Mindless Self Indulgence (Fuck Off)

We Had Pizza For Lunch...

We Had Pizza For Lunch...

               Somebody had died I think. A Jane or a Janet person. I don't know what it was but after one of those announcements where the principal bores you to death for forty five seconds everyone was suddenly...sad.

               "Would you shut the fuck up?" I tell the sobbing girl to my left. I hate it when people cry. "You probably didn't even know her!"

               She shoots a look like, shut the hell up. And so does the teacher. Mrs...something.

               "To the office, now!" She shouts at me. Apparently she'd liked this Jane or Janet person too.

               I slowly make my way out of the door counting the number of times I've been sent down to the office this week. Three? Two? I forget. They all pass by so quickly like birds shitting on cars.

               I walk right into her office without knocking. She probably already knows I'm coming somehow. "What've you done this time, James?" She asks tiredly.

               "Doris, how many times must I tell you to call me Jimmy?" I mock sinking into the chair in front of her desk.

               Then she gives me that look like, shut the hell up but all she says it, "So what was it?"

               "It was something along the lines of parental warning, explicit language."

               "Again?" She asks without even looking up from her computer. "Have you taken the pill today?"

               "Sure," I lie.

               "Maybe you should take it again," She says looking me in the eye.

               "Nah, I'm fine," I wave her off. "Don't worry about me."

               "Then I don't think it's a problem if I escort you to the nurse's office," She gets up.

               "I'll escort myself, thank you," I start heading towards the door.

               "No," She persists, "I'll take you."

               "Fine," I head through the door into the nurse's office with Doris trailing after me like a lizard's tail.

               "Mr. Euringer needs to take the Coma pills," She instructs the nurse.

               "Right up," The nurse says disappearing into a small storage room.

               There's a girl in the room with us. Her hair's in pigtails and her eye makeup looks like it exploded while she put it on. It was a good look for her I think.

               "You too?" She mouths.

               I nod my head.

               The nurse comes back with two white pills in her hands. "Here you go," She hands one to me and anther one to the girl.

               I choke down the pill and then the nurse makes me do that, 'agh' thing where you stick out your tongue.

               "You can head back to class now," Doris tells me.

               I fake a smile and walk through the door as fast as possible without looking desperate. I head towards the bathroom getting ready to puke that pill out.

               It's like taking a sedative but for your brain. It dumbs everything down and you can't think right.

               I barge into a stall. I shove my finger down my throat like a bulimic little girl and everything comes out. Breakfast, lunch and the pill.

               My only regret is having already eaten lunch because we had pizza today.