everybody talks too much.

it is my given name, it was given to me by me. i gave it to myself. heather hanna riley dad trapped in an 18yo

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naomi-nohome‌:

“Painting, painting -” Naomi shuffled through books. “My aunt went through a painting phase so I know we have…ah-ha! Landscape Painting Essentials,” She shrugged. “I don’t know, he’s the book geek. Like - he’s a professor. I don’t really care for books so much,” She laughed. “$5.00. With the Landscape Paintings that’ll be 6.50 if you still want it.”

“ sounds like some bob ross shit, ” hanna commented with a chuckle, as she took the book the other mentioned, flicking through the pages. “ that’s cool, i don’t know, i just like reading. screens hurt my eyes so books are way easier than movies. ” she admitted. with a nod she dug through her purse for the change. “ do you have change for a 20? ”

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naomi-nohome‌:

“What’s wrong with cacti? I quite like them,” Naomi said. Lizards and succulents were comforts for her. “Mary Shelley? You’re in luck - my uncle’s a huge fan. I think Mathilda sold - “ She paused, looking at the lists of books that were checked off and the diagram of where the hell everything was. “buuut we still have Lodore and The Last Man. My uncle hates The Last Man, though - said it’s her worst work.”

“ nothing really wrong with them, ” apart from they’re ugly “ my grandparents just get fixated on things. i’d rather encourage their current obsessions than introduce a new one. ” she explained. “ on that note, anything on painting or great painters? ” she asked, raising a brow as she looked up again. “ it’s mary shelley’s best work, how bad can it really be? ” hanna pointed out with a small smile. “ how much for both? ” she asked, now reaching to pull her wallet from her bag.

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naomi-nohome‌:

“Listen - “ Naomi started her pitch. Her uncle was far better at catching buyers’ attention, but she had to pull her weight here, right? “I know you have a family member who wants a book on Cacti. On Amazon, this baby retails for 15 bucks, soft cover. This is a mint condition hard cover book on Cacti for $1.50.”

“ just because they want it doesn’t mean i should encourage them. ” hanna mused, flicking through some of the books in front of her while she was on break from her own family stall. “ the last thing my house needs is a cactus garden. ” though she wasn’t even sure it’d survive in wisconsin. especially not in winter. finally she looked up. “ do you have any mary shelley? not frankenstein, obviously, but the last man or mathilda or something? ”

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byanikawest‌:

“Who’d have thought,” she chimed lightly though she definitely knew it to be true given the number of geriatrics who parked themselves in the coffee shop from open until close some days. She nodded her head to confirm the fact, “They wanted somebody experienced in making coffee,” she explained with a shrug, “I told them I didn’t know anybody,” she joked at her own expense, she was perhaps one of the more qualified of her peers but she was no expert barista just yet. “Cool,” she agreed, perhaps Hanna didn’t like coffee or tea or perhaps she wasn’t thirsty, it was hard to say but it was a sharp reminder that Nik knew far, far too little about the other girl despite how deeply she cared what Hanna thought of her. She laughed humorlessly and rolled her eyes to the ceiling of the gym, “Forced,” she corrected with a cringe, “He’s seriously the worst- like he can’t have a single conversation without being obnoxious. He called me crazy the other day, he said I had a tendency to go crazy and yell at him when he tries to be nice. It must be so nice to be a guy like that and think that everybody around you is either stupid because they’re not you or crazy because they don’t like you,”

hanna chuckled at that, nik was the only person she knew that could make coffee, at least out of students. “ have they got you set up with a machine and everything? or have they just given you a coffee pot and said go nuts? ” she asked, teasing tone to her voice. not that the riley stall was particularly well put together. she nodded as she listened to nik’s tale of eric, though really, she could have been talking about any one of the popular kids and the story would have fit. “ i don’t think eric has ever done anything genuinely nice in his life, at least not without wanting to make himself look better and be able to brag about it which cancels out the nice anyway. ” hanna wasn’t close with them, but from her limited interactions with the popular kids of their school, she had her opinions. “ at least tilly and tristan are honest about being the worst. ” she says, shaking her head for a split second before she realised what she’d said and had to recover. “ sorry, i know you and tristan are like, hanging out of whatever. but he’s really just, the worst. ” fuck it she’d said this much, a deep breath in and she continued “ and honestly, i’m not saying it to be mean, or anything, but he’s just really not a good guy to hang around. he’s best friends with eric for pete’s sake. ”  

