After messing around with my brother for a bit longer and eating another snack I made my way upstairs to play some video games with the guys. After booting up my console and putting on my headset I see them all already in a party "Yo" I say when I join the party getting a hi from everyone else in the party and then we started playing. "Yo, are you guys excited for our Elemental aptitude test tomorrow?" Art says excitedly since he's been waiting for this his whole life. "Hell yeah, bro I'm so ready to get the best element out of us 4!" Elijah responds right after since he's just as excited as Art about this "I'm excited about it not as much as you two obvi, but you know excited." Kim says, Kim is probably the most normal out of the four of us when it comes Elements, he's hype about having a chance to get them tomorrow but he knows the chances of getting them are so slim that there's really no point in being excited about it at all since you'd just end up disappointed "It's whatever." I respond calmly "Ohhh look at Mr. Nonchalant over here man he's sooo cool right Elijah"
"Your soooo right Art I wish I could be as cool and mysterious as him one day!!"
"Shut the fuck up." I respond back angrily since they do this everytime THEY bring this up not even me, its not my fault I don't care about stupid fucking elements. "OH NO he's showing emotion that must mean he's really angry!!!" Art continues since it's clear his ragebaiting is working on me "Oh my bad let me go back to a monotone for your amusement master." I say sarcastically trying to mess with him back "I mean as long as you know who your master is" it's not working. The three of them start dying at that line since it was soooo funny but in the midst of us messing around a team pushes up behind us and we get killed "Man fuck this is your fault Art" I say trying to get under Art's skin "The fuck are you talking about?? I killed two of them!" It's working. "We were all distracted by you dicking around" I say well shrugging in real life for some reason even though none of them can see me "You died instantly??!!" He screams back clearly mad and seeing that Kim decided to strike "Yeah I'm gonna be honest Art this ones kinda on you. You should've gave better call outs."
"WHATTT, HOW THE FUCK IS IT MY FAULT???" Kim saying that for some reason really got to Art and after him screaming about how its everyone but his fault we all start laughing our asses off since it worked way too well "Man fuck y'all i'm getting off" Art says as he immediately leaves the party to this we all start laughing even harder "Bro rage quitted" Elijah says in between laughs "I can't believe that got him that mad" I say while finally calming down and soon after I finally stop they both do too "I think thats a good place to end it boys I'll see you tomorrow, G'night" Kim says as he leaves the party too "You getting off too?" I ask Elijah "I mean I aint in no rush to leave wanna run a few games of duos?" He ask "Yeah no, I just got on I ain't tryna get off yet" I say in response so Elijah changes it to duos and we both head into a game.
After a few games I ask Elijah "How are you so optimistic about getting an Element I mean the chances of getting one are so slim?" "Truthfully I'm not all that optimistic about getting one.." Elijah says "But I think life would be so much more boring if I didn't at least hope I would get one. I mean imagine if we all get one and we get to go to the Elemental Institute together it would be so much fun truthfully that's what I'm really so excited about the idea that we can all go together and have the best time of our lives together" Not ready for all that to be said I let his words hang in the air for a bit "Yeah that would be a lot of fun" I say softly in return since I truthfully didn't even know if I would want that over what I want now. And so we just sat in silence for a few minutes while playing until I decided to break the silence. "Do you think we'd all stay friends even if only one of us got an Element?" "Yeah I think so. I mean we could still play video games together and when were all adults they can come and visit so yeah I think we would." "Yeah to be honest I don't know if I really want any of us to get Elements. I think things are great right now so I don't know." I say finally letting it off my chest since for some reason I felt like Elijah wouldn't judge me for thinking that "Why?" Elijah responds swiftly after I said my deepest secret "I like things how they are now I'd rather just spend the rest of my life fucking around with you guys and spending time with my family… life right now is so.. perfect and I don't want anything to change that" I say laying my entire heart out on the table letting Elijah know the one thing that's been on my mind for the past week, the fear of my life changing. "Thats a good reason." Elijah said as if it was a matter of fact not even questioning my cruel thoughts, wishing that my best friend's dreams don't come true. "To be honest if I was close with my family like you I probably would think the same but I'm not so." "But isn't it shitty that I don't want Art's dream to come true." After a little bit I mutter under my breath "or my brothers" "It might be a little selfish but I don't think it's shitty. I mean that's your dream and having dreams are inherently selfish but that doesn't make them shitty, like my dream if it comes true not only would my family miss me and would I have to leave them behind I'd be making it so us 4 would basically be all of the Elementals from the year that don't come from the Noble families so my dream would come at the expense at thousands of other kids out age so I guess you could say that my dream is shitty… I mean if yours is." Elijah's words come into my head, completely attacking the thoughts I've been having for weeks and disagreeing with everything I've already decided, like how I thought I was a bad brother, a bad friend since I wasn't supporting my brother and best friend's dream of being an Elemental. After I just thought about Elijah's words for a while I finally responded "Thanks man I've seriously been beating myself up about not supporting them behind their backs." "Don't worry about it dawg and your secrets safe with me btw won't tell no one about this." Elijah responds since he knows I was about to ask him to keep quiet about it which helped ease my nerves about finally saying something. After a few more minutes of silence I broke it again "Wanna run it back?" I say since we've been sitting in the lobby for like 20 minutes now just talking "Yeah" Elijah says happily.