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When you see Phil in the halls you see many things, you see his plain black backpack that looks half empty. You see his blonde hair and blue eyes and a smile always on his face. The kind of smile that makes you feel his excitement and want to smile as well. You see him talking to people, he's kind and that makes people like him. But if you look within arms reach of him you’ll almost always see a boy beside him, quiet and reserved and quite the opposite of Phil.
When you look for techno in the halls he isn’t hard to spot, dusty pink hair and a red bag with pins on it. If you see him you’ll find him with a book in hand or headphones on. You can look for him in the lunchroom but you won’t find him there. But when you see Phil, 2 steps to the side, Technoblade walks alongside him.
But when your name is Wilbur and you need someone to revise your terrible writing for an english project, you’d be looking for the kid in your grade that got to skip a year of english to plan on taking a college credit class in his senior year. Yet when you need him to look at it, he is nowhere to be found, so what do you do? Find the guy he follows around like a dog and hope he knows, so here he is looking for Phil before school starts wandering around the commons.
Walking around the tables of kids eating breakfast and chatting with friends, Wilbur spots a head of blonde sitting with a few others that he doesn’t know but he needs help with this essay and Phil is the way for him to not get an F.
“Hey Phil right? You're in my speech class I think,” Wilbur spoke up and got his attention and was greeted with a smile and blue eyes.
“Oh ya I am, what's up mate?” Wilbur wasn’t sure Phil knew his name and that's fine with him.
Looking around he didn’t see Techno anywhere and his hope for not seeing his teacher Mrs. Leighton again next year was draining.
“You and Techno are friends, do you know where he is? I need his help on an Essay” Wilbur talked with hope in his voice, if anyone could find him it’d be Phil.
“Oh Techno’s here, he had a coffee with him when he walked by so I’ll bet he’s in his first hour already” Phil explained but that gives Wilbur two new problems, first he has 10 minutes until class starts, and second he has no idea what the kids first hour is.
Phil saw the panic in Will’s eyes and laughed a little, “Do you know Mrs Klusener? He has history first, so last door on the end to the left,”
“You are a lifesaver, thank you so much!” with that Wilbur looks at the clock.
7 minutes
He’s got this, he can make it, he rushes down the hallway as fast as he can without the teachers yelling at him, he just has to find Techno and ask him if he can help him.
Walking into an unfamiliar classroom he looks around and sees soft pink hair and a coffee sitting on his desk.
I might have a chance
“Technoblade hey!” Techno looked up at him confused but that's probably fair, sure they know each other having classes together throughout school, but they weren’t exactly friends.
“Um hi?”
“You're like smart, right?” That's not how Wilbur wanted this conversation to go but that's too late now. With the look he’s getting from the other he can kiss his passing grade goodbye, “That's not how I meant that, you skipped an English class so you're good at it right? I really need help on this essay and I thought since you were good at it that maybe you could help me, I mean it's not like I’m gonna ask you to write it, I have it done but my grammar and everything isn’t-”
“You want me to revise it?” Wilbur was cut off but with all his rambling that was probably the best thing for his pride at the moment.
“If you could?”
“Ya I can, wanna meet in the library during study hall?”
“That’d be great man I need it turned in by tonight”
“No problem”
“You are a lifesaver man” Wilbur backed up towards the door “I mean it dude you are awesome!” Techno didn’t do much but hum and go back to his phone, but this means that he has a chance! He walked into the hallway that's shockingly empty for the time he still has a few minutes until he needs to be in class right?
RING
Shit.
Walking into the library during study hall at the end of the day he was really hoping the kid didn’t forget. Yet looking across the room of tables he sees two tables with people at them, two kids that looked like freshmen just by the awkwardness that comes with how they look. But the other table sat a blonde and one chair over was the man he was depending on. Something was different though, Techno looked happier, brighter, like simply sitting my Phil and listening to the blonde talk was all it took to change his whole attitude.
“Thats not what was said said mate”
“Pretty sure that is exactly what was said Phil, Mr J looked at me and said ‘I hate you’ and then he beat me up, you just missed it when you walked in” Wilbur wasn’t sure about what was being talked about but thats not really his problem, yet watching Techno’s eyes as Phil laughs at him, are they a thing?
Not that its a bad thing just wasn’t expecting it out of them, but it makes sense, but that wont help him with his essay.
“Hey guys” he interrupts and suddenly has both sets of eyes on him instead of each other.
“Hello Wilbur” Techno spoke up as Wil set down his bag and pulled out his computer, “I’m not sure if you just want to read through it, also sorry in advance” he typed in his password and opened the google doc.
“It can’t be that bad Wilbur” Phil condoled and Techno hummed in agreement as he passed the computer to him.