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byanikawest‌:

Nik wrinkled her nose, making a playfully scrunchy face at Hanna’s observation the moment the other girl had spoken. Yes, that was exactly had it had sounded even if it wasn’t how Nik had meant it, well not exactly anyway. Of course, Hanna’s booth was just about the only booth she could bear to spend more than a few minutes at but saying so might have been worse than calling her the last resort, if only marginally. “Saved the best for last,” she corrected, making an attempt to rectify the connotation, keeping her tone light and her words in jest. “Wow,” was just about all she could say in regard to the number of paintings the Riley family had prepared for the event, Nik wondered if this was a regular thing for the other girl’s family, perhaps they were known for their art displays in town, though nobody had said anything like that since Nik had arrived. “We, me and my manager at FOM -and my step-dad was nominated as some kind of overseer guy thing- I don’t know but anyway, he dragged us down here to make sure everything’s ship-shape,” actually her step-dad had never used the phrase ship shape and neither had Nik but she had lost her way with words as of late, it seemed. “Want me to grab you a coffee? Tea? Hot chocolate? We have non-dairy options, I asked,- and hot apple cider…and mulled wine but I’m saving that for when Tilly and Eric and Tristan and all of those guys get here,”

smile spread on her lips again at the correction, a small chuckle leaving her lips again. although not necessary, it was appreciated. “ turns out, old people have a lot of time on their hands. ” hanna noted, with a slight nod, but grin remained. she was proud of her grandparents, finding creative drive in their old age and sharing that with the northlake community even after they’d been so hard done by by that community. she nods at the first explanation, that was a relief, no tristan. “ you’re working hot drinks, i’m guessing. ” she ended with a tone that implied a slight question but she couldn’t imagine it another way. “ but, uh, no, i’m good. on all fronts, thank you. ” she smiled, she was quite particular with what she put in her body. she liked to see things made if she could, and she didn’t have time for that. “ but uh, no good on that front? i heard you and eric got put together on that group project, has he accepted that you’re smarter than him yet? ” she asked, trying to keep it light as she continued to tip toe around the tristan situation.

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“Need an extra pair of hands?” Nik asked lightly, wiggling her hands in the air to demonstrate that she, in fact, had two of them on offer as she approached what would eventually be the Riley family’s arts and…assorted memorabilia? stall. “We just finished setting up hot drinks and I’ve been told not to stand around,” she prefaced, “I’m terrified of the Prinz family, there’s a couple of guys arguing at the Dairy’s stall and I’m not going outside in the snow to set up anything so,” she offered, just in case Hanna was deterred by the fact that Nik was intentionally hovering around her instead of minding her own business or finding somebody else to bother.

nik’s voice had surprised her. her grandparents had decided to take a break, her grandfather’s knee wasn’t made for this, and hanna thought he was an idiot for insisting that he could man the stall, let along help set it up. “ so, last resort, got it. ” she teased, giving a nod of her head before smile formed and chuckle. “ well there’s all sorts of stuff to organise. i don’t really know how my granny planned on displaying all these paintings, but she dragged them all down here. ” she said, indicating down to the small stacks of painting around her feet. “ what are you doing here so early? and who’s we? ” she asked, raising a teasing brow and saying a silent prayer that tristan wasn’t about to pop out from behind her.

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naomi-nohome‌:

Naomi shrugged. She agreed with the petition - it should happen, but what was the point? “I just don’t know, Hanna…do you really think the school is going to get rid of plastic and clean dishes for so many students?” She raised an eyebrow. “Because I definitely don’t. Our lines are already long enough anyway…and what if it doesn’t wash well? I feel like a lot of students would be turned off there were spots on their forks. I’d love to threaten people though, that could be fun.” She let a smirk settle onto her face.

