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“Bird, please just listen to me. It’s not that hard to just get used to people living there. It’s been years since The Incident. You can’t act like the house still belongs to you.”
“Yes I can! It hasn’t even been ten years! Boo! Didn’t you say it’s normally ten years before people start moving in?”
“Well, yes, typically. But it has been ten years, Bird. Bee is right. I died three years ago. You died seven years ago. While I do find it odd that other people have lived in the house before now, it’s possible nobody knew what had happened.”
“What the hell are you weirdos on about? … And why are you using those stupid code names again?” Purpled asked, entering the room, and finally turning on the lights, disorienting Tubbo in the process, and bathing Tommy and Ranboo’s translucent forms in the harsh light. They were currently in Purpled’s house, more specifically the spare room, since Punz always got freaked out seeing Ranboo. If Ranboo was over, then Tommy usually was as well. Punz hated Tommy, mainly due to Tommy constantly messing with him, since Punz couldn’t naturally see him, and Tommy didn’t want Punz to see him, as Tommy had far too much fun messing with Punz.
“... Oh hey! Purpled, we should go over to the Craft house to greet them!” Tubbo said, grinning.
“I— what?! Tubbo, no! You can’t!” Tommy said, panicking, and so he made himself intangible, and began to repeatedly float through Tubbo, trying to make him as uncomfortable as possible to cause Tubbo to reconsider. Tubbo ignored him.
“... We could probably do that. Just have to get Punz’s permission first. He’d probably be glad to get Tommy out of his hair, honestly…” Purpled muttered, actually considering the idea. That made Tommy pissed. Purpled was his friend! His! So why was Tubbo’s idea getting consideration?! Sure, Tubbo was Purpled’s brother… But that didn’t matter! Purpled had said that Tommy came first. So why was he so interested in meeting the neighbors now, when he’d been indifferent when Tommy had complained about them? Why did Tubbo mentioning them make Purpled interested in visiting? It wasn’t fair.