"Why do I have the feeling you dragged me into this somehow?" Isaac said through gritted teeth.

The jock clenched his fists. Edward Quinton, captain of the basketball team.

"Ew, a nerd," the senior next to him said. Felix Wolfe, captain of the football team, and whitest of white boys; blonde hair and all.

"Ew, there's two of them."

Ashley looked between him and the two jocks. "Um...do you know them?"

"They're pricks," Isaac declared.

"Oh, fuck off," Edward hissed. "I don't know where you came from, but I almost died a few minutes ago, and I don't want to deal with either of your guys' shit."

"You had to go through a first trial thing too?"

They turned. In the middle of the group were two boys. They looked nearly identical, except for their clothes and hair. Isaac assumed they must be twins. The one who had spoken had curly brown hair and a yellow shirt, with a stylized orange sun. His brother's hair was darker, straight, and covered one eye, and like a true emo was wearing a black jacket. He glared at Isaac when he noticed he was looking at him.

On the other side of the room, a big blonde dude in a flannel—he had to at least be 6'4, seriously—looked up from where he'd been trying to console another teenager on the floor. The kid didn't seem to really notice Isaac and Ed's outburst.

"I think all of us did," Flannel Giant said gravely. "It sounds like you had different trials than mine, though."

Isaac frowned. "Uh...is he okay?"

Flannel Giant looked down at the kid he was with. He was shaking pretty badly. "...I don't think so," he murmured. "He won't talk to me though."

"If we give him a minute or two, he might feel a little better."

Isaac squinted at the boy in blue. "Barry? What the fuck, why are you here too?"

Barry shrugged. "No idea."

Something was weird about him

Isaac looked around at the rest of the group. There were only two other adults present; a woman in a suit with dark hair, and another in a T-shirt and jeans with red hair, tied back in a pony tail. The red head was smiling at the business woman, but she was tense. The business woman, meanwhile, had a perfect poker face.

The only person left was a tall, pale kid, with really light blonde hair. For some reason, he was wearing sunglasses inside. He looked pretty anxious.

"Um..." he started nervously. "Does anyone know where we are?"

"...Well, I know we're in a building," Isaac said, looking around.

"We could also be underground," Edward said. "There aren't any windows."

"A building with no windows would be really suspicious," Ashley piped up.

"Maybe we were abducted by aliens," Felix said. "That's it! We're in the mothership and they don't want us to realize we're not on earth, so they took out the windows."

Everyone stared at him.

"...you're a fucking idiot," Emo Twin declared. "If we were on a spaceship, we would be floating."

"Not if they had artificial gravity," Felix shot back. God, was he actually serious?

"The instructions for the first trials wouldn't be in any human language, either. Even if they somehow learned to speak English," he cut Felix off before he could continue, "It would be really shitty English, and it probably wouldn't sound so much like a human voice."

"Unless they'd been studying us for a really long time."

"Are you serious?"

"Or they-"

"Shut up," Isaac and Ed snapped.

"We're not on an alien spaceship," Ed said flatly.

"This place would look a lot cooler if it was," Isaac agreed. "...In the unlikely even that you're right, though, it would be fun to take over the ship and become space pirates."

Ed rolled his eyes. "You couldn't even knock an alien over."

"Could you guys not fight right now?" The Tall Boy said.

"We should figure out how to get out of here, wherever we are," Barry agreed.

"'We?'" Emo Twin asked. "No offense, but I don't trust any of you. For all I know, one of you could be with the people who kidnapped us."

Everyone went quiet.

————
I hate dialogue god why can't I just open my brain case and throw the story into the screen and have it work
anyway do you guys want the picrews for my OCs or nah