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“Did you ever get in trouble for the jokes you and Sneeg were making?” A very tired Tommy asked into his phone mic. Ranboo being on the other end of the call.
“Oh, earlier? Nah, they said everything was fine and my contract was still good. I was genuinely worried by the end.”
“Yeah I saw that you had hurried along the end of stream, Twitter had been talking about all the things said and what not. I’m glad you’re still good with the uh contract.”
“I’m so glad things have been working out with Misfits! My possible 6 months just turned into under 2 months.” Ranboo sounded so excited and Tommy wanted to be excited for him, he really did because honestly he couldn’t wait to see the dirty blonde again, it hurt him to be so far away but he was so upset .
“Yeah. You’ll come and get to spend time with Aimey and Toby. Most of your time. Then you’ll have those meetings and streams and adventures and it’ll be so great.” Tommy’s voice monotoned as he spoke and Ranboo’s excitement quickly depleted.
“Are you upset that I’m going back over?” He sounded so small as he spoke.
“No I am excited you’re coming back, I miss you a ton,” Tommy paused, “You’ll just be with the misfits and Tubbo and Aimsey and you’ll be with Tubbo a lot and I’m really happy for you guys to be reunited. Especially when your surprise visit back here was cut so short because he was so shocked to see you and the whole reunion was just so great to see.”
“I don’t know what is wrong with you,” Ranboo sighed, “But I had a long day and I can’t sleep call later I have a meeting so goodnight Thomas, I will talk to you whenever.” Ranboo ended the call and just sat on his bed staring at his phone. There was no meeting. But whatever the hell got into Tommy, Ranboo wanted no part of. He thought they were going places but it was like every time they went anywhere in their whatever the fuck it is its like all progress gets reset and it’s frustrating.
And what the hell was Tommy even going on about with Tubbo? Did they get into a fight? Ranboo sighed, “Hey Siri, call Bo.”
“Calling Bo.”
Ranboo waited as the phone rang before he heard the call being picked up, “Bo.”
“Boo!”
“Did you and Tommy get into a fight?”
“Uhm no?” Tubbo asked, “Why did he say we did because I don’t think we did, we talked normally earlier and I had mentioned the excitement for you maybe coming sooner and he had to go shortly after so I’m not sure. Is everything alright Bossman?”
Ranboo furrowed his brows, “No, I don’t think it is.”
“Need me to talk to him?” Tubbo asked and Ranboo thought for a moment about it.
“No need, forget I said anything I was just overthinking again,” He chuckled, “You know I do that a lot, okay love you bye!” Ranboo ended the call and called Wilbur on discord next.
“Oh Ranboo! Happy Birthday!” Was how Ranboo was greeted, which was strange.. Wilbur knew when Ranboo’s birthday was and it was clearly not on February 3rd.
“Uh.. thanks? I just woke up from a nap and called with Tommy to plan a sleep call when I get to Tubbo’s in a lot of hours but he was being weird.”
“Right well, BooTwt misses you a lot.” Wilbur said, “You might want to look at twitter, it’s nothing negative, they just genuinely miss you while you’ve been inactive. But enough about that, You said Tommy is being weird. Specify how.”
“Okay, well I- no wait he mentioned Misfits and Aimsey and Tubbo and how I’ll be spending all this time with Tubbo now and then when I’m not with Tubbo, I’ll be busy streaming or in meetings and he was just being off.”
Wilbur hummed, “Did he seem upset about Tubbo being that close with you?”
“Yes.”
“Maybe he’s jealous.” Wilbur tossed the idea out there knowing full well the two had feelings for each other.
“About what? That I’m taking his best friend because Tommy and I recovered from that a year ago. I’m not going through that petty shit again, Wilbur.” Ranboo heard a knock on the door and he excused himself to Wilbur, setting his phone down, “Come in.”
Ranboo’s mom walked in holding a cake and a shit eating grin on her face, “Happy Birthday!”
Ranboo’s face froze with his mouth slightly ajar and his eyebrows furrowed with his eyes narrowed slightly. What?
“Are you okay?” Ranboo asked, “Because we both know it is not my birthday.”
His mom laughed and handed him the cake with a lit candle, the cake read, ‘HAPPY BIRTHDAY RANBOO also GO BACK TO SLEEP, RANBOO’ Ranboo just blew the candle out with dismay on his face. “Mom, what the hell is this?”
“Twitter missed you.” She said with a shrug like it was nothing . He literally went on a break for almost a month and this shit didn’t happen.
Ranboo picked his phone up, putting Wilbur on speaker and going to Twitter to look at the trending tab. “Why? Just why? I was catching up on sleep and this is trending because they miss me but when I went on break it just wasn’t like this.”
“They respected you on break Ranbus.” Wilbur said with a chuckle. “Take a photo of the cake and send it to me before you board.”
“Yeah I will- wait oh god! We can talk about my issue when I land, Wil. Bye!”
“Bye!” Ranboo ended the call and took a photo of the cake.
“I’m ready to go.” Ranboo said and his mother chuckled leaving the room with him trailing behind with his two luggage and a backpack.
