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Tubbo honestly would’ve expected worse but this isn't his first time waking up with someone yelling at him. For a second, he contemplated even wanting to get up, but then realised that would make matters worse.. However that didn’t stop him from rolling back over hoping it didn’t. 

Of course, that didn’t work…

“TUBBO I thought I told you to clean the kitchen last night!” Dream yell outside his room. 

“I was going to, but I thought I should do my work first then clean the kitchen afterwards...but then I fell asleep” Tubbo winces at the bright light from the hallway

 “Well get up and do it now, I don't wanna hear dad complaining so get on it” 

“It's literally 6am. We have to get ready for school in 2 hours, you do it. It's your job anyways.”

“Okay”

“Thanks”

That’s all? No counter? Weird .. Tubbo thought as he rolled back over. 

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Tubbo woke up late for school. That fucking bastard turned his alarm off, and now its 10 am and hes running to school, basically already missed first period. On any normal day he probably wouldn’t have cared, but today is different. How? No fucking idea, he just really didn’t want to be home today. 

Tubbo walks into 1st period basically as it ends and sits at his desk, which of course… is in the front, he tries to ignore all stares he gets as he awkwardly sits at his desk. 

God, he would do anything to still be asleep in his bed, well maybe not since his, since Schlatt will be home. Why can’t the bell just ring already.. 

And as if god themselves heard him, the bell rang, he’s free!! Tubbo gets up and rushes towards the door but not before his teacher can say something... Aaand his teacher lectures him on how it’s important to “Come to class on time” and all the other bullshit. Why can’t he ever win?? It’s like everyone hates him for just existing. Tubbo feels his eyes watering as he leaves the classroom. Just breathe, calm down.. You’re fine.. probably. He somewhat calms down, and enters 2nd period.

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After 1st period, tubbo’s day was pretty good, 2nd period was chill and he had a study hall for 3rd period. Now, he’s sitting at lunch with Tommy Jack and Purpled.. Everything was fine yk? until it wasn’t..

“Dude, Tubbo you look like absolute shit, what happened? you over sleep after jacking off or something?” Jack and Purpled laughed.

“Why am I always the butt of you guys jokes?”

“Woah tubso, chill out” Tommy threw his hands up. “Yeah dude we're just joking” Purpled defended.

“S-sorry, didn't mean to overreact” 

“No worries big man, We'll pick on someone else instead”

So you were making fun of me..

“No you don't ha-”

Tommy fires a spitball across the table. It hits this quiet blonde kid? Assuming he’s quiet since he was reading a book. He's in some of my classes, what was his name.. Ranboo? I think

“Hey kid, what's your name?”

“Me? Ranboo.”

“Did you say Ranboo? Kinda a weird name” 

“I like Ranboob better, we’re going to call you ranboob” Purpled added

“Okay? I prefer if you didn't though..”

“Ranboob, why do you look like that” Tommy joked.

oh.. Ranboo thought. “Wdym?”

“Like your eyes, dude they're fucking freaky” Purpled add, tommy stifling a laugh.

“I have heterochromia”

“Thats fucking weird, your eyes don't even look righ-” 

“Guys please leave the poor guy alone” Jack interrupted. “I can't listen to this anymore I'm getting second hand embarrassment”

“You guys are such assholes wtf did he even do to you” Tubbo added 

“It's literally your fault” Tommy argued.

“How is it my fault? I literally asked to stop being the butt of your so-called jokes. Not make fun of someone you don't even know” 

“Think i'm just gonna go actually” Ranboo quickly grabbed his stuff and started to walk away.

“Ranboob you should get colour contacts maybe that'll help your face” Tommy yelled after him as he walked up the stairs. 

Not cool.. “I'm gonna go after him” Tubbo grabs his stuff. 

“Do want you want, we don't care”

“See you later”

“Bye”

Did you see how tall he was? Bet I'm taller. Nah there's no way, he's like 6’6 at least. Yeah he's got like at least a foot on tubbo. He’s a fuckin monster dude.

Tubbo ignored them as he walked out into the hall, Shit I didn't see which way he went. Maybe he went to the library. He opens the door to the library, and there's a two eyed tall blonde kid with round clear glasses sitting in the back reading a history book. Bingo! found him. 

