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Tommy looked around. They seemed to be in a car. when did they get in the car again? Weird.

“We’re on our way to Phil’s.” Puffy suddenly spoke up. This was Puffy’s car? Oh yeah, Phil. I guess they were on the way to Phil’s. They probably fell asleep.

“Ah, alright. When will we get there?”

“In about… 5 minutes?” Jeez, that was soon. Well ok, guess they had some time.

They looked out the window, looking at the area. It was pretty naturey, full of forests and plants. Which was exciting, considering that Tommy liked plants. They hoped there was a flower field nearby. Wait, why were they thinking like that? It’s not like they would be staying long anyway.

The car slowed down in front of a light green house. It was 2 stories tall, with one of those windows that kinda sit out of the wall, what were they called, bay windows? Anyways, there was a garden in the front, full of different types of flowers. Honestly, it was pretty looking.

Puffy parked the car in the driveway, turning off the car and turning to Tommy.

“Ready to go?”

“Yeah.”

They got out of the car, Tommy grabbing their bag from the back and walking towards the door. Tommy gestured at the door, silently telling Puffy to open the door. She knocked, the door opening fairly quick. A tall person opened the door, wearing a yellow sweater and a simple red beanie. They looked excited to see them.

“Oh! You must be Tommy?” They nodded.

“I’m Wilbur. Phil will be down in a minute. You can come inside if you would like.” They said, smiling. It looked genuine.

They walked inside, looking around the room. They entered into a hallway, with an opening on both sides, and stairs in front of them. There were pictures on the walls, and a table on the right side with backpacks on it, with shoes under it. Tommy took off their shoes and put them under the backpacks. 

Suddenly, a man ran down the stairs, wearing a green cape(?) with sweatpants on under it. He stopped in front of them, catching his breath before looking up at them.
“You- are Tommy?”

“Uh-“ weird way to say that. “Yeah??” His face brightened.

“I’m Phil, sorry for taking so long, I was working on something upstairs. Wilbur, can you show him around?” 

“Yeah sure,” Wilbur said with a smile. 

“Let’s go Tommy” He pointed at the room on the left, walking to the doorway. Tommy followed quickly waving at Puffy on their way.

As they entered the room Tommy realized that it was the kitchen. There was an island in the middle of the room, it was surrounded by stools on one side and had storage on the other. 

“This is the kitchen, Phil’s room, and the pantry/laundry are in there.” He pointed at two doors on the right side of the room. “That’s all that's really in here.” He turned and started walking to the room on the other side of the hall.

Inside there was a fireplace, though they were pretty sure it was fake, seeing how it wasn’t lit and the heat was still coming from it. They had a light brown couch, it was one of the U-shaped ones. Next to the couch was a matching armchair, with a grey cat sitting on it. 

On the other side of the room was a big dining table, with about eight seats. It was a darker wood, with a red tint to it. There was a flower-like shape burned into the center of the table. It looked to be a daisy? Maybe Tommy was thinking into it too much.

“This is the living room and dining room. You can either sit in here or at the stools at dinner. Dad doesn’t really care.” He told them with a shrug. “Let’s head upstairs.”

He started up the stairs, Tommy trailing behind him. When they reached upstairs Tommy noticed how 2 doors were decorated and the other 2 weren’t. One had Wilbur’s name on it and a ton of different music-themed stickers. The other had a pink T and a simple crown drawn above it. 

Wilbur turned towards Tommy pointing to the empty doors. 

“You can choose between those rooms, honestly, I would choose that one,” he turned and looked at the door next to the T door.

“It has one of those sit-in windows, you probably saw it from outside.” And yeah, he was right. Tommy did want that one.

“Uh, I’ll take that one.” Wilbur smiled.

“Great! You share a bathroom with Techno.” Who the fuck was Techno????

“You can go look in your room if you’d like. There’s a door in there that leads to the bathroom. Don’t go in Tech’s room though, it doesn’t really like other people in their room.”

Wilbur then started to walk towards the room Tommy would be staying in. He walked in, and Tommy followed. 

Inside was a simple bed in the back left corner next to a desk and a bedside table. The bed had simple blue bedding and white sheets. There was a grey rug in front of the bed, Tommy didn’t like how it felt. Suddenly Wilbur spoke.

“This is all just temporary stuff, we can buy different stuff later.” He clapped his hands, making Tommy jump.

“Alright! You can come back downstairs with me if you’d like, but I’m going downstairs.”

“Oh, ok.” They both walked downstairs as Puffy was getting ready to leave. Tommy walked over to Puffy just as she finished talking to Phil.

“Oh, Tommy! I was just about to call you. I’m leaving.”

