Turns out, Jason had actually fallen asleep on the roof of the building he was on and his hand had probably just spasmed on his phone or something. Techno had sat there staring at the dots for FOUR HOURS, be for Jason had panic responded, and he quotes, "F*CK!!! I'M SO SORRY !.$: jsjisixhnakoahshdhkdkjskwikk." And then, "My hand had a stroke, sorry."

Techno just responds with, "Four hours, Jason. Am I really that boring." No question mark. Yep, totally a statement and not question. Good work, you failure of an English Major.

    He tells himself to shut as he watches the dots pop back up again, just like he did for the last four hours.

"I was going to ask what time you guys were planning on hanging out? It's fine if you guys don't want to invite me, or if you guys weren't planning on hanging out today are anything."

    Techno could practically smell Jason's existential crisis though the phone. An existential crisis probably doesn't have a smell, but he has an imagination, so leave him alone.

"Dude, chill out. We genuinely had a fun time yesterday, and we would love to hang out with you again."

    A couple of seconds go by and Techno decided to just respond with, "Actually, you have no choice. You are coming with us, and you will have a lot of fun."

"None, like at all?"

"You are our friend now, you will have to suffer being entertained for hours on end."

"ooooohhhhh noooooooo, wwwhhhaaaatttteeevvvveerrr ssshhhhaalllllllll iiiii ddddooooo?????"

Techno starts laughing uncontrollably, which scares the crap out of Wilbur, who was walking down the stairs (and fell down them). Which some how make Techno laugh even harder, as he stares at Wilbur's dumbfounded look.

He's still laughing when Wilbur finally gets up and asks him, "What's going on?" As his laughter starts to fade in to soft giggles, Will sits down on the couch beside him, and looks at him tiredly.

"Jason messaged me on Twitter."

"And...?"

"His phone fell off a building."

Wilbur blinks at him slowly, in a way many would describe as owlishly.

"His phone fell off a building?"

"Well, not a whole building."

"Please, please explain."

Techno considered his response for a whole half a second.

"No."

"No?"

"Not right now, I'm having too much fun."

"Well, have fun later, we have to got get Tommy."

Aw man.

...

Creeper

Shudupbrain

"Shouldn't we wait for Phil?"

Techno was honestly kind of terrified to be alone in a car with Wilbur, and even more scared to be in a car with both Tommy and Wilbur. Techno loves his friends, but he isn't suicidal. He know how chaotic they are, and he knows Will probably didn't get that much sleep. Combined sleep deprivation + a screaming child = a mess or something more tragically poetic.

"I want to let him sleep in, so that when he wakes up, we can just go pick up Kirsten and not have to worry about the children."

"Soooooo, we're pick up Jason to then, right?"

    Wilbur's brain is probably doing something as complicated as his face is, which is something far too complicated for Techno to actually be able to interpret. The words that do come out of his mouth are, "How old do you think he is? He doesn't look old, maybe late teens or early twenties, but the look in his eyes ages his soul centuries."

     This is what he gets for have creative friends, riddles with no possible answer.

"So is that a yes?"

    Will looks absolutely destroyed that Techno didn't even try to answer such a rhetorical question.

"If he wants to be."

    A few texts and an hour later, Techno, Tommy, and Jason are just existing in Wilbur's living room. The owner of the house going to wake his other guest, so they can pick up the second to last visitor.

Tommy is just chugging a Diet Coke, Jason looks a him with an extremely disturbed expression, and Techno is just wondering how they all survived that car ride. I'm not saying Wilbur is a bad driver, buuuttttt- yeah, no, I am definitely saying Wilbur is a bad driver. Deal with it.

An eternity of nervous Tommy talk and Jason's extremely expressive face, the rhyming names come down the stairs (Phil and Will, for you people with no rhythm).

"TUBBO SAYS THEY ARE ALMOST HERE!!!!"

The sudden volume change makes Jason flinch, and Tommy gets told to "shut the h*ll up, you'll wake the neighbors" in the most aggressive whisper Techno has ever heard. Tommy naturally whispers back an extremely insincere and excited apology.

    Philza, being the tiered-of-everyone's-bull-sh*t adult (parent), gently reminds them that he would like to see his wife sometime today and not sometime in the next millennia. Everyone hurries the f*ck up after that.

    Phil looks so happy to be seeing Kristan again, Techno briefly wondered if anyone would every be so happy to see him. That thought got shut down fairly quickly, but it wasn't fast enough to not leave him with a certain sense of loneliness. Curse you, Perry the Platypus. What? Never mind.

After everyone had gotten acquainted with Kristan, they all headed to go find Tubbo. Because he hadn't texted Tommy back in a while, and Tommy was threatening to call in an I.R.L. Manhunt™. Jason, rather calmly, diverted the on coming chaos with the question of where Tubbo's hotel might be. Kristan had quickly latched onto the idea and suggested that maybe Tubbo had gotten to his hotel and took a nap.

    Tommy had now taken a temporary leadership of the group, as he gave Wilbur directions, and Techno was trying not to puke. Will really needs to go back to driving school... Is driving school a thing? I don't know I never got my license :/ Have I? No, no I haven't.... But did I? No... Maybe
Probably not. Wait, why is Tommy screaming? And he's out of the car? Wha- Oh never. There is Bee Boi.

    Tubbo manages to chuck his body over the middle row of seats, which is mildly impressive. Tommy attempts the same, but fails miserably, because he somehow forgot that his is half a foot taller than the other boy. Jason almost gets hit in the face with a foot. Which brings them to a total of zero casualties thus far, and to say Techno is surprised would be a vast understatement.

He has no idea where they are headed next, but the other "T" names are chanting somethings and it's giving Techno a headache. He sinks down into his seat as much as the seatbelt he's wearing allows him to. Jason, who is squished into the middle row middle seat, pokes him and asks him if he's all right.

Techno shakes his in answer and brings his legs up on the seat, crossing them and leaning his arms on them, and his head against the window. Jason offers him a bottle of pills labeled "Ibuprofen", a generic granola bar, and a bottle of water. Techno looks at him in absolute amazement, where the h*ll did he have theta hidden? He didn't think the other had been carrying a bag when they picked him up.

Jason makes a shooing motion, and Techno quickly shoves a chunk of the granola bar in to his mouth, and washed in down with a pill and some water. Probably not the smartest idea, but oh well.

Techno soon realizes the children had been chanting "McDonald's" as they pulled into the drive though of the aforementioned restaurant. He could feel the excitement roll of the younger two, which concerned him as well as confused him. Hadn't it been just yesterday that Tommy was denouncing McDonald's? Ah well, Techno didn't own the circus, so the monkeys weren't his problem.

"Techno, you want anything?"

"No, I'm good."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah."

"Alright, suit yourself." Wilbur responds as he leans out the window. "That will be all, thank you!" Techno hears the faint response of the (Would they be called receptionist?) McDonald's employee, and the car started to move forwards once more.

    A few seconds later, the car jerks to a stop and Techno feels the way his stomach acid sloshes. He was being to regret not asking for food, a granola bar will not tide him over to lunch, especially with such high-energy people around.

A longer chapter today, I got fed up with this one. A couple of questions:

Is Phil and Kirsten technically a "ship" if they are married?

and

Is my spelling and Grammar so atrocious I need someone to look over it before I publish it?

Please answer to the best of your ability :)
Thank you!

(Also Happy Pride!!!)

6/21/2021