel anything then shouldn’t I just take more?”
“That’s such a rookie mistake, Harrington. You take one and wait for it to kick in. If it doesn’t, then keep waiting.”
“Yeah, but–”
“For Christ’s sake, just take a damn square!”
Eddie practically broke a piece off from the chocolate bar and shoved it into Steve’s mouth. He held his hand over the boy’s lips to keep him from spitting it out. He felt Steve purse his lips and gag—the shitty chocolate didn’t do much to hide the taste of the skunky substance. Once he felt him swallow, he wiped Steve’s excess saliva on his pants and smacked him on the back.
“Alright, call me if you need me.”
“I-I’m not staying? I can’t stay?” Steve whispered.
“No, dude, I have shit I need to do. But you have my number. I’m just a phone call away. You should start to feel the onset in about two hours and once you start to feel it, the high should last for about four or five. Questions?”
“I, uh, um–”
“No? Great, pleasure doing business with you. Bye. Get out of my house.”
“Um… okay…”
Steve awkwardly left Eddie’s trailer, clamoring into his BMW, and making his way home. He pulled into the empty driveway—shocker, his parents weren’t home. He collected his belongings and headed inside, setting up shop in the living room, making himself comfortable for the night.
He ordered a pizza, popped in a movie, and waited for the magic to happen.
Nearly two hours in, he still hadn’t felt anything. Top Gun was coming to an end and Steve was getting increasingly furious with Eddie. Fucker sold me lemons—fucking duds! he thought. He got up from the couch to rewind the tape and pop in his next one (The Breakfast Club), but the room started spinning.
He fell back onto the couch, head hung back, mouth agape, as everything hit him at once. His head felt lighter than a cloud. Tingles traveled down each of his limbs, starting at the top of his head and ending at the tip of his toes.
Fishhooks pinched the corners of his mouth, pulling his lips into a Cheshire smile. The room began to spin—if it was from the actual drugs or him just moving for the first time in two hours, he’d never know.
He relished in the new bodily sensations as the drugs took over his system. For the first time in his life, his mind was quiet. It was free. He was able to relax as he melded into the cushions of his parent’s sofa. Lord, he could stay like that forever.
It completely slipped his mind to pop in a new movie—he wasn’t reminded until the tv flashed a bright blue screen as the VHS tape slid out of the VCR. Steve giggled as he rolled off the couch, crawling his way to the entertainment center. He slid the same exact tape in, laughing when it kept spitting it back out.
He wasn’t sure how much time was passing—quite frankly, he didn’t care. It wasn’t until he was flat on his back, staring up at the living room chandelier. The room was spinning in one direction as his body spun in the other. A knot of nausea was quickly building in his stomach as the tingling quickly became more and more intense.
He tried sitting up, but was knocked back down with the weight of his own body. He felt like a million pounds.
The tingling sensation rang throughout him, quickly traveling up to his face. Like a thousand ants marching from his toes to his nose. The tingling quickly turned to numbing as it crowded around his entire left side. He turn over to see his reflection in the glass of the entertainment unit—he swore on Dustin’s mother that the left side of his face sunk in. He felt paralyzed as his body buzzed.
He laced it, that bastard, Steve thought. I’m gonna die from laced weed, holy fucking shit.
Drool pooled on his carpet as he laid there, forced to watch time slowly tick by. Around one in the morning, he finally regained some feeling back into his body. He wobbled over to the phone hanging in the kitchen—he dialed Eddie’s number and awaited an answer.
“Hello?” A groggy voice answered.
“Munson,” Steve seethed.
“Oh, hey, Harrington. How’re you feeling?”
“Dude, you laced my shit.”
“What? No, I didn’t.”
“Yes, you did!”
“No, Harrington, I didn’t. Trust me, it would’ve been a lot more expensive. Fent isn’t cheap, y’know.”
“Then how come I had a seizure and a stroke?”
“A seize… what? No, you didn’t.”
“Yes, I did!”
“No, you didn’t, Stevie. If you did, you wouldn’t be talking to me right now.”
“Then how come I couldn’t feel the left side of my body? A-And why did my whole body tingle? And why couldn’t I talk, huh?”
“You had a body high, Steve,” Eddie yawned. “‘s normal for your first time.”
“And the not being able to talk?”
“Cotton mouth. Means you just left your mouth open too long. Any more questions?”
“I… no…”
“Alright, then I’m going back to bed. Don’t worry, sweetheart. I’ll have you smoke next time.”
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I think it was about a month into dating my betrothed that I first turned to them and said, “You smell hungry, want to get some lunch?”
“I what? I smell hungry?”
“Yeah, like, the empty smell. Aren’t you hungry?”
They were, but it was hard for them to accept smelling a state of being. After a few weeks of me pointing it out right before they realized it themself though they asked, “What does hunger smell like?”
“Bad.”
“That’s not helpful.”
“It’s like… an emptiness that goes past the mouth? Bad breath is more upfront but hunger is like you’re smelling stomach acid, it’s all the way from an empty belly.”
They started smelling my mouth in exaggerated silly fashion but eventually they did start to recognize it.
They’re now very smug when they get to use the skill back at me and inform me that I’m hungry.
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