“Bye Puffy…” Puffy smiled at them sadly. 

“ You can call me if you need anything ok? Bye Toms.” She grabbed her bag and walked out the door.

Phil clapped his hands together.

“Ok! I’m going to start on dinner, Tommy you can go up to your room if you’d like, I don’t really mind. Dinner should be done in like an hour.” Phil then walked into the kitchen, Wilbur following close behind. Tommy decided to turn around and go up the stairs into the room their staying in.

They set their bag down on the floor, not bothering to unpack. The only things they took out were a huge shirt, shorts, and their sketchbook. They took off their binder and put on the clothes. They then sat down at their desk, opening their sketchbook. They sketched a couple flowers they could see out their window while waiting for dinner.

They wanted to go out and walk around the forest later, but they didn’t want to get in trouble already so they didn’t. Suddenly, a harsh knock sounded from the door making them flinch.

“Hey, uh, dinners ready if you want to come down, you don’t have to Phil will just bring you your food.” The voice was deep and monotone, probably the ‘Techno’ Wilbur was talking about.

Tommy stayed seated at the desk, waiting for him to leave.

“Uh, ok, I’ll have Phil bring up your food.” Tommy could hear his footsteps going down the stairs and disappearing. Honestly, they weren’t even hungry so they didn’t bother to grab the food before laying down in bed. 

They laid down in the bed, staring out the window as they tried to sleep. They could hear the sound of people downstairs talking, making it hard to Eventually though, they managed to fall into a dreamless sleep.

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Tommy woke up to light streaming through their window and the sound of voices downstairs. They sat up and got dressed, throwing on some random jeans they had, and a grey t-shirt. Honestly, all they wanted was to go back to sleep, but they had already committed to being awake so it was too late now. They sighed, walking out of their bedroom and downstairs.

They entered the kitchen and saw Techno and Phil making breakfast together. Techno was working on eggs and Phil was making pancakes. They walked in and sat at the island, behind Techno and Phil. Phil turned around to Tommy, he smiled and said,

“Oh, good morning Tommy! You're up early, most people don’t wake up for a while.” Techno turned around as well, it seemed like he- wait didn’t Wilbur say they? -didn’t notice them. They simply waved and said, “morning.” 

Tommy waved back at them, returning the words. They all sat in silence, Techno sitting beside Tommy, having already finished the eggs. Techno and Phil were talking together, Techno was wearing a huge grey t-shirt and PJ pants. Phil was wearing a black tank top and white PJ pants. Tommy could see the edges of a tattoo on Phil’s back, it looked like wings.

They seemed to be talking about pancake toppings (weird topic but ok I guess) though Tommy was finding it very hard to focus on anything. They were probably just tired still. Yeah. That was it. 

Phil turned to look at Tommy, saying something to them. Wait, they should probably listen to him.

“-We have blueberries, strawberries, uhhh other berries I guess? We have syrup? I guess? Uhm, there’s whipped cream, wait, do you even like pancakes???”

Uhm shit they haven’t had pancakes before. Just say yes. Or maybe don’t?

“I do ever have any.” WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT YOU FUCKING IDIOT

“I mean- I haven’t had them before.” TECHNOS FUCKING LAUGHING AT YOU WTFFFFFFFF

“Oh, do you want to try some? You don’t have to.” Options???? I mean sure????? I’m not awake enough for this shit.

“Sure I guess.” Ok yeah. That made sense. Techno was still fucking laughing at them. They're gonna fight this bitch if they don’t stop. not really but still. Yeah, they're fucking scary never mind. 

“What do you want on them?” Uhhhhhhh

“I don’t really care.”

“Yeah, I’ll just give you syrup.” Ok??????? Sounds good I guess???? 

A couple minutes later, Phil walked over with 3 plates of pancakes and one of the eggs. Phil handed Tommy the boring-looking one, Techno the one with strawberries, and he held onto the other two. He nodded his head towards the door and walked into the dining room. Tommy picked up their plate and followed, Techno following close behind. 

Phil sat at the far right seat on the end, Techno sat at the other seat on the far right. Tommy kinda panicked and sat next to Techno, just wanting to eat their food.

They ate a bite of the pancakes, realizing why they were called pancakes. They had a weird cake-like texture, and the syrup added a nice flavor. They decided they like pancakes.

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After they finished their breakfast, Wilbur came down and ate his breakfast. Which, fuck, this man sleeps in forever. It was like 11 when he came down. I mean, it makes sense, but come on man. 

Techno went outside to do who knows what, and Phil cleaned up the food, (aka Wilbur's food) and walked up to Tommy and tried to talk to them.

