Orange is the New Crack

I was at Chris O.’s place and there were a lot of other people wandering through the house. Most of them were extended family members of his. Every single light in the house was on and they were all uncomfortably bright.

Chris pulled me aside and said he needed to show me what he really did for a living. I jokingly asked if he was a prostitute. He said he wasn’t and then he pulled out a ziplock bag of bright orange objects that looked like rock candy. Joking again, I asked him if it was crack and he answered very seriously that it was actually a new form of super cocaine.

He took out one of the rocks and held it up to his nose and inhaled. When he did, bits of the rock turned to powder and were snorted like regular cocaine. Then he held it up for me to try. I was freaked out and excited by it. He warned me that it was going to be intense. I snorted some and it felt like my heart was going to explode. I couldn’t decide whether or not I liked the sensation, but we were both laughing and falling backward.