⋆⭒˚.⋆ 𝐎𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐈𝐎𝐍 ᵃ ˢᵗʳᵃⁿᵍᵉʳ ᵗʰⁱⁿᵍˢ ᵃᶠ

𝟎𝟎𝟕

SEVEN

-- DEJA VU --

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"OKAY SEV, just one more thing..." holly reaches into the box of mike's old clothes and grabs a sweater. "this should fit..."

it's the day after the funeral, a monday morning just after school has started. holly, regrettably, has agreed to the plan matty had devised on his bike ride over a few minutes ago. the three of them left their houses, telling their parents they were going to bike to school, but then turned around as soon as their parents had left and snuck back into holly's house.

sev pulls the sweater on over the shirt holly had given him the day before and turns to look in the mirror on mike's door. holly, matty, and zach have decided that sev's buzzcut is normal enough, so they left it alone. also, they didn't have a way to cover it up, so there wasn't much choice to begin with.

"you look...nice," holly offers. she pretends she can't feel the heat rising to her cheeks.

from behind her, matty snickers and zach raises his eyebrows. "oh?"

holly glares at matty through the mirror. "nice...ly dressed! yep, you look nicely dressed..." she trails off.

"anyway," zach coughs, "let's go back to your room for ground rules."

holly opens mike's bedroom door quietly— while her brother has already left to teach at school, and her parents are at work too, nancy came in a few minutes ago because she had left something when she'd gone back to her apartment last night. the last thing holly needs is to be caught by her sister, so they tiptoe back to holly's bedroom and she closes the door silently behind her.

"okay, sev, first thing's first," zach starts, "you can't talk to anyone." sev's eyes widen at his urgent tone as holly nods along.

"like he has a problem with that..." matty murmurs under his breath. he speaks up, "but seriously, if we see anyone, let us do the talking. if someone talks to you directly... well, let's just hope that doesn't happen." he grimaces.

"and you have to stay with us the whole time," holly adds, "but that shouldn't be too hard. we're all going in late, so there won't be any classes since we have an assembly after lunch for meg. er, well, we might have last period, but...let's just hope the assembly runs really long. but, yeah, you probably won't get a lot of attention with the crowds."

"this plan is just getting worse and worse," zach mutters, shaking his head.

sev nods slightly at holly.

"um...what else?"

"oh! well, this is kind of obvious, but outside of the av room, don't use your powers," matty says.