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  Roy’s voice was in my head and my lungs were coming out of my mouth. “Feel that, Jake? That’s every cigarette you’ve ever smoked here to call its revenge on you. Don’t worry, this may be the most painful thing in your whole life but you’ll thank me for it after.” Everything around me was blurred, it was just me, and the smoke. I thought Kelly yelled, but it seemed he was in a different world than I was in. Smoke was pouring from me, first my mouth, than my nose, than, to my horror, my eyes. “I call this The Great Exhale.” How the hell do you smoke out of your eyes? “Do try and not cough. Last person I did this to coughed so… violently his lung collapsed…it wasn’t pretty.” Coughing, it wasn’t even an option. They say first comes smoke, than fire? This smoke, it was fire. It felt worse than anything in my whole life, worse than getting kicked in the nuts, worse than knowing that I may not have my TK powers the rest of my life. And Roy? He seemed, on some level, enjoying himself spectacularly. “Remember, I’m here to help you, help yourself. Smoking is bad for you, every bit of carbon dioxide and nicotine you inhale stays in your precious lung forever, causing irreversible damage. Cancer. Diabetes. Smoking makes you feel sick and tired all the time. It makes you smell bad, it slows you down and keeps you from fulfilling, in what we believe, is your destiny.” I’ve only been smoking, what? A year? Two? No way all this smoke was hiding inside me all this time, ready to come rushing out. Ready to come rushing out with a vengeance. But, yet, while going through all this… There was a sense of calm, a white glow that part of me was bathing in. It was as if my mind was going somewhere else… I’ve felt like this, only once before… “Oh, and I’ve been lying. About the eye thing? Don’t tell your friend yet.” I tried to say something, and I coughed. 
   
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