{SCE} Clones Are People 2

[Lucy James]

Sitting still on the ground with her legs pulled up underneath her chin, Lucy 2 stared at the other clone in front of her, Jack 2. "Looks like she didn't get rid of me yet..." Lucy 2 sighed, her blue eyes dropping to the ground. "I guess that means I have to stay... Oh joy..." She shifted as another sorrowful moan fell from her lips. She didn't know where Lucy was, but she doubted the much, much prettier version of herself wasn't too pleased with the idea of Lucy 2 sticking around.

"I don't even have my own name... I don't really exist..." She shuffled some more. "I'd make a suggestion, but she wouldn't listen. No one ever does..."

"I've been talking to her about it..."

"You probably don't care, but..."

"She hates me."

Lucy 2's finger absentmindedly started poking at the dirt.

"I'll never be as pretty as she is..." she sighed. It wasn't like she'd exist for much longer once Lucy found out how to get rid of her. "And when she finds out... I'll be gone. And now I'm stuck here... With you..."

[Jack McCarthy]

Like most Jack two was surprised by the events that lead to the genesis of Lucy’s emotional dup more so by the fact that she’s still here.

But even more so that she would want to talk to him, of all people…

He leaned against the wall sinking on the ground sitting Indian style his face down cast not even looking Lucy in the eye “I’ve always wanted to exist…fulltime I mean…but from what I understand it’s overacted” he muttered to himself shaking his head

“At least you get to pick my name…I didn’t, Jack just called me his own name with the number two on the end. I don’t know what I would pick…maybe worm…That suits me…”

Jack two began to swing his foot back and forward as he spoke “Yeah, Jack despises me…not that it matters for you. He threats me the way he does because he doesn’t like to acknowledge me…those feelings..I can’t say I blame him..If I could I’d ignore me to”

“I wish you could find better company” Jack two two noted swinging his head “so how are you finding it? Living…seeing as you’re…two days old. Or something...I don't even know why you're talking to me

[Lucy James]

Of course; Lucy 2 was still very much a selfish bitch, because she couldn't have nice things. Or traits. So everything the other clone was saying, didn't even reach her. Mostly anyways. "Names are too personal... I'm not personal. I'm just yet another shadow stuck in the sun..."

"At least you're being acknowledged... I'm invisible. I'm nobody..." sighing, Lucy 2 dropped to the ground, her face planted against the dirty. "I might as well just lie here forever... it's not like it'll make a difference..."

"I spent the entire night calculating my own chance of survival... and then the human's chance of survival... But I don't like it," she mumbled against the ground. Lifting her head slightly, Lucy 2 sighed.

"Did you say something? I didn't hear you over the sound of my own insignificance."

[Jack McCarthy]

She didn’t react. He didn’t blame her. Anything that came out of his mouth was just like him…worthless. He was used to being ignored, he deserved to be ignored. “I’m not even a person Jack two sighed grabbing at the grass causally “I’m not even a person…I’m just a physical manifestation of emotion…not even the good kind of emotion…the emotions everyone just tries to avoid…I don’t know if I’m a “He” or a “It”…Probably a “EW”

“It’s probably best if I just stay here and lay here and never move..it’s not like anyone would miss me. Jack would probably throw a giant party” Jack said shaking his head

Jack two lay back his head lying beside’s lucy too “You know when people say, things can’t get any worse? Doesn’t it always turn out that it does? Every secord it just gets worse and worse and worse”

Jack two took a deep breath in and out “Never mind it wasn’t like it was anything worth listening too…”

[Lucy James]

"Earlier today, I lay down in front of the bus and someone came along to ask me what I was doing. I don't even understand why they bothered... but I answered them 'I'm just trying to die.'" Staring at her hand, Lucy 2 sighed solemnly.

"Funny," she said. "How just when you think life can't possibly get any worse... it suddenly does."

Sighing again, Lucy 2 closed her eyes. "I think you should know that I'm feeling very depressed...not that you'd care. Not like anyone ever does."

Opening her eyes again, Lucy 2 took a deep breath before shaking her head. "Maybe if I lie here for long enough, death will come for me..."

