Fifteen. Summer Vacation.

I was fifteen. It was summer vacation. I was sitting outside talking with three friends, when someone mentioned the secret everyone else knew.

"You know an electric shock? Well, it's like that but it starts at your feet and quickly climbs up all the way to your head."

"Why would I want to have an electric shock?"

"No, no. It's like that but it feels good. You just feel the electricity in your body but it doesn't hurt or anything."

"And all of you do that?"

"Where have you been? We've been doing that for a year now."
"I've been doing it since I was twelve."
"You have to try it."

So I went home and filled up the bath, thinking, How would I know when to stop? But you find out soon enough, don't you?