An almost one night stand leads Todd and his friends toward trouble.
Todd he's finally come to terms with his sexuality at aged 19. Things get wonky for him when he decides to tell his major crush that he's bisexual. She's a lesbian o he doesn't...
The out of body feeling, forceful sensation of it crawled along his spine as he looked inward and out -- separately and all at once. He could feel everything intensely, colors vibrated around him as he tried to refocus. Soon information processed faster than he could control. It was blurring his sight and making him nauseated. He knew he was overstimulated, as if he had chugged the entire display of energy drinks. There was so many lights, so many sounds and just so much bursting through his mind. He knew why or the possible why for the dissociation, his burst of courage to step out of his comfort zone because nothing after that moment could hurt him.
It wasn't a drugging, he didn't feel that someone had roofied him.
You've never been drugged before so how do you know?He had allowed someone else to buy him a drink and wasn't watching the alcohol the entire time. All he could pull back from memory at that moment was feeling nervous and a heavy urge to run. Not becausethe man who chatted him up was frightening – no he was far from frightening – he was flirtatious and exceedingly overconfident.
Internally he felt on fire, as if he had consumed a bowl of flames or soup of lava. He touched the thermometer but it didn't register the heat –he was at 98.1. It had to be broken – when was the last time he used the thing?
His slightly tanned skin was peeling, not from a days trip to the lake,but from whatever was happening. The dryness conflicted with the overzealous feeling of being shoved inside an oven. A few hours in,and he was looking jaundice. Liver?
He ran his hand through his soaked faded blue hair, it was clinging hungrily to his face. The symptoms akin to an addict going through a withdrawal, but this left him back at nada. He never did drugs and he couldn't think of anything that could be forced to take to take him through withdrawals.
Words and thoughts stuck to the roof of his mind as he struggled around thehouse. It was a small place, if it was being sold would be considered one with "character". It was older than his grandparents, who gave it to him after his mother kicked him out of the house. To thechagrin of his mother who never wanted him to have any ownership to it. But she lost her say when she removed him from their home in Oklahoma City.
His grandparents stepped in saving him from a life on the streets and godonly knows what else. His mother, an addict had a worse addiction topicking the sleaziest and abusive morons she happened upon.
He made it through the kitchen to his bedroom. It was connected by analmost nonexistent hallway. Weird marbled flooring put into place byhis grandparents when they lived here assisted as he dragged himself to his phone.
He forced his fingers to wrap around the cellphone as he searched for Josie's number. His best friend, someone who he could trust with whatever information he handed her. She'd help , he pictured her standing there hands on hips, slightly tapping her left foot. She wouldn't be truly upset with him just mad he didn't call sooner.She'd see something he wasn't seeing and would fix whatever was happening.
That guy.
The phone fuzzed with the out of service noise.
Old phone, dumb ass.
The guy had his cellphone – not that he had intentionally stolen it at least he didn't think so. He crawled to the other side of the bed to his night stand. His small discounted laptop sat in there. He turned it on, and called her through his email.
"Todd?"He could see flickers of her uniform apron. She worked at a locally owned bakery part-time. Her goal was to have her house paid for by the time she was thirty, she was getting close. "What the hell you look like death."
"I need you." he pulled the words out somehow. It wasn't clear if she understood what he was saying. But he watched and mostly listened as she explained why she was leaving. Someone gave the okay with some comforting words before he could no longer hear anything.
