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“Are you sure you’re feeling okay?” Ranboo asked for the umpteenth time that night. April first was quickly approaching its end, Ranboo noticed and realized he hadn’t even pranked anyone. Had he been that busy?
“Yes, Boo. Why?” Tubbo asked into his phone.
“Because we always face time, but for some reason you decided not to.” Ranboo’s voice reached a weird octave for a moment and Tubbo heard some shuffling around. Maybe he was just getting into bed or something.
“Because I told you. I wasn’t presentable but I might hang up and go to sleep now.” Ranboo heard a door open on Tubbo’s end and Tubbo muted for a moment. Ranboo didn’t say anything so Tubbo could talk to whoever he was. “Right like I said, hang up, bed.”
“Seriously?”
Ranboo heard his door open and Tubbo walked into the room . “April Foo- why are you standing on your chair?”
“There’s a spider- wait, why are you at my house, in America?” Ranboo killed the spider with some tissue and jumped off the chair, rushing over to hug Tubbo as Tubbo ended their call.
“April fools?” Tubbo asked into the hug and Ranboo laughed.
“I thought you- 12 hours ago we were talking like normal.” Ranboo let out a disbelieved laugh. “I’m so happy to see you, Toby.”
Tubbo pressed their lips together quickly, “I’m happy to see you too, Boo. Now let’s cuddle!”
Ranboo nodded and pulled Tubbo into his room and onto his bed to cuddle. He would have to thank his parents later on for letting this happen.
They watched a movie (they definitely didn’t miss most of it to make out) and after it ended, Ranboo dragged Tubbo outside and they started a walk towards the sound of the ocean. Their fingers stayed interlocked. “I’m glad you’re here.”
Tubbo beamed, “I’m glad I’m here too! I’ve missed you! And you were so busy before you left that we didn’t even get to see each other.”
“Yeah it sucked but at least we still try to talk to each other every day.” Ranboo spoke softly as they approached the beach.
They both lost their shoes as they walked along the sand while the moon brightened up the night, “thank you for being here.” Ranboo said and Tubbo leaned his head on Ranboo’s arm.
“But better April Fools prank than me?” Tubbo asked and Ranboo laughed.
“You’re right.” Ranboo kissed his head, “you’re the best April fools prank.”
“I’m glad, but.. I do have to confess something.” Tubbo said awkwardly and they stopped walking.
“Oh sure, go ahead.” Ranboo said letting Tubbo say anything he wanted, looking at the brunette with pure admiration.
“I’m not real.” Tubbo whispered.
“What?” Ranboo’s brows furrowed.
“You’re sleeping, Ranboo.”
“No no, now this isn’t a funny joke.” Ranboo could feel his heart rate picking up as he started panicking.
-
Ranboo jolted awake and nearly fell out of his chair but his mom was there to support him and keep him from falling, “are you okay?” She asked and he rubbed his face with his hands.
“You- I- what?”
“You were having a nightmare I think. It was pretty extreme and also, Toby is on the phone. He called while I was trying to wake you up and said you had a stream you needed to be on.” His mom explained and Ranboo sighed looking at the date and seeing it was only March 31st.
“Okay, thanks.” He spoke softly and she kissed his head before leaving. Ranboo switched the call to his pc and put his headphones on, “hey Toby.”
“Hey Boo! Tommy just started his stream.” Tubbo explained and Ranboo hummed, rolling his neck a bit to get the kinks out from sleeping on his desk.
“Right well I’ll see you in vc in a few minutes.”
“Boo, are you alright?” Tubbo asked before Ranboo could leave, “you just sound off, is all, honey.”
“I’m fine, hon.” Ranboo let out a breath, “just a weird dream. I’ll see you in a minute.” Ranboo left the call and joined the vc with others.
The night went from Tommy’s stream to his own with lore then to mining with Tubbo in the vc messing around then to Tubbo’s stream.
