[ CW ] There 's a new drug in the streets that when you first use it , you become overwrought with pain . Any time you use it afterwards , you do n't feel anything .

No roof over your head, no ground beneath your feet. It's usually supposed to be a scary feeling for anyone in their right mind. But with Dragon Balls you're not in your right mind. You're free from pain. Free from life. 
 
 There are few teachers that care about their students as much as Miranda does. Her career was n't something that she put above her family or health but she took it just seriously enough. A perfect picture of health and beauty she was what every woman would hate in a friend. Because she was good enough to be jealous of but not bad enough to make you want to bring her down. 
 
 She prepared her class for the lesson she hated the most. It was time to talk to them about drugs and she knew her words would permanently change how these kids saw drugs for the rest of their lives and she wanted to make sure she did it right. About 20 minutes into class the question she was fearing came up. 
 
 `` Miss, my brother did Dragon Balls and he said after the first time you do n't feel anything so how can they be bad?'' 
 
 `` Yes Steven, it's true. This drug, aptly named Dragon Balls, has a funny side effect. It should really be called a front effect because it only happens the first time you use it. Some people have said it happened again to them but usually once. But it's still early and we do n't know if it has any long term effects we may have to deal with later.'' 
 
 Steven raised his hand again, `` yeah we do, we know it does n't, there have already been a bunch of studies.'' 
 
 `` Yes but we do n't have absolute conclusive evidence of that,'' she answered, beginning to feel like the delicate tightrope she's been walking might snap. 
 
 `` Well I've read online like a good amount of stuff and it's all pretty much proven but it's just not that easy to allow it because of politics,'' Steven was going to later find that he should not have mentioned that he read this online because his internet privileges may not be safe if they allow him to think freely. 
 
 `` Well-'' as Miranda hesitated she heard the bell ring and immediately stopped her sentence. `` Well that's it I'll see you all next week.'' 
 
 She thanked every religious figure she could think of for that bell as the class cleared out. Within a minute she was alone in an empty classroom and stared at her drawer. She knew her whole life was leading her away from this moment, perhaps that is why she felt the need to fight it. To fight her nature. She had been in a prison of properness her whole life. She opened the drawer and withdrew a small ziplock bag. Inside it contained one small gel tablet which within it contained two small ball shaped pills. 
 
 She took out her `` Martha Mathers Women's Empowerment Marathon Charity'' 100 % recyclable plastic bottle. She removed the tab and put it on her tongue. As she put the water in her mouth she held it there, like a stunned blowfish she sat there. Wondering what is in store for her. 
 
 She heard a knock on the classroom door and Steven walked in. `` I have a question about today's class, miss.'' 
 
 She panicked and did n't know what to do, she knew he knew what this looked like and school was supposed to be over why is he back now?? Today of all days?? She always hoped students would come see her after class so she could help them but they never came, until of course today. She had nothing left to do but swallow and hope it does n't happen right away. 
 
 `` Yes of course come in Steven.'' She feigned enthusiasm. 
 
 `` Well I just wanted to know if my brother is going to be okay, you scared me by talking about the long term effects.'' 
 
 She did n't know if it was guilt or if it was the drugs but she felt that hit her hard. For a 6th grader he was quite a smart kid and she would never forgive herself for corrupting him. `` I'm sorry if I scared you Steven, it's hard to tell a student that I do n't know something, so it's just sometimes easier to take the position of opposition. I'm very sorry to have been so selfish'' as the words left he mouth she felt freer and freer, like an unseen world was opening up before her very eyes. She began to see the beauty in her words as they drifted through the air, vibrating their way to Steven's ears. She saw her feelings exposed and saw his appreciation as he thanked her for her honesty and left. The sounds of his footsteps filling the room with joy that she could actually see. 
 
 Suddenly the beauty she basked in became tainted. Like a tinge of a bad scent. She felt it creep down her spine. It was a feeling of everything she had learned to avoid in her entire life. It was all her anger, jealousy, hatred, but it was inside her in a way she never new possible. Like all the similarities of those feelings overlapped and connected while inside her. She felt herself lose herself. She fell to the ground unable to control her muscles, writhing and twitching she felt fire under her skin. It felt like black fire even though she could n't see it she knew. She screamed in pain as if giving birth to satan's child she felt it crawl through her body out of her throat. Like vomiting nails this thing left her throat and crawled out where she saw it out in the open. It looked like a small, horned, black, and oily demon. It looked at her and it jumped at her mouth trying to get back in. It tried to claw its way back into her mouth but then, a feeling of joy unlike any other floated up her spine. It was a feeling of happiness, love, and peace, it was again as if all these feelings connected and gently flowed up to her head, it exited the top of her head and gently landed on the ground behind the struggling black entity. This new entity was white and silky, like if you stuck your hands in silk made out of lotion, it looked like a proud wolf. It lunged at the black entity and dragged it out of Miranda. 
 
 They faced each other, tearing into each other and fighting. It all became clear to her. Why this only happens the first time you take this drug. As she expected the wolf finally took one last lunge at the demon and tore into the throat. It dissolved into what looked like an oil splatter and the wolf, victorious, walked next to Miranda and slept by her side. 
 
 When she awoke just before her next class was due to begin, she felt a certain easiness in her step. The war raging inside of her was finally over. 
 
 She had never felt so effortless before. 
 
 Edit: Grammar and words, typed on my phone please excuse the sloppiness.
