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A crack that blossoms in the warmth

When Isaac gets woken up the next morning by his alarm , he is bone deep tired, he grabs his and shuts the alarm up and sees that he has a new notification from buck 'you should really work on your sleep schedule' with a groan he flops back into his cushion, not wanting to stand up but after a few more minutes of questioning his life choices he finally pulls his legs out of bed and the rest of his body follows and god does his torso hurt.
When he starts to dress himself he makes a quick look into the mirror he can see a dark bruise forming there with a slow motion he slightly strokes over the bruised skin with his fingers and winces. Its not surprising but really annoying, the mark in his face is at least mostly gone only the mark where the ring from his mother hit him is still visible, he debates with himself if he should cover it up but ultimately decides against doing so. Most of his teachers wont care and the other think he is some kind of delinquent so fist fights aren't so far off and there aren't really wrong he did have some fights with other students but mostly if they were assholes. So he figures its not the effort worth of applying make up.
He turns away from the mirror to grab a dark hoodie and a blue jeans and walks into the bathroom afterwards he makes a silent walk downstairs to the kitchen and makes himself a cup of coffee and a toast the only thing he is allowed to make in this household because he could potentially put the house on fire if he would go near the stove, he thinks thats crap they only don't want him to cook so they can better control how much he eats of there food. He fills the coffee in a thermos cup and walk out of the house to walk to school.

He slumps into his seat of his desk and pulls out his stuff for biology, one of the few subjects he honestly likes and is good in. After a few more minutes the rest of the students walk in and the teacher, she is kind of strict but at least fair and doesn't hate him so he prepares himself for the lesson and a long boring day.

Even though he had the homework for all his classes he couldn't turn them in in every subject because he slept through most of them and it will probably happen again, like come on who is even interested in English grammar?
He was in his last lesson for the day when his art teacher who for some reason liked him, it probably had something to do with him being one of the only student who liked to draw and didn't treated this class as a waste of time, walked over to him.
Isaac was drawing on his project for the midterms the theme was 'hero' he was doing superman and he was currently working on the face when he saw the teachers shadow next to him, his grip on the pencil tightens and he looks up " is something teach?" He ask as if he wasn't nearly breaking the poor pencil. The teacher smiled at him and pointed at his cheek. " did you get into a fight again isaac? I thought you where done with that after our last talk." They question and doesn't that sum up what other people think of him, he will always be the problem, did they ever thought that maybe he didn't always start those fights. "Don't worry, it wasn't someone from school so you don't have to worry about some angry parents " he says emotionless. The last time he spoke with her over a fight, a group of three boys from his grade tried to beat him up but he defended himself pretty good so afterwards they told the teacher that he started it and who would they believe a trouble maker or the three teenagers with there parents. He got suspended for one week and for two weeks he had to stay with her in the breaks. "That isn't the thing im worried about, im worried that you will go down the wrong path if you don't stop this behaviour " isaac doesn't really listen to hear anymore, she is only one of the long list of people he will always disappoint. So Isaac just shrugs with his shoulders not knowing what else to say to a person who already made his mind up about him. The teacher sighs and walks away with a shake of her head. Isaac watches her as she walks over to another student helping her with her project. Isaac looks down at his project and suddenly doesn't have the motivation to to draw anymore.

Finally the bell rings so he can leave this room, he walks down the corridors and try's not to bump into anyone when he reaches the doors he pushes them open and it feels as if he can breath again. Just as he wanted to begin his walk home he notice a jeep that he knows very well and when a person steps out of the car he is sure, a smile breaks out on bis face and he jogs over to him " hey buck! What are you doing here?" Isaac ask while buck pulls him into a hug to great him. "I had a day of and thought i visit you and help you with the bike" buck explains and Isaac feels happy but also dread from facing there parents, especially because of what happens yesterday when now buck mysteriously walks in with him, they think he try's to manipulate buck. "What got you so sour all of sudden, don't want to hang out with your favourite brother?" Buck teased and isaac just shakes his head "buck, your my only brother and no im just hungry" he lies. " do mom and dad know your coming?" He ask and hopes it comes of as an innocent question. Both of them move into the car mid conversation and buck answers him "yeah i texted them, they had a meeting that came up so they aren't home, how about McDonald's for your lunch ." He lets out a sigh of relief with bucks explanation "yeah sounds great " he answers with a cheerful voice. And it does because maybe he can convince buck that he can have a whole burger. "So how was school? " buck ask while driving and really Isaac wouldn't say great but he had worse days so he settles on "it was okay" he watches from the corner of his eye how buck nods.
He fiddles with the hem of his hoodie and thinks about a question he can ask his brother before he ask him more about his life.