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Ranboo wanted to call Tubbo a pet name but all the common ones never felt quite right. Babe, sweetheart, dear. Just none fit Tubbo well. He wanted a name just for him to use for Tubbo, something that was just his. Why was this so hard? Everything in the media made it seem so easy, like they came naturally. God, why did the media have to only show an idealised view of romance?
Ranboo would spend hours while with Tubbo just trying different pet names in his head, discarding each one. Maybe a pet name would just not describe his feelings towards Tubbo well enough. Maybe he would have to give up on this idea. Tubbo, however had no problem with this, Ranboo was called all sorts of names in the form of a pet name. Some maybe wouldn’t be taken as sweet by outsiders but Ranboo loved each and everyone. He knew they were filled with love and they reassured him of the love that Tubbo had towards him. He just wanted to give Tubbo the same feeling.
They were sitting on the couch when it happened, when Ranboo said the perfect pet name. They were relaxed with each other, feeling each other against their sides. Just existing with one another. Tubbo moved, slowly getting up, taking away Ranboo’s human heat pad.
“Why you leaving Tubbo?” Ranboo whined at him, annoyed that Tubbo moved without warning.
“Just going to get a drink, dickhead.” Tubbo replied.
“But couldn’t that wait?” Ranboo asked his boyfriend, looking up at him from the seat, “I want you to stay.”
“Do you want me to dehydrate and shrivel up?” Tubbo answered dryly.
“I guess not, my love.” Ranboo didn’t realise he had said it, but oh boy did Tubbo.
“My love?” Tubbo laughed, “Did you just call me your love?”
“I-I guess I did.” Ranboo was panicking because he did say that. Oh god, my love was perfect but it sounded like Tubbo hated it. Was he destined to never have one for Tubbo? “I can not call you that again. If you didn’t like it?”
“When did I say I didn’t like it, you idiot,” Tubbo was laughing even more now, smiling wide. “I love it, you big idiot.”
Tubbo leaned down and kissed Ranboo before pulling him in a hug, laughing into his shoulder. Ranboo was filled with joy, he finally had the perfect pet name. One that fits Tubbo entirely. Tubbo was his love, no one else’s and now he got to remind the world of that every time he showed his affection.
“I know that face.” Tubbo said as they pulled apart, “You are gonna abuse the fact I said I liked that. You are gonna be one insufferable fuck now.”
“No… I wouldn’t do that.” Ranboo replies. He definitely was going to be insufferable. Their friends didn’t know what was coming.