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Worsened my anxiety - Wilbur, Tommy and Quackity

Got this idea from Wilbur's wine stream with Quackity, he said that he gets anxious a lot especially during the Los Campesinos gig.

Characters: Wilbur, Tommy, Quackity, Joe and Ash.

[Wilbur and his friends meet up for a Los Campesinos gig.]

TW// Panic attacks

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Wilbur's pov

I just arrived to the Los Campesinos concert, or gig as I call it. Quackity and Tommy were already there, talking to each other when they saw me.

"Wilbur!" Quackity called excitedly, the same way we both call each other during MCC's.

"Quackity!" I responded back, opening my arms to give him a hug which he accepted.

"How are you?" I asked, making small talk.

"I'm good! This is my first concert so I'm excited."

"Your first? It's gonna be amazing." I said before I went over to Tommy to give him a hug.

After that, we went into the place, where we saw Joe and Ash, my Lovejoy band mates. Sadly, Mark couldn't come because he had covid and had to be quarantined.

I always get anxious around meeting new people, or just seeing many people in general. I've always had this problem, I even went to the doctor's for help. One of the reasons I quit Twitter last year was because everyone was sort of going at each other for the pandemic and shit and it worsened my anxiety.

The place we went into was very dark, red coloured lights were glaring from the ceiling. Being here was fun, I wanted to be here but meeting the tons of fans that I did and over thinking about an online friend whom I just met in real life (Quackity) did not help keeping calm. Surprisingly, listening to the voice of a loud and energetic child did somewhat calm me down.

Halfway into the gig, the crowd is cheering, Los Campesinos are singing, Joe and Ash are with each other having fun, Tommy is having the best time and Quackity is totally in the zone. I hope he's having fun too.

"This is so cool!" Tommy stated, eyes filled with excitement and joy.

"I'm glad you're enjoying it." I replied blandly, looking around.

There's got to be a toilet here somewhere right? I need a quiet space, I can't do this.

"You alright?" Tommy questioned, noticing my lack of concentration.

"Yes." I answered, my voice sounding irritated.

Hearing the crowd get louder as the band hit the chorus drained out other voices by me. I was going into a panic attack.

"Are you sure?"

Bingo. Right in the back corner, found a sign that says 'bathroom'.

"I'm gonna go to the toilet real quick." I told Tommy, quickly pacing away from him.

Tommy's pov

Wilbur was acting different. Not in a bad way, but it was worrying. He didn't face me when I was talking, ignored my question as if he didn't hear it and ended the conversation by leaving me.

I wasn't alone obviously, Joe and Ash were by me but they were talking amongst themselves and paying attention to Los Campesinos on the stage.

There was something up... I could just feel it. I knew he had anxiety for a while now, he told me about it. He would always try to hide whenever something was wrong because it "wasn't our responsibility to make sure he's fine". So I never knew when he was really fine or not.

"Don't go anywhere without one of us, okay?"

Wilbur's voice filled my head with what he said right when we came in.

Fuck, what do I do? Minutes passed and I'm just getting more worried.

"Big Q." I called, tugging his sleeve.

"Yeah?" He responded, looking back at me.

"Can you follow me to the toilet? Wilbur was acting weird and left to go there minutes ago but still isn't back. I'm worried.." I explained briefly.

"Oh, alright. Come on." He said, telling Joe and Ash where we were headed before going.

We reached the toilet, outside them were empty, understandable 'cuz who would want to leave during a fun concert?

I opened the men's bathroom door to find a tall man with fluffy brown hair sitting on the floor knees to his chest and head faced down. It was Wilbur. He didn't bother to look, though I could tell he knew someone was there.

"Wilbur?" I called, letting Quackity in after I entered.

He too saw Wilbur and we both went over to him.

"Wilbur, you good?" Quackity questioned, stooping to his level as I did the same.

He let out shaky gasps, almost sounding like he couldn't breathe.

"Will, please look up." I demanded, he obeyed.

He faced us, eyes filled with panic, fear and a hint of disappointment as he breathed unsteadily.

"Woah, what's wrong?" Quackity confused.

Wilbur shook his head left to right, breath becoming more unstable when he let out a cough.

"Wilby, breathe." I told him but I didn't know how to help.

He shook his head again, like he was trying to tell us he didn't want our help.

"Wilbur, look at me. Listen to my voice. Can you hear me? Can you see me?" Quackity questioned Wilbur, putting both his arms on Will's shoulder.

He nodded yes.

"Okay good. Follow as I do, breathe in for 4 seconds, breathe out for 6 and hold for 8. Slow, deep breaths." Quackity instructed, trying to calm Wilbur down.

I didn't know how to help. I felt so useless but I just wanted Wilbur to be okay.

Quackity then whispered some words of reassurances to Wilbur.

"It's gonna be fine. Whatever happened, you'll get through it."

Wilbur could breathe properly at this point, but he never said anything and we weren't going to force him to.

I remembered the time I was watching Wilbur's stream one day and he talked about me saying;

"He could just talk about the most random thing or say a shitty joke but it'll never not make me smile."

"Wilbur I know it's merch but we're wearing matching clothes right now. We're so quirky." I laughed, seeing a smile being plastered onto his face.

"That's so dumb." He whispered jokingly.

"You ready to get out of this small unhygienic place?" Quackity asked minutes later.

"Fuck yeah." Wilbur smiled.

"Yeah, c'mon!" I cheered, excitedly going out.

Nearing the end, Los Campesinos LITERALLY GIVES US A FUCKING SHOUT OUT.

"We would like to thank Wilbur and Tommy-"

The crowd cheers, I jump up and down excitedly as Wilbur pulls his mask to his eyes nervously but also in slight embarrassment.

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