Skopje drug city...

Tonight i will once again have the confirmation about who afflicted Skopje is by drugs but i warn you it is a long read and no pictures. After a very quiet day and a good filling dinner, we meet at Hihi's house to drink a couple glasses of vine and get ready for tonights big party at the club right next to her home. For a change, it is a trance night but there is a live drum performance going with it. Sounds great. If for me getting ready means sip the vine, talk and joke around comfortably seated in the couch, for the 3 of the girls around it means quite something else. A friend comes over with some amphetamine and i can feel the mood changing as they are preparing shots. They sniff it so they have prepared a couple lines on a CD cover and rolled a banknote... With some of them i can feel the apprehension, and that before they even take their shot, they already feel a lot better. The atmosphere is happier, the talk is more relaxed but despite the attitude trying to play it cool and as if everything was normal, the eyes are always sticking to the cd. This is especially true for the blond colored girl sitting on my left hand side. She is now smiling a little and lost the contracted expression she had on her face.
It is amazing how in a couple minutes her expression changes, as she walked in she was as is said a little reserved and contracted, when the dealer arrived, she relaxed, when the lines were on the table she was getting delighted, when she had the cd in her hand she was feeling comfortable, snifffff in... haaa slight breath out ... sniffff other naustral. Now, nothing would possibly stop her doing her thing and feeling full of energy and like a queen of the night... And she passes it to right hand side, to me, i put on a discreet, polite smile and say no thanks. “Why !?!” Slightly offended... Well i don't put anything in my nose i reply politely, not wanting to tell the brutal truth: that i have no idea what they are handing me, that it looks like some brown powdered dirt, that i don't do any chemicals, that i don't need it to have a nice night, that i am already feeling very good etc... Once again her expression changes, i can see doubt in her eyes, the smile faded away but only for a matter of seconds, I pass it to the right. Snifff in, breath out, sniff in the other side. snif snif my nose itches... houuuuuu this is strong shit she says .... and i keep my smile and fake attitude while i think houuu that just annihilated some of you smelling abilities and is corroding quite some tissues... already the two girls to my left who had their shot before are changing expressions once again. They look turns to that of a heavy drunk, movement are clumsy, speech is comparable to that of an Englishman at midnight.
Already the first girl stands up, unsure steps, the unity in the group and discussions is n longer existing, the second girl walks away to the toilets and comfortably seated in the couch next to me, the third says “Fuck i feel so good!” and a bit later as she balanced her head back a couple times and here look is vague and seems to be lost somewhere distant, she sight again “fuck... what is this??” My guess is that you just tried heroin darling... And probably not the best version of it. I mean i don't know much about amphetamine since i never had any but i would not have expected it as a brown powder and i know the effects are supposed to be energizing. And now, a couple minutes after her shot, my neighbor is incapable of doing anything, she wants to rest a couple minutes, take a nap before going out. Hihi does not agree, her mom is home and she will wonder what she does home and what happened and while find out about the drugs... Yes, i forgot to mention, as we are “preparing to go out” in the living room, Momy is sleeping next door.
So we all leave after one last blast of a trance tune on the home stereo. All this happened real fast, maybe 10 minutes between the time they unpacked the shit and th time we left. The two girls are fucked, the dealer friend tells me thats why he never does chemicals (but he still will drop a couple pills later on...). I for myself enjoy the party, have a couple more drinks while the girls are struggling to keep up, completely softened out by what they agre to be bad heroin... The blond girl that was sitting next to me is like a zombie, she does not know how to behave anymore and finally vomits on the dance floor... The music is blasting, i am still having a good time, however slightly worried about the third girl still in the apartment. I give a call, she answers and says she will come in a couple... She was alright, sounded real tired but she never came. Nothing else special to say about this night, i meet more of the trance crowd of Skopje, all nice people but with a bit of a drug problem. Some are aware of it in control but others are clearly overrun...