Diversion

John exclaimed to Henry, "This is going to be great!"
"Yeah, man. Here's yours."
They chewed and swallowed the bitter tablets like they were SweetTarts.
John looked out his second floor window. "Wow, there's those two babes. I'd sure like to..."
Nearly pushing John out of the way, Henry moved to see also. "Babe-a-liscious."
The pair waved at the girls by the pool. The girls didn't seem to react.
Getting no response, they moved to the sofa in John's room across from the television. John cranked up the volume on the stereo.
"I'm starting to feel it."
"Yeah, man, me too."
The bass and drums were thick against their chests. It made them want to move to the rhythm, but they were too messed up from the new drug to keep the beat. The bass sounds looked red, and the treble was purple-blue. They drank their drinks and the sweatness made their toes tingle.
"Wow, man, the sofa feels like plaid, only there's way more colors than you can see in a rainbow."
"Yah, dude."
John slid from the sofa and ran his fingers through the carpet, feeling the colors there. Henry followed suit.
The door opened and the girls from the pool came in and things started to get wild.

"What happened here?"
"The kid over there scratched holes in the sofa, then both of them scratched holes in the carpet until they had no fingers left."
"Why's their brains splayed on the floor?"
"That's the thing about this drug, it is supposed to be psychodelic, only instead of 'mind expanding,' it's brain expanding. The brain swells up so much and so fast, the skull splits open at the fused joints and spills out the brains."
"What the heck are these kids thinking?"
"We'll never know, nobody seems to be surviving."
"This makes what? 26 in 2 days?"
"Yeah, we gotta stop this stuff."
"Why bother? At this rate all the druggies will be dead by the end of the year."