She didn’t reply. There was a pause, I patiently waited for her to say something back to me, but she did not respond.
Jerry and Joe became quiet, then Jerry began to mouth out the words “Put it on speaker, put it on mute!” Jerry said to me without making a sound.
I nodded my head and did what my friend instructed me to. First I put the phone on mute, and then I put it on speaker so that Joe and Jerry could hear.
Christy still did not say anything, me and my friends listened attentively for a respond from her… but there was nothing. Then we began to hear heavy breathing on the other line of the phone, it sounded kind of like… like…
“She sleep bruh.” Joe finally said to me. His voice was at a regular tone, him or Joe didn’t have to be quiet anymore because the phone was on mute and Christy was unable to hear any sound that’s coming from my end of the line.
Joe was telling me that Christy was sleeping. That made sense, which would explain the heavy breathing coming from her end of the line and the silent response coming from Christy. I just told her that I love her and I want to marry her, that’s not very light news, surely she would’ve responded, but she was sleep. Either she couldn’t hear me at all because she was too busy in dreamland, or maybe she did hear me, but she thought of it only to be a dream. Either way, she was sleep. I remember earlier today when I called her and she told me that she didn’t get any sleep last night after the conversation that me and her had, and she did tell me that she was going to try to catch up on some sleep.
“Hang up bruh, yeah she sleep.” Jerry said to me in a calm voice. There was more heavy breathing coming from Christy’s end of the line. Jerry was confirming what Joe had said and he was advising me to just hang up. I did what’s best, I clicked “End Call” and hung up the phone and let her get some sleep. I’ll just tell her that I love her and I want to marry her later on today when I come over her house.
“Bro, how you gon call her and you fried?” Joe said to me. He was asking me why did I think it was appropriate for me to call Christy right now when I’m under the influence.
I looked at him and began to put the phone back in my pocket, “I forgot I was high bro.” I said to Joe. I was telling him that I had forgotten that I was high, which is the reason why I decided to call her.
“I miss her though, keep it a bean.” I said to Joe as I looked at him. I was telling him that right now I really missed Christy, due to being heavily intoxicated. Idk why that tended to happen to me, yesterday the same exact thing occurred. After I came home when I was really high, I wanted to call Christy immediately, I just chose not to do it because I didn’t want her to think that I was desperate or in need of her or anything. But now, I don’t care. Christy was the one that I wanted, and I don’t care if she knew that I was desperate for her affection, it’s not like it will be a lie or anything. That’s the truth! I wanted Christy, more than anything, and I don’t care if she knew or she found out.
Joe turned his head and smirked. “You gay bro.” Joe said to me in a calm voice. He was telling me that I was a homosexual, because I was head over heels for Christy and I loved her.
Me and Jerry both gave a short laugh. I then took two quick puffs of the blunt and then passed it to Joe. At this point I was so high! The mattress that I was sitting down on had now become a lot softer, and the small and enclosed room that we were sitting in had now become a lot smaller and more enclosed, but I was not feeling claustrophobic or anything, because normally when I’m in tight spaces I start feeling a bit of claustrophobia and my stomach starts to turn upside down and I start feeling a little bit woozy.
Joe laid his head back on the bedroom wall, he then closed his eyes and took a deep hit of the blunt. Then he tilted his head back and exhaled a bunch of smoke up. It was a lot of smoke. It covered up most of the ceiling. I began to wonder if Joe and Jerry was as high as me. Well if they were then they definitely was not showing any characteristics of it or displaying any behavior to show their heavy intoxication. I knew they were high, because they both were smoking just as much as me, if not more. But they weren’t manifesting any trait of their heavy intoxication. They were all laid back completely calm. I was the only one who was seeing feathers and random faces. I shook my head and laughed a little bit.
“Ya’ll not high?” I asked both Joe and Jerry.
Joe took two more hits of the blunt and he slowly exhaled the smoke out, he then passed it to Jerry.
“Oh yeah I’m fried.” Joe said calmly. He was telling me that he was high.
“Yeah I’m pretty up there too.” Jerry said without looking at me, he slowly took the blunt from Joe’s hand and he took a deep puff.
I looked at both of my friends. Both of their eyes were really low, it looked like they had just woken up from hibernation for the winter, I wondered if my eyes looked like that, I certainly hope not. I pulled out my phone and put on the camera to look at my reflection. I wasn’t able to see very clearly. Idk if it was because of the dimly lit room, or because of my eyes being really low and not being able to focus. I suspected the latter.
