Isack bikes alongside Liam the whole ride home, the boy had broken out his vape and they'd spent majority of their time laughing about how loud Doriane shrieked the last time she'd caught Liam with it, and of course trading hits.
Which is probably a bad idea, because now Isack definitely smells like artificial strawberries and whatever other shit they put in there, but small price for happiness and all that jazz.
"Where are you headed after this?" Isack asks, sitting up on his bike and handing the vape back to Liam, who takes a quick hit before shrugging his shoulders.
"I'll probably ride around a bit. Go where the wind takes me, you know how it is." He replies, looking down at the gravel ground and steadying his bike, handing the vape back to Isack.
The actual metal of the vape is fairly warm now, and Isack may just be high, but he swears that he can feel Liams palm imprinted into his through the device. Isack feels his vision go a little fuzzy and he abstains from taking another hit, instead putting the vape in his back pocket.
He forgets exactly how much of the weird juice inside is toxic to a human at a time.
Once the vape is out of sight, Isack gives Liam a hum of acknowledgement before running back what he said, because, no. Isack didn't really know 'how it is' or even what it mean that Liam was going 'where the wind takes him'.
Usually it meant that Isack would get a got home safe text from him at 2am and then no other details, but maybe it meant Isack would have to go searching through back alley's before school tomorrow for his friend.
He looks over at Liam, the street lights illuminating his face in a way that was fairly unflattering to the dark circles under his eyes, but those were always pretty noticable anyways.
Liam always looked so tired. And maybe Isack needed to pay more attention to that, because maybe Liam might not be as fine as he'd like Isack to believe. Just maybe.
Or, maybe Isack needs to respect Liam's boundaries and stay out of his shit?
Isack gives up and takes the vape out of his pocket and hits it. Handing it over to Liam when the other boy holds out a hand for it. Isack tips his head back and blows out all the smoke that was clouding it.
They continue mosying along the residential roadway at a pace easiest to trade the vape between them, and keep doing that until they turn the corner onto Isack's cultisak.
The first thing he notices is Dads car in the driveway.
