Are You Hearing Voices?

P. 58

"Let me roll that jawn bro." Said Justin.

They were all in the woods right outside of Penn Wood High School. The weather was temperate, it was not too hot or too cold, just in between. Jason had his back reclined on the bark of an oak tree, the other three boys were standing up.

"Do white people even know how to roll?" Jerry asked Justin.

Justin laughed out loud and then snatched the blunt from Jerry's hand so that he could roll. Joe handed him the dime bag of marijuana.

"Watch... And learn." Justin said as he began to roll the blunt.

He emptied the dime bag of marijuana and dumped it into the leaf blunt. As he was doing this Joe started to gaze and look around.

"What are you looking for bro?" Jason asked him.

"For some strange reason, I feel like somebody followed us." Joe said.

"You tripping bro, nobody followed us." Jerry said back.

Joe still continued to look around. As he did this Jerry and Jason watched him carefully.

"VOILA!" Justin said.

He finished rolling and laid the blunt on the leave covered floor for all to see. Jason was the first to look at it and pick it up. He stared at it with wide eyes and held it up in the air, his mouth was opened and he continued to stare at it in awe.

"This jawn pearled bro!" He said out loud.

Justin began to laugh. "I told you bro. I'm no rookie when it come to this."

Jason held the rolled up blunt in front of Jerry's face so that he could observe it. Jerry grabbed it and looked at it for himself.

"I'm impressed." He said.

Joe then walked up to him and took the blunt from his hands. "This jawn right bro!" Joe also stared at it in awe.

"I hope this negates your previous notion that white boys can't roll." Justin said to Jerry.

"It does." Jerry said as he grabbed the blunt from Joe's hand and took out a black Bic lighter from his pocket. Jerry was getting ready to spark up. As he took one flick of his lighter the Adhan app on Jason's phone went off.

"Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!" The muezzin said.

Jason took his phone from his pocket and looked at the time. 12:58pm, Dhuhr time.

"Am I still in a state of Wudu?" Jason thought to himself. He couldn't remember, but he remembered making Wudu this morning to pray Fajr. So he was still considered to be in a state of Wudu.

Immediately Jason got up and went to the middle of the woods. He took out his phone and opened a compass app to find the Qibla. Afterwards he closed his eyes and said "Allahu Akbar" and began to pray.

"What are you doing bro?" Justin said out loud to Jason.

"SHHHHH!!" Joe quickly said.

"He's praying bro, don't bother him."

"He's starting to hang around Abdul too much." Jerry said.

Joe smiled and began laughing. Jerry took the lighter from his pocket again and flicked it, the small fire shot up. Justin quickly snatched the lighter from his hands.

"Bro let's wait!" He said.

Jerry frowned and put the blunt down to his side. Justin was amazed as he looked at Jason praying. He wanted to know why Jason was doing this. He had never seen anybody doing this type of act before. He had been raised Jewish, his mom, dad, and whole family was Jewish. He'd been to Church a couple times with his mom and he'd listened to a couple sermons but he never really practiced the Religion. There wasn't really much practicing to do, just to go to Church on Sunday.