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Jamie’s mistake.

He wasn’t sure what to do next. The smoking gun was in his cold shaky hand. He had realised his colossal mistake. They were closing in on his now hunched over body. He knew he couldn’t work his way out of this horrible mistake.

It started when Jamie was too naive. He went out with some new friends. He didn’t like the people in his year so much so he hung around with some older kids who were a lot bolder. They said that they would go into town. Jamie’s mum was concerned about Jamie and thought something bad could happen to Jamie. But she was overprotective and she warned all of his friends to keep Jamie out of trouble.

They all went into town together and walked around. After a while they all at down and someone said

“Shall we go to Toby’s?”

Everyone murmured at that point something like

“Yer ok”

“Yer, why not”

Innocent seeming Jamie didn’t know who Toby was and had never met the mystical character before but he was exited to meet him. They went into a cosy house, which was a bit messy. They went downstairs to the basement of the house where a large man was sitting in the corner. He didn’t seem to move much and in is right hand he had a cigarette. They all came in and sat around. Toby passed around his cigarette to everyone and they all took a toke. Then Jamie realised it wasn’t a cigarette; It was a joint that had cannabis in. He didn’t think that it was that bigger deal so he had some as well. He had several more puffs of the magic dragon and that day he was stoned. He entered a vision of colour, lights and amazing noises. Later that day he had to go home but vowed to cone again to ‘the basement of dreams’ as they called it.

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Sure enough Jamie did come back later on in the week. All the usual people were down there. They were looking gormless just staring at the TV screen as they were shooting each other and blowing themselves up on the play station. They all just sat around for hours basically doing nothing. Jamie didn’t mind though. He enjoyed just chilling. He could just sit endlessly with a blank expression on his face.

In the end, everyone decided to do something. Jamie suggested that they smoked some cannabis, they all agreed to. Jamie was high again. He was ...

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