Art by the INCREDIBLY talented @quitewavy (x_skam.art_x on IG)
[written for the 2021 @skambigbang ]
A CHEMICAL PHENOMENON
Isak/Even | 1/15 Chapters | T
SUMMARY
Even’s ready to spend a chill senior year enjoying his last year of high school before graduation. But first he’ll need to pass Chemistry, a class he’s so spectacularly bad at that it’d take a miracle. What’s more, he’s landed the notorious Isak Valtersen as a lab partner. What little is known about Isak comes from largely outlandish and unfavorable rumors: whispers have ranged from him being a ruthless heartbreaker to his rumored participation in underground fight clubs.
But the boy sitting beside him every 3rd period period seems far from the rumors, and Even’s fascinated. Isak wears his hood up indoors. He doesn’t talk much. He scowls more than he smiles. And for someone who sleeps through every class, he aces every exam. Even just so happens to desperately need a Chem tutor, but he wants to be Isak’s friend more, and he’s happy to use as many terrible chemistry puns as it’ll take to get there.
Throw in a class president election that Even somehow finds himself running for, an actual underground fight club, and the fact that their lab experimentation isn’t the only chemistry happening between him and his lab partner, and somehow—Even finds his senior year turning out a little less chill than expected.