The first week done!!! That's so cool, I'm loving seeing everyone's stuff so far and really excited to see the rest of the month. XD This one is an IRL one based the vlog premise, so that's exciting. I kept switching between if I wanted to do this with Tommy or Tubbo, but ended up keeping it on Tubbo so yeah.
It had been an all-day event, but there would be at least two vlogs coming out of it so it was a day well spent for the group of friends. Both Tommy and Jack had done filming, but the day was coming to an end, and Tubbo was feeling all the energy he had put into it sputter out. Somehow Tommy was still going strong, and Wilbur and Jack were struggling to keep the ‘kids’ in order.
Tommy had run off with Jack somewhere, the two filmings each other running around the pumpkin patch, determined to find the perfect one before the other got it. Ranboo followed them from a distance, laughing and joking, holding cameras when needed, and such.
Tubbo sighed heavily, hefting his pumpkin higher against his chest. Wilbur gave him a strange look, bumping shoulders and nearly sending the unsuspecting Tubbo to the ground. He chuckled, making sure Tubbo wasn’t going to fall over, before asking if he was alright. “You just seem to be out of it right now.”
Tubbo nodded, “Just tired. We’ve been out all day, man, I am just ready to head home.” It wasn’t that he wasn’t having fun, just that his social battery had run out about an hour ago, and now he was just barely dragging on and keeping face for the cameras. He wanted to make sure he kept up with all the bits and jokes but found himself zoning out more often than not. “And my feet hurt, how far in do you think we’re going to have to walk in here before they’re all run out?”
Wilbur looked over at the trio who were crowded around a pile of pumpkins laughing at something. “Probably got a while left, do you want to sit down and rest a bit?” He suggested, looking for a clearing.
Tubbo nodded, letting Wilbur guide him over to the side without a word. Tommy’s screams faded away and before he knew it he was sitting in the grass, his pumpkin set off to the side and head between his knees. Wilbur put a hand on his shoulder before giving the teen space.
They sat like that, in mutual silence, till the distant conversations grew louder and closer, making Tubbo lookup with dull eyes and a slight grimace. Wilbur made some quick gestures, and the volume came down to inside voices.
“Are we done then?” Wilbur asked, stretching and leaning against a tree to push himself up.
Tommy and Jack nodded, both of them fiddling with their things to get them where they needed to be. “Yeah, missed you both towards the end. We might do some more filming on the way home, or do the outro real quick while we’re all together real quick.”
Jack and Tommy both finished up, showing off everyone’s pumpkins and zooming in on Tubbo, who was out for the count. Everything was finished quickly, and then there was the final talk of how the videos went, or what bits they would keep in. Everyone was packing up and gathering their things, well, everyone except Tubbo who remained firmly on the ground.
“Come on Tubs,” Tommy whined, reaching down to tug at his hand. “We’re going to bring you home now, sorry we stayed out so late.”
Tubbo whined, letting himself be dragged across the ground. “My leg’s hurt though, don’t make me stand up yet!”
Everyone laughed, making different efforts to get the boy standing. In the end, it took Ranboo jokingly offering Wilbur up for piggyback ride services. “Really? I- okay, is it bad if I’m actually considering it. My legs are killing me, dude.”
Wilbur hesitated, before leaning over. “Fine, but just because I think you might actually die if we made you walk.”
Watching Tubbo get to his feet was funny, after sitting for a while it was as if his legs had shut down. He felt like a newborn gazelle, shaky and unsteady, but Wilbur crouched down for him to get on. It only took another minute, and Ranboo offering to carry Tubbo’s pumpkin as well as his own, for them to be on their way.
“Really,” Wilbur teased, hiking tubbo up higher on his back, “the fact that you’re shorter than the rest of us is a good thing.” Ranboo snorted, and Tommy cackled. They had all heard Tubbo’s rants about how they were all just unnecessarily tall before, though Jack was the closest to his own height. When Tubbo whined into Wilbur’s neck, the older gave his knees a sympathetic squeeze, not expecting him to kick out with a squeak.
“Wihilbur, don’t do that.” Tubbo giggled, clinging on to Wil’s sweater.
Wilbur giggled deviously, “Oh, you’re ticklish then Tubbo? Maybe that will help your mood, get your energy back and all that.” He held on to Tubbo with one hand, reaching back with the other to scribble at his side. He wasn’t expecting much, Tubbo was wearing a rather thick sweatshirt, but Tubbo was tired enough that even the thought of it happening sent butterflies fluttering across his skin.
Tubbo giggled frantically, squirming as much as he could without running the risk of falling off his perch. “It wohon’t! Wihil, I- ihit tihihckles.”
Jack cooed at him off to the side. “Awe, look at him. He’s so sweet like this, can’t believe he was threatening to stab us just a few hours ago.”
