She didn’t need the clanging of the bell signaling the end of the school day, either. The shrill hum in her head was all she needed to know it was time for her next dose of pills.Now that she’d gotten on a better schedule with them, though, she didn’t look like crap all the time. She tossed four pills toward the back of her throat and downed them with a bottle of Evian. She knew that when Josh had first given her these pills, it had taken some time for her body to get used to them, and she hadn’t known enough to take the next dose at the first sign of withdrawal. Now she had it down to a science.She waited a moment, and the buzzing in her head ceased just as a warm tingle entered her veins, starting in her belly and radiating outward.Boy, this stuff works fast,she thought. When she took an Advil for her cramps, she could be writhing in pain for twenty minutes or more, but somehow these Josh pills entered her bloodstream almost instantly.Whatever this stuff is, I could make a mint with it at Twilo.But that wasn’t why she was taking these pills.
