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The smoke chronicles. Chapter 1. The shadow people.

I was terrified!

By Jacob KingPublished 5 years ago 5 min read
The smoke chronicles. Chapter 1. The shadow people.
Photo by gryffyn m on Unsplash

It was a cold Friday afternoon in Tennessee. My best friend Sadie and I are on our way to our favorite place to smoke and study.( A beautiful spot in the mountains overlooking the town all lit up) the pic above. Btw, it took us about 4 hours to on FaceTime to remember the events of that night haha. Anyway, we had an English test coming up the following Monday and being the “ responsible” teens we were, we were gonna get some study time in. ( Knowing we would be so baked we wouldn’t retain a word of what we studied Haha).

We hadn’t made it more than a mile from her house, when she lights up the first of 3 VERY large blunts she had rolled for the night! So we smoke the whole thing on the way to our destination. We stopped at McDonald’s and spent $36, just an FYI😂. So when we finally arrive and finish feeding our stoner faces, we decide it’s time to break out our books and run through some flash cards. Oh and light up blunt #2. We smoked and studied for about 2 hours before we gave up on getting anything actually accomplished lol.

Before I go any further with the story, Sadie and I have only one rule that we go by when we smoke. “ When the shadow people come out to play, it’s time for us our heads to lay.” Have you ever been so high or so tired that randomly you see somthing move out of the corner of your eye, only to realize your just trippin? Well, that’s when we know it’s time to sleep. Back to the story. So we turn on our favorite smoking jam (Colt 45 by Afroman). I don’t know if it’s just coincidence or what but neither one of us remember ever learning that song we just always seemed to know it. Halfway through the song we light up blunt #3 and finish it around the same time the song ended. And this is when things get interesting.

Me talking “ Girl I’m so gone!”. Sadie “ bruh saaaaaammmmmeeee, like we do this every weekend and it took me 5 min to figure out where TF we are!”. Me “I’m weak hahah, do you remember anything we studied?”. Sadie “ I forgot that we even studied in the first place”. Me “ We are so doomed! Do you wanna move to California and become strippers when we flunk out of high school?” Sadie “Nobody wants to see a lumpy black Honduran jiggle around making whale noises and making scared constipated faces 😂!. I will be your manager!” Me “I’m not attractive enough to make up for the fact that nobody will work with a manager that never graduated high school 🤪.” Sadie “True, Drug dealers it is!” At this point My cotton mouth was so bad that my top lip was getting stuck to my teeth every time I spoke. Me “ Girl, We need hydration!!!” She enthusiastically agrees. So whe pull out, start some music, and strat heading toward sonic.

I had to drive 30 in a 55 in order to stay between the lines. We were having a boring conversation about her neighbor who crashed his mower into his pond, when I started to lose feeling in my arms and feet. I pulled to the side of the road and explains to her what was happening and asked her to drive, she said “ummm NO, I can’t even see straight, I have already thought that we went off the road a few times!” Me “We may have haha”. Me “ so now what?. Sadie handing me a mint “ suck this til you can drive again”. Dying for any kind of moisture to return to my mouth I quickly do what she says.

About five minutes go by, surrounded by empty fields, I start to feel like the car is rolling! I slammed my foot on the brake and Sadie jumps and said “ Are you good?” Me “yeah I just kept us from rolling off that cliff!” Sadie “ We weren’t moving and What cliff? We are surrounded by cattle farms. Me “ Ummm”. Sadie pauses for a minute makes a face like she’s seen a ghost and starts digging through her bag like she’s looking for an epi pen or somthing important. She stops stiffly and slowly turns to make eye contact with me. Sadie “ I’m so sorry! That mint was not a mint! It was acid! Me “ What!!!!!!! I’ve never done acid! What do I do! You have to drive! I need to get to your house! So we clumsily switch seats and she says “ don’t freak out it’s gonna be alright.” So I take a deep breath and try to focus on the music while she drives. I finally relax and get comfortable. Me “Stop!!!!!!!!!! Your gonna hit him!” I saw a man in all black up ahead, or did I? So she quickly stopped and looked at me and said it’s ok, it’s just the acid,time for you to go to bed😂.”( seeing shadow people) So she puts it in drive and turns her attention to the road.

I notice her eyebrows start to raise and without moveing her eyes off the road she slowly reaches down, puts the car in park and locks the fires. Me “ Forget somthing?” Sadie whispering “ I see him too.” I look up and see the man in black black but this time he’s about 20 feet closer and it’s so dark there is just black space where his face should be. Sadie “ I’m just gonna drive around him and pretend he’s not there.” Both of us now shaking and scared she slowly approached him getting over to go around him.

As we pass directly beside him I try to get a closer look but still make out nothing but all black at first. Before we pass completely he turn toward me and I see his face, well half of it. The other half was covered by the glare of my Bluetooth adapter on the window. Suddenly, still looking at him I hear a lord thud and feel a shake at the back of the car. Sable looks at me and says “ creepy or not, nobody hits my car and gets away with it.” So we pop a u-turn and she turns on the brights and she stops the car. Neither one of us could move or speak for a moment realizing neither of of could see him in any direction! And nowhere for him to have gone, nothing but empty fields for miles! She said “ did I hit him!?” I couldn’t bring myself to respond. She slowly backs the car up and still there is no sign of the man! What!? So she says “Hold on!!!!!!” And gasses it.we both sit speechless until we arrive at her house. We both, still in shock get out. I turn to her “ Let’s both agree, that just happened!” She nods. Me “ok then we will discuss it tomorrow. We need to sleep first. We are wayyyyyy tooo high.” Neither of us say another word until the next day.

Over breakfast we finally come to the conclusion that the weed we smoked had to have been laced with somthing but I guess me will never know. I still to this day have dreams about that night. And it never changes. The end!

I’m a stoner and have many more high stories to share so if you like this one please send a tip and I will continue to share my pot stories. Stay high and stay safe. Til next time! Byyyeeeee.

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