“ mass, stackable dishwashers exist, just about every restaurant in the world uses one. get students to put the cutlery in the tray and it only has to be moved. ” hanna said, though she had no idea how true that was. “ besides, i’m not saying use metal. bamboo cutlery is compostable and relatively inexpensive. ” she followed up, it added to her ongoing, yet rather unsuccessful, mission to bring a compost program to northlake high. however, grin graced her features as it appeared that naomi would help her. “ tilly worthington already owes me one so you don’t need to threaten her, however i wouldn’t stop you. ” 

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do u have a bf

it’s a dream of mine to have a beautiful farm

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naomi-nohome‌:

“Please, dude - just…leave me alone or get decked.” She was working on her anger - in the past, she would’ve just went for the punch. It was sometimes surprising to her, that people still tried. ( maybe they just felt bad, considering the recent turn of events in her family )

clipboard in hand, hanna had been a member of the environmental club for a long time and was used to some resistance to the many petitions the club rolled out though not usually from it’s own members. “ just sign the petition, naomi. ” she said, holding the clipboard out. she didn’t really expect it to go far but cutting out plastic cutlery from the school was a good idea, couldn’t hurt to try. then another idea hit her. “ or, better yet, take that energy and threaten other people to sign it when my guilt tripping doesn’t work. ”

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byanikawest‌:

“Mine too- well, that and stalking, obviously,” she spoke plainly as if stating fact rather than opinion. She’d been reminded on so many occasions, by the popular kids, that she was a creepy stalker and nothing more than that that it was really starting to lose its effect, in fact, she found the title almost comical now. “Self-absorbed, evil Power Rangers without cool costumes or like- token animal things,” she’d forgotten the lore of Power Rangers at this point in her life but she was sure she was pretty close and that Hanna would get what she meant either way. “Right,” she nodded her head to confirm the decision, as if it was obvious the moment Hanna said it, “The kind of house that people walk by and say ‘man, who owns that?’ and then Eric or Tristan or whoever is mowing the lawn on our abandoned property that day can tell them that a couple of losers do,” she smirked at the thought, even if it was completely fictional, she took pride in the vision.

“One sixty-two,” Nik repeated, mostly to herself as she flicked through the pages of her textbook, landing on one that matched Hanna’s. She even checked to make sure the content was the same, not just the numbers, leaving no room for error as the other girl started reading from the page. “Titration, right,” she announced, tapping on the diagram on the page, “We had a titration team at my old sch-” she was immediately cut off by the sound of an alarm and tipped her chin to address the source of the noise on the ceiling, just in time to get a face full of water. “Oh my God,” she squealed in response, palming at her face before she shoved her books clumsily into her bag and hopped up to get out as quickly as possible. 

“ obviously. ” hanna agreed with a nod of her head and a smile on her lips, even she didn’t really have much of an idea of what nik was talking about as far as her personally being a stalker. “ so ... useless, they’re useless power rangers. ” she decided, shrugging her shoulders as if that were the obvious conclusion. it’s not like hanna believed they contributed anything useful to northlake, much less the world. but it’d at least be funny if they ruined peoples lives in costumes. although quite enjoying the whole vision, there was one thing that really stuck out to her as an issue. well two things. but there was one that she was going to bring up because it messed with her entire perception of nik and her relations of other people “ tristan? i thought you guys were like, hanging out or whatever. did something happen? ” the other thing was that eric and tristan did not deserve such good jobs and such good employers.

she’s just raising a brow at the titration team thing when the bell sounds and she’s reacting to that instead of asking what the heck a titration team was. shovelling books into her backpack haphazardly and trying her very best not to cringe when she heard papers crinkling as they hit the bottom. focusing more on collectiong her things, standing and tossing her backpack over her shoulder as her hair and clothes slowly soaked. though she paused before she moved to leave. looking at nik “ come on, have you got everything? ”

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byanikawest‌:

