Late nights

XVI

- Good morning Vietnam. - Emily's dorm mate walked into the room.

Both Emily and Tom relaxed, seeing her coming inside and closing the door. She had a blunt in her mouth, it was barely lit.

- Were you smoking that in the hallway? You're gonna get us expelled, you moron. - Emily started getting heated.

- Relax, I just put in it, I wasn't smoking it in the hallways. I'm not a moron, you moron. - She sat down on her bed.

- We just ventilated the whole room. - Tom looked at the smoking joint.

- Whoops, my bad. It's gonna be fine, just keep the window open. - She said. - By the way, I'm Caroline. I also go by other names, so don't be surprised if you hear some other name.

- Umm, okay, I'm Tom.

- Nice to meet you. Anyway, what are you two up to? 

- Just cleaning around, this place was a mess. - Emily looked around the room.

- You've read "A brief history of time" by Stephen Hawking? - Tom asked Caroline all of a sudden.

- Yeah, I have, - she blew out some smoke, - when I'm high, those books are quite the experience.

Tom and Caroline discussed the book for a little bit, but they were interrupted by Caroline seeing Emily pull out a muffin from the cupboard. Caroline jumped up from her bed and grabbed the muffin:

- Oh my god, I thought I'd eaten them all. That's my edible, I'm glad you found it. Is this still okay to eat?

- Umm, for you, probably yes. - Emily chuckled.

- Right, okay. I actually need to get some more weed later, cause that was my last one.

- You can use mine if you want. - Emily took out the jar.

- You're not gonna use this? - Caroline asked in a surprised manner.

- Nope, I don't think I will. - She confidently said. - You'll pay me back eventually though.

Caroline laughed and figured she should help to clean up too. After only a couple of minutes, the whole dorm was squeaky clean. Carlone, Emily, and Tom decided they should go out of their dorm to do something somewhere else. They walked past Violets room, it had new lights installed.

- Hey, big V, - Caroline leaned on the doorway, - hung up new lights?

- Yep, - she looked over, - hanged some lights, hopefully, next time it's me.

- Alright. - Caroline shot finger guns and turned around, not knowing how to respond. 

The friends just walked around pointlessly for quite some time before deciding to go to the forest. The forest was a delightful break from the city and the rural life. 

They found an open area with some benches.

- I wonder why people don't come here often. - Emily took a deep breath.

- Because they can't see further than their own noses, - Tom sat down, - the forest is a wonderful place, but some people choose to not experience it.

-It's also pretty far away, - Emily touched around her pockets, - yup, I'm out of blunts, do y'all have any?

- I definitely don't. - Tom said.

- Nope, I just have regular cigarettes. Why do you want to smoke a blunt? It hasn't been long since the last one. - Emily checked her pockets.

- That last one was so bad though. I have to find someone else. I don't know if it was his fault or not, but T gave me some horrible stuff. It's like herbal tea.

-  I don't know who else would sell. T is the only one I know.

- Who's T? - Tom asked.

- T is a dealer. He says he gets it legally and resells it here, but who knows honestly. He should be making a lot of money because I don't know anyone else that sells.

- No, no, there are people, - Emily laid down on a bench, - I've talked to people at parties and they said they had gotten it from somewhere else. Speaking of parties, there's a party going on on Saturday, do you wanna go?

- Umm, yeah, sure, I'll go. - Emily looked at Tom.

- I'm not too sure yet, I'm gonna have to check my schedule.

- Okay businessman, - Caroline chuckled, - think about it, there's time.