@@DESCRIPT="Russian Roulette by TS"
 
                        Russian Roulette



     Todd's parents had gone to Maine for the weekend.  They
trusted him enough to let him stay home alone in the house they had
bought with his fathers first pay check from his first published
book.  He could have two friends over at a time, no more, and if
Jennifer came over they would have to stay in the kitchen or in the
den watching tv.  No funny stuff as his mother said.
     But they were gone and he knew they would never find out if he
did break the rules.  So tonight he had invited Jennifer over along
with two other friends who brought their girlfriends.  The party
had started at eight when Todd broke out the whiskey from 
his fathers liquor cabinet.  With the music turned up loud and 
the tipsy teenagers dancing on the furniture with little next to
nothing on, Todd suggested playing a game. 
     And now they sat, boy-girl-boy-girl, in a round circle
watching each other with laughter and booze spilling down their
lips.  Todd was sitting in between Jennifer and Angela.  Angela was
with Kyle and in a way Todd was jealous but he didn't show it.  He
and Angela had been a thing a while back but that was over.  He had
Jennifer now but still he found himself staring down into Angela's
shirt watching the indenture between her breast move as they
shifted.  But Jennifer was beautiful and twice she had let him feel
her up and though she hadn't blossomed on top he still felt horny
when he did.  
     He held up the gun, twisting and turning it in his hands to
show the others he knew what he was doing.  They watched the Magnum
spinning, they could see the glowing sensation it left in the air
as it turned.  Todd held up the shell and dropped it down into the
chamber with ease.  He spun the chambers around and then sat the
gun besides him.  Then he held up the joint he had found in his
fathers room.  It had been in a small cylinder that once held
Sucrets.  He brought up the lighter to the joints tip and they
watched the flame burn and were amazed as if they were the cavemen
seeing fire for the first time.  
     They all smiled and laughed and Kristy who had come with Brian
almost fell over.  Brian caught her and for some drunken reason she
thought this was the funniest thing.  Todd placed the joint in his
mouth and took a long drag without exhaling.  He coughed so hard he
thought he was going to lose an organ.  But the joints smoke melted
in his mind bringing on all new waves of colors.  
     He passed the joint to Jennifer and she took a small drag and
then blew out.  She turned to her left and passed the joint to
Brian who went all out, taking in everything he could get.  Somehow
he was able to keep it all in and the rest laughed as they swore
they could see smoke coming out from his nose, ears and even his
eyes.  He passed it on to Kristy who took a short drag before
passing it on to Kyle.  Kyle inhaled and then quickly passed the
joint to Angela who took a drag.  Then the two lovers kissed and 
watched as the smoke rose from the small cracks between their lips.  
They all found this funny except Todd.
     Todd took the joint and put it out on one of his mothers
ashtrays.  Then, Jack Daniels and the rest of the booze had been
put away.  The six stoned teenagers sat waiting.  Each couple
kissed for a few minutes and then they pulled away with an `I love
you.'  And then the game began. 
     Todd picked up the magnum and placed it in his wide opened
mouth.  He felt the barrels cold chill against his tongue.  He
closed his eyes and ran his hand down the side of the gun giving it
one last spin.  The chambers went around and around and finally
stopped with a click.  He pulled the trigger back as eyes gazed at
him with almost disbelief and down came the hammer.  The empty
chamber made a loud smacking noise as the hammer hit it but they're
was no other sound.  
     Todd took the gun out and handed it to Jennifer.  She smiled
at him and the placed the barrel into her mouth.  He teeth clenched
the cold steel bringing a chilling feeling against her bones.  Her
hands dropped against the guns handle and though she didn't realize
it, the gun was pointing up towards her brain.  The others watched
with queer smiles that shivered across their tight lips.  Then the
trigger was pulled back and the hammers came falling onto a chamber
holding a shell.  
     The explosion sent all of them back and the noise ricocheted
across their heads.  Jennifer sent the bullet ripping into her
head, throwing the top part of her head off an into a waiting wall.  
The lower skin flapped against the power backdraft of the wind.  Her 
eyes flew forward as her brain jetted behind her. Her neck stood like 
legs for a table without the actual table on top.  Her body stood up 
for a slow second and then fell back with thunderous effect.  The hot 
gun fell to her lap, sizzling the skin and awaking the bouncing nerves. 
     Todd screamed once as he watched the gun explode.  But after
that they're was nothing he could do.  The others felt strange
feelings tearing inside themselves.  Couldn't really be happening
they told themselves.  Jennifers still right there, she's alright. 
But their eyes were telling them different.  
     And after the game, the party just wasn't the same.