“Oh yeah, definitely- I exclusively use it for being reminded of my personal value at this school and sharing photos of every dog I ever see. So, yeah, you’re really missing out,” she was being mostly sincere about the last part, there were a lot of cute dogs in Northlake, none of which belonged to the Balasko-West family, unfortunately. She found herself laughing at Hanna’s dramatics, whether they were warranted or over the top or a little bit of both depending on who you asked, “When I first met Eric I thought it was kind of crazy they were ever even together and then the more I talked to him, the more I understood exactly how they made a match,” she wrinkled her nose at the thought, “You know how some couples complement and complete each other? I think they’re just different versions of evil and together they just cover all the bases required to be a full-time jerk,” she wasn’t an expert on romance or human relationships but she was confident in her words. “So, now it’s like the Hunger Games meets the Lord of the Flies meets Survivor meets the Bachelor- maybe I don’t need chemistry tutoring- or a high school education at all. Maybe we should just drop out now, milk our cash cow and pick out a fancy mansion somewhere. Preferably not Northlake but I’m open to discussion,”

“I am feeling moderately confident with that- I’m also feeling like it’s going to take longer for me to perfect the next unit than it is for me to finish off the last unit with a bang so, maybe let’s focus on the future for now? Best foot forward,” she suggested, though she hesitated a moment later, “Can you repeat the chapter header again?” she’d forgotten what they were about to study already, unfamiliar with the concept off the top of her head.

“ oh jeez, my two favourite hobbies, being told my value in the eyes of teenage boys and looking at dogs. snapchat really has it all. ” hanna continued with the dramatics. although she did enjoy looking at dogs, it certainly wasn’t in her top two favourite hobbies but she might make it one if it was nik sending them to her. she nodded along with what nik was saying, yes that absolutely described tilly and eric. “ they morph into one a giant asshole. like power rangers, just worse. ” she mused, a chuckle at her own joke following. though was it that much of a joke. if urge to merge was real among lesbians, she didn’t even want to know what that would have been called. she laughed again at the long list of shows their show seemed to copy. “ two mansions, one in northlake that we never visit, just to own and say suck on that. and then another one somewhere way better than northlake. ” though northlake wasn’t setting the standard very high. at least not in hanna’s opinion and she guessed, in nik’s opinion as well.

she nodded in agreement following nik’s suggestion. flipping open the text book now, trying to find the actual chapter. “ pH at equivalence point. ” she repeated, gentle smile on her face “ page one sixty two, ” she added a moment later so they’d at least be literally on the same page. “ so creating a neutral by adding the right amount of an acid and a base and the calculations to get there. ” she explained. thought she’d have to teach herself as well as she went along, skimming the descriptive words she’s about to open her mouth and continue, start actually getting into the topic when a loud beeping started in the room, and it sounded the whole school. causing her to pause and look up just in time for the sprinklers above them to switch on and start drenching them. “ oh shit! ” she exclaimed in reaction, taking a second for her to stop reacting to the water and actually start grabbing her things, to prevent as much water damage as possible.

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byanikawest‌:

“Just another one of their charitable services in the Northlake community, like flexing when you accidentally make eye contact with one of them or sending unwarranted SnapChats,” she listed a couple of the things boys in football uniforms were notorious for and probably thought they were doing the girls a favor by acting on. “Was it worse?” she asked incredulously, she couldn’t imagine it was much worse than it was now but she’d been surprised by Northlake before. “I kind of thought they’d distract each other, that maybe they’d leave everybody else alone- I didn’t consider the fact that they could probably mutate into one single asshole monster if they tried hard enough,” she commented thoughtfully despite the vulgarity of her language. Nik chuckled at the thought of a reality TV show, “We might as well make a profit on our suffering,” she confirmed, “- if people are willing to watch the Bachelor, surely they’re willing to watch a bunch of idiots on an island- actually, that’s almost what the Bachelor if any way,” she noted with another laugh.

