When you disappeared

XXIV

Y/n pov 

"Wait wait wait. You're telling me that Dream, the same guy who manipulated a lot of people and hasn't been tracked down by higher forces or the police, is after you?" Eret deadpans, his feet kicked carelessly onto a neatly organised desk, her face a picture of disbelief and confusion.

"When you put it that way, it sounds pretty bad" Wilbur rubs the back of his neck, grimacing a little.

"I mean, it is pretty bad. How did this happen?" They ask.

"Uh we aren't quite sure. He just turned up where we were staying in New York and-"

Eret cut you off.

"New York? You guys came all that way to get away? Isn't that like, forty hours or something?" 

"Yeah..." you respond, a little sheepishly.

Eret paused for a moment, glancing at the little group now sitting around his dining room table.

You'd found it funny that you hadn't know she was English, but you just presumed Wilbur had skipped over that detail when you hadn't been listening since no one else seemed fazed about it.

"Do you reckon he followed you?"

"Techno got attacked by three of Dream's friends, or so we guessed, a few days ago but that's the last we've seen of them" You answered, giving a distracted wave.

"I don't think Dream plays like that. I reckon he's probably still in New York, sending people to do his dirty work for him. Or, he's lying in wait wherever you're going..." Eret sat back, their hands on his lap.

"With that, where are you going?"

"Austin, Texas" Techno replies for you.

"And why's that?"

Wilbur let out a long, drained sigh before running over the story again.

Once he was finished retailing it, Eret stood up, grabbing a bag from beside her desk.

"Alright! Grab your shit, we're going!" They wandered over to the door, holding it open for you and your friends who were gaping at your host in disbelief.

"Wha-" Wilbur starts but Tommy cuts him off.

"C'mon then!" He jumps up and runs out the door, followed closely by Tubbo.

You decided to follow them, meaning the others came with you.

You heard Techno make a small comment to Eret, who let out a soft laugh.

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Once you were all back in the van, after the inevitable argument of who was going to drive and who was sitting up front, it was getting late again.

By this point, days seemed to merge into one, the sun and moon being the only indication of what the time might be.

You had been driving for so long now that another ten odd hours really wasn't much it was just a pain to be stuck in a van with a bunch of other people of whom you'd been with for the past two weeks or so.

But it got so much more unbearable when Tommy started singing in an irritating voice, elbowing Tubbo so he would join in.

Which he did.

Wilbur and Eret were laughing together in the front whereas you and Techno cast irritable glares at the two boys in the back.

"Oh my goddddddd! Shutttt uppppp" you groan, placing your hands over your ears.

This would seem longer than any of the other journeys.

You were finally getting closer to the main objective of this trip.

To find Phil.

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