Rocky Raymond //Book Six// - COMPLETED

Chapter 3 - A Flash of The Lightning

MacKenzie's POV

Cisco and I walk into the lounge at STAR Labs after dealing with Chester's molecular monitoring system thing

"Hey, Frosty." Cisco calls to Frost who has headphones in and a notebook. "Earth to Frosty!" He yells and I look at him. "Calling all White Walkers! You know what? Frak it." He says, going over to her and yanking her headphones

"Hey!" Frost exclaims. "I was listening to that."

"Maybe you should be listening to Chester's molecular monitoring system so he doesn't, you know, turn back into a black hole!" Cisco yells

"Relax, okay?" Frost tells him. "I put the freaking alerts on my phone."

"Oh, you mean these freaking alerts?" Cisco asks, holding up his phone that was alerting him. "Yeah, see, Mack and I handled the situation and prevented us from being sucked out of existence by a giant death vacuum. What did you do with your Tuesday?"

"Nothing." Frost says, covering her notebook

"Is that..." Cisco whispers, grabbing for the notebook

"Nope, nope. No, no, no, no, no, stop it, stop it." Frost protests, trying to grab the notebook from him

Cisco pulls the notebook away and steps towards me, opening the notebook up with a drawing

"Were you drawing?" Cisco asks

"No." Frost says

"You were drawing." Cisco tells her

"No. Because drawing is for losers." Frost says

"Mm! Looks like you were drawing." Cisco says

"It's really hard, okay?" Frost says

"This is giving me, like, minimalist reductionism." Cisco says

"I was trying to draw this." Frost says, holding up a picture . "I've been working on it forever. And it's not getting any better."

Frost grabs the notebook from Cisco

"Is this why you've been all cranky pants since Kamilla's show?" Cisco asks. "You've just been trying to express yourself."

"I stink, okay?" Frost says. "I don't know why I thought I could plumb the depths of my soul." She goes to rip out the page from her notebook

"Hey." I call her attention, stopping her from ripping the page. "You do not stink. Don't ever say that about yourself."

"You want to go off and be Vincent van Snow? You want to show the world what's inside of you using art or paint or dance, do it." Cisco tells her. "But you gotta understand that other people are trying to do it too."

"I feel like a Yakuza baddie is stabbing me in the stomach." Frost says. "Repeatedly. Is this how I made everyone feel at Kamilla's show?"

"Yep." Cisco says." That's a feeling we like to call guilt. It's a little stabby. But it can also show us when we need to make something right." Cisco stands up from his seat. "Come on, Mack, I'll drop you off with your mom."

I nod, standing up

***

Iris, Ralph, and I are in her office late at night. Iris and Ralph are looking through files and records they got while I sit at Iris' desk, playing pacman on her computer

Ralph gets a call and puts it on speaker

"Hey, did you get those juvie records?" Cecile's voice asks through the phone