At Hanna’s encouragement, Nik couldn’t help but feel a sense of empowerment. She only hoped that Hanna was right, God, she’d have loved to see that look on Eric’s face. It would possibly be the only time she’d be glad to see the Jock since their Halloween encounter. “Mmm,” she hummed thoughtfully, reviewing the paper quickly, reminding herself of the content and nodding her head “That was last week, we meant to finish it today but didn’t quite get there because of a YouTube malfunction so we’re finishing the unit tomorrow and then moving on on Wednesday,”

even knowing they were joking that sentence made her cringe. “ maybe i should get on snapchat, i feel like i missing out on the reminder that their out of my league. ” she laughed though quickly shaking her head. no. she would not be joining snapchat and even if she did, absolutely no jocks would know about it. “ sometimes yes, sometimes no. if they were ... distracted by each other, it was fine, disturb that? lord have mercy and just kill me. ” she dramatised, holding a hand over her heart as though she really was begging to some higher being. “ isn’t that just survivor? bachelor on an island, except we don’t let them leave. it’s like lord of the flies meets survivor. ” what she would give to see jock in-fighting that didn’t hurt anyone else. “ you know, i think we’ve got a really money making scheme on our hands here, just cant let the bachelor or survivor get wind of it. ” she said, continuing the joke with a tap to the side of her nose. 

she nodded along as nik spoke, waiting until she was finished before she spoke. “ okay and are you feeling confident with that? did you wanna revise or did you want to just move on to .... ” she held the ‘to’ on her tongue for a moment, dragging it out as she opened up a text book, searching for what theoretically came next. “ pH at equivalence point? ” she finished once she found it, looking up for her answer

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byanikawest‌:

“I know,” Nik agreed with false enthusiasm, “Fortunately, those boys make it so much easier on us by making sure we know just how out of our league they are,” she spoke words dripping with sarcasm as she thought about the innumerable occasions she’d been reminded that she didn’t have a shot with any of the school’s most popular jocks, regardless of whether she’d indicated that she’d ever want one or not. Nik groaned aloud and waved a hand in front of her own face as if to physically swat the grotesque image of Eric and Tilly having sex away from her brain, “I  literally felt my stomach try to eject from my body just now,” she admitted, scrunching up her face in her obvious distaste, “She’d probably provide him with a critical analysis at the end of every-” she wasn’t sure what the word was, evidently she wasn’t an expert on the matter “session,” she said finally but her expression demonstrated that she wasn’t exactly pleased with the term, it might have even made the thought even more disgusting, if that was possible. At Hanna’s suggestion Nik’s eyebrows lifted and her eyes widened as she tapped on her temple with her index finger excitedly “I was just thinking that- you literally read my mind, I was thinking about sending them to space and if that’s too expensive, an island somewhere. Then they can whip their shirt off inappropriately all day long- wait, they do that anyway,” she said with a laugh, thinking about how Tristan had stripped his shirt off by the lake just the other morning, much to Nik’s surprise.

“Yeah?” she was relieved by the comment and since she’d spent all of her time focused on Hanna’s face, she hadn’t even considered the fact that the other girl had read through the paper a little too quickly to have given it a thorough combing. “Yes, ooh I love that,” she was buzzing at the thought of beating him to the punch, “I would love to see the look on his face if I finished our homework sheet before class was even over,”

“ fortunately, ” hanna repeated just as sarcastically, nodding her head for a second before she wiped the back of her hand over her forehead and said “ phew, you know, thank god for that. otherwise i’d be clueless. ” she chuckled. it always amazed her just how many guys assumed she, and all other women, wanted to be in their league. as if. but if nik was the kind of girl that wasn’t in their league, well, all the better for hanna, right? though she had to wonder what tristan’s thoughts on the matter were. probably the first and last time she’d wonder what tristan’s thoughts were. “ i know, i know, i’m sorry. ” she apologised for the image, even she had cringed when she first said it. but somehow nik managed to one up her. “ oh god, ew. ” she said, going in for another false gag over the idea. “ all i can say is, just be glad you weren’t here when they were dating. ” she said with another cringe. dark days, and hanna had barely been there for any of them. smile spread as nik revealed she’d had the very same thought. it was nice to know, despite everything, they still had some similarities. “ we could make a reality show out of it, lord of the flies but buffoons. ” she suggested, “ or is that too far? ”

she beamed at the reaction, pleased that nik liked the proposal. it was really all she could think of, there was no point in being good at past topics, she needed to ensure her sucess in future topics. “ and you will. ” hanna encouraged with a smile. “ okay, so, is this what topic you’re up to? ” she asked, holding up the paper in her hand as she did.

