James, weed, you have quite a night

"Here," Charlie held out the smoking roll to you and you took it between you thumb and forefinger. "Relax, it'll loosen you up, maybe even give you some confidence to talk to Mindy." He and the other guys laugh. Everyone knew you'd had a crush on her since the start of high school and now here you are at the post graduation after party at her house have never spoken to her.

"I dunno." You say smelling the foul smoke drifting off the smoulder tip. "What's it like?"

"Stop being a pussy." Adam said standing up to tower over you, snatching the joint from your hands he hold your chin and pushes it between your lips. "Now suck." You do as he says, sucking the joint as he looks down at you with a smirk. "Wow, look at you go." His hand on your chin lifts to push some of your hair out of eyes.

"Hey go easy, it's his first time." Charlie said pulling Adam back and the joint from out of your mouth. You cough and gasp as you suck in fresh air, pulling the weed into your lungs as your body tries to get rid of it.

"Chill, man, look at him he's fine. Besides he wants to finally get laid don't you?" Adam asks as he sits back down and takes his own puff before passing it on.

You look around embarrassed at having coughed while the other guys don't even react to the smoke in their lungs. "Y-yeah." You splatter out still tasting the weed coating your tongue.

"See, now have another toke." Ben said hold it out to you after taking his own. You take it and after a breath to steel yourself you put it between your lips and suck. "Easy now take it out and breath deep." You do as advised and cough as the weed fills your lungs with a burning sensation.

You hand the joint away and look around your group. Charlie had been your friend since kindergarten, he was a jock, playing just about every sport the school offered. Easily the most liked guy in school but he'd never let that come between your friendship and had taken you to every party there was. Unlike you, he'd had no trouble talking to women and had slept with at least half the girls in school. When he told you he was going to the same college as you and would be your roomie. You were both relieved and bit worried, you weren't sure you wanted to be in the same with him when he brought girls back to the room.

Adam was the group stoner. He'd tagged along with Charlie and the two had made friends. He wasn't a bad guy but you thought he was a bit much. He wasn't actually a stoner, you'd only seen him smoke at a few parties but other than that he didn't do much, not a sports guy, a school guy or a popular guy, he just chilled out most of the time.

Ben was another jock, one of Charlie's friends. The two of you hadn't spoken all that much but he always made an effort to be friendly to you. He was alright, played as much as Charlie did but didn't have the reputation of sleeping around like him.

The four of your each took another hit before the joint was finished. Charlie looked at you with a face of pride. "How you feeling man?"

"I'm good." You say feeling more relaxed than when you'd gotten here.

"Wanna go find Mindy?" He asked looking towards the door back inside.

"Nah, not yet. Look at him, it'll wear off before he says three things to her, and come on man, you really wanna approach her confident then chicken out?" Adam ask as he took out another joint.

"He's fine Adam, go on go find Mindy." Charlie said as he took the joint and lit it up taking a puff.

"I'm with Adam on this one, looks barely buzzed." Ben said taking his puff and offering it you. "Trust us, we'll get you right enough to get some."