“Hey” Tubbo loudly slides into the chair in front of him. “Hi?” Ranboo looks at him weird, wasn't his friends just making fun of me ranboo thinks to himself. “Uh, just wanted to apologize for what tommy and the others said. They aren't bad people I swear, they can just be a lil rude i guess? at times” Well maybe more than a lil.. They sat in an awkward silence for a bit until ranboo spoke up again. “Don't apologize, you weren't the one being rude. It's fine anyways, they didn't really bother me, I bet they're probably lovely friends” . Yep, lovely friends. “Yeah” .. “Yeah”. They sat in another awkward silence for about, 10 minutes. “Wanna walk to class together?” Tubbo offered. Ranboo thought for a bit “Sure why not”. 

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The walk to class was short, but nice, they discussed narwhals, what brought on this conversation? Only philza minecraft himself would know. “You know narwhals actually exist” Tubbo stated. “Wait really? I thought they were like make believe or something because of that one song?” “The narwhal song?” “Yeah that one” 

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And as if it only took 3 minutes (which it did), they arrived at chem class. “Wanna sit with me? maybe?” Tubbo did that thing where you point your two index fingers together, Cringe. “I was gonna say yeah but after that I really want to say no” “Aww c'mon man? I'm actually chem class” Ranboo rolled his eyes and pulled up a chair next to Tubbo as class began to start.

“So what type of music do you listen to?” The smaller boy laid his head down facing the taller boy. “Have you ever heard of lemon demon?” Tubbo shakes his head, “No I don't think so”. That's all ranboo needed to hear. He started talking about his favorite band. This made tubbo happy because he could just tell how excited ranboo was to tell him about Lemon Demon. Tubbo felt as if they were the only two in the room as ranboo went on about his favorite album and Neil Cicierega, the founder of the band. 

As school ended and class dismissed, they ended up exchanging numbers so ranboo could send tubbo some of his favorite songs and they could just text about school homework as well. 

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“Is that tubbo? Is he still talking to that freak?” Purpled gestured towards tubbo and ranboo who are talking in front of a classroom. 

“He probably just feels bad for him, don't worry about it” Tommy puts his history book in his locker. 

“Tubbo!” Tubbo sees Tommy making a ‘come here’ gesture towards him. 

“Gotta go, text me?” “Sure” Tubbo runs towards tommy.

Tommy closes his locker and looks towards the tall boy, “Why were you talking to him?”

“He’s pretty cool, I like him” Tubbo shrugged, and caught up with purpled and jack, “C'mon tommy” “Yeah yeah” Tommy turns around and catches up to tubbo.

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At first glance, Ranboo’s family is pretty confusing.. I mean with the lack of parents, well I wouldn't say lack of, more like.. absence? After the “incident”, they've been away. They still send money every month which is good. Neither Niki nor Eret really appreciate it but Ranboo puts the money to ‘good use’. 

Ranboo was in 6th when his parents left, Niki in 8th and Eret in 10th. At first when they left Ranboo was confused, when are they coming back? he wondered. He remembers when Eret said that they weren't gonna come back, he lashed out. “Mum and dad said they'd be back!” “Mum said she'd never leave, she told me she'd never hurt me” “Your lying”

It only took Ranboo till 8th grade to realize they weren't coming back. I mean it didn't suck, he, Niki and Eret were doing just fine! Eret really helped take care of Ranboo even though they were still 8 months later Eret finished highschool, and just like their parents.. he left. So now it's just Ranboo and Niki. Ranboo noticed after Eret left that Niki’s mental health got worse. 

Sometimes she'd lash out of Ranboo, and they’d get in these big fights. Last year it got really bad and they had started throwing things and she grabbed scissors and hit Ranboo’s right eye. Well not exactly his eye, but like right under it. Niki helped him clean it up afterwards while profusely apologizing. They didn't go to the hospital, if they did then they'd be questioned a lot. Since nobody’s heard from Eret and Niki isn’t exactly an adult yet, neither of them really enjoy the idea of being put in a foster home, they would rather live off their parents money. Anyways that's how he got THAT scar. Lucky ranboo didn't lose any sight from it. After the fight they stopped talking to each other, they figured the less you speak, the less they'll fight. So now they keep their conversations short.

“I'm back” Ranboo yells. Ranboo locks the door. “Welcome back ranboo” Niki half-heartedly smiles. He wonders if she's in a good mood or not, you can never really tell with her anymore. “So, how was school, anything new?” Niki’s looking at him now, she looks less upset than usual . “Uhh, nothing really? I made a friend today, I think I'm not sure if we're friends exactly. Maybe like.. school friends I guess.” He did get his number but.. that's different, probably just wanted to be nice, you know.. get to know each other. ”Oh well, that's nice I guess” Niki passively-aggressively answered, Ranboo could tell he was probably starting to get on her nerves. “Gonna go to my room now, sorry” He picks up a muffin off the counter and leaves. 