[Jack McCarthy]

God, look how nice a day this is” Jack two looked up at the blistering sun beaming down on them truly a beautiful day “Disgusting isn’t it?” Jack sighed “That probably just means, global warning will kill us all…if were lucky” he noted as they spoke “I wish it was raining, just a down fall but then we’d just get cold and wet and uncomfortable….So that wouldn’t be good either would it?”

“I heard a joke once..” Jack idly said once the subject of jokes were raised. “It was awful”

Jack turned her head to look at Lucy “I know, talking to me has that effect on people…” Jack sighed

“Maybe if we just lay here for a few years, moss would gross around me and we’ll just get absorbed by the grass” Jack said wishfully “Me? I’m trying to stare directly at the sun…maybe I’ll melt like a snowman…Probably won’t though
. I'm not going to get my hopes up

[Lucy James]

Following Jack 2's gaze up, Lucy 2 nodded in agreement. "Maybe we're lucky enough to get another thunder storm and lighting will struck down to kill us all." She could only hope, right?

"I know the feeling... And I've only been alive for a brief second when looking at the whole...depressing picture." She sighed as she shook her head.

"If you're lucky, you'll go blind and won't have to see anything ever again... But then again, we're never that lucky, are we?"

Pushing herself up into a sitting position, Lucy 2 ran a hand through her hair. "Not even my hair is as pretty as hers..."

With her luck, Lucy 2 was forced to stay around for quite a while longer. As if existing inside Lucy wasn't hard enough, now she had to breathe on her own? Breathing was so tiresome. She wondered if she could hold her breath for long enough and then just.... Nothing.

[Jack McCarthy]

“There’s your mistake; hoping, hope is pointless.Don’t worry though…Well do worry…You’re only a day or so old, you’ll figure out how meaningless things are…” Jack two reassured her…or tried too considering there was nothing he could say that’ll make her feel better “With our luck we’ll have lovely weather for the next week….great…” he sighed placing his hands under his head to serve as a blanket.

“I wish I could say it gets better…but it doesn’t..” Jack two admitted “You need to numb yourself ….or at least try…even though it’s pointless to try at anything..it’ll just end up in failure” Cue sigh

“You’re hair is better then mine”...well not mine...Jack's Jack two said running his hands through his own hair....He keeps it so messy, it doesn’t matter if I try to style it or not. I just come out the way he is at the time…Meaningless. Pointless. Just like everything…

Jack two turned his head in the direction of Lucy “How do you think the teachers will react?”

[Lucy James]

"This is why we can't have nice things. Then again, everything nice is pointless. We're all going to die eventually, and it's not like anyone would care..." Then again, death would free them of this life for all eternity.

Sighing, Lucy 2 looked at Jack 2 and frowned. "Maybe if I cut mine... But that would take effort... and effort is meaningless," she sighed solemnly.

With a somber expression Lucy 2 looked at the boy and shrugged. "Great, give me more things to worry about.. Just what I needed." If she even lived for that long...

Laying down onto the ground again, Lucy 2 pressed her face against the ground. "Maybe it'll be better if I eat dirt until I get poisoned..." And with that, Lucy 2 started silently nomming on some of the grass. "This tastes awful. Awful like my non-existent life..."

"If only I was good enough for Him to notice me instead... But I'm not. I'm bland. Mediocre."

[Jack McCarthy]

“Life is pointless as a whole, in a hundred years none of this will matter…It’s especially meaningless for us…were not people…were just feelings…with arms and legs…not with hope and dreams of course…but everything else we have just like them…” Jack two noted.

“You’re right it would. I don’t even have the energy to sit back up I’ll probably lie him and wait till I passout…Or the worms eat me…heh…Death by worms. That would be a dream come true….but dreams are just there to be crushed and broken…so that can’t happen”

“I’m sorry. I mess everything up I know….” Jack said shutting his eyes “I have a dozen more like it…like what if gravity…just stopped, you know, just stopped and we just all float off into space…”

Jack looked over as Lucy began to eat the grass with an almost curious expression on his face before he slowly turned over on his stomach and buried his face in the dirt rubbing his face back and forward in it at a rapid pace “Oh surprise surprise…” He said with his voice muffled “This tastes terrible…Goody, this will probably kill me faster through…woo"
Jack turned his head in the direction of the Lucy clone. “Him?”

