A Sleepy Girl-Sleepybois au

Chapter 5

I jolt up sweating and breathing heavily. I stare at my bed and grab my dino. Don't think about it. I wipe the tears from my eyes and check the clock, 3:45 am. I hop off my bed and make my way downstairs and into the kitchen. I start to fill my glass up with water, "What are you doing?" I jump and spill the water all over me from the sudden noise. I look up to see Techno staring me down. I back up slightly and he notices, "I'm not gonna hurt you, scaring people at night is just what I do," he says and I take a breath, "Wanna scare Wil?"

"Sure. But, how do you know if he is coming down?" I retaliate

"He always gets water approximately 1 hour after he sings." I nod and we hear a bedroom door open. He waves me over and we hide behind the stairs. As we hear and see Wil walking to go get a glass of water.

He steps in the small puddle of water I made and looks at his wet sock, Techno then walks over and leans over his shoulder, "I scared you too," Wil then jumps and yelps a little as I start laughing. Wil looks at me, who is drenched in water, and sees what Techno is talking about. He shakes his head and Techno turns back to me, "Do you want a towel?"

"Yes please," I say then Techno giggles and walks out.

 A few seconds later he walks back out with a blue towel in hand. I hold my hand out for him to give it to me but instead tosses one to Wil and holds another in his hand, "Why did I get two towels?" Techno asks Wil in a joking matter. 

"For- I don't know did you spill on yourself?" Wil responds realizing it's a joke halfway through. 

"No," He then turns around and starts walking back to the bathroom. I take it upon myself and kick him in the knee. He turns around and looks at me, "Oh y/n, sorry you are too short for me to see," I laugh at first because it is a common joke, but then immediately get flashback of my old school. 

He knocks all the binders out of my hands. "Yo, does anyone know who's binders these are?" All his friends laugh and say variations of no's.

"Can I have my stuff back?" I say annoyed.

"Woah, did someone hear that ringing?" The kid says again.

"Give me my shit," I demand.

"Woah, didn't see you there. You are way too short for me to see. But did I hear you talk back? Don't talk to me that way."

"Yes, I can. Now give me my stuff back."

"You listen to me," He takes me by the shirt and holds me up against a locker, "I can do whatever I want, you must obey," He says and I look at him. 

"You weren't asking me to do shit."

"I told you that you can't talk to me that way. Obey me, praise me." 

"Hell no. Now give me my stuff, please," Then he punches me in the face, sudden and hard. I touch my face, "You don't even punch that hard," And with that, my time had come. The kid wailed on me, hitting me each second, each punch harder than the rest. My head banging in a loop between his fist and the locker. I couldn't see. I couldn't move. I couldn't stop him. His friends then pulled him off me and let me drop to the ground. Then the principal took me to his office and I got to go home.

I am sucked back to reality with Techno holding me in a towel drying me off and a concerned Wil at my side. I noticed I had fallen to the ground and started crying. I start to slow my breathing and time it with Techno's because I could feel his because of the hug. "I'm sorry," I muster out, wiping my eyes. 

"No, I'm sorry, I made you cry," Techno says with obvious pain in his voice. 

"Well, I cried for a dumb reason," I rebuttal.

"Why did you cry?" Wil chimed in.

"I- I used to get bullied a lot, and in my one school these boys would make fun of my height and then physically beat me, and you guys are great but I just, I didn't know, I-, I-,"

"You didn't know if we were gonna hurt you or not," Techno finishes. I look up at him and nod as a few more tears fall. Wil then joins the hug and I slowly drift off to sleep from the comfort.

Techno pov:

After we are hugging for who knows how long, Wil releases his grip and looks at y/n, who is lightly snoring on my chest. I adjust my position slightly so I can talk to Wil and I start to whisper, "I feel so bad."

"You didn't know. It's okay Tech," Wil comforts me. I look down at the peaceful y/n and back at Wil.

"I know but how many times does a person have to be abused that if they are picked on for being short once then they do that. She looked like her soul left her body and then she started to cry as she dropped to the ground."

Wil looks very concerned and then says, "Especially with 67 foster homes. I went to 4 and got bullied at one school."

"Yeah and that also means 87 different parents," I say dropping my face and Wil's realizes and drops too. "And with that bitch of a foster worker I bet it happened multiple times. She acted like she at least mentally destroyed her."

"Yeah, well I am going to go to bed, you should too," Wil says. 

"Yeah, I will. Goodnight."

"Goodnight Techno."

I look at the sleeping y/n in my arms and walk slowly to the stair and then into my room. I lay down and set her next to me, staying hugged to her. I never show this much physical touch. I guess I am just so proud of this little girl. She has been to hell and back a few times, and is still happy. Well to us. When I heard her puking up all of her food, and probably more it broke me. I noticed her poor eating habits when she had 2 small meals and would tense when food showed up. Eating slowly and then puking in the bathroom for 15 minutes. I just want to protect her. I just want to keep her safe. But after overthinking everything possible, I drift off to sleep.

Phil pov:

I wake up at 7 in the morning to a loud bang downstairs. I immediately rush down to see what had happened. I then see Tommy on the ground in pain. "Tommy! are you alright?" I rush over to Tommy's side. 

"Someone spilled water and didn't clean it up," Tommy grunted standing up.

"Oh my, which one of them did it," I storm upstairs pissed off because one of the children didn't clean up after themselves. I turn into Techno's room first knowing he has trouble with sleep and stays up late. I swing open the door, "Technoblade, get up now," I say walking over to his bed and shaking him awake. Only to see that y/n was laying there with him. "What the-" Techno starts to stir awake as I see y/n slide under the covers more, "I'm guessing it was you two then?"

"Heh?" Techno says just waking up, tightening his protective arm around y/n.

"The ones who left their big spill of water on the ground. That by the way, Tommy slipped in and hurt himself," Techno and y/n slightly laugh and that makes me come back to normal, "Okay, well, I guess it was kind of funny, but you still have to clean up after yourselves." 

"When Wilbur stepped in it he just was confused on why his sock was wet," Techno chimed in.

"How clumsy is this kid?" Y/n chimed in making me laugh. Techno's laugh only gets louder. She is starting to trust us which is great. I was so worried this would be a lot more difficult but the first day was pretty good. I tell them to get ready and then leave the room. I wake up Wilbur and then check on Tommy, who is perfectly fine, and clean up the spill. Then I made myself a cup of coffee and returned to my room to get ready.

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