It had been pressed with a picture of the Mad Hatter from the ever-so-popular Alice In Wonderland movie. A small sheet was said to do a lot of damage to your spinal fluids, and caused such side effects as hallucination and hysteria... something I hadn't dealt with in my life... ever.
Perry Diamond: "Come on. You can take this. Look, the first hit is free. If you want more, I'll be more than happy to sell some to you."
"I'm sure you would", I replied.
He held it out in front of me in the palm of his hand. Still hesitant to take it, I glanced at my surroundings -- I didn't care if we were in a dark alley way or not. The officers of the law have been very strict on drugs lately, and that was something I couldn't take a risk of. I did want to try it though, if only once.
Perry Diamond: "So are you going to take it or not?"
I stood their for a moment not knowing what I should do. "So...", I muttered. "Why are you selling this again? Why don't you just come back to the Wrassle[dot]Network and go to SHOW? You know UCE got shut down..."
Perry Diamond: "Come on man. I'm not worried about that. The only reason I'm messing with you right now is because you know Juan Shan. It's hard out here on the streets of Hollywood, Chainy. Just take it... I promise you'll have a good time."
I grabbed it out of his hand and popped it in to my mouth instantly. I didn't want to just sit there and keep thinking about it when I knew I would eventually be consuming it anyway, so taking it immediately was the best option, in my opinion, at the time. Now, I knew that there was a waiting period prior to the effects of the sheet actually kicking in, so I decided to head to the nearest CT Cafe', where my old buddy had opened a new branch of our franchise.
FreightTrain: "How's it going?"
"Pretty good", I replied. I took a seat at the bar and folded my arms in front of me before continuing. "So how is business out here? Been making us some money lately?"
FreightTrain: "Ehhh... it's been alright. Those MochaSippies are selling like crazy, but other than that, our light and medium roast coffees just aren't holding up."
"Ahhh", I said, understanding the lack of sales on certain produects. When he and I ran the business hovering above the ring in HCW, all kinds of coffee was selling -- but the MochaSippies were truly the top profit. "So yeah... I just beat Swingblade to advance to the second round of the Bar Room Brawl. I have no idea who I'm fighting next, or even where I have to go."
He laughed for a moment and slid me a caramel MochaSippie that had been lightly topped with drizzles of chocolate. There was no telling how long it was going to take for the stuff to kick in, so I decided I'd enjoy one of our MochaSippies before things got too hectic. Not to mention later on in that night, I had a match against either Amp, Demonica Vile, or Brute Bernard -- the three that had advanced along with myself.
"Did you see that?", I urgently questioned my former tag team partner. He looked at me funny and shrugged his shoulders. "Seriously. You didn't just see that **** out on the street? You have GOT to be kidding me."
FreightTrain: "Nope. But look man, I'm going to get back to work. Enjoy that MochaSippie, and I'll catch up with you next time you're back in Hollywood. Take it easy, alright? You don't want to make people think you're an idiot that took acid or something... haha."
Yeah... "haha".