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For the rest of the day, Wizard Cookie didn’t make any progress on his studies. But on the bright side, spending time with a good friend always was good for the psyche.

At the table, Wizard sipped the rest of his tea when he noticed Cream Puff looking at the window.

“Oh, I have to go now! It was really fun hanging out, Wizard. Latte said to meet back at dusk. See you tomorrow, have a good night!” Cream Puff said enthusiastically, as she hopped off her seat.

”See you tomorrow, Cream Puff!” Wizard stated with a noticeable smile on his face. She left, making sure to close the door behind her. 

While cleaning the tea set, he looked over at the window. The moon showed it’s true luminance tonight, with no shadow to be seen. It almost reminded him of a particular smirking cookie… nevermind that.

He wiped the dust off the books he was using before Cream Puff arrived and tried with his best effort to put them in their respective spot in his bookshelf. Of course, the cookie was a bit on the ‘unorganized side’ and just shoved the books in the shelf. After he was finished, he climbed upstairs to his little living space where he read his favorite novels and relaxed in bed.

He plopped onto his bed and grabbed his cookie laptop. The tiny cookie typed in his password, and it brought up his computer screen. 

The computer background was so, so old – after all it was taken around 10 years ago. He, Gingerbrave, Strawberry, Custard Cookie III, and Chilli Pepper were huddled in a group hug, all smiling and enjoying the moment at the kingdom. The old days, his youth, that he would never get back.

Being baked in an oven was the start of his life. What was a ‘parental figure’? He didn’t know her.

He opened his web browser and wondered if he should go into CookieTube to watch some videos on cookie magic or watch some other viral videos - but he wanted to change up his schedule a bit.

He typed in “BraveCookie69” in his browser.

He wanted to stay far, far away from Gingerbrave’s OnlyFans, since it costs a fuck ton of money, and the pictures would be AWFULLY disgusting for him to look at. How he got followers made no sense – he only posed in a normal manner (in his naked self of course), yet everyone liked his posts. One of them was that the cookie was posing for the camera like a teenage girl, and everyone was hooked. It wasn’t even that sexual! … Actually, he could understand how it could be that. Sheesh, it’s not like he, Wizard Cookie, was going to fall for THAT. He was better than that. Right?

Is this what embarrassment feels like?

He brushed those feelings aside – he was better than that. He noticed Gingerbrave was streaming a tiny game called ‘Minecraft’. Better to use that Twitch Account now. He was using it for his subscriptions of Crowberry Cookie who talked about magic and it’s academia with her chat, and other streamers who used their audience to help them learn about magic. But being so busy limited his time, going on quests to find more trinkets to study.

Luckily, his username was vague, being ‘questioningbizzard16’. There is no way anyone in chat would recognize him!

The only way to chat was to subscribe to him, and so he did. Hey, listen, he said to himself that he WOULDN’T spend any money on this escapade of his, but this was an exception. Unlike his OVERPRICED OnlyFans, a subscription for his Twitch was way cheaper, only being around... 85% less than his Onlyfans. It would allow him to type in chat, and also have all sorts of benefits like a custom color and a icon that sat next to his name. Hm, he considered that a deal.

He subscribed.

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Gingerbrave was running around in his Minecraft world when he joined. He was in a plains biome with a large tree. One could assume he was running to punch some wood from that tree.

Gingerbrave stopped for a second, and looked at the donation on the screen.

“Oh, sweet! Thank you to questioningbizzard16 for the 300 coin donation!” Gingerbrave exclaimed happily, continuing to run towards the tree. He finally reached it and started to punch it down.

I can’t believe you decided to spend your Thursday night watching your friend who defeated Dark Enchantress with you play Minecraft.

He tried to argue with himself. No, it wasn’t anything big. He was just curious, and he considered himself lucky that no one noticed him.

That would be super embarrassing.

“Finally! I have all the wood I need to make a shield. Chat, should I work on my house or mine in the cave? I’ll make a poll. Say 1 for cave and 2 for house.”

As he said this, the chat flew with responses, some saying ‘cave!’ or ‘work on your house’. The majority who didn’t said ‘pog!’ or spammed emotes in chat.

He read some of the chat names that flowed through.

abraglabracookie : 2 fix your house so that mobs won’t come in

yummywaffsansyrup: gigerbrav u shouldz fux da rof from tha creper exploshun :D

popboomCRACK: 1111111111111111111

restcloverheart: I suggest lighting around your house and bringing some torches with you if you go mining, if you need some coal you can burn wood to create charcoal

CHCHXCHERRYBOMMB: GO MINING AND KILL STUFF!!!!!

lightandshiningarmour: 1

Wizard cookie’s cookie nubs floated on the keyboard as he was about to voice his opinion but…

Don’t let anyone know you are here.

