up until this past week he's been tattooing up in ellsworth (about 30min northish) 5-6 days a week and coming home dealing with gram, pretty much the only thing he's had emotional bandwidth for is a textlationship lol. it would be easy to match them on a dating app or something (if that's something he'd be into! if not, small towns gonna small town + we can figure it out), maybe it took a week or two for them to even meet face to face? there's even always the possibility neither of them were really feeling the physical chemistry when they finally did and it just became a conversational friendship from there. isaiah's more into licking brains than anything else tbh? like he values someone's perspective and philosophy more than he values sex anyway.