SEND IN A ❣ FOR A RANDOM KISS –– a cheek kiss.
THE NIGHT HAD GONE ON UNEVENTFULLY, no sirens in the distance signalling a threat, no rain of missed calls or messages informing of an untimely disaster and no sign of blood shed on the walls or the halls to their apartment. One night of god-given peace in a seemingly god-forsaken town.
Nearly three words he thought he could ever string together without “There is none” right before it. But for some reason the stars aligned tonight. The town had gone quiet and he can even hear the steady hum of Chris Argent behind closed doors, sleep or the lulling sound of it. An easy enough appeasement to ignore in favor of the rattling he feels in his chest now.
The fright that comes just at the end of the date –– the dread that is all too human, too Isaac from before and not the boy he tried to present himself now, with his leather jackets and leather boots. Too many thoughts racing. One far more incomprehensible than the other but he was sure enough safe to assume the worst each time. But it isn’t a date and they weren’t anything. Just two kids who happened to have went out on a night that lulled the world to quiet for a few hours. And still, its one simple thing that unravels him, –– unstrings him from head to toe.
Allison smiles and shit he was a goner.
ALL THOUGHT AND SENSIBILITY leaps straight out the window and all is left with a boy screaming at the top of his lungs: MAN OVERBOARD. Isaac stares as if that could make it better, as if that could remedy the crack she opens right in his chest where light can finally seep through. And he stares and he stares as she talks and she talks, spilling words like she was mumbling them and he breathes in every bit of it. Not wasting an ounce. Not leaving room for crumbles. Because he thinks, for once, maybe there could be room in his hallowed halls for all of it.
She murmurs a good night, her hands clasped around the door knob and her smile so close to his he can taste it. There’s a smirk, unnaturally brazen in the moment,suddenly so certain of what he wants. Her. Her. Just her. But he pulls back at her next exhale, tilts his head just an angle and presses a single kiss to her cheek.
“Goodnight, Allison. I’ll see you tomorrow. “