Free Lucy in the Sky by Anonymous Page A

little gravelly stream running through it. The stream looked like it wound up into the hills, which were covered in tall, sun-bleached grass, yellow and waving in the breeze. The sky was bright blue and the clouds were big white billows, wafting slowly behind the mountains in the distance.
    Lauren was passing around sunscreen for our faces and ears, and she helped me spread it onto the part in my hair so that I wouldn’t get burned there, either. I started wondering how long we were going to be out in the sun, and when I asked Blake, he took my hand and said, Well, it all depends on how long the surprise lasts.
    Ross and Ian had everybody huddle up and hold out our hands. Ross dropped one tiny square of white paper into each of our palms, and Ian told us not to drop it because this is all that there was, and he’d been through HELL trying to get it.
    I asked what it was, and Blake said, It’s LSD.
    My eyes went wide as I saw Ross hand the plastic bag back to Ian, and then gently place the little square of paper on his tongue. I almost shouted, This is ACID? We’re going to take ACID?
    Ross giggled and said, We’re taking a little trip today.
    Blake rubbed his hand on my back and said, It’s okay. I’ll be right here.
    Lauren laughed and said, C’mon! You’re going to LOVE it.
    I wasn’t sure what to expect, but when I put the little square on my tongue, it tasted like … nothing. I looked at Ross for a minute, and then at Blake. I asked if something was supposed to happen.
    Ian laughed, and said, Not yet. It’ll kick in after about 15 or 20 minutes. Let’s go hike!
    Blake led the way down the trail along the little stream, which looked like it must have more water in it during the spring. Right now it was just a little trickle that ran over a few of the rocks at the center. We hiked along the stream for a while. Ross was running and jumping onto Ian’s back and making him give him a piggyback ride for a few feet every so often. Lauren and Blake and I were walking together, and Blake had his arm draped over my neck.
    After a little while the stream dipped in between two hillsand the trail led up the side of one of them. As we climbed up, I was telling Blake and Lauren all about our vacation to Mexico, and it must’ve taken a little while because I was just talking and talking, then we reached the top of the hill and I realized that I was breathing sort of fast, and when I lifted my eyes up from the path, I stopped midsentence and sucked in a huge deep breath of air. We were standing at the top of the hill and I could see the blue sky and the rolling hills of the valley below. The place where the blue sky met the yellow grass seemed miles away in the distance, dotted with bright, brilliant green trees, and when I stared out at the white clouds, they seemed to breathe in and then collapse a little, then breathe in again.
    Then the green trees at the horizon begin to wriggle in this strange way, almost like they were dancing with one another. They would swirl together and reach up toward the white clouds, and then the clouds would answer back, swirling down toward the green trees, and all at once I was LAUGHING. I gasped and gulped in the air and I said, You guys, LOOK! The trees and the clouds are DANCING!
    Lauren and Blake walked up on either side of me and I grabbed both of their hands and said, SEE?
    We just stood there for what must’ve been an hour, or maybe it was 5 minutes? I don’t know! That’s the amazing thing about acid; you just can’t tell how much time has passed. It’slike someone has shuffled all the cards in your head, and you recognize people and places, but you can’t quite fit together how you got here, or where you are, only that you feel AMAZING, and you’re seeing these INCREDIBLE THINGS.
    While we stood and watched the trees and the clouds, Ross and Ian suddenly let out a whoop and went racing down the hill through the