By: Katelyn Tijerina
There’s this guy Nick and he’s omnipresent. You can find him in any gas station. You can see him holding hands with friends and family. Some people think Nick looks cool and so holding hands with him makes them look cool. School tells you, Nick, is bad but Nick makes a lot of people a lot of money, and those people think Nick is cool and reliable. I’ve seen people pass Nick by and I’ve seen people shake hands with them only to hold hands a week later. Nick takes many different forms but he wants to be you friend. He is your best friend and he will never leave you. You should prioritize Nick over everything else because Nick is a good guy and he loves you.
But he doesn’t love you. He burns firey kisses into your loved ones. He take their breath and they’re days. He’s an abusive friend, you can see this, but everyone who holds his hand can’t and that’s the probablem. You scream at the top of your lungs “stop” you say, “he’s dangerous and he’ll kill you,” but they don’t care. Nick is a trained assassin with no mercy he will kill anyone who holds his hand with a knife to the back. And before he kills them he consumes them and that’s almost worse. Everyone makes excuses for Nick and they ignore the red flags.
And no matter how many warnings there are, how many signs, how many people die, there will always be people who hold Nick’s hand and say “it’s only one cigarette- one vape, one patch, one bite” and they will follow the footsteps of every single person who as lead to believe Nick is a good person.
Picture from;
“Vaping Leads to Heavier Cigarette Use among Teens.” USC News, 10 Apr. 2020, news.usc.edu/168364/vaping-combustive-cigarettes-smoking-usc-research/. Accessed 15 Jan. 2021.
