[mild suicide attempt implication mention cw]
Roadie 🪶Jack “Morning, buddy!”
Roadie 🪶Jack “Eh. I guess? Everything from you puttin’ the tape in, at least.”
Viper “Oh, hey there, Vinze!” She chirps enthusiastically. “…It was kinda the easiest way to wake you up, without, like shaking the heck outta ya. Didn’t seem like it’d be a good idea.” At the matter of whether they’d seen it, she nods more solemnly.
“Yeah. We saw it all.”
It was still daytime as far as Vinzent could tell. He was unamused and a tad distrustful of being called buddy by Jack. But… Eh. Okay. So they’ve seen it all. While he won’t evidentely pour his backstory in front of them, because he doesn’t want to… He figured it was hard now to just hide it. Or pretend. Because… Well. He sighs.
“I suppose being splashed with water is miles better than any other method, yeah.”
He closed his eyes, trying to put together words so he can summarize as quick as he could, mostly to Viper (he doesn’t really seem to be sure if Jack was going to be receptive or just being Jack so…).
“Fine. I’m not gonna explain everything. But uh yeah. I hated this highschool. It just happened to be the only one available in my town unfortunately. This a*shole at least ate sh-t soon enough. Would you believe it if I told you he was the son of the ex-mayor that used to govern my town during that time? Said ex-mayor was close to cops so… I was in h-ll because there was no way to make that guy stop tormenting me for years. Plus, whatever got Paul-” A hiss of annoyance at having to say that name again. “In that mindset that he could do whatever he wanted to me just because he had so many privileges… If I could go back in time and beat him senseless as a revenge… I would.”
Even if Vinzent knew it wasn’t necessarily going to make him feel better… There was anger in his voice.
“In any case, even if I couldn’t personally take my anger out on him, I was told he was soon the black sheep of the town and left after… My attempt. As long as he stays out of my face forever, I’m fine. Haven’t gotten any more situations like that fortunately.”
He wasn’t going to tell both the details that his best friend actually took it upon herself to get violent with his bully in his stead when Vinzent was unable to wake up for a while. Which sounds crazy, but it did happen. And the fact that his brother shamelessly aired out dirty laundry about Paul on social medias after digging around… All for Vinzent’s sake, again. Vinzent hasn’t gotten the entire details, but that was about what he was told.
All to say that he realized there’s people he could truly count on and he wasn’t alone.
Now… The tape. He wasn’t sure what to do with it. If he could take it back, he’d have picked who he wanted to show to. Which is not many really. Because that was f-cked up enough. But it is too late, and he’d rather not have it be passed around like some hot potato game or whatever. Is destroying it the best solution? He was considering it at least.