I looked towards Jerry. “My eyes red bro?” I asked him.
Jerry looked at me hard for a minute, he didn’t say anything, he just smiled and reached in his pocket and pulled out a bottle of eye drops, then he threw it to me and it landed on my right leg.
“You look like you got conjunctivitis bro.” He said to me as he gave a half laugh.
Joe laughed along with him, then he looked at me.
“Yeah you look like an old lady pepper sprayed you.” Joe said as him and Jerry laughed and shook each other’s hands.
I quickly took the eye drop that was laying on my leg and tilted my head back and opened my eyes up as much as I could, then I opened up the eye drop without looking at it and lifted the bottle up. I missed the first two times, my hands were trembling really hard and I found it very difficult to settle them, but after the first two tries I managed to land the drops in my right eye socket, and then the left. I then grabbed the half empty water bottle that was laying down on the mattress, I took three quick chugs. I then carefully made a basin like structure with my right hand and poured some water inside of it, and then I clasped both my left and right hand together with water on it and then I splashed some on my face. My face was now dripping with a little bit of water.
Jerry raised one eyebrow and looked at me. “You good bro?” My friend asked me. He wanted to know if I was okay. The sight of me clasping my hands and splashing water on my face must have alerted him a bit.
I then stood up and began to stretch, then I dropped to the cold cement floor and began to do push-ups.
I did a total of 50. After I was done I then stood up and continued to stretch.
“Let’s go for a quick jog broski!” I said to Joe and Jerry.
They both looked at me with a straight face without blinking, then they looked at each other. Joe then gave a short laugh.
“Wassup with your mans bro? Is he forreal?” Joe said to Jerry. Joe was also bemused about my awkward behavior.
Jerry smiled and gave a weak laugh, he didn’t look at Joe, he just took the lighter that was laying down on the mattress and he sparked up the half lit blunt that was on his hand. He then took a hit and nodded his head towards Joe, to let him know that I was okay.
“He just high.” Jerry said to Joe as he coughed a little bit.
I looked at Joe and Jerry while standing. “Broo! I’m not high, it’s auspicious right now, let’s go outside and jog!” I said to both Joe and Jerry.
Jerry then lifted his right foot up and kicked me slightly on the knees.
“Bro, sit your Mandingo warrior self down and be quiet. You tripping! Talking about some going out for a ‘jog’, it’s like 7am in the morning you tripping.” Jerry said to me.
I took his advice and sat right down. Idk why I even got up. Joe began to laugh out loud.
“Bro you so high!” Joe said to me while laughing.
I looked at him with a straight face, I didn’t know why he was laughing. Immediately I thought about calling Christy, but then I remembered that I had called her earlier and she was sleeping. My heart sank. I wanted to talk to Christy, I wanted to hear her voice, I wanted to hear her breathing, I wanted to…
“What time is it bro?” I quickly turned to Joe and said to him.
He slowly reached in his skinny jeans pocket and pulled out his phone and turned it on to look at the time.
“7:10am.” He said. “You wanna dip now?” Joe asked me.
He was asking me if whether or not I wanted to leave now or wait a little bit.
Home period started at 7:35am at school, but I wanted to go there a little bit early to go to the cafeteria and eat some breakfast before I went to my first class.
“Yeah, I gotta get some breakfast and I gotta give you the bread for the dime you gave me.” I said to Joe.
I was telling him that we should leave now because I wanted to go to the cafeteria to eat some breakfast and I had to give him the money for the dime bag that he gave me earlier.
Joe then stood up and brushed his pants and shirt off with his hands. “Ard, come on, we out.” He said to me as his head was down checking to see if he removed all the dust from his shirt and pants. I stood up as well. Jerry was still seated; he was still sparking up the half lit blunt that he was holding.
“Come on bro, we out!” I said to Jerry. He began to get up slowly while still holding the blunt.
“Toss that jawn bro!” Joe said to Jerry while twisted his face and looked at him. He was telling Jerry to just throw away the blunt which was now practically a roach at this point.
Jerry then took another hit of the blunt and exhaled quite a bit of smoke out.
“You trippin! This jawn still pulling!” Jerry said to Joe. He didn’t want to toss the blunt, as there was still a little bit of it left and it was still capable of getting you high. He offered it to Joe and me, but we both declined.
“Just blow that jawn on the way bro, come on we out.” Joe said to Jerry. Jerry then fully sluggishly got up and all three of us began to head for the basement door.