Girlish by Lara Lillibridge

Author:Lara Lillibridge
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2018-03-20T04:00:00+00:00

the descent

East Anchorage High was huge compared to Girl’s old school, with over two thousand students. They had fifty-five-minute “hours” instead of forty-five-minute “periods” and eleven whole minutes between classes. At first, Girl just walked the halls in loops during lunch period after she bought a cinnamon roll in the cafeteria for $1.40 at the take-and-go window. No way was she standing in the hot lunch line filled with jocks shoving each other and laughing at people. She had had enough of cafeterias.

There was a cute boy in her Earth Science class named Walter. He was as muscled as a jock but wore a smooth leather jacket and had a mullet that just reached his shoulders. She knew he was out of her league but she liked him anyway. When he offered to sell her a quarter ounce of weed for twenty-eight dollars, she agreed.

“This is bud?” she asked him—not because she was questioning his product, but because she had actually never seen marijuana before. Her friend Jim had described “buds” he smoked when he went away to college at sixteen.

“Well—it’s shake,” Walter said, pocketing her money. It looked like oregano but she took it anyway. There was only one problem—she didn’t know how to smoke weed. She’d smoked cigarettes before, but this was something different. She went to the smoking area and went up to the first guy she saw.

“Do you wanna get high?” she asked a kid with long blond hair and too big of a nose to be attractive.

“You got any?” he asked. Girl held out her bag.

“Put that away!” he said, looking quickly back and forth. “Meet me here after school.”

“I don’t have a pipe,” Girl said.

“I’ll take care of it.”

After school Danny, Leonard, and two of his friends came over to her house.

“Do you have a coke can?” he asked Girl. She fished one out of the garbage and handed it to him. Danny squashed it in the middle and took a fork and carefully made a series of holes in the indention. Lastly, he poked a hole in the bottom of the can.

“That’s the carb,” he told Girl. Danny pinched some of the shake weed onto the holes and showed Girl how to light it and put her lips to the can opening, one finger closing off the carb hole, then releasing it. Girl tried it, but coughed out a cloud of smoke.

“You aren’t inhaling,” he told her.

“I’m trying!”

“No, you’re breathing through your nose and taking it into your mouth. Here.” He walked behind her and held the can to her lips with one hand and held her nose shut with the other. “Breathe,” he told her. “Now hold it.”

Girl’s eyes were running when he released her, but the smoke soothed all the sad and scared feelings that lived inside her chest. She felt giggles rising like bubbles, but pushed them down. She wasn’t going to look stupid. The giggling feeling went down between her legs, and she kissed Danny, even though his nose was too big and he was too skinny.

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