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

Chapter 4

TW: Underage smoking / mentions of possible eating disorder / hints towards depression

It had been a couple of days. The bags under Wilbur's eyes became bigger and bigger. He had slept, like 7 hours that week. Way too little sleep, but sleep nonetheless.

His brothers had started to catch up on Wilbur's behaviour. Not eating too much, tired all of the time, studying all of the time... Sometimes Wilbur wasn't even home in the evening. They had no idea where he went, but they decided not to confront Wilbur, not right then anyway.

Wilbur got home from school. He was home alone since Phil was at work, Tommy had piano and Techno was working extra at a library. He thought he could spend this time studying for his maths exam that was in a week, but Schlatt had other plans for him.

Schlatt

Yo bitchboy!

Wilbur

What?

Schlatt

You are coming tonight, right?

Wilbur

I don't know, I thought I'd study

Schlatt

Study?

Wilbur, studying is for nerds and pussies

Come on! Everyone's waiting!

Wilbur

Ok

Wilbur sighed. He knew what he and his friends did was bad. He knew that, but when he did it, there with them, all his worries and anxiety flew out the window. So he ran up to his room, grabbed his trench coat from under his bed, and ran out the door.

It was beginning to get dark when he arrived at the abandoned warehouse. He got in, and everyone was there.

"EYYY!!! WILBUR!!! MA MAN!!!"

"AYUP!!" It was easy to put on another personality here. He was pretty comfortable with these people.

"How've you been, man?" Wilbur just relised Quackity was still in front of him.

"Yeah, fine, Big Q. What about you? How many boyfriends have you got at the moment?" WIlbur teased.

Quackity just scoffed and rolled his eyes before going back to the others.

"Wilbur! Glad you could join us!" Schlatt handed him a cig.

"Yeah, I needed some time off thinking" Wilbur laughed, while lighting the cig.

"Yeah I get it" Schlatt laughed back.

Wilbur came home after a couple of hours, not before he was sure he didn't smell of cigarette smoke anymore. It was dark when he arrived, but he saw his dad and Techno through the window, which meant he would be in a lot of trouble if he went through the door. So what did he do? He climbed a tree, jumped on the roof and went through the window of course. But little did he know that his brother had seen him through the window, 15 minutes before.

--15 min before--

Techno was talking about university options with his dad. He wanted to go to university in a year or two, and dad was experienced with this. Suddenly, he saw a tall 15-year-old boy through the window. Techno recognised this boy as his younger brother. Wilbur seemed to think for a bit, then turn, going into the back yard.

He's probably gonna try to get through the window, Techno thought.

"Tech!" his dad looked him in the eyes.

"I-uh, sorry. I just zoned out."

"Ok mate, you gonna go upstairs to your room to rest?"

"I-Yeah, sure" But Techno didn't go to his room, he went to his brother's room, to wait for him there.

--Present time--

Wilbur slid through the window, pleased with himself for that piece of success.

"And you've been.....?"

Wilbur froze. He turned around slowly to see an older brother sitting on his bed.

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So that would be it! Thank you so much for 64 reads!!! I actually didn't think so many would read this shit, lol!!

I also wanna thank @GayPanicAtTheDisco, my friend and platonic wife, for helping me with TW's!! She's great!!

Hope you enjoyed!

-Eri