Free Abnormal Lives by Rae

work so they could sit around and smoke marijuana. Although Larry spent most of his time talking to Paris’s father and mother, he would find time in between to talk to Paris to see how his day had gone and help him with his homework.
    Larry offered for Paris to come over his house to get help with his homework. He assured Paris that there would be fewer distractions there. Paris had taken him up on his offer and went to his house to do his homework.
    Larry leaned over Paris’s shoulder, explaining how to come up with the correct answers to his equations. Paris turned around to ask Larry a question and their lips touched. Larry did not turn away, nor did Paris resist. During the fourteen years he had been on earth, Larry was the only male who had ever paid him any attention and the only male that had ever shown him any type of love. Larry did not have to tell Paris not to tell anyone, or that it was their little secret; Paris already knew.
    After a few months passed, Paris began to think of himself andLarry as an item. His relationship with Larry made him feel loved. That love gave him the confidence he needed to be content with himself.
    One afternoon, Paris came home from school and saw Larry sitting in the living room with his arm around a light-skinned female. Paris’s mother and father announced to him that Larry was getting married and the female was his fiancée, Jackie, whom he had purchased a house with. Paris looked at Larry and Larry looked away. Paris’s eyes filled up with tears and he ran upstairs to his room and slammed the door. He could not believe Larry would do something like that to him. The love he had felt was fake. All the time Larry had spent showing him affection was only a scheme to gain access to his body until he found someone that he liked more. He couldn’t believe Larry had the nerve to sit in his home with his arms wrapped around some woman. Paris hated her; green eyes, long, stringy brown hair, and all. And to make matters worse, she had a body out of this world. One that women dreamed of having but could only be witnessed on cartoon characters little Betty Boop and Jessica Rabbit. The kind of body he wished his head were attached to. Paris wanted Larry to pay for his deceit and he was not about to wait on karma. If he waited on karma, he might not be around to witness Larry’s misfortune and he wanted to witness it as soon as possible.
    Paris went in his parents’ room and searched his father’s pants pockets. He took twenty dollars and then slipped out of the back door and walked to the New Age store to purchase spell supplies.
    Paris was nervous about casting his first spell. He had practiced performing rituals and visualization but he was not sure if that was enough. He planned to stay in his room the entire night. He shoved a towel under his door so the scent of burning wax and incense wouldn’t go out into the hallway. He doubted that thelittle bit of smoke that seeped through the vents would alarm his parents. He would have been surprised if they could have smelled it over their cigarette and marijuana smoke. Paris opened the window so the smoke from his candles and incense could escape his room and carry his spell out into the world. He took his pre-ritual bath and gridded his space with stones. He held the image of his intention in his mind’s eye while he cast the spell three times. He visualized Larry and his fiancée arguing, pushing dishes off of the table, calling each other derogatory names, and breaking their vows of happiness. In his mind’s eye, he saw Larry sitting at the table resting his head in his hands, weak from hunger; his heartache prevented him from eating. His lips were chapped and his arms were thin and flabby from his weight loss. Larry would feel as inadequate as he made him feel and it would drive him to tears and to the point of madness.
    Paris looked at the clock. The night had passed and it was two o’clock