[Lucy James]

"If gravity stopped and we floated into space, we'd suffocate. Our eyeballs would pop out of our skulls and we'd feel ever intestine in our body explode. Slowly." Lucy 2 tossed Jack 2 a quick glance. "And then we'd die."

Chewing absentmindedly on the grass, Lucy watched the other clone rub his face against the dirt. "Maybe it'll turn us into cows."

Sighing solemnly once again, Lucy 2 propped her head against her hand as she continued chewing, stopping only to reply. "The boy from the other day. The one with the painfully gorgeous smile. The one who will never notice me... never love me..."

Ah well... Sulking now, Lucy 2 dipped her head back against the ground and took another big bite off of the grass.

"My only purpose in life is to eat grass."

[Jack McCarthy]

Jack two’s eyes met his fellow duplication eyes once she told him what would follow if gravity did suddenly stop working his eyes wide as his adam’s apple bobbed “Knowing my luck that’s going to happen any section now…space suffocation, my intestines flooding out of my body gripping the grass as if he felt the need to hold on "It's a monday. Could never get the hang of a monday"

“Cows?” Jack asked his face still buried in the dirt “All cows do all day is get their special places touched all day waiting to be eaten…No man I want to be an earth worm. That’s the thing to be” Jack two said rubbing his face into the dirt more and more “Mud is love. Mud is life”

“You mean, the boy that beat the shit out of Jack? Yeah. I see the appeal” Jack two suddenly cringed Oh god… you just reminded me that no girl would have anything to do with me and I’m going to die alone…I’m going to go back to being a worm” Jack turned his face back to the dirt “Life is so less complex here…”

[Lucy James]

"Don't forget about the excruciating pain that would undoubtedly follow," Lucy 2 noted with a slow nod. Because that would be just her luck. To die the most horrible way possible.

"I'm starting to think I should have remained laying in front of that bus wheel..." Ah well, life was nothing if not filled with disappointing and soul-crushing moments that changed the course of your life... Usually for the worse.

"That does sound better than being eaten by small children," she said, a pained expression sweeping across her already solemn features. "Children hate me."

Taking another bite of the grass, Lucy 2 chewed on it with an expression that pretty much read 'I have nothing better to do, so I might as well do this'. "You make me sad. But that's hardly difficult." She shook her head at that and sighed before she continued chewing.

"I once ate a worm."

[Jack McCarthy]

“It can’t be any more painful then the constant non stop agony and misery that is life” Jack assessed somewhat accurately or at least in his own opinion anyway…

“If I had to pick between talking to me and laying in front of a bus…The choice would be obvious too” Jack sighed.

“I’d probably taste awful too…”

“I know I do too…” Jack two noted lasping into silence and stared into the distance “I better go” Jack two said suddenly sitting up “Not like anyone is looking for me, but Jack gets jumping if I’m out for too long” He said getting to his feet and looking down at Lucy two scratching his neck

“This was…mediocre”

[Lucy James]

"Of course you want to leave. My company isn't worth the time..." Lucy 2 sighed heavily, waving her hand around. "At least my-- Lucy doesn't want me around... I'm totally lucky. I guess. No one wants me. No one would even notice if I disappeared... At least I have that going for me."

Lifting her gaze, she looked at the other clone. "For a forced conversation, this was equally as much fun as laying in front of the bus, hoping it would start and run me over."

"I wish you could run me over." She sighed again, shaking her head somewhat before she lowered her gaze again.

"But wishes don't ever come true, all you're ever left with is disappointment and failure, and then a total lack of self-worth." With that, Lucy 2 plumped back against the ground, rolling onto her back as her arms spread out.

"Have a nice day. I know I won't. I'll just lay here... all alone...waiting for death..but it won't come. It never does."