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Beep. Beep. Beep. Tommy smashed the button on his damn alarm clock, before shoving his face into the pillow. After a couple of minutes of lying still, Tommy managed to get himself over to his bedroom door.
He went over to the bathroom to apply some makeup for the ladies, like the big man he was (definitely not just to cover up the ugly purple bruises scattered around on his face).
He thought about going downstairs to grab some cereal but decided that being ignored by his family cause he’s annoying wasn’t a good start to the day.
He grabbed the pile of books from the floor of his small bedroom to put in his bag when he realised… shit.
“I was supposed to do Dream’s homework but I forgot. How could I forget??? How could I not remember that??? "Well maybe Dream won’t be too angry,” Tommy thought as he made sure to tuck in his tail and wear a beanie to cover his raccoon ears.
He shoved on his red hoodie from the crumpled up pile of clothes on the floors and started to walk to school, since his brother Techno had already left without him to go to his new job. It was a writing job… or was it to do with dealing with children?
It’s not like he cares, but it is weird how Techno told him… but he kinda zoned out.
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Now Tommy realises that thinking Dream won’t be angry is a mistake, but Tommy knows no matter what he says to Dream, Dream won’t be happy.
“Wanna tell me what happened loser,“ Dream bellows at him, after throwing another punch to his face. The second he walked through the doorway into his school Dream was waiting.
Tommy can feel the tears flooding down his face and dripping onto his hoodie now as well as small drops of blood that started to grow bigger as Dream’s ring cut his fragile skin.
“So the brat can talk!”Dream says, while Tommy cries out in pain. “I-I-I,“Tommy stutters in reply.
“Maybe I should do everyone a favour and shut you up myself,” Dream told Tommy. Dream grabs him and shoves him against a wall by his throat. Then the punches start.
As the punches grow stronger and stronger and stro- *ring*. Dream drops Tommy to the floor with a look of disgust as the beaten up boy falls to his knees. “Don’t think you’re off the hook,“ he calls out to Tommy as he stomps to class, after giving Tommy one last kick to his stomach. Note to self: Dream will get angry if you don’t do his homework.
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Tommy has to drag himself up off of the floor and limp to his next class, while trying to recover from the kicks to his right ankle Dream initially gave him. He has a new English teacher he realises as he walks in late to the lesson.
“I’ll put up my hood,“ Tommy thinks as he stares at the ground and desperately grabs his hood to cover his now revealed ears (after losing his beanie) and pulls it around as much of his head as he can, while trying to not be noticed.
“Take a seat“ the teacher calls out to him. As soon as Tommy sits down he can already hear the whispers and snickers from all around him. “Look which weirdo finally decided to honor us with his presence,“ the bitch from behind him snickers.
“Shouldn’t you be in the zoo fur ball boy,“ Jack (his ex friend) whispers into Tommy’s ear from the desk next to him. Tommy has to stop himself from checking his tail has not come out.
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Tommy knows he’s not being bullied for being a hybrid and he’s bullied, because most hybrids are seen as cool like his brother, who is a huge strong piglin or his Dad whose an avian that can actually fly, but Tommy is a raccoon hybrids and raccoon hybrids are seen as dirty street rats.
The bullying isn’t always other students either it’s normally teachers too but hopefully this one isn’t as bad- “everything good back there?” the new teacher asks in a very familiar voice. “Just wanted to know the date” Jack replies, but Tommy knows he was talking to his new friends about how much Tommy sucks. Tommy looked up to see his new teacher, but it’s... 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑. He glances at Techno for a second, before freaking out.
“What if he gets angry at me for being a pushover at school or maybe he’ll join in or he might just ask to teach a new class to stay away from me because I’m annoying.
“Tommy’s head comes up with what feels like thousands of scenarios, until his thoughts are interrupted by someone pulling back his hood and shoving off his beanie to reveal the hideous fluffy 𝖳𝖧𝖨𝖭𝖦𝖲 on top of his head that he knows are his ears. He can hear people burst into laughter from behind him as his cheeks turn a bright shade of red.
“Do any of you have something to tell me?” Techno says without shouting but in a tone that made everyone’s mouth shut in an instant. “No,”a few of Jack’s friends mumbled.
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“I’d like to see Tommy and a few other people tomorrow before class,“ Techno says. Great. Tommy wondered if Techno would yell at him tonight or decide talking to Tommy outside of school would be a waste of time. Maybe Techno would be slightly remorseful to his own brother, but would Techno even agree they were brothers anymore? After all Tommy can’t even remember the last time Techno and him spoke.
“Watch out rat,“ Jack
whispered to him, while the bell started to ring. The bell cleared his head and made him realise… he can’t talk to Techno, especially without it he students there to witness it.
As soon as Tommy realised what Techno might do to him he ran, even though he could hear Techno calling out to him he knew that it was too risky to even waste a second to listen. No matter what he was NOT talking to Technoblade.