Flicker, Fade ⧫ Kellic / Ryden / Jardougall / Jalex

20 :: miss atomic bomb

[april 26th]

: hey i'm super stressed but i've been mega productive today and i am proud of myself for actually doing my work the night before it is due and not really quick in the locker room in PE right before the class. also i have two more chapters of this story to post isn't that crazy i don't think that's okay at all. also i really hate this chapter because i didn't know what to write so just enjoy the shit i've got for you. 

this song is miss atomic bomb by the killers and it is their best song by far . it stuns me it is gorgeous it is the most enchanting creation in the universe. listen to it. 

racing shadows in the moonlight

we're taking chances on a hot night

and for a second there we'd won

yeah, we were innocent and young

"Try this on!" Kellin was in a dressing room at some department store, Gee had earlier explained that the huge stores on sides of shopping malls were called anchor stores because they were the big stores that lots of people always went to, being miserable because Gee was insisting that he had to dress nicely for graduation.

Which was odd, yes, he was graduating. Somehow, he hadn't failed all of his tests and was managing to graduate high school, though it wasn't as though he had ever planned on going to college. Apparently, Gee had been a mess on one of her graduation days, Bay Ridge had a collection of odd things that involved graduating, like the ceremony with the capes and ugly hats, and the ceremony where people dressed up, and the other one that just involved people in the grade, whatever it was, Gee was still beating herself up for not wearing a dress and looking "bomb as fuck," at her graduation, and was taking out her regret on Kellin, who had initially been planning on wearing jeans and a t-shirt, because that was the kind of person he was.

How he had gotten into the mess, Kellin wasn't exactly sure, but he knew that he didn't like anything that Gee was throwing over the door to him, and he knew with an absolute certainty that he did not look good in anything, really, not button down shirts or weird suit jackets or anything fancy, he especially didn't look good in things like that. And Gee Way had convinced herself that she was going to force him into something that she liked and made him want to throw up. There was nothing he enjoyed more than shopping with someone who considered herself the fashion queen of the universe. 

He threw the pair of pants that Gee had, moments ago, thrown over to him back over the door and heard Gee's indignant screech from the other side of the door.

"They're horrible!" He said, imagining the look on Gee's face.

"They're great!" She protested, pushing them back over the door. "You think everything is horrible," she continued, her voice taking on the nagging tone that it often fell to.

"They won't fit." Kellin used his next excuse and eyed the pants again, hating them with all of his being.

"You haven't tried them on!" Gee protested, telling the absolute truth. "Try them on. I'm going to find you a  jacket." Kellin sighed and listened to her shoes click away. He fought with them for perhaps a grand total of five seconds, and gave up because the waist was too small. He put his normal pants back on and was about to go find Gee and protest that he was tired and was about to pass out because shopping had odd effects on him, he must have been born with a weakness in that regard, but stopped when he saw her heading right towards him, covered in hangers of all sorts, walking with a purpose.

Never mind.

"You get right back in there, I've got you a respectable outfit. Even better than the last one." Kellin didn't believe a word of it, but was shoved back into the dressing room with the collection of clothes.