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byanikawest‌:

“I’m pretty sure he still talks about how women should be so lucky to sleep with him, cos he’s so charming and so handsome and so smart,” she tried to deliver the words with some semblance of a straight face but it proved difficult, not that she’d ever prided herself on her acting abilities, “He doesn’t need an online forum, he talks whether people are listening or not- I think if you had sex with Eric Bradford, he wouldn’t get off until you told him in painful detail how brilliant he is at everything and how grateful you are to be in his presence,” she was bitter and it showed but Hanna hadn’t told her to shut up and she needed to get it off of her chest.  “-and I guess you need a brain to get brain damage anyway so who knows what the cure for guys like that is,” she mused, it would be a prevailing mystery for now, though launching them into space or putting them on a desert island could work, she considered.

She smiled to herself as Hanna took the paper, seemingly making an effort to focus on it, instead of on their banter. Fair enough, Nik thought, that’s what they were here for anyway. She took her orange highlighter and fiddled with it in her lap as she watched Hanna reading, searching the other girl’s expression for any hints as to what she might be thinking at that moment.

hanna made a small face at all of that. oh how she loved being not only gay but also totally invisible to at least most of the jocks. save for xander, though he appeared to think he was a special case on the first point anyway. “ yeah, jeez, how could i resist. ” she joked, following her words with a gag and an eye roll to accompany. and as nik continued she gave another gag “ god ew, ” shaking her head as if she was trying to literally shake that image from her head. “ he and tilly must have had really weird se, ‘cause i don’t imagine she’s much different. ” she added, though regretting it as she said it, grossed out by her own words. “ isolation from society? wouldn’t be much of a cure for them but it is a cure to us dealing with them. ” she decided, smile unfading.

to be honest, she didn’t read it properly. she skimmed the paper, eager to get back to talking rather than the silence that had quickly joined them. “ it’s good. it’s really good. ” she compliment, as she finished up her reading. “ i think, the best idea to one up bradford, is some kind of combo of revising and revisiting topics to prepare for quizzes, work sheets, whatever. then uh, start working through topics before they’re mentioned in class. that way you’re a step ahead at least. ”

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byanikawest‌:

Nik wrinkled her nose at the thought, “If they’re lucky,” she added, “I think you have to have at least some people skills for a job like that. They’ll have to make some pretty major improvements first,” she commented and could only wish that it was true. The truth was that people like Eric Bradford and Tristan Hacker often didn’t get their comeuppance, they continued on their path unchecked and unaffected and it was totally unfair. 

She nodded her head in agreement, “I guess it’s more for me than it is for him. I don’t need him to pass chemistry, I don’t need him for anything and he doesn’t believe me when I say it so I guess I better show him,”  she added, thinking about the Halloween party in particular. “He tried to walk me home from the party the other night after making fun of me and laughing in my face like a jerk and then acted shocked when I told him to fuck off,” she laughed at the fact softly, still trying to get her head around the interaction, “I think the football team need better helmets,” she decided as a possible solution as she slid her paper over to Hanna.

“ that’s, ” hanna pauses to consider for a moment before she tilts her head slightly to one side and continues “ a very good point. maybe they’ll just end up as like food delivery guys. ” that seemed a little more fitting now that nik had brought up that point. though she would continue to fantasise about them going up in a giant gas fire, no matter how bad it was for the environment.

she could only cringe at the idea of eric bradford telling some girl he barely knew that she needed him for anything. made her want to upchuck just a little bit. “ yeah, yikes. you know if his family wasn’t loaded, i think he’d be an incel. like the ones on those forums and stuff talking about how women should be so lucky to sleep with them. ” yeah, hanna knows forums. does she only know about them because of one lesbian podcast she listened to sometimes? yes. absolutely. “ helmets wont help if they’ve already got brain damage, nik. ” she pointed out, amused as she tried to hold back a smirk. taking the paper she spun it around to face her, adjusting in her seat as she started to read.