"Halden, mate, you're too smart for your own good. You've got to learn to keep outta trouble," His mother said, frazzled one afternoon, "You've got a younger brother who thinks the world of you, and How are you going to feel when he gets himself suspended for telling a teacher to study Pi instead of eat it?"
"Well, Just because you're insecure because you're about as useless as tits on a bull, doesn't mean you have to run around slinging your cock and balls like you're something special, mate," had been Halden's keen and sharp tongued response to the Jock cunt who'd called him a nerd in front of the entire party. Apparently those were fighting words. Halden had got a couple good blows in, but ultimately, the prick's friends had taken a couple dirty shots. Halden found himself kicked out of the party. In his drunken anger and self destructive nature, he'd tried to do a handspring... That hadn't ended well.
"I hate this stupid motherfucking piece of shit town. I fucking hate it. I hate everyone in it," Halden grumbled to himself as he stumbled down the road. His nose was most likely broken, and he was 98% certain that he had sprained his wrist. Drinking plus parkour is never a good combination. He stopped, lighting a cigarette, completely unaware of the fact that his face looked like something out of a horror scene. He felt the nicotine hit the receptors in his brain and he exhaled heavily.Nicotine is a stimulant. When you're exposed to toxic levels of organophosphate, the neurotransmitter acetylcholine builds up at synapses and disrupts nerve impulses. Acetylcholine is able to imitate the electrical stimulation you'd normally associate with your vagus nerve, and all that excess acetylcholine overstimulates the neurons. Because nicotine is so similar to acetylcholine, it too binds to nicotinic cholinergic receptors.
His brain ran rampant as he stumbled down the street, not really paying attention to his surroundings before it was too late. It was just his luck to run into the only pedestrian in fucking Lawrence. "Shit, mate. I am so so sorry. I was not paying attention to where I was going. I'm sorry," Halden slurred.