Thanks for the reviews. I had to upload it again because it wasn't showing on the posting board. Just for the record, I have not tried any such drugs, but I did do a bit of research about it. Warning: drug use.
A semester in Narcotics was enough for Olivia to know how to use the drug but not enough to prepare her for the actual trip. Watching Walter fill the syringe once, Olivia did her best to mimic his actions. Praying for the best, she injected the drug into her right upper thigh. The syringe dropped to the floor in synchronized time with her body hitting the couch.
Half sprawled on the couch in the lab Olivia closed her eyes, exhaled, and waited.
X
"What is wrong with you, Walter?" Peter asked his voice rising indicating annoyance.
After Peter finished with his 'business' he picked up his father at the lab around 6:00. Walter met Peter outside and didn't think twice about Olivia's lingering presence in the lab. It wasn't until the pair was grocery shopping that something clicked in that scrambled brain of his.
"Just get us to the lab as quickly as you can. Please. I don't want to be responsible for another accident." Walter refused to tell Peter exactly why they left their groceries forgotten at the supermarket. Another day in the life of the Bishop Boys, Peter thought as he smiled apologetically to the woman at the register.
"Did you forget something in the lab? Did you turn off all the burners?" Peter flipped out his phone from his jean pocket and opened it. "I'll just call Olivia, I'm sure she's around. The woman is nocturnal," Peter scoffed.
"NO!" Walter screamed. Peter closed the phone and did his best to get a good look at his fanatical father all the while driving.
"Is Olivia involved in this? Walter! Answer me!" Peter shouted, momentarily forgetting about the driving and swerving in and out of the lane.
Walter nodded his head and shifted his body to lean against the car window.
Great. Peter's gloved hands gripped the steering wheel driving as fast as he could back to the lab. He tried his hardest to stifle the anxious feelings that rose within him like vomit.
X
Words
are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup,
They slither
while they pass, they slip away across the universe
Although she couldn't articulate it in her current condition, this was nothing like being drugged by Walter. She felt more gone. She felt more alive. She felt in her own world, alone, but one with everything around her at the same time.
She felt everything.
Pools
of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my opened
mind,
Possessing and caressing me.
The couch was soaring and the ceiling was undulating like the great American flag she pledged to. Still lying against the couch, her hands reached high to try and grasp the ceiling. When she finally grasped it, it sucked her through to another plane.
Jai
guru de va om
Nothings gonna change my world,
"Hello," she whispered to no one in particular. The swirls of oranges and pinks quickly changed to grays and blacks. And the soft geometrical shapes of hearts and circles vanished and they were replaced by one single black ill-omened crow.
Images
of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes,
That
call me on and on across the universe,
She earnestly wished the light would come back. Never being one to run away from her worst fears, Olivia tilted her head and called to the bird.
"What do you want with me? Why are you sitting there just looking at me? Is something bad going to happen?"
As soon as the words escaped her lips, the scene was replaced with pure darkness.
"Someone help!" she cried to an empty lab.
Thoughts
meander like a restless wind inside a letter box they
Tumble
blindly as they make their way
Across the universe