Electric.

she had heard about her death, but when she sent a consoling text, it couldn’t be delivered so she took the hint. celeste didn’t know how to answer him, just staring at him, as if the moment she blinked he would disappear again. hearing his words, celeste couldn’t help the tears that well in her eyes. “n- you can’t say that, otherwise you wouldn’t have d-done it.” she mumbled, being overly conscious of her sisters in her head, blasting pop music to mask the silent cries for isaac in her head. her heart was broken all over again, but she wasn’t going to let her sisters know. 

“I...I know.” If Isaac’s self from a few years ago could see who he is now, he would hardly recognize them. The Isaac back then, the one Celeste had feelings for, would rush forward to clear her tears. He wouldn’t have ever done that to her to begin with. He just stood with his hands in his pockets, sighing. “I don’t know what to say...I don’t know how to make this better.”

“People are such fucking dicks.” Helena was always a little angry or, in the very least, more often than not she was a little angry. It wasn’t something she cared to fix, really. It came in handy as much as it hurt her. “I swear to god asshats like that are just asking for me to punch them.

“I know, they don’t understand us. Those people are almost as bad as the kind of people who touch my wings without asking.” Isaac hated how often these sorts of things seemed to happen. “I’m surprised I didn’t.”

there weren’t many people that could tell the clone apart, only when they had spent a lot of time with them could a person really tell that they had unique personalities. that probably what hurt most about hearing that familiar voice; celeste couldn’t play it off as her sister, brush him off and walk away. no, she had to be here, face him. “i- y- you…” celeste was at a loss for words as she stared at the other. “how are you here?” she mumbled, arms wrapped around herself in a tight embrace as if she would fall to her knees if she didn’t. 

“It’s where I came after...after my mom died.” They weren’t even sure if Celeste knew about his mother passing, how her passing and his overwhelming guilt caused him to leave. They weren’t even sure if they could manage to repeat it, they hardly ever could. What could he even say? Sorry couldn't cut the hurt that ghosting your girlfriend causes. “I’m...I’m sorry, I am.”

Facing her now, he came up empty.

“...Shit.” Except for that. “Hi?”

      “i knew people could be stupid, i didn’t think anyone was that stupid…” kieran sighed. “it’s kind of funny if you think about it.”

“The stupidity of it all makes me laugh, enrages me beyond belief, but makes me laugh anyway.” Isaac had to be proud of himself for not losing his temper, it wasn’t so long ago that he would get in heaps of trouble. “It is, in an unfortunate way. You just gotta feel so bad for that person’s brain.”

“Shit - my bad.”

oscar just stares at the other in mild confusion. “dumbassness? bigotry?” the younger stares at the other with a small smile on his face. “they don’t like what they don’t understand, it scares them and normal people don’t like being scared. well… normal as in untalented boring people.” 

“All of the above?” Isaac found himself chuckling despite his anger. “They don't, and it’s almost sad. Wings aren’t even really scary, I can understand fear of the electricity that I can manipulate.”

“but… why?” a crease appeared between her brows, and her mouth twisted downwards, into a clear frown. she wasn’t good with CONFUSION, and yet, it felt like that was all she ever experienced now she was out from beneath victor’s thumb. “i would win the fight.” she didn’t realize, of course, that this wasn’t the point.

“Because it is apparently rude to fight people, especially in front of notice boards. You can’t just go after people, you gotta relax.” Isaac definitely doesn’t listen to his own advice, but he could at least try to help other people. “That’s not...That’s not the point, the point is is that there shouldn’t be a fight to begin with.”

“ it’s in the NAME, isaac. “ she rolls her eyes. another day, another isaac howlett doing something dumb and endearing. “ shouldn’t you know what exactly has dairy in it by now ? “ somehow she was still surprised everytime her best friend did something so ridiculously stupid. “ um, beats me. don’t you carry one around with you ? “ 

“Well, shit.” Isaac could already feel the nausea coming on, he dug through his school bag and scratched at his neck as he did. “Fuck....fuck, fuck fuck - here we go!” He unburied his epipen from underneath a mess of papers, immediately sticking it in his arm. “I gotta get you one to keep with you, I almost always forget mine and I’m almost always with you.”