'When are we going to go and find this other me? You can visit with your friend anytime!'
Will rolled his eyes. As much as he wanted to meet with the other El and hopefully get some answers from her, his psychic twin was starting to get on his nerves.
'I haven't even 'talked' to Mike in almost a month! Do you want me to just tell him to screw off?!'
'Yes!' said El enthusiastically.
Will clenched his fists against the handlebars of his bike and gritted his teeth. He had to remind himself sometimes that El had never had a friend in his life.
'There's no such thing as a 'friend', Will' he said darkly, having read his host's thoughts.
The boy slammed on his brakes, coming to a sliding stop on the dirt road.
'How the hell would you know?!' he fired back. 'I've known Mike my whole life, you asshole! I would stand up for him no matter what!'
The chirping of the birds had stopped, and Will realized that he had been yelling out loud.
'And what makes you think he would do the same for you, huh!?'
'We've stood up for each other lots of times!' he said, breathing heavily in anger.
But El wouldn't back down.
'Really? And what has 'he' stood up for you for?'
'When Troy and his asshole friend wouldn't leave me alone!' he yelled back.
'And?'
Will threw his bike down, stomping off to the side of the little-used backwoods road.
'When other kids called me queer!'
Silence.
Then:
'That's it? Some other kids were shit heads to you and this 'Mike' told them to go to hell?'
He laughed.
'Stop it!' said Will.
'No' El replied, venomously. 'I'm not going to stop: You need to hear this'
'The first time someone holds a gun to his face, or gets between you and him, or gives a choice between his life or yours: he'll choose himself'
'FUCK YOU!' the boy yelled, angrily hitting the ground with his fist. 'It's not the world's fault that you got kicked and ra-!'
'YOU SHUT UP! YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING! YOU NEVER WATCHED A MOTHER THROW HER FIVE YEAR OLD SON TO FLESH EATING MONSTERS, JUST TO BUY HER WORTHLESS ASS SOME TIME! WERE 'THEY' FRIENDS?! YOU NEVER WATCHED TWO BROTHERS KILL EACH OTHER OVER A LITTLE BIT OF FOOD BECAUSE THEY WERE STARVING! WERE 'THEY' FRIENDS?! HOW MUCH DO YOU THINK YOUR 'FRIENDSHIP CAN TAKE BEFORE-'
Suddenly, Will was flying through the air.
As he collided painfully with a tree on the other side of the road, a girl stepped out of the woods, her face a mask of fury.
'Tha-that's her!' said Will, standing shakily. 'That's-'
-'Jane?!' finished El, speaking through Will's mouth once again. 'But How?! HOW?!'
The girl stopped for a moment and stared in obvious confusion.
'YOU'RE DEAD!'
