"I'm Proud Of You" | Wilbur Soot angst

Chapter 2

TW: intrusive thoughts / possible eating disorder

Wilbur looked at his work and just thought: Progress. Well, he had sat there for an hour just doing math problems, but he had filled about 4 A4 pages, he was pretty happy with himself. For once. Well, it was 7:12 am, so he went down for some breakfast, since school started in about 1.5 hours.

Are you really gonna eat?

You really think you deserve food?

You only did 4 A4 pages of math, you weren't even right half of the time.

Ok, maybe he wouldn't eat so much. Wait, what if his dad noticed?

Oh, he wouldn't notice. Why would he notice if something's off with you? You're not successful Technoblade. Or little Tommy that Phil won't let out of his sight. You're just the middle child nobody cares about. Nobody cares about you.

Feeling down, he went downstairs to see if the others were there. Suprise suprise, everyone was awake. Even Techno.

"Mornin' sleepyhead" his 19-year-old brother looked at him while sipping his coffee.

"Good morning, Tech."

"Slept well?"

"I guess" Wilbur felt bad about lying, but he didn't want to be a burden, or another problem the family had to go through.

"AYUP BITCHBOY!!!!" Tommy yelled, mouth full of cheerios.

"Hello gremlin child"

"OI! I'M NOT A CHILD! I'M A BIG MAN!!"

"Wilbur, quit being rude to your brother." Phil said, not even looking at Wilbur.

"But-but he called me a bitchboy first!"

"You're older than him. You should know better." he still didn't look at Wilbur.

"O-ok, I'm just, uh, gonna go to school."

As predicted, nobody noticed he didn't eat. It could seem as a good thing, but for Wilbur, it hurt that his father didn't worry for him.

Wilbur found his way to the school. It was quite a long walk, but he managed. He went through the school gates, searching for his friends. He had a great friend group in school, Niki, Jack and Eret. But he also had a friend group outside of school, Schlatt, Quackity and Minx. He'd rather not talk about them. Someone might hear and call his dad.

"Will! Will, over here!"

He turned around to see Niki wave at him.

"Hey Niki!" he went up to her.

"Oh so we're not important enough to get a 'hi' from our friend. Thanks." Jack said sarcastically, Eret standing beside him.

"Nah, you're not, Niki's actually nice." Wilbur said.

"OH YOU TAKE THAT BACK YOU PRICK!!"

This started a (friendly) fight between the two boys. After a while, Eret broke them up.

"Ok, fun's over, we don't wanna be late." he said in his deep voice.

"'K"

"Sure"

Geography's Wilbur's best subject. When they got their test results back, he was not surprised to see the letter 'A' at the top of the paper.

"What'd you get?" Jack leaned over to look at Wilbur's paper.

"A, you?"

"C"

"Hah, L"

I got an A. This is good. Maybe dad'll finally say he's proud of me!

He didn't know what it was, but dad hadn't ever told Wilbur he's proud of him. Sure, dad would say 'good job' or something in that style, but he'd never say the four simple words: 'I'm proud of you', which he would say to Wilbur's brothers on a daily basis.

"Will?"

Wilbur got snapped out of his thoughts.

"Yeah, Eret?"

"Nothing, you just zoned out. You ok?"

"Yeah I'm fine!"

Lies came easy those days. Wilbur knew it was 'bad to lie' but he can't just say right out: 'yeah I feel like shit, I don't sleep and I barely eat!' He can't just say that.

Right?

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-Eri