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“Dude, I don’t know why, but like— I lowkey think of Shawn Mendes whenever I see you two together and, like, I’d have an extreme hatred for the color yellow. Or, like, orange,” yungyx randomly spat out.
Everybody was awkwardly watching Eggchan blindly fishing for loot, and nobody was really doing anything to prompt Yungy from saying that.
Well, that’s a lie; it was just the mere existence of Wemmbu and Jaden_MAN simply standing in each other’s presence.
“…Dude, what???” Wemmbu exclaims after what felt like an excruciating long silence.
Egg, from the riverbank, turned his head (eye??) around to face the small group (which is confusing, because he can barely see a thing right now), “Bro, which song are you thinking of?”
Yungy thought for a second, “Uh… ‘Treat You Better’? Or something? I don’t know; I just see them and I start going, ‘‘cause I know I can treat you better— than he can,’ and stuff.”
Wemmbu stutters, “Where does the deep-seated hatred for yellow come from then, bro??”
“I don’t know! Like—“ Yungy started.
The_CodMaster14 suddenly pops out of nowhere (that’s a lie, he was also near the riverbank) to join in the conversation, “Nah, bro, I totally get why! It’s ‘cause pufferfish are yellow, and pufferfish are deadly! Don’t worry man, I know exactly what you’re thinking.”
. . .
“This guy’s making a pretty convincing point, I’m not gonna lie,” Yungy chuckles, pointing his thumb towards CodMaster which, unfortunately, led to Wemmbu cackling insanely loud.
Jaden exhales, attempting to hide his chuckle, “But, didn’t you say that you’d also hate orange, though?”
“..Oh, yeahh! Man, I wonder why,” Yungy replied.
Wemmbu sighed, and somehow made eye contact with Egg, who probably understood exactly what he was thinking. All Egg knew about Mane’s disappearance was that he just left, and that action in of itself upset Wemmbu a lot (which, to be fair, he probably would as well if his mentor just up and left out of nowhere).
Then, Wemmbu looked back at Jaden. He doesn’t know how his friendship with Jaden even started, especially when one of the last things Jaden had said before their friendship begun was him mocking Wemmbu’s dead friend. “Forgive and forget!” a voice echoed in the very back of his mind. He shakes his head, dragging himself back to the present.
“D’alright, bro. Well— I’mma just go back to aura farming, you can go sing your song or whatever,” Wemmbu chuckles, sitting down semi-closely to the bank.
Yungy nearly gasped, “Nah, bro doesn’t understand the cultural importance of Shawn Mendes. We gotta teach him, gang.”
“Bro, when did I ever say that??”
Egg sighs, “Dude, he’s not gonna listen to your yap the entire time. I wouldn’t try it.”
Jaden walks over to where Wemmbu was, and starts fixing up a few pieces of his equipment, “I mean, I lowkey prefer the quiet, anyways, so—“
Wemmbu starts cackling, “Nah, bro’s got more aura than I do, what??”
Egg chuckles as well, “It’ll be more aura than you’ll ever have, I’m afraid.”
Suddenly, Egg gets a tug on his hook. He pulls the rod back, and a piece of cod starts flying through the air, proceeding to only flop to the ground immediately after. It eventually poofs, and everyone else just groans, while CodMaster just grieves the dead fish.
After a while of nothing, Wemmbu suddenly notices a shell in the river far away..