The Blind Date (Jensoo)

Bowling and Biggie Smalls

The far bank of the river was deserted. In fact, no one was around at all. She was all alone, expect of course for Yeri who was busy throwing a frisbee into the water and watching as their two dogs chased after it. Jisoo inwardly thanked herself for suggesting they take Yeri's station wagon because those dogs were going to be wet and muddy as all hell. Jisoo checked her phone for the time. 4:19 PM. Her face lit up with a smile, and she twirled the curious object held in her fingertips. She held it up to her face, felt the hemp paper, checked for rips, and looked up.

"Hey Buttface!" she yells towards Yeri, "It's that time!" Yeri lands gracefully at her side underneath the oak tree Jisoo had been resting under. Jisoo has smoked lots of blunts in her life, bullets that were rolled tight, fatties that burned on forever, short ones that made her sad, and skinny grape flavored 'rillos that made her crave Kool Aide, but this was her first cross blunt. She thinks it looks weird.

"Here," she says handing the lighter and blunt to YR, "I don't even know where to light this shit." Of course Yeri had rolled it, but Jisoo had watched her do it, wanting to learn herself.

"Should we like, say a prayer or something? I dunno, this cross thing feels really religious." Yeri just stares at her like she had suggested throwing the thing into the river, so Jisoo leans back into the tree and watches as Yeri lights the three ends of the blunt.

Jisoo has never smoked three blunts at the same time, but she imagines this is what it's like. She immediately feels her eyelids droop and her shoulders relax into the rough bark of the tree.

"Amen," she mumbles as she taps off some of the ash and takes another deep inhale. The day is cloudy and under the shade of the oak tree the three cherries of the blunt burn bright orange with each inhale. Dalgom, Jisoo's giant German Shepherd is looking at her expectantly.

"Ugh, fuck off pothead dog," she laughs, handing the blunt back to YR and shaking her head, "I smoked you out before we left, Dalgom. Seriously, like, go buy your own weed, for real."

"Chu, he's a dog, he can't buy weed," Yeri says in that weird voice that happens when people are trying to hold smoke inside their lungs and talk at the same time. Jisoo just frowns and accepts the blunt back, begrudgingly blowing smoke into her dog's ear.

They pass the blunt back and forth a few more times in silence as Jisoo feels herself getting more and more blazed by the second. Her mind is starting to do that thing where it thinks about things that are normally of no concern to her. Like where did the universe come from? It was a question that had plagued man since the beginning of time, but only when man first experienced marijuana did they really understand the complete awesomeness of the question. Jisoo thought about it for a while, blunt dangling dangerously low on her lips. She had learned about the Big Bang in science class way back in middle school, but even then she didn't believe it. She decides to break the silence and ask for assistance.

"YR?" She looks over to where Yeri is rubbing her puppy's stomach.

"Yeah?"

"Where did the universe come from?"

"Well," Yeri starts with a serious look on her face, brushing her short blonde hair out of her face and taking the blunt from Jisoo's lips, "one day while Jesus and God were playing Call of Duty on his Xbox, God took a massive hit off their bong, and the smoke that came out formed the gas that would later condense into what we now call space. And then Jesus got up and was really pissed at his dad because while God was taking his hit some noob came up and shanked Jesus and they lost, so Jesus started throwing a bitch fit and turned the table over and the ash tray and the bong broke. The ash and the resin formed the stars and the planets and shit... and then Jesus and God went to McDonald's because they were super stoned and had the munchies."