As soon as Ranboo closes his door he hears a glass-like breaking sound from the kitchen. Then Niki opens his door and hands him an envelope then slams it shut. From Mom and Dad it read. Oh… yikes. He thought as he opened the envelope and there's like at least over $500, and a card. Happy birthday son, We know this is probably a week late but How could we forget our son’s birthday. Will be home within a couple of months!! Almost 95% curtain!! Can't wait for you guys to meet the twins and we can't wait to see our babies after so long. You're a sophomore now!! That's so wicked!! Remember when you first entered 6th grade? oh the memories. This is getting a bit long so we're gonna end it here for now. Don't forget to write back!! 

Love, Mom & Dad

1. Giving you, more money than usual this time, don't spend it all in one place -Dad

Ranboo was sick of it, I mean yeah.. money woo!! but he was sick of the empty promises. Nothing has and nothing will change the fact that his parents left him and Niki just so they can “restart” what kind of fucked up shit is that. Ranboo folds the envelope and shoves it in his pocket. He lies down, staring at the ceiling. He lets his mind wonder for a bit

Why did mum and dad leave? Why couldn't they just stay? Where's Eret? Is he okay? Why did he leave too? Why can't he remember anything that happened in 6th grade? Or anything that happened before?? Ranboo grabbed his phone. He goes to google, “why can't I remember my childhood” . He scans through the results, anemia, trauma , hit on the head. Maybe google was a bad idea.. he turns his phone off. 

Ranboo gets up and goes into the kitchen. He carefully steps over the broken glass and muffin bits on the ground. He opens the fridge praying Niki had gone to the store or bought something, but to his disappointment there was nothing in the fridge. And when Ranboo says there’s nothing, he means there’s literally nothing the fridge is empty. Ranboo checks the cabinets and takes a pack of oreos. He decided to order some mc donalds. “Niki,” He called, “do you want something from mc donalds?” He didn’t get a response, so he figured maybe she didn’t hear him and decided to just go to her room. 

The first mistake ranboo made was not knocking on the door. “Hey Niki do you want som-” Ranboo paused, the first thing he immediately thought was why is there a tall lanky boy her in bed. Also, who is he? And what is he smoking? Is he okay? Is Niki okay? What’s going on here? When did he even get here? These are the things he should be asking but instead he just stands there, staring.. “What do you want?” Niki broke the silence. “Oh uh, nothing actually, I just wanted to let you know I’m uh… I’m gonna be on the roof, yeah.. i'll be on the roof hahah” Ranboo mentioned. “uhm! Okay, why are you telling me? I don’t care what you do, just stop bothering me” Niki closed her door. “Sorry about him, he's weird” Ranboo could hear outside the door. Ouch. He thought.

Ranboo decided to just order his mc donalds and actually hang up on the roof. Sitting on the roof doing nothing sounds like heaven but he knows he's too stressed so he decides to grab something to help him relax, hopefully. He looks under his bed and grabs an orange shoe box and takes out a small box that was inside it. He goes up to the roof and finds an area to sit. 

Now you’re probably wondering what it is that Ranboo has, or not.. I’m still gonna tell you either way asshole. Is it meds? No, not this time. Alcohol? Definitely not. Cigarettes? Close, it’s weed you fuckin idiot. How did you not figure that out? It was so fuckin easy -_-. 

Anyways Ranboo grabs the already-rolled-paper (because the author doesn’t know how to roll a blunt) and takes his lighter (yes he keeps a lighter on him, who wouldn’t??) and lights it. He takes one long and very much needed hit and leans back. It’s been awhile since he’s done this, and by a while he means 6 days. After taking in the first one he takes another hit, and then another and holy shit he forgot how addicting this shit is. After 2 more Ranboo starts feeling sleepy, not really sleepy, just really fucking drowsy. His phone vibrates. 

678 *** ****: r yiu ranhbop ?

786 *** ****: naj whid dis ?

678 *** ****: idk

786 *** ****: tubbo ?

678 *** ****: dats mw!

786 *** ****: oh i ser thus us rnboo

678 *** ****: oaky test goed in glass u djdt give mw a fske nuner

786 *** ****: ru drnk ? 

eait ill brb mu foods here

Tubbo: OKAYU

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Yo! author here lol, so some shit has happened heh and basically i just decided to rewrite this except im gonna make it way worse/sader than i originally had planned for it lol. but yeah im starting rewriting now and once im satisfied with whatever i fuckin write ill come back and update this.. and i'll get someone to read over my shit i swear