It’s hard to sit in my bedroom and read like I always did. It’s even hard to talk to my brother on the phone.
His team finished third in the nation. Nobody told him we missed the game live because of me.
I went to the library and checked out a book because I was getting scared.
Every now and then things would start moving again, and sounds were bass heavy and hollow.
And I couldn’t put a thought together. The book said that sometimes people take LSD, and they don’t really get out of it.
They said that it increases this one type of brain transmitter.
They said that essentially the drug is twelve hours of schizophrenia, and if you already have a lot of this brain transmitter, you don’t get out of it.
I started breathing fast in the library. It was really bad because I remembered some of the schizophrenic kids in the hospital when I was little.
And it didn’t help that this was the day after I noticed that all the kids were wearing their new Christmas clothes,
so I decided to wear my new suit from Patrick to school, and was teased mercilessly for nine straight hours.
It was such a bad day. I skipped my first class ever and went to see Sam and Patrick outside.
“Looking sharp, Charlie,” Patrick said grinning. “Can I have a cigarette?” I said.
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