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❝stuck in this paradigm don't believe in paradise this must be what hell is like there's got to be more, got to be more❞
-saturn, sza
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chapter seven, RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE
"Do either of you want to go smoke a joint?" AJ asked, already knowing the blonde boy to her right would've come back from the dead if he heard those words.
"yeah let's go smoke in the Twinkie" JJ started walking towards the van and AJ shrugged, not where she was intending to go but with the cool island air that night, the warmth from the van didn't seem to be the worst option.
Pope was behind the pair and when they stopped at the van JJ seemed to notice. "wait, Pope? You never come smoke with me" JJ stared dumbfounded at the boy and AJ misses the way he tries to get JJ to shut up.
"Do you think we'll find it?" AJ asked, turning more to Pope as they settled into the van and shut the door. The joint rotated in her fingers as she held a lighter to the end of it.
"The cross? I think so. I mean, we found the gold" AJ nodded at his words before lifting the precious rolled weed to her lips and taking a long inhale.
The van soon became filled with smoke and a few coughs littered the silence. The trio, even Pope who was mostly just getting secondhand smoke were starting to feel the weed taking effect.
AJ moved so she was laying on the floor of the van, her eyes scanning the roof with inebriated interest. JJ was spouting nonsense from the other side of the van but the girl paid no attention.
She fiddled with the bracelet on her wrist and Pope seemed most focused on the girl in front of him. "you never take that thing off" His thoughts became voiced out loud.
"huh?" AJ tilted her head to look at the boy and he shook his head.
"Sorry, just asking about your bracelet" He spoke, this time with more intention.
"oh, yeah, my mom got it when she travelled. I think this one's from Mexico" AJ found herself putting her attention on the bracelet on her wrist. She held the beads of it with a mulled sadness, the thoughts of her mother rising to the surface.
JJ's incessant under his breath comments still not reaching AJ's ears. Though when Pope spoke, her attention, or at least as much as she high girl could give, was on him.
"Did you know, dead bodies decompose by a process called autolysis which means they digest themselves cell by cell with enzymes?" Pope had taken two hits off the joint and had sat in the smoke cloud from the two joints AJ and JJ smoked, it was safe to say the boy was also high.
