The Hit

Jake was just a normal kid and now he experimenting with marijuana for the first time.

"It's 11:57. Guys, some one pack a bowl. Let's smoke it at 12 so I can say I went a day without smoking." Keith said. Everyone agreed while i just laughed to myself. I always thought that was the funniest thing. First of all it's not like not smoking for one day is an accomplishment and he probably did the same thing the night before so in reality he never went a day without smoking. 

The clock hits 12 and Keith takes out his small red lighter from his sweatshirt pocket. He holds his colorful glass bowl in his left hand and the lighter in the right. He lights the marijuana until it catches. The only light on the street is that of the burning weed. He inhales and releases the carb. After, he empties his lungs of smoke and passes it to the next person in the circle to his left, Mark. He must have packed the second most amount of weed.

After Mark's hit it goes to Connor and then me. Every time they ask me if I would like a hit and every time i say no. Today was a different day.

"Do you want this?" Connor says. I don't answer right away and Keith says

"Dude just take a hit it's not a big deal." I look at him and then back at the bowl. I put my hand out to get it. I'm not sure what made me want to try it. Maybe because deep down I have always been curious. Maybe it was just the alcohol talking or maybe it was because I wanted to cool down after that fight with Sarah. Whatever the reasoning was I decided one hit of pot wasn't going to ruin my life. 

"Alright fine." I say to everyone.

Keith looks shocked. "Finally dude! Here want me to light that for you?"

"No I got it." I reply. I take the bowl in my left hand and the lighter in my right. I put my lips on the end of it and light the weed. I keep the flame on until all the pot is on fire. 

"Now suck in." Keith says "And then when you have cooked it enough release the carb but keep breathing in." I shoot him a glare like I'm offended even though I really don't know what I'm doing, I'm just copying what I see them do. I breath in and release the carb. I end up getting a huge hit and start coughing right away. 

Everyone laughs and says things like "There ya go dude" or "nice hit"

I start to feel a little light headed but not much different at all. I think to myself that this really wasn't worth it but I continue with the conversation. The bowl hits everyone in the circle and gets back to Keith. He dumps out the remains and says "I'll keep this out for later."

After a while we continue to talk in a group or side conversations come about. James says to me "So how you feeling man? Any different?"

"In all honesty, no dude. But whatever it's not a big deal." I say

"Yeah I remember my first time. I didn't feel anything at first either but then I smoked more and it felt cool. Now I'm used to it so it's not a big deal." He says the last part with a laugh.

"Honestly I'm not even sure why I did it. I got in a fight with Sarah so I dunno maybe thats it."

"Well I hope everything turns out alright." James says. "What a beautiful night huh?" James had always been into the stars and loved being out at night. I could appreciate the clear sky but I didn't have a passion for it like he did. 

"Yeah man this is a great place to live." I say back with a smile

"I can't believe I'm going to be going to the city soon. It's gonna be terrible there." James says. James was going to college somewhere in Richmond Virginia. It sucked that he would be leaving but it's always good to go off and meet new people. 

"Well for now, lets drink." I hold my cup up in the air and wait for him to hit his cup against mine.

Right when our cups hit Peter says "Well I'm gonna go back inside anyone with me?"

"Yeah I'm kinda tired of standing. Let's go play Halo!" Mark says. They walk back inside and the other five of us create a circle. I know what's coming next. 

"Alright guys we got a blunt this time. You up for this Jake?" Luke says and looks at me.

"Yeah sure dude I can take it." I'm still not sure why I'm deciding to try weed for the first time tonight but honestly every kid does it eventually. I know this is just my brain trying to tell me that everything is ok and I'm not doing anything wrong when really I know I shouldn't be doing this.

Luke lights it up and takes a hit, then another hit, and then passes it to his right. It goes to Keith next and he also takes two hits and then passes it. Apparently everyone gets to take two hits when its a blunt but I'm not sure. I know i'll sound stupid if I ask. Hopefully everyone will realize it's still my first time.

After Keith it goes to James and then it will be my turn. "Ok here ya go just suck in and then blow out." James says

"Yeah its really easy." Keith joins in. I hold the blunt in my left hand and the lighter in my right. I flick the lighter a couple of times before it actually catches. It's getting a little windy outside but not enough so the lighter won't light. I put the end of the blunt in my mouth and light it as I suck in. I feel the smoke fill up my lungs and instead of coughing I just keep sucking. I keep sucking until I know I can't anymore. 

I take the blunt out of my mouth and realize that I'm starting to feel it. My vision is becoming blurred and looks like a bunch of picture frames. This experience is almost impossible to summarize in just a couple of sentences. Everyone's faces look much longer like their faces could almost touch the ground but then in the next second they look exactly the same as they did before. So this is what it really feels like to be high.

"He's feeling it!" Keith said with a smile. Now when I hear his tone of voice it sounds much more accepting, like I have finally been invited into their secret club. He sounds so much less hostile than normal and almost inviting. I almost feel like I should tell him this but instead I just start laughing. Everyone else around me start laughing as well because of course we are all long time friends having a good time together.

James stops laughing and Luke's laugh starts to slow down. I realize that I can't stop. I feel like I'm almost having an out of body experience. I can tell that I'm laughing so hard that my body can't breath and yet my mind is completely calm just watching my body. It's almost like my mind knows what to do and is waiting for my body to figure it out for it's self. I decide that this must be what's going on and trust my mind. My laugh slows down and eventually I stop and just have a smile on my face. It feels like it took me a coupe of minutes to figure out how to stop laughing but by the looks on everyones faces it seems like it was only a couple of seconds.