“Hey, Tommy?” Tommy was laying on the couch, just staring at the wall blankly. 

“Hm?” They didn’t have the energy to sit up, or even answer properly.

“Can you fill out this paper for me?” Ok, uh, kinda weird but sure I guess.  

“Mhm.” Phil walked over to the couch, setting the paper on the coffee table.

“Here, don’t feel pressured to fill it all out, you can skip the stuff you don’t feel comfortable answering.” Uh, ok?????

They sat up, reluctantly, and looked over at the paper. It was titled “Phil’s Preference Sheet!” It was pretty simple, name, pronouns, favorite col- wait a goddamn second, pronouns?? Phil didn’t really seem like the kind of guy to care about others' pronouns so that made them happy. They filled out  the paper , finishing up quickly.

After finishing the paper they looked at the bottom, seeing the other sheets. Techno, as they had heard, used They/Them and It/Its pronouns, and they found that very cool. Wilbur used He/They, and Phil, surprisingly, used He/Ae. Honestly, it was really cool seeing people like them, especially living, albeit temporarily, with them.

Tommy brought the paper over to Phil, watching as he put it on the wall where, oh shit there’s the other papers. I guess they just aren’t that observation, because they hadn’t noticed them.

Phil nodded ae’s head at them, smiling. 

“I’m sorry about misgendering you earlier, I should have asked your pronouns sooner.” And, honestly, they weren’t that upset about it. They’d prefer to be misgendered using masculine pronouns than feminine.

“Ah, it’s alright.” Phil nodded at them again, they think that’s just a habit of his, saying,

“If you say so.” Ae then proceeded to walk away and sit down to read on the couch. And now they had nothing to do again. Great.

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They decided that going outside would be entertaining since there’s a whole forest to explore. They walked out the back door that they just realized was under the stairs, looking around their surroundings. 

They walk out the door and are immediately greeted with a big pool and a table, which they ran into. They cursed under their breath, before continuing to look around. There was a clearing that they used as their yard before it went into the forest. There was a small swing set, it looked old and rusty, but also like it was frequently used. They walked towards the forest, taking in the nature. When they entered the forest, it immediately got darker, not by too much, just enough for it to be noticeable. As they kept walking they noticed that someone, probably Techno, was growing vegetables in a small clearing, with a huge tree in the middle. Stairs were twisting around the tree.

Tommy walked into the clearing, curious. As they walked in they noticed a treehouse sitting peacefully in the tree, seemingly with the lights on. Secure-looking stairs were twisting down the tree. Vines covered in moss were hanging off the treehouse, making it look sort of magical. Tommy took one more look around their surroundings before climbing up the stairs. 

Nice-looking lights were lining the rails of the stairs. The stairs weren’t the longest, but Tommy was exhausted after walking up to them. Tommy walked into the treehouse, seeing shelves lining the walls and rolly storage containers around the room. There were bits of gold and silver wires on the floor, along with little gems. There was also a soft, blue, carpet lining the floors. Fairy lights were hanging on the roof, glowing a light yellow.

As Tommy took in the room, they heard a noise behind them. They turned around, seeing Techno standing behind them, obviously not expecting them to be there.

“Uhhh, hi?” Techno said to them, dragging out the ‘uh’.

“This yours?” It stared at them for a minute before nodding. They sat in awkward silence, just staring at each other awkwardly.

“Uhm, want to make jewelry?” Techno suddenly spoke up, breaking the silence.

“Sure?” Techno walked by them, taking a seat on the carpet. They nodded their head towards the floor, and Tommy walked over and sat too.

It then proceeded to show Tommy how to make a simple earring, letting them give it a try as well.

“Ok so, yeah do that.” They said while guiding Tommy through how to make it.

“Ok, uh now you just do this then, done.” It looked over Tommy, smiling at them. 

“You did it! You can keep it if you want.” Tommy was happy with what they had made, it was a simple gold earring. It had a small red jewel in it, ruby they think? Overall they were happy. The only problem was they didn’t have their ears pierced so they couldn’t wear it.

“Nah, I don’t got my ears pierced, you can keep it.” They said while handing it over to Techno.

“You sure?” Techno tilted their head, looking over at Tommy.

“Yeah. I don’t mind really.” Tommy shrugged.

“Ok, you want to try another?” It asked Tommy.

“Sure.” They looked over at Techno as it began to explain how to make a slightly more complex earring.

Techno wasn’t that bad, they decided.

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ive been really struggling to work ob this, and i dont think im going to continue this. im super sorry, and i might come bacj to this in the future, but for now, this is discontinued.

thank you so much, have a good afternoon/morning/night :]