[10/2/21]

it's finally spooky month! :D plus I'm on fall break for a week so celebratory book update timeeeeeee!

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Y/n wakes up early due to the sun blinding her from outside her window. Of course, the one day she forgot to close her curtains the sun was finally coming out.

She falls asleep and wakes up again an hour later with a pounding headache out of the blue. She tries to fall asleep again, but Tommy bursts into her room before she can.

"Y/N!"

"What the heck Tommy?!" Y/n shoots up in bed, glaring at him.

"Your dumb cat chewed through my headphone wire!" Tommy yells, holding up Bug out in front of him like a rag doll. In the cat's mouth is a pair of Apple headphones.

The girl swings her legs over the side fo the bed to get herself up. She walks over and takes the headphones from the cat's mouth.

"What time is it?" She asks.

"I dunno, 9:30?" Tommy grumbles. "What about my headphones?"

"You can buy new ones. Now please put my cat down,"

Tommy puts Bug back on the ground, and he trots off elsewhere, probably to cause more trouble.

Y/n leave the room and goes to the medicine cabinet in the kitchen for an ibuprofen. She downs it before beginning breakfast to distract herself until her headache subsided.

"Pancakes or waffles?"

"Pancakes," Tommy says, flopping onto the living room couch. "Can we go to the arcade later? I'm meeting the boys there again,"

"Tommy you're 17, you don't need me to hold your hand if you want to go places," Y/n shoots him a playful glare. "If you want to go, then you can go,"

"Hell yeah!" He pumps a fist in the air before sitting upright.

Y/n rolls her eyes before going back to breakfast again. She makes pancakes, bacon and eggs, all of which Tommy eats with inhuman speed. Afterward she goes back to her room to get ready for the day.

As she's brushing her hair, her phone begins ringing from somewhere in her room. Y/n quickly finds it under the pile of her discarded pajamas on the bed.

"Wilbur?" She asks after answering it.

"No, this is Tomathy Isn't It," Wilbur's voice answers. "I'm a child and am very loud and obnoxious, pog,"

"Your impression is so good I almost didn't recognize you," Y/n puts the phone on speaker so that she can continue getting ready. There's an obvious smile on her face. "How are you Wil?"

"I'm good! How are you?" Wilbur replies cheerily.

Let's see- headache, woke up too early, Tommy ran into my room screaming...

"I'm good too, thanks," She replies.

"Are you coming to the arcade with us today?" He asks, hope laced in his tone.

"Sorry, I've got some editing to do for my job," Y/n tells him. "Plus I don't want to interrupt your time with Tommy and the others,"

"You won't interrupt us," Wilbur responds quickly. "Plus it was fun having you join us yesterday,"

"I need to get my videos done today, Wil. Maybe next time," She smiles at his clingy demeanor. "We agreed on lunch this week, right?"

"I'll take you to this one really good place then, you probably haven't been there yet," His eagerness returns in a heartbeat. "We should go if that's okay,"

"That sounds perfect," Y/n laughs.

They talk a little more before finally saying goodbye to each other. Y/n leaves her room and goes to her office instead, where Tommy is sitting upright on his cot.

"Why are you all smiley?" Tommy asks as she takes a seat in her swivel chair.

"Why can't I smile?" She retorts.

"You did something. You're smiling more than usual," He narrows his eyes a bit. "What happened?"

"Nothing happened,"

Tommy hums a little in disbelief before staring back down at his phone again.

He leaves about an hour later to go meet up with his friends. Before leaving he pleads with her a few minutes to join them, but Y/n once's again declines the offer to focus on her editing.

Her job was an editor. She did all kinds of videos; games, corporate, advertisements, wherever she could get money from really. Over the years she had built up a good enough reputation to be able to charge quite a bit for her work.

The time passes quickly. Before Y/n knows it, Tommy had returned from his outing.

"Y/n, father is coming to pick me up in a half an hour," He says loudly when he returns to the room.

"God- finally!" She replies with an exasperated sigh.

"Hey!" Tommy snaps as he begins to gather up his belongings. "Also can you help me edit my vlog later this week? I have a lot of college stuff I need to do,"

"You can commission me to do it," Y/n spins around in her chair to face him, an eyebrow raised. "I can have it ready to be uploaded by Friday,"

"Deal," He responds, smiling.

She helps him pack his things up, which wasn't a lot since it was just a weekend visit. Tommy's dad arrives on time to take the child away back to home, leaving just Y/n and Bug alone in the apartment again.

"We need to talk about your diet," She says to her cat that evening. "Headphones aren't a good source of nutrients,"

Bug just lets out a small meow and rubs up against her legs.

Y/n goes back to her editing for a while. Her cat ends up curling up contentedly in her lap to doze some time in. She finishes everything she needs to do after a few more hours, and by then it's almost 10 PM, but she didn't feel like sleeping yet.

So, out of curiosity, she opens up Twitch on her computer. She finds Tommy's account, albeit he's not live when she checks. However, she finds that Wilbur is. It looked like he was playing Geoguesser.

Y/n opens up the stream and watches for a while. For that time she forgets about her worries with work and moving. It was fun to hear him celebrate when he guessed correctly, but also funnier whenever he got frustrated when it was the wrong country.

Eventually, as he's guessing again, she sends him a text.

> Y/n: it's Italy i think

> Y/n: on geoguesser lol

On stream she sees him glance down at his phone and smile a bit shortly after.

"Chat how do we feel about Italy for this one?" Wilbur asks the viewers. Chat responds with a mixture of 'yes' and 'no', but he guesses the answer anyway. "Yooooo we're right!"

Y/n laughs happily.

Knew it! I'm a Geoguesser master

"Chat my friend told me that answer, she's very smart," After a small pause he adds. "I'm not red shut up-"

She giggles again, feeling her face heating up as well but ignoring it.

> Y/n: nah you're definitely red

Wilbur obviously sees the text and covers the lower half of his face with one of his hands.

> Y/n: redbur lmao

"Chat she's making fun of me," He complains on-stream. "Stop saying that it's a good thing- you all suck,"

> Y/n: they like me more :D

> Wilbur: no fair. you can't just come in and steal my chat :(

> Y/n: <3

After yelling at his chat a little while longer, Wilbur continues his stream as he had been doing before. Y/n decides not to bother him any longer, so she just sits and enjoys the show until it ends about 20 minutes later. He texts her afterwards though.

> Wilbur: did the child finally leave?

> Y/n: yes lol I'm finally free

> Y/n: also your stream was super fun to watch

> Wilbur: thanks. I'm glad you liked it :)

> Wilbur: btw does tuesday work for lunch?

> Y/n: yes it does, just text me the address :3

> Wilbur: I will, now go to sleep

> Y/n: no <3

> Wilbur: yes

> Y/n: :(

> Wilbur: please?

> Y/n: okie fine

> Y/n: but only if you go to bed too

> Wilbur: but I have stuff to do

> Y/n: I'll go to bed if you go to bed

> Wilbur: fineee

> Wilbur: goodnight y/n

> Y/n: gn wil

Y/n smiles and turns her phone off. She picks up Bug and carries him back to head bedroom, where she plops him down onto the bed.

"I think I've got a date, Bug," She says to the cat as she changes into her pajamas.

He just stares at her with those large green eyes of his, sitting as he curls his tail over his paws.

"You're horrible at conversation," Y/n jokes.

In response, Bug lets out a small meow before curling up on his pillow.

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