“Well I didn’t know what I was supposed to do but that is in fact 2 pages”
Techno read over the essay as Wilbur and Phil talked. Phil was funny so Wil could see why Techno liked him. Phil told a story about him and one of the freshmen in the class he was being the teachers assistant for, apparently Tommy had been playing with a fidget toy of some kind and when it popped he just threw it at his other friend in hopes to not get the mess anywhere else. But the other kid Tubbo had just passed it to another friend of theirs named Ranboo without knowing it had popped. Poor Ranboo just took it and squished it, sending the insides all over the table and getting all three of them in trouble.
It was a fun story, and with the way Phil talked, it made Wilbur laugh. No wonder people like him. Techno pushed away the computer and took off his glasses to rub his eyes. That's not a good sign.
“Ok, um Wilbur… what was that?” Wilbur gulped and panicked a little.
“An essay?” with a sigh Techno put back on his glasses and looked at him.
“No, that was words on a document.” Wilbur looked down in a bit of shame, “what kind of essay were you supposed to write?”
That wasn’t the reaction he was expecting, “what do you mean?”
“I mean that after reading that I couldn’t tell what your point was and if you were supposed to be informing me of something or Arguing against something, do you know what your assignment was?” Wilbur knew it was bad but he didn’t know it was that bad.
“It was supposed to be me arguing that today's current minimum wage should be raised…” Techno took a deep breath before responding, “This is due tonight right? Because for your sake I hope your not doing anything after school”
Phil laughed a bit at that, “Oh come on mate it couldn’t have been that bad” That's it he is officially doomed to never pass Sophomore english.
“Are you able to help any? I really didn’t know what I’m doing dude she just said pick a topic, a view, and that it needs to be 2 pages long with sources, please Techno I am so lost”
“Did she give you an outline? Because you have sources but this is one big paragraph, and I’m not sure your arguing for it but more so shoving facts into my face to hopefully distract from the lack of a thesis statement”
“A thesis what?” Techno looks like he might get up and leave right at this moment before Phil starts laughing. Like magic Technos face cracks and he smiles before looking back at the computer screen. “Your gonna have to re-write this” he says with a breathy laugh in his voice.
“It's not all lost you have good information you just need to format it like you want to write an argumentative essay instead of a rant, let me find you an outline for what one should look like” With that Techno got out his computer and they spent the next hour and a half trying to painstakingly make it through Wilburs essay. Everytime he had Techno check something he wrote there was something wrong with it so Wilbur was really hoping that this will help his grade. But everytime Techno looked at his terrible writing he complained about the run on sentences and the misspelled words but Phil would say something and instead they would all laugh.
The bell for school getting out had rung ages ago and Wilbur was really waiting on Techno to hand it back and say something about it and have him rewrite it again.
“Wilbur, I think you did it” It was only the millionth time that he passed his computer over its gonna be something-
“Wait what?”
“You did it Wilbur, that right there is an argumentative essay that is well written and done by you, which means you can turn it in and we don't have to spend longer sitting in this library” Phil cheered and offered him a high five which he took because for the first time all school year he is feeling confident turning in a freaking paper and that deserves a high five.
Wilbur turned in that paper as quickly as possible, after spending so long on it he was sick of the thing and didn’t want to think about minimum wage any longer than is needed. He thanked Techno and Phil before they all packed their bags and left school for that day much later than when the bell rang, but with an essay turned in that hopefully won't suck.
That night when he checked his grades he saw it ‘New Grade updated in Junior English: Argumentative Essay 93%’ he checked again 93 thats an A-
For the first time in his life Wilbur got an actually good grade on his papers, and he wanted to do something the man that made it possible. So the next morning he stopped at a coffee place before school. He couldn’t tell what Techno was drinking but it looked like it was iced, most people like caramel right? Getting him something that's got both should be fine right? He doubts Techno will care much if he is getting free coffee out of it in all reality.
Walking through the commons he doesn’t see him nor Phil, maybe they aren’t here yet? They could be in one of their first hours? Walking past the library he hears a laugh echo through the mostly empty hallway. Thank god for Phil and that laugh, Wilbur turns and walks into the library looking around. Sitting next to some the shelves sat Phil and Techno criss crossed on the floor one hand holding the others. Wilbur guessed his suspicion on them being together was right. Still Techno smiled as Phil talked about something that Wilbur wasn’t awake enough to decipher.
“I found you” Phil jumped a little at him talking seemingly caught off guard, “I wanted to say thank you Techno so I uh… I brought you coffee? You had some yesterday and I didn’t know what you liked but you are actually a lifesaver” Techno looked a bit in awe as he was handed the drink.
“You didn’t have to do that Wilbur but like free coffee for me? I’ll take that deal, thanks man” Techno chuckled a bit as he talked before making a face at Phil who responded with the biggest look of disappointment Wilbur had seen on the guy.
When Will was walking away he heard the two talking and laughed about it while heading to the commons.
“Techno you shouldn’t drink that”
“Phil I was given a gift and I will enjoy it as it was intended”
“The kid doesn’t know that you already had a monster today and dont fucking sleep at night does he?” Techno scoffed before Will heard a slap and laughs from them both.