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As Parrot kneeled in the ruins of his server, tears silently falling, he begged Spoke for an answer. Why would he do this? He already knew the answer to that one. He let Planet get banned. That was the deal. If Spoke could manage to ban one Lifesteal member by may 14th at 10 pm he would ‘win’. Which he managed to do with 18 seconds to spare. But why would he even want to destroy Lifesteal.
He and Spoke were teammates after all. The no pants people party, Spoke had to care right? Why else would he have teamed with parrot for so long if he didn’t care about the servers wellbeing?
Parrot heard crunching, the sound of worn shoes on old dirt and rock. He looked up. Tears still in his eyes, shaking slightly. And there was Spoke, the ends of his signature rainbow bandana flowing behind him in the wind, he looked almost remorseful? Parrot was surprised, he expected spoke to be cocky and loud -especially since he won. But Spoke seemed almost the opposite, as if he was sorry for winning?
“Hey Parrot..” Spoke kicked a rock to the side.
“Why are you here Spoke.” Parrot asked his voice hoarse from crying.
Spoke sighed.
“Ans-“ Parrot took a shaky breath “Answer me Spoke.”
“I’m sorry, I didn’t think I was going to win. There was only 18 seconds left. I figured you had some.. hidden secret or something. You’ve always been the smarter one between the two of us.”
“Yeah well I didn’t have anything secret left, and now I don’t even have the choice of potentially doing that. You know, with the whole server destroyed.” Parrot snapped
“I never meant for it to end like this Parrot. I hope you can see past this and forgive me in the future” Spokes voice leaked of sorrow.
“I-“ Parrot looked away as tears poured from his eyes “ I just don’t know Spoke”
“I understand if you never want to talk to me again” Spoke kicked a pebble as he turned to the side, no longer facing Parrot “But I do really hope we can make it past this”
Spoke fidgeted with the sleeves of his sweatshirt as he stared into the distance.
“Ok, ok fine” Parrot sniffled a bit and rubbed his eyes “Promise me you’ll never do anything like this again.
“Of course, never again. I’m so sorry Parrot.”
He still didn’t look back down at Parrot who was trying to meet the other’s gaze.
“Thank you for forgiving me.”
“Yeah.. of course Spoke.”
Spoke finally looked back down at Parrot, his eyes slightly watery, and extended his arm out. Parrot took it as Spoke helped pull him up and out of the crater he was in.
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one month later
The new season of Lifesteal started, a new server. Which meant infinitely more chaos for Spoke to cause. But he wasn’t going to do that- right? He promised. He wouldn’t go back on that.
“FOR TODAY IS LIFESTEAL SEASON 5, And with that, let Lifesteal season five… BEGIN!” Ash shouted as everyone ran and yelled.
“AHHH”
“AhHH”
“AHHHH”
“AHH”
Parrot wasn’t playing this season, after everything that happened previously. Yes, he and Spoke had talked but he still didn’t feel like he could come back yet. As well as him having an idea for a new smp.
But he still wanted to know what was happening in the server, so he was watching Spokes stream on an alt account so people wouldn’t bother him.
The typing chaos of a new season ensued. Everyone trying to get gear, hearts, wanting to be the “strongest”.
Eventually it settled down, people began logging off, Spoke stayed on wanting to finish building his base.
The chat had slowed significantly, so Spoke was answering the occasional question.
Haze | | number 1 SPOK Fan | |: Are you going to remake the NPPP this season?! Maybe in memory of parrot, or just for fun🦜👀
“ ‘are you going to remake the nppp, memory of parrot’ “ Spoke muttered ”Yeah probably not, I only really kept the NPPP around last season so it would be easier to manipulate parrot. I needed him to trust me Ya’know, it all worked out in the end. He believes that I’m gonna change or something, he’s very to guilt trip and manipulate. A few tears and he completely forgave me.” Spoke laughed a bit “Who knows, I bet if I asked him to rejoin Lifesteal he would. I have him wrapped around my finger. ‘I understand if you never want to talk to me again’ “ Spoke said mimicking the same hurt voice he used on parrot.
Used that’s how parrot felt disgusted, used, hollow, angry, sad. He began typing
EagleY1: Don’t you feel bad for that? He was your friend
Spoke laughed again “No, why would I feel bad bro. That’s just how the world works, maybe he’ll learn from this” He stopped building for a moment before calmly saying “and he wasn’t a friend, just a pawn in my game. Someone who was in the way so I took care of it. Now I don’t need to worry about him anymore”
Parrot could feelthe slight smile on Spokes face before he started talking about some new glitch or exploit he was looking into.
How could he be so ineffective by this? Almost inhuman.
Parrot left the stream a minute later, he couldn’t stay there after hearing spoke say that
Spoke called him the next day.
“YO PARROTTTT, what’s up bro”
“Oh. Uh not much”
“Still working on that new idea?”
Shit he forgot he’d invited Spoke to be part of that.
“Yeah, uh yeah it’s almost ready. Just finishing the first scripts. I uh- I gotta go, you know uh school!”
“Oh, ok br-“
Parrot hung up, he hated how casual Spoke sounded. The past month. Spoke lied and manipulated Parrot. Could Parrot trust anything he said?
Parrot blocked him. He could deal with Spoke later, he had more important things to worry about. Things that didn’t involve being exploited and deceived by someone he saw as a friend. Used to see as a friend.
Spoke no longer deserved that title from Parrot.