Evocation

im too high for this!

"So, it's real?" Shen Yuan asked, raising his eyebrow as he began to put cannabis into his grinder.

Shen Yuan and Shang Hua sat on the floor of Shen Yuan's room, in their shared apartment.

"Obviously! Do you think that i, your best friend, would lie to you?" Shang Hua gasped dramatically, his right hand clutched his chest.

"Who says your my bestfriend, ah?" Shen Yuan scoffed, "last time I checked, my best friend is liu-ge."

"Yeah, but you don't smoke weed with your Liu-ge, do you?" Shang Hua looked smug, before ripping off a rectangle-shaped strip about half an inch wide from a thick piece of paper. He folded the rolling paper into an accordion shape, then wrapped the last bit of paper around the accordion part. Once he was done with that, he place the filter at one end of the rolling paper.

Shen Yuan huffed. "You've got a point. You win this one. He would probably kick me if he saw me doing this." He smiled before looking at the book they were talking about before. "Are you sure it's real? It seems sketchy." He grumbled, passing the ground cannabis to Shang Hua.

"Obviously, it's sketchy as fuck. It's a demonic summoning book." He shrugged, as he layed the rolling paper on the rolling tray with the adhesive side away from him. He positioned the crutch where he wanted the mouthpiece to be and sprinkled ground cannabis onto the paper in a column in line with the crutch, and evenly spread the flower throughout the joint as he avoided overstuffing.

"No shit, but if it works, then what?" Shen Yuan asked, tilting his head to the side as he stared at Shang Hua expertly make the joint.

"Well, we sell our souls and make wishes?" Shang Hua shrugged stupidly again, Ensuring the adhesive-coated side of the paper is away from him, and picking up the cannabis-filled paper. He used his thumbs and index fingers to pinch the paper into a taco shape, sifting the paper back and forth to distribute the bud evenly. Packing it down a bit in the process.

"Are you fucking serious? Do you even know what you want?" Shen Yuan's eyebrow twitched.

"Probably to get big with my writing, it's kinda flopping right now." SH worked the weed into a cylinder shape, not so loose that it will burn unevenly and not so tight that it will restrict airflow.

Shen Yuan slapped his forehead, "Dude, what happened to ao3 or even fucking wattpad? Isn't Liu Yan getting really popular on both?" The hand dragged down half of his face in defeated annoyance.

"Oh yeah, doesn't she go by 'veiledbeauty' or something? And it's not that easy! Those are fanfics, I want to write books! Novels!" He groaned before tucking the non-adhesive side of the rolling paper over the weed and slowly rolling it towards the adhesive side, tucking in the bud as he went. He used his thumbs to roll and his index fingers to support the outside.
He then licked the sticky adhesives and started at the mouthpiece end to slowly seal the joint.

"Yeah, good for her. I don't think Liu-ge knows about it though, she writes some..eyebrow raising things. Not as bad as you, obviously."

"Awww, thanks, cucumber-bro!" He giggled like a high school girl with a crush as it sealed, then grabbed a chopstick to pack down the cannabis towards the mouthpiece. Afterwards, he twisted the extra paper at the joint's tip to seal everything shut.

"Not a compliment." He huffed before reaching to his lighter on the bedside table and offering it to Shang Hua.

"I'll pretend it was." Shang Hua grinned as he took the lighter from his roommate. "Getting high and summoning demons sounds sick as fuck."

"I want to say this is a bad idea but you wouldn't listen to me even if I did." Shen Yuan sighed, taking the book into his lap. He won't admit it, but he's at least a little bit excited.