Can't Catch Lightning

“No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.”

[bennythepianoman]

Texts || Delilah & Benny

Delilah: I don't know. I think he'd still figure it out.

Delilah: I guess a burrito, idfk.

Benny: Probably. He's too perceptive.

Benny: Not helpful. :/

[bennythepianoman]

Texts || Delilah & Benny

Delilah: He'd recognize us. He's observant. He'd notice someone following him around.

Delilah: Bribery is probably the best option at this point...

Benny: True. Though I bet if I put on contacts and actually wear the clothes Pops wants me in, I'd be pretty unrecognizable.

Benny: But what to bribe her with...

[bennythepianoman]

Texts || Delilah & Benny

Delilah: So I'm just supposed to sit by while they kill my baby brother? I know I've said I hated him before but that's so far from true...

Benny: They're not going to...

Benny: ...

Benny: Do you want me to sneak into his school and see what's going on?

Benny: Or try to bribe Lizzy into giving us info?

[bennythepianoman]

Texts || Delilah & Benny

Delilah: I hope so. I'm more worried about the fact that he has no friends than his selective muteness. Like what if they're bullying him? That kills people.

Delilah: I feel guilty because I'm not there for him.

Delilah: ...on second thought, keep her.

Benny: I mean, they might be... but unless Lizzy says something or one of us sneaks into his school to keep an eye on him, I have no idea how we'd know for sure.

Benny: He knows you're there if he wants you to be, Delilah. If he chooses not to talk to you...

Benny: Thought so. :)

[bennythepianoman]

Texts || Delilah & Benny

Delilah: When he was younger he did. On occasion.

Delilah: I'll trade you?

Benny: Maybe it's just a phase?

Benny: Do you or do you not remember when my sister beheaded all your Barbies? Are you sure you want that?

[bennythepianoman]

Texts || Delilah & Benny

Delilah: I hope, but I don't know either. Brendon doesn't even really talk to me much at home. I don't know what's up with him. He's just really quiet and reserved. I just don't want this to be a symptom. He doesn't talk about school, no one knows how his grades are and we're only assuming they're good because he's a little genius, and he's always playing with explosives.

Delilah: He still eats like a football player, though.

Benny: Did he ever really talk to you?

Benny: Sometimes I wish Lizzy would be quieter at home. I've taken to doing all my recording when I'm sure her and Dad are out of the house. Otherwise it's too loud.

Benny: All guys eat like football players. Fact of life.

[bennythepianoman]

Texts || Delilah & Benny

Delilah: love you too, Benjamin :P

Delilah: I don't think he does, to be honest. If he does, he never hangs out with them and we never see them.

Delilah: Mom says he's just introverted and it's a phase, but I'm worried about him.

Benny: Hmm...

Benny: I'd hope Lizzy would say something if she noticed something strange but... I don't know.

[bennythepianoman]

Texts || Delilah & Benny

Delilah: Mean :(

Delilah: They've gone off by then. I don't know. The kid is actually super talented. It's kind of scary, especially considering he doesn't really talk to anyone.

Benny: Love you Delilah~

Benny: Doesn't he have any friends at school? I know he talks to Lizzy all the time.

[bennythepianoman]

Texts || Delilah & Benny

Delilah: I'm offended!

Delilah: Probably. Though maybe not, because Mom put a stop to the basement lab. He's not allowed to set things off in the house now. Has to do it outside.

Benny: :)

Benny: What happens when something lands on the roof?

[bennythepianoman]

Texts || Delilah & Benny

Delilah: Good girls are just really talented bad ones. We don't get caught.

Delilah: Brendon almost died when he blew up a rocket in the house. Mom nearly killed him. But he was also, like, eight. So.

Benny: Well, not caught /yet/ anyway. Give it time.

Benny: So at 16 we can expect him to actually be killed when he builds a bigger rocket?

[bennythepianoman]

Texts || Delilah & Benny

Delilah: Funny. Of all of us, I could see Lizzy getting murdered for something. Not me.

Delilah: Maybe Brendon as a Bonnie-and-Clyde thing. Except without the sex.

Benny: That's because my sister has this habit of talking herself /into/ trouble, whereas you seem to be able to talk yourself out of it.

Benny: Brendon or Lizzy. They would be the first to set off one of our relatives into a murderous rage. Probably by some scheme they come up with together.

Benny: Maybe.

[bennythepianoman]

Texts || Delilah & Benny

Delilah: My mom wouldn't do anything. Aunt Gina on the other hand. She would slaughter me.

Delilah: My mom would probably just be like "huh. Now I won't get strange phone calls"

Benny: Yep, Gina would kill you dead.

Benny: Maybe avoid poison of any sort. Just to be on the safe side.

[bennythepianoman]

Texts || Delilah & Benny

Delilah: Yeah, you inherited your dad's ridiculousness.

Delilah: I put a D-Con pellet in two cookies. Whoever doesn't die is the arsenic champion.

Benny: It's all in the genes.

Benny: ...

Benny: Your mom and Pops would kill you.

[bennythepianoman]

Texts || Delilah & Benny

Delilah: You're going to kill my cool uncles. With pancreas failure.

Benny: Just tell your mom to stick around. She's a doctor. She can take care of them.

Benny: And I really doubt one batch of cookies will do them in. Unless you put rat poison in them.

[A few moments later]

Benny: Pleasedon'tputratpoisoninthecookiesisweartogod

[bennythepianoman]

Texts || Delilah & Benny

Delilah: So you pick your dad and Uncle Finn.

Benny: They're tough. They'll survive.

[bennythepianoman]

Texts || Delilah & Benny

Delilah: You're going to kill my uncles with your bets.

Benny: You have several. You can spare one or two. :P

[bennythepianoman]

Texts || Delilah & Benny

Delilah: I can smell the diabetes.

Benny: You're enabling the diabetes. Just FYI.