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Part Four

"Do you want something?" Emily asked.
"What?"
"Do you want something? To help you come down?"
I looked at Emily. Her dark lipstick. Her big brown eyes. I suddenly realized I was madly in love with her. How would I ever tell Sarah? I'd better do it quickly. I couldn't wait for her to get back to the table.

"Anything. Anything for you." I replied coolly.

Emily looked at me for a moment, then opened her satchel again. She pulled out a small pink tissue that had been rolled up into a ball. I moved closer as she unfurled it to reveal three or four small grayish pellets. What the hell???

"Mushrooms, they chill you out," she said, smiling. "Normally, you brew them like tea, but that might attract too much attention."

"You're right," I said. "Gimme." I popped one of the 'shrooms into my mouth, then chased the horrible taste of it with Emily's soda, which I noticed had been spiked at some point with either gin or vodka. Did Emily have a flask in her satchel to go with the shrooms and acid?

I sat back and waited for the mushrooms to take effect. "You wanna dance?" I asked her. Hey, it was my senior prom, I'm probably seconds away from being thrown out of here by one of the stone-faced chaperones hovering nearby, and by God, if there was clichd fun to be had, then I was going to have it.

More coming soon...