"Dude, you still get another hit of that." Luke says. His voice sounds like he's underwater and I can't wrap my mind around why. i turn towards him and see his face close up. His black hair looks greasy as ever and his mouth is open like he is about to laugh. I almost start to crack up but then quickly remember the danger I was in just seconds earlier and catch myself. 

"Yeah, yeah just give me a second." I say to Luke.

"Dude he's trippin'" Keith says with a laugh "I remember my first time." Keith tells a story about how he was a freshman and was with Luke when it happened. I can only hear bits and pieces of it because I can hear so many mosquitos around us. My ears can't focus on one sound so I only hear the buzzing of the mosquitos.

Being high is really strange. Everything is so confusing and foreign while being completely familiar and calm at the same time. I look down and see the blunt in my hand. Now I can tell that it's a cigar wrapping with the tobacco taken out. It's almost like this information was sitting right in my sub conscience and all I needed was to get high to retrieve it. I flick the lighter and it creates a flame on the first try this time. I feel like a super hero for achieving this even though I know it's not that impressive. I stick the blunt in my mouth and light it. I breath in just as I did before and fill up my lungs. Once I have had my fill I exhale and pass the lighter and weed to Luke.

James taps me on the shoulder and I look over towards him. "It's great, isn't it?" He says I open my mouth to respond but am cut off by Keith who says "I think that lighter might be dead."

I turn my head back to James and begin to apologize to him because of not paying attention to him. I try to explain that I have trouble paying attention to one sound instead of another. I'm not sure if what I said came out of my mouth the way i wanted it to though because he just looks at me and goes "Ok bud, want your two hits?"

I look at his hand and he has the blunt again. I'm extremely confused because I had just passed the blunt to Luke about five seconds ago. "Oh does no one else want it?" I say

James says "Dude we all just took hits so it's your turn." I back up a couple of steps with my mouth opened because of shock. I hear Keith laughing from my other side.

"Dude he is sooooo trippin" Keith says. Apparently when I'm high I have no concept of time. I pretend that I'm fine and reply to James "Right, right sorry yeah I'll take it."

I take my two hits and pass it on to Luke. Nothing special happens while we are talking. I have a hard time contributing to the conversations that everyone else is having because of the sound of the mosquitos. I try to check my phone as often as i can to see what time it is. I end up checking it about every minute.

We each get a couple more hits until the whole thing is gone and we walk inside. Keith walks in first and I go into the house right after him. The lights inside the house are so intense that I'm blinded. I turn to my right to see the room that I am going into but, I can't make anything out. Everything looks very yellow or a whitish color. I can tell my eyes are working hard because I start to get a head ache from all the lights. After about four seconds the head ache goes away and I start to see outlines of things around the room such as chairs, the table, and where the couch is. I decide that the best thing to do is make it to the couch and sit down.

I stumble over to the couch and sit. I take my phone out of my right jeans pocket and then take my keys out of my left pocket. While I'm trying to get my keys I feel the journal that belongs to my neighbors son. I pull the rectangular journal out of my pocket and see that on the front of it, in big black letters, it says "The Journal".

"What's that?" asks Keith. He kind of laughs when he says what's and gets control of his voice when he says that and says it much more monotoned. 

"It's this journal that I found. It's my neighbors and he wasn't home when I went to give it back to him. It doesn't have any writing in it or anything." I flip the pages quickly as I'm saying those last words and notice something in the middle of the book. There is some writing. It says "Don't Take Things so Seriously."

I lower my eye brows and look down at it. I was certain that I hadn't seen any writing in the book before. Maybe I was just seeing things. I open the front cover of the book and realize there is more writing on the first page of the book. It says "Try and Remember the Past."

I'm even more confused now. I am 100% certain that there was no writing on the first page. I keep looking through the book and find two more sentences on completely random pages of the book. They say "Keep a Clear Mind." and "Pay Attention to Detail." I have no idea what's going on now and my mind is going in every which way. "How could there be writing in this book?" I think to myself. I know there wasn't any writing in it when I checked it out the first time.

Keith looks at me and says "Hey man can I see that book for a second." While he says this he holds out his hand like he already knows I'm going to give it to him. I say back "No it's nothing." and I put it back into my pocket. I may not know what's up with this "magic" book but I know that I want to keep it for myself. 

I look at the T.V. and see that Connor, Mark, and Peter are playing Halo. My eyes start to feel extremely heavy. This feeling is completely out of the blue but I know that my body feels like it needs to sleep. I lean back against the couch and close my eyes. My brain relaxes and my mind wanders. I can't remember what happens after this. 

Author's Note

Please realize that this is just the second half of what was the first chapter.. please read it and leave a review!

Reviews

[Be myself!]

Amazing details. Message me. I have a few questions.

[Dominique]

Hmm, I llike it. I can't wait to read the next chapter.

[Alex]

thank you :) ill be sure to post it shortly i have just been busy with finals

[Jordan's Back]

This Sounds allot better than the first cut. Good job.

[Alex]

im glad you liked it!

[Calibaster]

I like this one a little better! it's pretty good!

[K.G]

Much better XD and just label this like parts 2 or something