Chapter 138

"It’s like you open a door inside your mind that you didn’t know was locked," Melanie chimed in.

She had finished rolling the joint and passed it to me.

"Let’s smoke this," Melanie said.

"It’s almost too pretty to smoke," I said.

"Yet I bet we can manage it, somehow," Juliet said with a smile.

The sun had begun its gradual descent from the afternoon peak, and you could feel the hint of chill the breeze brought. Our second joint disappeared as quickly as the first. The weed was extremely potent, and all three of us became giggling messes.

"Sometimes, we sit around smoking literally all day long," Melanie said in a confessional voice.

"Well, not all day," Juliet said.

"All day!" Melanie protested lightly.

"Not when we’re fucking," Juliet corrected her.

"Okay, yeah, not when we’re fucking," Melanie conceded.

"Well, unless, of c