He moved his nubs away from the laptop as Gingerbrave looked away from his screen.

“Hm, it seems that we’re a bit tied here. Okay, I’ll go mining and then build my house!”

The chat rallied in excitement before a slow mode of 15 seconds was put in place.

paradisacaltoucan (mod): “Sorry everyone! Had to slow chat down so it would be easy to read 👍 ”

yummywaffsandsyrup: thx mango :D!!!

The messages after that were hearts for the mods or pogs in chat.

Wizard looked at the viewer list, and saw all the mods. A few were offline, but the majority were online. Here were the cookies on duty.

bravecookie69 (admin)

aloecookie (senior mod)

watcherofthenight (senior mod)

crumblallcookiez (mod)

mightymilkers (mod)

SodaSurferz (mod)

paradisacaltoucan (mod)

waldetective (mod)

In the mine, he could hear a distant “brrrring” sound, and Gingerbrave assured everyone he got a call. He paused his game and stream, which lead everyone to talking amongst themselves in chat.

As he continued waiting, the more he wanted to talk to everyone in chat, and the more he wanted to say to Gingerbrave: ‘hey! It’s me, Wizard Cookie!’

He wanted to talk to Gingerbrave, to see him in person again after many years. But then he came to the steady realization…

Nononono! I- I don’t like Gingerbrave, there’s no- that’s not true! Is it true that I’ve been feeling this way ever since we were kids?!

He tried to push the feelings aside, the light feelings inside. He was never interested in women, and at first he was fine being single for the rest of his life.

He didn’t know how to describe this feeling. It was light and airy, and it was washed with euphoria and nostalgia. About who he was, and what he used to be. Just a little kid, adventuring with his friends.  But now? How was he supposed to cope with this feeling? Hide it? Embrace it? He didn’t know what to do, but to just watch. His eyes were stuck onto the screen, watching Gingerbrave play Minecraft.

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It was later in the night, and Gingerbrave finally finished his house’s roof. It was a rectangle, made of oak planks for the exterior, 8x5 by dimensions, and 5 blocks tall. Gingerbrave had found a dog in the nearby spruce forest and tamed it with a few bones. Gingerbrave, with his new friend, entered the house, making sure to not let any mobs in.

In his Minecraft house, Gingerbrave was now ending the stream.

“Thanks for watching my stream! It’s been really fun chatting with you guys, remember I’m going to stream tomorrow, same time as today! 6 PM Cookie Standard Time!” Gingerbrave said cheerfully. “Oh, and thank you for the donations, it helps me a ton!”

Wizard Cookie smiled to himself, but then he noticed Gingerbrave’s crusty face. His face became a wider smile.

“Oh, and thank you to my friend Wizard Cookie for subscribing and donating to my Twitch! It’s been a long time since we talked so it’s a surprise for him to come in! I got a call that he was in chat, actually.”

The chat became wild with excitement– the slow mode was cut off a long time ago– but since the chat was wilding again the mods had to slow chat down.

“Who is Wizard Cookie? Oh, he helped me defeat Dark Enchantress Cookie a while back,” He said, “we haven’t talked in a while though.”

“Is he in chat right now?” Gingerbrave said, reading off the chat. “Uhhh, not sure! Maybe…”

Wizard Cookie’s heart began to beat in embarrassment and strangely affection that Gingerbrave would go all the way to talk about him. He felt his crumbly face become hot with embarrassment and continued to watch the stream until it was over.

Wizard Cookie’s eyes glistened with happiness, and he secretly wanted to jump up and down in joy (his neighbors would not like that, though).

He got ready for bed by putting his laptop away and hanging his waffle cone hat on the top rail on his bed.

Pulling the sheets over himself, he lied in bed. Why was he so happy? He didn’t understand this affection for a cookie like Gingerbrave.

This was stupid. So, incredibly, stupid. He couldn’t bear to have these feelings for Gingerbrave anymore. It wasn’t so bad when he was a kid. He remembered that he always wanted to accompany Gingerbrave, and he swore to protect the cookie with his life.

“Stupid Gingerbrave- GAHHH!” he yelled in frustration as he screamed into a nearby pillow. He shouldn’t be so vulnerable to essentially a stranger that he had not seen in forever. But he couldn’t help it.

He couldn’t help thinking about him.

And also, who the fuck snitched on him.

After much yearning, Wizard Cookie fell asleep.