Tommy was all but bouncing next to him. “Yeah! Get him Wil, Tubso needs to smile cause he’s been in a right state.” He switched his pumpkin over to one hand, poking at Tubbo’s other side and chuckling evilly when he jerked back and forth between him and Wilbur.
Tubbo kicked his legs and brought one arm down to swat at Tommy’s hand. “Stohop ihit! You’re nohot helpihing.”
Wilbur had to toss Tubbo back up in the air to keep him from slipping down. “You’re a squirmy little thing, aren’t you? Some help here guys? Make sure he doesn’t fall backward or anything.”
Jack followed Tommy’s lead, reaching over with a free hand and wiggling his fingers at the teen’s neck, smiling when Tubbo squealed and shook his head back and forth before hiding in Wil’s neck. He could see pink slowly making its way up Tubbo’s neck and to the tips of his ears through his hair. “Look at that, he’s going all red, isn’t he. Come get in on this Ranboo while you can.”
It was well known that Ranboo ended up being a common victim among everyone, so any chance he had to get he went for it.
Ranboo looked down at his hands, both of which were full of pumpkins, and then back up to Jack with a blank look on his face. “We might have a slight issue with that, I- um. I have pumpkins.”
“Doho it ahand I wihill kihihill you lahater Rahahan- TOHohomy, Naha!”
Jack looked over to where Tommy had snuck his hand between Tubbo and Wilbur, squeezing at his stomach and making Tubbo kick out violently. Jack couldn’t help but chuckle along, “Now that’s just mean, mate.”
Wilbur brought his other hand back to hold onto Tubbo more steadily. “Jeez man, you’re a kicker. ACK- careful, don’t choke me. Tommy not so much.” Wilbur jerked with Tubbo when he flung himself back to get away from Tommy, hands still around Wilbur’s neck.
Jack put his hand on Tubbo’s back, making sure he wouldn’t fall backward. “Switch me Ranboo, I’ll take the pumpkins.”
Tommy scooted over, letting Jack and Ranboo do a transfer and holding Tubbo up with one arm around his waist, still clawing into his tummy. “He’s fine, Wil. See, you’re fine, aren’t you Tubso? I think you were right, he’s getting his energy back now.”
Tubbo didn’t even bother to complain, just sinking back into Tommy’s chest, only to be transferred over to Ranboo.
“H-hi.”
Ranboo smiled down at Tubbo who was leaned back on him, head tilted all the way back to be able to look at him properly. “Hi, Tubbo. How’re you doing?”
Tubbo shook his head, not able to stop his anxious giggles. “You dohon’t have to do this, I’ll get you back ten times worse.”
“Mhm,” Ranboo hummed, “I think I do though. A-and you’ll do that no matter what so, an empty threat.”
Before Tubbo could make any more threats Ranboo had a hand sneaking under his shirt and scribbling on his side. Tubbo ended up releasing his hold on Wilbur entirely besides from where the eldest still had his legs under him and melting entirely into Ranboo’s chest. It was like lightning was coming right from Ranboo's fingertips, zaping every nerve ending until he couldn't even squirm away anymore to get away from the feeling.
He explored while he could, being careful not to wear Tubbo out too much more than he already was. The conversation carried on mostly like normal, with the occasional comment on if Tubbo’s laugh got high pitch or changed suddenly. They got a few odd looks when they got closer to the front of the pumpkin patch, but Ranboo wrapped it up and leaned Tubbo back against Wilbur’s back.
Tubbo just gave a half-hearted grumble, a few threats distinguishable between the mutterings along the lines of “Wait till later… get you back… not over.” which Wilbur would carefully warn Ranboo about later. A Tubbo with a reason for revenge was a Tubbo to fear after all.
He wouldn’t have to worry for now though, because, by the time Tommy opened the door for Wilbur to let Tubbo slide in, the boy was barely awake enough to register himself being moved, and Ranboo had to be careful not to let Tubbo collapse fully onto the ground.
They shuffled him around until he was buckled up, everyone else filing in after and settling into quiet conversations for the ride home.
Even Tubbo would have to admit though, by the end of the whole ordeal he felt a lot more positive than he had before. That didn’t mean the others would get off scot-free though, they’d just have to wait for him to rest up first.
