It helped them to feel the high every time they took a hit, instead of smoking cap after cap and feeling nothing. But even with the beer, none of them felt the way they thought they should, because the first good hit of crack is often the last one. That’s one of the reasons that people get strung out. They get caught up in the cycle of trying to get one more hit like the very first one. But they never do.“You ain’t got no forties up in here, Clarisse?” Leroy said, pushing his screen back to the other end of his straight to scrape the residue from the caps he’d smoked up to the top of the screens.“No, I don’t have any forties, Leroy,” Clarisse said, shaking her head.“ ‘Ain’t got no,’ ” she said to herself, mocking him. “Somebody call the English police.”“I wish it was only the English police,” Leroy said.“What are you talking about?” Clarisse said.Leroy looked at Black, who jumped in quickly.“Why don’t you ever push your straight, Clarisse?”
