His next class seemed different everyone seemed on edge. Or maybe it was him, the excitement of the double espresso wore off into a dread. And now he was stuck in philosophy class discussing existential crisis.
Cry sis, he thought briefly almost blurted it out. For a second he thought the other people heard him. He drank some water he though that might dilute the coffee. He wanted to get up and walk out of the class. He looked at the clock.
30 minutes to go. A time that felt like nothing but now like it would be forever. 30 fucking minutes he thought. Again feeling like other people could hear his thoughts. The caffeine brought a similar feeling weed gave him.
He had given up smoking after a similar feeling to this, he was worried he wouldn’t come out of. But he did and not he was here. Thinking about everything but the class.
He cleared his throat and drank some of his water. He had a Nalgene water bottle. With a wide mouth. He touched the stickers on it. One was from the summer on black lake. The others a club he was in or one he went to just the first day of.
Cry sis, he thought briefly almost blurted it out. For a second he thought the other people heard him. He drank some water he though that might dilute the coffee. He wanted to get up and walk out of the class. He looked at the clock.
30 minutes to go. A time that felt like nothing but now like it would be forever. 30 fucking minutes he thought. Again feeling like other people could hear his thoughts. The caffeine brought a similar feeling weed gave him.
He had given up smoking after a similar feeling to this, he was worried he wouldn’t come out of. But he did and not he was here. Thinking about everything but the class.
He cleared his throat and drank some of his water. He had a Nalgene water bottle. With a wide mouth. He touched the stickers on it. One was from the summer on black lake. The others a club he was in or one he went to just the first day of.