Tubbo of course wanted to call with Ranboo all night because they called every night they couldn’t spend together and Ranboo accepted the offer, smiling to his boyfriend as they both laid in their beds. “Will you tell me about that dream?”
“You just pranked me for April Fools in it and then you just told me that you weren’t real and I was dreaming. It was really weird.” Ranboo kept it short because it was better that way. He just missed his boyfriend, there was nothing he could do.
Unless..
“I actually just forgot I have to do something for Phil.” Ranboo sat up, “we can talk tomorrow okay?”
“Sure, honey. I love you.”
“I love you too, Hon.” Ranboo ended the call and grabbed a small luggage bag and tossed some clothes in it before calling Phil.
“Phil, I know it’s really late but I need you to get me at the airport in Brighton in a few hours.” Ranboo paused as he left his house, texting his mom, “and if anyone asks you made me do something for you all night and I’m sleeping so I can’t answer my phone.”
“Sure, Ranboo, but are you okay?” Phil asked, sitting up in bed and getting a concerned look from Kristen. It was 3am for the people in the UK.
“I’m fine.” Ranboo scheduled a plane ticket and got into his car, driving to the airport. He would pay the weekend parking fees.
“Are you sure because you sound.. not.”
Ranboo chuckled, “I just need to go see my boyfriend- I had this really- this really fucked dream and it’s really messing with me. I can’t shake it. So I need to make it better if I Hope to have a good rest of my stay in America.”
“Okay, well I’ll support you. Text me when you land, I don’t live that far away. Wilbur is staying at my flat though, so he will probably come.”
“Yeah yeah, that’s fine. I’ll see you in a few hours.” Ranboo said and ended the call, heading to the airport and going through everything he needed to before getting on the plane and starting his journey.
*
“No I don’t know why he’s not answering me, it’s really fuckin’ weird.” Tubbo said into his phone.
“Toby, Phil said he was up all night. Let the poor man sleep.”
“It’s Ranboo we’re talking about, his sleep schedule is always fucked but never this bad. My texts didn’t go through till about 20 minutes ago.” Tubbo pouted, “it’s weird.”
“I know tubs but- hang on someone is here, my dad just answered the door.” Tommy paused, “Wil what are you- oh heyyyy! Toby give me one second.” Tommy muted to the phone. “Ran?”
“Hey Tom.” A very tired and clearly sleep deprived Ranboo smiled at him. Wilbur had his arm around the poor boy, it seemed like when he did sleep it wasn’t good as of lately and now he just hadn’t slept on the plane.
“Ran, why don’t you go home and get some sleep?”
“I’m just here to see Toby for the weekend.. but I need you to go to his house with me and help me organize this in an April fools fashion.” Ranboo yawned.
“Sure, Ran. Let me end this call and why don’t you go get some coffee or something.”
Ranboo nodded and Wilbur brought them to the kitchen. Tommy unmuted. “Toby, do you think I could come over? This bee problem is not good and my dad needs to talk to my landlord without me here. It would just be for a little while.”
“Of course, maybe together we can harass Ranboo when he wakes up.” Tubbo said and Tommy laughed.
“Of course mate, I’ll see you soon.”
“See you.” Tommy ended the call and went to the kitchen.
“I told your dad we were stealing you and he went to have that meeting with your landlord.” Wilbur said and Tommy nodded.
“Let’s get going then, I have a plan.”
-
Tom > I’m here, can you open your door it’s locked
Toby > oh shit, yeah
Tubbo walked over and opened the back door and let out a gasp at Ranboo who was in the doorway. “April fools?” Ranboo asked and Tubbo jumped at him, wrapping his legs around his waist.
Ranboo always expects hugs like that after they first met and caught Tubbo quickly. Tubbo pressed their lips together in a sweet kiss and Ranboo smiled into the kiss while Tubbo followed. “Best April fools yet.” Tubbo said with his forehead pressed to Ranboo’s before they pressed their lips together again.