Back with a Bhang

Cee put on her oldest white top.

“This will do nicely” she thought to herself.

She was going over to her friends to play Holi.

It was just next door.

She didn’t have to worry about carrying a change.

She’d just come home and bathe and head back for lunch.

The festivities ensued.

The air, and subsequently, people, was filled with water, colour and other questionable things.

Music was played, screams were screamed and overall fun was had.

Bhang was made and consumed in small quantities.

Cee had never tried bhang. She knew it to be something alcohol like.
It wasn’t. She would realise this later.

She consumed the allotted amount and waited a short while.

She decided that it was not potent enough for one of her usual levels of consumption.

She had some more.

Nope.

She had some more again.

Nope.

Giving up, she continued with the festivities. Colour, screaming, water, and stuff up noses.

Then it was time for cleaning up before lunch.

The horde moved towards the bathrooms.

She went towards her own bathroom… at home.

“I’m so glad we’re neighbours” she thought to herself.

At home in the safety of her bathroom she undressed. She stepped into the shower and turned on the water.

That’s when the universe exploded.

Stars and diamonds and rubies and unicorns and fairies and cake.

Her body was a lump of cement and she sat on the floor.

But her head, it was magic.

Her mind travelled on far and wondrous journeys across galaxies and universes flitting like a butterfly here and there and returning for some semblance of sanity before flitting off across more oceans of starlight.

She had a purpose, she could see far into the distance, but she was wandering, and would return only in the fullness of time.

“This is what Gandalf felt like” her brain remarked offhandedly.

When her mind came together like cookie dough, she managed to clean herself up, stumble out of the shower and lie on the bed in her towel to pass into the next world.

An hour later the universe reassembled itself and all was well in the world.

“Wow, bhang is something. I must be more careful in the future” she thought to herself.

She went back over for lunch as she was ravenous.

She walked into the house as she usually did and said “Where’s the food! Did you guys start without me?”

Then she noticed no one was around. Her neighbour looked at her oddly.

“Cee, Holi was yesterday. We wondered where you had gone to.”

The implications of his statement struck her and as she realised she lost a whole day all she could do was stare at him with tears in her eyes and say:

“But…..??..... What about LUNCH????”