can’t believe that we are actually trying to find ways to find crystal meth for you to use so you can get caught up in school. Seriously, I think you need to just tough it out. You’re the smartest person I know. You can do this on your own.”
“NO.” I screamed it angrily, almost with a guttural noise that she didn’t know was there. Something had entered my body and soul that I didn’t even know I had. All I knew was that wanted to feel that feeling again and I was making excuses – any excuses that I had to in order to feel that feeling of perfection again. That feeling of being higher than the clouds and more capable than anyone else on Earth. It would only be once or twice – I mean, what was the big deal?
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Jasmine was in the shower and heard the phone ringing.
“Sabrina!! Sabrina??? Where are you???” The phone kept ringing. God, she thought to herself. I’ll answer the phone myself. She grabbed a towel and ran to the phone.
“Hey, Jazz, it’s me.” It was Sabrina. “That friend I told you about? He says he can get us some of the candy we were talking about – do you have $150?”
WOW. “Is it that much? I don’t guess it matters. Sure, I’ll get it to you. How do we do this?”
“Well, you give me the money, I will meet him at the coffee shop and then I’ll come home and we’ll put some in coffee, like you did, OK? I don’t feel too scared because we’ll be there for each other, right?”
Jasmine stood, wet in her towel, thinking about it and said, “Sure. I’ll have it when you get here.” I could hardly wait until Sabrina came home with the meth. I could believe even less that I had just become someone who purchased illegal drugs for recreational use. But, it wasn’t really recreational – it was to get caught up. (At least that made me feel better when I thought about it.) Somehow, it rationalized what I was doing and why. I still couldn’t wait to feel like that again, though.
About a half hour later, Sabrina showed up at the door and I gave her the money. It didn’t even occur to me to hide it or to act secretly. After all, I was only giving her money. She could be going to the store to buy me a pair of boots. I went back inside, like any other time I would take a shower and started drying off and blow-drying my hair. I started putting on my makeup when Sabrina came home with “the stuff”.
Chapter Twelve
“Ok, so I got it.” She took a small plastic bag out of her purse, the size of a small golf ball.
“That’s it? That’s what we got for $150?” It didn’t seem like hardly anything at all. Is this what buying drugs was about or was this just a really expensive drug because it was so powerful??
“Come on, Jazz, it wasn’t like I had time to go bargain shopping or anything. Apparently, this is the going price for this drug. Apparently, it’s also quite popular and you have to call this guy only on certain days because that’s the only time he can get it. The last thing either of us need is to get caught with this on us or be in a car accident or something and have it in on us – you already have it on your record…” The way she said it almost sounded accusatory, but I didn’t care. I just wanted to get it out and make the tea.
“Seriously?” We both looked at a few pieces of what looked like light yellow rock candy in a bag and I looked at her and said, “so what do we do now?”
“Like I would know…I say we make some tea and put some in it.”
“How much?” Again, they hit Google. It was surprising how much information