He asked me to hold his hand. So I took it. I held hands with the little Indian boy ive known sence forever and we walked out of the woods hand in hand. We watched the stars for an hour, I was told. But there were no stars, I was told. So what were we watching then? Our images burned deep into the skies? He holds magic inside his dark brown eyes. He takes his anger and bleeds it into his aura at midnite. ½ wine crystals, he moves as the leaves and I move as the Earth breathes. Our hearts beat in wild horses. Heads touching in the grass, side by side we make wishes on the reflections of our iris; winged moths to the moon.
Midnite, a knock at my door. Its him, dressed in his brothers sweater. I invite him in and teach him how to kiss. Hes too eager. We watch tv shows that kids watch and he leaves. He gives me the middle finger at school the next day.
We meet in the cemetery. Its down the road from my house, and close to his. We sit between gravestones and fold our legs beneath us. The wind whips the autumn leaves and curls the hair around my face. I take out a plastic baggie from my shirt pocket and pack a glass pipe full of marijuana. We smoke it all. There are no words. Its just dark dark dark.
“you have to pretend youre cooler than everybody else,” he kept his hand on the wheel. I was in need of advice and he found me walking down the main street. I was on too many drugs and in my first abusive relationship. “remember when you told me, you think everyone is god?”
I came home from work to a kitchen full of kids ripping lines of speed off my old stove. They were skipping school again. I ripped lines with them, but no one told me it was the kind of ridilin that’s coated with something so kids wont snort it up their noses. I was speeding hard into the night. There was a group of us downtown, like always, and I thought they knew all my secrets, and were going to kill me. I hallucinated them, one by one, putting their arms behind their backs, turning around, and opening their hands to show me they didn’t have the gun. I stayed up all nite and in the morning, with snot pouring down my face, ran to his house and asked him for bread. I just ate the middles, refused to eat the crusts because they were powdered. “im not poisoning you,” he said.
When we were fourteen, maybe fifteen, we stood in this girls backyard. Us girls took turns complementing him, telling him how cute he was. He kissed me. A mouth full of braces. I don’t remember if he kissed the other girls. I don’t know if he remembers at all.
I transferred schools halfway through eighth grade. He sat in front of me in general math. He wore an Independent skate brand hoodie with his named decaled down one sleeve. He tore most of the letters off to spell the word ‘ASS’. He broke his braces everyday with his tounge and never washed his hair. I stared at the back of his head, crusty from old hair gel.