Kryptonite by Lesley Choyce

Author:Lesley Choyce [Choyce, Lesley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459816589
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2017-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Bryce offered me a ride home again. When we stopped in front of the house that wasn’t mine, he handed me a small cardboard box and gave me an address to memorize. “Drop it off there tomorrow on your way to school.” He then handed me a one-hundred-dollar bill.

I wanted to ask him why he didn’t just do it himself but decided to play along. It’s funny, but at that point I had almost forgotten about Abby, the reason I was involved with this guy in the first place.

Up in my room, the first thing I did was google kryptonite. It took a while to get past the Superman references, but eventually I found it. The street name for a new drug going around that had first surfaced in California and now was spreading. There was a long name for the chemical compound. Police and doctors had already published concerns about the health risks. But if what I was reading was true and up-to-date, it was not currently illegal.

I sent Abby a quick text saying I was still thinking about her and hoped we could get together soon. She texted back within minutes and said she’d been thinking about what a helpful “friend” I’d been, that she’d never known anyone like me and, oh yes, was I making any progress in finding Bryce?

Maybe a wise person would have flushed the contents of the little box down the toilet, forgotten about the crazy girl and just gone to sleep. But not me.

I was wide awake, annoyed at Abby for her obsession, and I decided to find out what this kryptonite was all about. I carefully opened the taped box and found a heavy-duty ziplock bag of a brown crystalline substance. Bryce had said it would rip your head off.

I opened the bag. It smelled sweet. I wet my finger and dipped it into the crystals. It tasted sweet. I waited for a reaction. Nothing. I dipped my finger again and took a little more. It looked and tasted like brown sugar. I tried a little more, then sealed up the bag, put it back in the box and stashed it in my sock drawer.

I expected some kind of effect, but all I did was get drowsy and fall asleep with my clothes on. The next morning I couldn’t decide what I thought about this new drug, if it was a drug at all. But I did what Bryce asked me. I took it to the address I had memorized.

When I rang the doorbell there, a hairy, twenty-something guy in a T-shirt and baggy pants opened the door. I had obviously woken him up. He squinted in the morning sun as I said, “This is for you” and handed him the little box. He didn’t seem to know what it was all about but didn’t say anything as he accepted it. He closed the door, and I walked away. I looked around to see if anyone was watching, but I was all alone.

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