was.
SnowAngel:
chiveâs surprise was that the 2 of u were gonna smoke pot?!
mad maddie:
and his friend brannen, which was a mistake. not the fact that i smoked pot, but the fact that brannen was there too.
SnowAngel:
brannen from the kissy-kissy night?
mad maddie:
if iâd known he was gonna be there, i might not have gone. cuz the pot, like, intensified everything, and partly that was cool, but partly it was uncool, especially in regards to brannen.
SnowAngel:
why?
mad maddie:
i dunno, cuz he kept staring at me with this âiâm interested in uâ smile. it was gross.
SnowAngel:
what about chive?
mad maddie:
he was in his own world listening to music with earbuds in. i wish i could be more like that, just do whatever i feel like doing and be confident inmyself. but no. i had to deal with brannen making pop-eyes at me.
SnowAngel:
where were u guys this whole time?
mad maddie:
we sneaked into a housing development called cross creek condominiums. thereâs this big stretch of forest behind the condos, and thatâs where we went.
SnowAngel:
oh
mad maddie:
we called ourselves the cross creek crusaders. it was pretty funny.
SnowAngel:
i canât believe u smoked pot. i mean, i know ppl do, but i canât believe that U did.
SnowAngel:
what was it like?
mad maddie:
kinda a mixed bag
mad maddie:
ha, thatâs funny. a mixed BAG, get it?
SnowAngel:
no
mad maddie:
as in, a bag of pot. thatâs what u call it.
SnowAngel:
fascinating, now tell me what it was like
mad maddie:
well, it hurt sucking it in. and then ur supposed to hold it for as long as u can, but i kept coughing. and it made my eyes water.
SnowAngel:
sounds fun. NOT!
mad maddie:
chive says iâll get better with practice. he says the paranoid feelings will go away too.
SnowAngel:
huh
SnowAngel:
um, i know thisâll sound kinda stupid, but whatâs the GOOD part about smoking pot? besides the fact that it was something u did with chive.
mad maddie:
well ⦠i seriously had some wild sensations. it made everything blurry around the edges, like the boundaries of the world were melting away, and all these undercurrents of life were swirling around us. and i could SEE them. thatâs what made it so cool.
SnowAngel:
u could see what? the undercurrents of life?
mad maddie:
i know it sounds weird. i guess thereâs no way to explain it unless uâve tried it yourself.
SnowAngel:
my life is blurry enough, thx
SnowAngel:
u gonna do it again?
mad maddie:
dunno. wish it didnât burn so much.
mad maddie:
but chive mentioned something about hooking up tonight, so maybe. wanna come?
SnowAngel:
er ⦠doesnât really sound like my scene.
mad maddie:
yr always saying u want to get to know chive better, and zoeâs working tonight so u have no excuse. u donât have to smoke if u donât want to.
SnowAngel:
i donât wanna sneak into that golf course, either
mad maddie:
itâs not a golf course! itâs just the woods behind some condos.
mad maddie:
how about this: why donât i call chive and see whatâs up, and then iâll give u more details. weâll do something legal if thatâs what u want.
SnowAngel:
uh ⦠ok, i guess
mad maddie:
hey, that just gave me a good idea for a googlewhack.
SnowAngel:
quâest-ce que câest un googlewhack?
mad maddie:
i havenât told u about googlewhacks?
mad maddie:
oh yeah, that was zoe i told
SnowAngel:
*taps foot on floor*
mad maddie:
a googlewhack is an extremely delightful way to pass the time where u type in words on google and try to get only one hit. the âperfect 1,â itâs called.
SnowAngel:
sounds boring
SnowAngel:
or rather, sounds like something u should do ON YOUR OWN and not while your friend is twiddling away her toes.
mad maddie:
iâm gonna try âlegal chive,â whaddaya think? let me just do a little multitasking here â¦
mad maddie:
tarnation. 20,100 hits.
SnowAngel:
oh well
mad maddie:
maybe
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