Ranboo did his usual goodbyes at the airport and boarded the plane, putting on spotify for a while. He would listen till his phone died, he supposes.
*
Ranboo got off the plane and made his way to Tubbo’s, exhausted beyond words. His nap beforehand did nothing for him and his shitty ability to properly nap on planes.
Tubbo had luckily not been streaming when he used his key to go through the glass doors from the garden. He was told to go that way to avoid waking anyone in the house who had work in the morning or school.
Tubbo @TubboTWO
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| I’m sorry what?
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Ranboo @Ranboosaystuff
Just go to sleep it goes away in your dreams
Ranboo had noticed that people were trying to get ‘Happy Birthday Tubbo Tobias’ trending along with ‘Happy Birthday Ranboo’ and ‘Go back to sleep Ranboo’ there was even #ranboorumors which is by far the funniest shit BooTwt has done so far in the last 24 hours.
Ranboo plugged his phone in and let it charge enough to post a ‘Goodnight’ post on his Instagram not doing the usual mirror selfie but instead making it so it was a mirror but the background wasn’t visible.
Ranboo moved himself, his phone and his charger to the living room. He plopped down onto the couch and passed out before he managed to plug his phone in.
*
“Bossman,” Tubbo said, shaking Ranboo awake. “I plugged your phone in while you were sleeping and now it’s going kind of crazy. Did you tell Tommy you were coming here by any chance because he thinks you’re dead. You also fell asleep in your winter coat so I took that off and surprisingly you didn’t wake up. I think I did wonderfully.”
Ranboo blinked a bit trying his best to process the words being said to him. He found it hard to breathe for some reason but realized he had fallen asleep with his mask on. He took his mask off and just rubbed his temples. God his head hurt. And he was sweating.
Ranboo took his hoodie off as well and just sighed, “I told Tommy I was coming this time. He’s just clingy. What time is it anyway? Like 9?”
Tubbo chuckled a bit, “9? No.” Ranboo only raised a brow, surely a 9am wake up time would have allowed him more than enough sleep. “Boo, it’s 1pm.”
Ranboo was suddenly wide awake, “No way- there’s no way. I had so much shit I wanted to do before 3pm and now I can’t do any of it.” Ranboo groaned. “I need to shower, we can catch up in a minute. I just need to process.”
“Well at least your birthday is over.” Tubbo smiled and Ranboo flipped him off as he grabbed clothes from his luggage before heading to the bathroom.
Ranboo left the bathroom and found Tubbo on his phone while Tubbo’s phone was on his lap. Ranboo was glad for Tubbo knowing he was playing damage control with Tommy.
“Tommy is coming over. He’ll be here in an hour.” Tubbo said and Ranboo slowly turned back to face Tubbo.
“What was that?”
“You heard me.”
Ranboo let out a breath, “Why? He’s been a jerk.”
“Because he said he had something to tell you but it had to be in person and the only reason he has the balls to do it is because Wilbur told him how you would react to the words he has to say, so with that said, I know what it is. Wilbur was right, and I’ll be with Aimsey in 50 minutes, so. Goodluck!” Tubbo tried to make a run for the bathroom to probably shower before his plans but Ranboo blocked him.
“What are you talking about?”
“Just trust me, Boossman. Okay?”
Ranboo huffed, “Fine.”
Ranboo stepped aside and let Tubbo into the bathroom.
*
Ranboo was anxious. Tommy said he would be there in less than a minute and he had no idea what was going on. What if Tommy was ending their friendship?
Or worse, what if he had found a girlfriend?
Well, maybe they’re both equally as bad.
Not that Ranboo would be jealous that someone is dating Tommy. Totally not. Not at all. Right..
Tommy walked into the addon and set his backpack on the ground, it held overnight stuff. “Hey.” Ranboo said, picking at his fingers.
“Hey, Boo.” Tommy smiled softly, “I’m sorry I was being a dick the other night. It was never my intention. I will admit that I was j-..jealous.”
“Of what? I’m not trying to take your friend away from you..” Ranboo looked at the ground, “I never even intended to be friends with Tubbo better yet be such good friends and I know I just kind of came into your life - and I’m sorry about that - but just don’t be mad at Tubbo at least.”
Tommy’s face grew concerned and he walked over grabbing Ranboo’s face to make Ranboo look at him. “Are you worried that I’m upset over that?”
“Of course I am.. I don’t want to overstep anything..”
Tommy frowned, “Boo. I'm jealous that Tubbo gets to spend so much time with you. Because I like you. Like.. a lot more than friends should like each other.”
Ranboo let out a relieved breath, “Oh I’m so glad the feelings are reciprocated.”
“Reciprocated? So you?”
Ranboo smiled, “Yes, Toms. I like you back.”
It was Tommy’s turn to smile, “Then prove it, Boo.”
“Only if you call me that forever.” Ranboo said and pressed their lips together.
Both were grinning as they pulled away.
“I could do forever.”
“Good because that’s how long you’ll be mine for.” Ranboo promised and they shared another kiss. Perhaps they wouldn't have to face jealousy any longer.