Clueless

Chapter 21

After 3 days with Carly, I found she is into everything I am. It is crazy how much we have in common. Every night is spent talking about what we did with our friends before we came in here, her stories are funny and I wish I was there most of the time.

"Are you awake?" Carly whispers to me at 2AM.

"Yeah, I can't sleep." I reply.

"Same, I need a smoke."

"Being in here is so shit." I say and roll onto my side so I am facing Carly.

"I have one." She says to me.

"Have what? A cigarette?" I ask.

"Yeah."

"But where would we go?" I ask, kind of nervous.

"I know a place, but we have to be quiet and avoid the nurses."

I get out of bed and don't say anything. Carly quietly opens the door and we scamper out like a mouse.

"Someone's coming!" I yell in a whisper.

"Shhh! Don't worry just follow me." She says a walks the opposite way the sound is coming from.

She opens a door that I have never seen before. Behind the door, stairs. It's dark down there but I follow Carly because I don't want to be caught.

"Close the door behind you." She whispers.

I close the door and continue down the stairs. The lights suddenly flicker on and I'm freaking out until I realise moments later that it was only Carly that turned on the light.

"No one goes down here, so I come here to think or to smoke when my friends sneak in cigarettes for me, but I'm glad I have a friend to come here with me." Carly says, no longer whispering.

I smile and Carly goes to a corner and pulls out a small wooden box, it's filled with so many things, some I haven't seen before. I decide against asking what it all was. She hands me a cigarette and I smile before putting it between my lips and lighting it.

"Want to try this?" She says after taking a drag of her smoke and showing me this small piece of paper with a picture on it.

"What is it?" I say and look closer at it, it has a smiley face on it.

"Acid." Carly says and takes another drag.

"What happens when you do it?" I ask, nervously.

"You just trip, it's great." She replies.

"Okay, lets do it." I say, I won't lie, I'm really scared but ill try it, it sounds fun, and if Carly's into it, so am I.

"Wait until we go back to our room and we'll do it." She says and puts out her finished cigarette.

I continue to puff as Carly is a much faster smoker than me but eventually I finish and we walk back to the room.

We quietly walk down the hall until we are stopped by a voice.

"What are you girls doing?" A nurse neither of us have seen before says.

"We just could sleep so we got up for a walk." Carly blurts out as I stand there so scared and speechless.

"Okay well you can't do that here girls, please go back to your room." She says nicely and she escorts us back to our room then leaves.

We walk to our beds and we both sit on my bed.

"Here's your tab." She says and hands me a really small picture.

"How do I take it?" I ask.

"Just put it on your tongue and wait for it to dissolve." She says and places her tab on her tongue and sits back.

I do the same, I don't feel much for a while, I feel a bit tingly but nothing too bad, but then it hits.