Eclipse academy

Ash

(TW: talk of s3lf h4rm, su|c!de, and cursing)

Ash was always the different type. Their hair was a different color each month, and down to their voice it was always different.

Ash's fluttered open and they looked at the clock 3:00am. Ash groaned looking at the time. They haven't slept a good 8 hours in weeks.

They decided well their up so they started to get out of bed. The stinging sensation scraped across their skin. Huge burns lay on their skin like a mosaic. Ash was especially different because their power or set back as their mother said. They can make molten tar from their body. It became harder to resist using their power; although they never used it for good.

They walked over to their light socket and plugged in the Christmas lights, they never took them down because they were a nice light for them.

Walking back to their bed they grabbed their phone and saw a text on their notification bar.

2 missed messages from Matthew

Matthew: yo you up?

Matthew: AAAaaAAsshhhhh

Read 3:15

Ash sat looking at the messages to tired to respond.

Matthew: ash ik ur awake you're reading these.

Ash is typing...

Ash: fine I'm awake dumbass.

Ash sat on their bed slipping on their hoodie. There phone dings again.

Matthew: can u come over? UwU

Ash: pls never say UwU again

Ash thought for a minute. Ash walked to their door listening for the sound of their mother. They head nothing so the coast was clear.

Ash: K gimme 20

Matthew: kk

Ash grabbed a duffel bag and threw the essentials: sketchbook, pencils, and an extra pair of clothes because you never know.

Ash opened their window and grabbed a branch of the willow tree that was in the back. Ash they hopped to the ground with a thud they hear a familiar voice.

"Awake early are we now?" And old lady said from the patio she was sitting on the bottom floor. It was Ms.Haegens ash's downstairs neighbor.

"Oh uh hi Ms.Haegens you're up early" ash said trying to make small talk to act normal "I'm just going for a.....uh.. stroll"

"Just going she him Ash I won't tell your mother" Ms. Haegens said shooing away Ash "go go"

That lady was one of the sweetest things on this earth. She may be a little too in with the times at some points but she was nice. She helped Ash when their mother was away on trips. Ash always loved that women like a grandmother they never had. Ms.Haegens even knew about Matthew before anyone else did.

Ash walked down the orange lit sidewalk with street lights towering over them. They walked past a light gray home that was bigger than two of their town homes. They sneaked through the side gate and came to a window. Ash knocked and a smiling face opened it.

"Oh my gods took you long enough. Get in here!" Matt was sitting on his windowsill bench with little decorative pillows. "I have big news!"

Ash had heard that one before. "What is it Matthew?" Ash sat on the bench and pulled out their sketchbook and started to sketch his room, the desk in one corner, the rainbow and trans flag on his ceiling.

"So u know that prestigious school we can go to for our powers if we get excepted" Matt was almost jumping out of his skin. 

Ash knew exactly what he was talking about "yah Eclipse academy the hardest school for the gifted to get into"

"Welllllllllll...." He started drumming on his desk as a drum roll "We Got In! I checked the website like o do every year and we're on the New Years sheet!"

They were to stunned to speak. Both of them? Was this a trick or joke of some kind? "You're joking Matt. You're joking right?" Ash dropped their pencil to look at Matt with the tell me eyes.

Ash finally had it clicked. They had gotten into the school that was used for a threat to them for years. Ash's mother has always threatened to move them to the school, which it didn't sound bad, being as far away from their mother felt like heaven.

Ash got up and started jumping with Matt like girls who found out their crushes like them back.

(TW the following scenes has talk and actions of su!cide attempts, s3lf  h4rm if u get triggered but this pls skip the riser if the chapter it will not effect the story line.)

Ash wouldn't be here without Matt. 1 1/2 years ago Ash attempted to kill themselves.

Ash was sitting in the bathroom stall of their high school. And the idiot they are, they forgot to lock the stall.

Ash was sitting there crying with a piece of glass that they stole from the art teacher in hand and blood dripping to their jeans like shattered rubies.

Matt walked in on them and was stunned. All he did was sit next to Ash and take the price of glass and drop it in the porcelain bowl and sighed looking at Ash with caring eyes.

"I don't know who you are but I'm gonna help you"  Matt whispered

Matt helped clean ash up after sitting for hours having Ash cry into his chest. They both skipped 4 periods that day sitting in the bathroom.

Those words stuck with Ash and will forever be in debt to Matt.