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“Come on, boys”, Sapnap urged. “You don’t wanna leave Tubbo waiting, do you?” The boys in question, Punz and Karl, instantly shot up from the living room floor where they were playing.
Sapnap and Dream set up a video call play date for Tubbo, Karl, Punz, and George as soon as they found out that Tubbo was a Little. But that was before Ranboo left the front UK, and ever since then the Florida boys have been too busy with content, and to be honest, they forgot about their plan. But, after weeks, Sapnap and Dream contacted Aimsey, Tubbo’s “substitute Caregiver”, and set up a date for the Littles.
“‘m so ‘cited!”, Karl exclaimed, ‘unzo! ‘ou ‘cited?” Punz nodded, sucking on his fingers, which Sapnap quickly fixed, replacing Punz’s fingers with a yellow pacifier. Karl ran up the stairs to Dream’s room, while Sapnap helped Punz, who was a little unstable on his feet that day.
“Are we all set?”, Sapnap asked. Dream hit a few buttons on the keyboard before nodding.
“I think so”, he replied, smiling and trying to juggle a bouncing George on his lap. “Now we just have to wait for Aimsey and Tubbo.”
“I wike Aim’ey”, Karl said. “Dey funny.” Punz nodded. Sapnap went to his room and grabbed two chairs, then brought them back for Karl and Punz to use while they talked to Tubbo. Sapnap and Dream got the boys in their seats and went out of camera view.
“Kawl!”, Tubbo exclaimed once he joined the call. “Hi!” He then noticed the two boys on either side of Karl. “Hi, Pun’o! Hi, Gogy!”
“Hi!”, all three boys exclaimed in unison. Tubbo smiled and looked off-screen, he must’ve been looking at Aimsey.
“How you, ‘ubbo?”, George asked. Dream and Sapnap both looked at each other and smiled at George’s manners.
“‘m good!”, Tubbo replied. “Aim’ey and me went to da park an’ gots wots an’ wots of ‘weets!” He giggled and looked back off-screen. Karl pouted.
“Wish my Daddy would buy me can’y”, he mumbled. Punz tugged on Karl’s sleeve. “What?”
“Papa buyed us can’y ‘while ‘go”, Punz said. “..wiar.” Karl gasped.
“Daddy! ‘unzo cawled me a wiar!”, he exclaimed. Sapnap came into camera view and grabbed Karl and Punz by the arm gently, getting them out of their seats and taking them out to the hallway. George looked over at Dream and shrugged, then looked back at the screen.
“Hi, ‘ubbo!”, he said. Tubbo smiled.
“Hi, Gogy!”, he replied, shifting in his seat a little bit.
“Kawl an’ Punzo bein’ bad”, George said. Tubbo nodded. George beckoned for Dream to come on screen. “Dada? P’ease?”
“Toby doesn’t need to see me, bud”, Dream replied. “You can talk to him.” George pouted.
“Fine”, he mumbled. George turned back to the screen and tried to think of something to say. “You has any ‘tuffies?” Tubbo nodded.
“Mhms! I has a wot”, he replied. “Wants ta see?”
“Yes, p’ease!”, George requested, nodding. Tubbo got out of his chair and went to grab his stuffed animals. He came back a minute later with his arms full, and got back into the computer chair. Tubbo began to show George his assortment of stuffed animals, a couple of stuffed bears, a Minecraft axolotl, and Tubbo’s most favorite stuffie, his Minecraft bee plushie, Linus.
“‘boo gots him fo’ me”, Tubbo said. “Gogy has ‘tuffies?” George bit his lip and looked over at Dream. He didn’t have many stuffies of his own, in fact, he didn’t even own one stuffie, all he had was his baby doll and that was it. George looked back over at the screen and shook his head sadly.
“Gots a baby doll doe”, he said. “Named dem Baby.”
“Aw! I wove babies!”, Tubbo gushed. George smiled softly. He liked his baby too, he liked feeling wanted by Baby, that must be how Dream feels, he thought. Just then, Sapnap, Karl, and Punz walked back into the room, Karl and Punz sat back on either side of George and Sapnap went to sit back with Dream.
“Bee?”, Punz asked, pointing to Tubbo’s bee plushie. “I has bee.” He looked over at Sapnap. “Papa? I ge’ bee?”
“You can get your bee, honey”, Sapnap replied. Punz hopped back out of the chair and ran to his room, grabbing his own Minecraft bee plushie, then ran back to Dream’s room.
“Tubbo!”, he exclaimed, holding out his bee plushie so Tubbo could see. “Bee!” The British boy squealed with delight.
“Bee f’ends!”, he replied. “Bee f’ends! W’at bee’s name?” Punz shrugged.
“No has name”, Punz said. “He jus’ bee.”
“I wike him”, Tubbo replied. Punz smiled and hummed happily. George looked over at Dream and grabbed the front of himself.
“Dada?”, he asked. “Gots ta go potty.” Dream got up and got George out of his chair.
“Does anyone else have to go to the potty while I’m up with Georgie?”, Dream asked. Punz’s hand raised slightly, still clutching his bee plushie. “Come on, Punzo.” Dream took the two Littles to the bathroom while Sapnap stayed with Karl and watched the two boys talk about random stuff.
Dream, George, and Punz returned a couple minutes later and the boys returned to their seats. The two Caregivers could sense that the Littles were getting bored and a little sleepy.
“Alright boys”, Sapnap said. “I think it’s time for a nap. You can talk to Tubbo another time, okay?” The boys nodded and said their goodbyes.
Sapnap moved the two chairs back to his room and got his Littles to their respective rooms, while Dream stayed behind to talk to George.
“Georgie, do you want some of your own stuffed animals?”, he asked. George shook his head.
“I has baby”, George replied. “‘kay?” Dream nodded.
“But if you want some stuffies we can go shopping sometime”, he said. George just shrugged. “Okay, buddy?”
“No shawe?”, George asked, looking up at Dream with wide eyes. Dream shook his head.
“You wouldn’t have to share your stuffies”, Dream assured. “Does that sound good?” George nodded.
“Ni’ ni’ now?”, he asked. Dream shook his head.
“Ni’ ni’ now”, he said, picking George up and then taking him to his room to nap.