November 1st, 2019.
Maya is at school, thinking about life during class, when lunchtime starts and she gets to lock herself in a bathroom stall like usual.
However, upon entering the bathroom, she notices a bottle on the sink. She analyzes it. It's a wine cooler. Intrigued, she puts it in her pocket and continues her thing, putting the bottle in her backpack when lunchtime is over.
Later, at home, in her room, she takes the bottle out of the backpack and puts it on her table. She analyzes it further. 500ml, 5% alcohol. She thinks about all the things people say about alcohol. How people drink it at parties to have fun and become more sociable. How people get addicted to it. How it can also cause people to get angry and reckless. Those thoughts keep running through her head, stirring up some curiosity. What if the rumors are true? What if it's not actually as good as people say? What if it is actually good and that all the bad rumors are actually propaganda?
"Well, there's only one way to find out...", she thinks to herself.
She grabs the bottle. She does not have an opener, so she rushes to the kitchen, grabs a spoon and then tries opening the bottle with it. After many attempts, the cap finally flies out. Then, after a deep breath, she takes a sip. It tastes like bottom-shelf soda, yet it's not completely undrinkable. Then she takes another sip.
And another...
...and another...
...and another...
...and then, halfway through drinking the whole bottle, Maya starts feeling a bit different. She feels light-headed and a bit calm. It's satisfying enough for her, and something tells her to stop at that. Maya, however, ignored this and then drank the rest of the bottle. She then quickly put it back in her backpack and went back to using her computer.
Not even 5 minutes later, however, Maya is suddenly taken over by an intense rush of euphoria. Her troubles and concerns seem to disappear completely, and her body becomes warm from head to toe. She melts into her chair, overwhelmed by the things she's feeling, as she has not felt this happy in literal years, possibly even in her whole life. As if that is not enough, she suddenly feels like listening to music, so she puts on her headphones and begin to blast Death Grips at full volume. She gets off the chair and starts dancing like she has never danced before, having fun like she has never had before, the music making the entire experience infinitely better.
After this and some videogames and anime, she went out of her room and began aimlessly stumbling around, until she finds Coco and, as surprising as it sounds, strikes a full-blown conversation with her. Maya feels unstoppable and careless.
Tired, she then lays down on her bed and looks at the ceiling with a huge smile on her face.
"This... this is AMAZING!", she thinks to herself. "I feel cured! I feel free!"
Tears of complete joy fell from her eyes. The good rumors were true! This day has been the best of her life, and it's all thanks to this bottle she randomly found.