2. Have dinner with your friend Molly at your mom’s house
3. Watch a “Say Yes to the Dress” marathon
4. Meanwhile, 2 miles away, citizens of your town pull down a Confederate monument (hell yeah!!!!) and make national news
5. Regret not going to that protest!
6. Gabe comes over
7. The three of you hang out for a long time and it’s wonderful, Molly drops you back home
8. See The Big Sick in Chapel Hill with Molly and Katie
9. Cry!!!!!!
10. Get hit on so directly by a man that it takes you aback a little
11. Sit with your friend Molly as she packs to go to the airport
12. Quickly eat some eggplant parmesan she made
13. Get picked up at 7:30 to go to a farm for dinner with your family friends that have known you your whole life
14. Meet a pig named Chorizo
15. Have so much fun
16. Get driven home by your brother
17. Separate your clothes while watching 30 Rock
18. Mostly watch 30 Rock
19. Have dinner with your family
20. It’s nice
21. Play Quiddler (a word game your mom got into recently)
22. Have fun
23. Your dad and brother leave
24. Stay at your mom’s and eat dessert and watch the first four episodes of GLOW with your mom
25. Dad takes you back home on his way back from his writing group he went to
26. Try to pack everything because you’re leaving tomorrow but realize you need to get another bag from storage because you have too many clothes
27. Sleep
28. Eat a bagel with cream cheese you didn’t know was there until today
29. Pack pack pack pack, with less 30 rock now cause it’s crunch time
30. Your dad and brother come on their lunch break to say goodbye!!!
31. Write a status about the monuments
32. Mom takes you to the airport
33. She pays for your checked bags
34. Fly to New York
35. Your friend Nate meets you at the airport, takes the cab with you to your friend’s house, carries bags in
36. Hug everyone
37. Walk your friend (Ariel)’s dog (Bamford) with her
38. Talk to her boyfriend for 3 hours while she’s at work
39. Eat the pizza she brings back
40. Watch the rest of GLOW while she works on a packet
41. Try to sleep
42. Wake up
43. Do resume stuff
44. Freak out that you don’t have a job or a place to live
45. Try to work on your resume that you haven’t updated since 2013
46. Have a million tabs open and bounce around maniacally
47. Do that for many hours, feeling awful and stressed and like a failure
48. Communicate with your friend Charlie
49. You guys agree to meet up and do work in a coffeeshop
50. He comes to Queens from the Upper West Side, which god bless him, takes an hour and a half
51. You see Charlie!!!!
52. Go to a coffeeshop
53. Talk and write and work a little
54. Run into another comic in the coffeeshop you know
55. He says there’s a mic nearby in an hour
56. You go with him
57. You do the mic!!!!
58. You have a good set!!!
59. Go home in the rain, stopping into thrift stores on the way
60. Go with Ariel to Molly’s house for their podcast recording
61. There’s pizza and beer and fudge there and you were so hungry!!!!!!
62. Listen to them record their podcast
63. It’s amazing and you love it and want to have a buddy to start a podcast with, or just start one
64. Help Molly with her packet afterwards (same one Ariel was doing)
65. It’s for a Roast Battle between two dead people and is very fun
66. Go home
67. Stay up watching different shows until 4:00am because your mind worries a lot when left alone right now
68. Wake up
69. Try to do more writing/computer stuff
70. Finish some stuff
71. Decide you need to leave the house
72. Head to a grocery store nearby
73. Go into a pet store, 99 cents store, gym
74. Almost get to the grocery store
75. Hear from your friend Alex
76. Head to Park Slope with him to hang out and possibly make weed sugar
77. Smoke weed
78. See friends
79. Drink a beer
80. Get thai food
81. Walk 20 blocks to a bar that isn’t worth it at all
82. Go back
83. Drink more beer
84. Look at beautiful lights that change color inside your friend Eli’s house who you have hooked up with before and have an ongoing thing with kind of but he is in a relationship right now which is kind of disappointing but also none of your business and doesn’t really matter
85. Have so much fun
86. Share a cab back with Alex and his girlfriend Mossiel
87. Hang at their house for long enough to eat some chocolate
88. They walk you home
89. Your thighs are burning because you didn’t wear shorts under your dress and your thighs have been rubbing together for many hours now
90. Get home very late!!!
91. Watch more of Insecure and sleep
92. Wake up
93. Watch Insecure with Ariel
94. Go into the city with her for the rehearsal of her show All Female Reboot
95. Hang out, meet some people
96. See the show
97. Go out afterwards, first to a TGI Fridays which is too expensive because you’re in Times Square, then to a deli where you get beers and drink them at the top
98. Have fun conversation and a good burger
99. Turn on your phone after the show and get a group text from your mom between you and your ex-boyfriend that is a picture of Reba McEntire because your mom drove to Nashville to see the eclipse and ran into Reba McEntire and knows your ex-boyfriend LOVES her
100. Feel so much love and surprise when you see the texts
101. Then feel weird about how to respond
102. Decide to be a little formal and removed but appreciative because your ex-boyfriend will be here next week and you don’t want to say anything too familiar that will make him feel weird and not want to see you
103. Share a cab back to Astoria, watch the latest episode of Insecure at Liz and Jordan’s house
104. Have a cool conversation afterwards about monogamy and friendship and lots of stuff
