It started with a ping

Chapter 2

stix frowned and stared at their phone, how had so many people joined the Submissiveman server already? They lay on their stomach across their grey bedsheets and watched the chat move rapidly, mainly Spicyhummus being cute and Submissiveman struggling to i use the different sections of the server accordingly. The two were so cute together, they both found each other a while back and even still continued to thrive off each other. stix didn't know the two Brits that well but watching them interact only fuelled the feeling of loneliness deep in their chest.

The chat died down after a while and stix chose to curl up beneath their thick blankets as a final defence from the cold Canadian air. They got comfortable and opened the chat again seeing the notification for someone new deciding to be a part of the server. Stix sunk down on their pile of pillows and smiled as the newest member of their server introduced themselves.

Gooby: hi

Stix smiled and typed a quick hello as a reply, being one of the only people online it would be rude to let the introduction go ignored. Stix face morphed into a frown as they watched goobys name go from typing to offline. What the fuck does gooby mean anyway? Before rationalising it stix began typing frantically, appalled by this persons manners

Stix: wow.
Stix: that was rude

The phone clattered to the ground as stix slowly got up to close the blinds decorating the window placed in the far side of the room. They walked back towards the bed, strong hands caressing the bedsheets clumsily hoping they would make contact with the fallen phone. Stix stood up straight in the dark room, huffing and looking around defeatedly in the tired state they were in, deciding it was a problem for the morning stix climbed back into their bed carefully, rearranging the pillows to form a soft Barrier around their upper body like a gentle omega, but they were nothing of the sort. Secondary genders are naturally supposed to start showing around the age of 12 but stix had been showing signs of aggression from a young age, believing it was just misbehaviour stix's parents had lectured them profusely but when they got down on all fours, bit a chunk of their moms leg off and growled violently it was obvious the young alpha had just presented early.

Golden beams seeped through the grey blinds in the early light, Casting golden beams across stixs resting face and causing them to stirr and fidget before gently fluttering their eyelids open. It was early, about 1pm if the light was anything to go by and stix reached a weak hand down the crack of their bed to retrieve the fallen phone from lastnight. They held the item away from their face as they squinted at the stacks of notifications.

They opened their phone and replied to their friend eves first, they had met eves on the Submissivemanzone on the earlier days when only a handful of people had even known about it. stix had spoke to eves briefly when the sever was still in its progress but the two had gotten close as friends and chatted regularly outside of the server as time progressed.

As stix worked through replying to the messages they had gathered overnight from classmates and family one message left a sour taste in their mouth, it seemed gooby had woken up a while ago and replied to last nights messages quite agitated.

9:55 am
Gooby: who are you talking to
Gooby: who even are you
Gooby: I will kill you with my bare hands
Gooby: dickhead.

10:23 am
Submissiveman: what the hell is going on
Spicyhummus: I am itchy all over
Gooby: I hate stix fucking gross horrible
Submissiveman: I like spicy
Spicyhummus: awhhhhhhh
Lil froggy: I like my tea hot uwu
Gooby: i like karlnap

Stix chuckled to themselves and swiped to reply to goobys message before realising he was online and in the voice chat with a handful of other people from the sever. Sleepily Stix untangled the mess of wire their earphones had become and places the waxy buds into their ears, joining the vc and immediacy pressing mute as they walked downstairs for some breakfast.

While stix was drizzling the golden Canadian syrup across the pancakes they had quickly made up they listened closely to the vc, half absorbing the mindless chatter being handed back and forth between the group. Stix ate silently, watching the different discord icons turn green and fade out again. After a while people started leaving until only themselves, gooby, Submissiveman and spicyhummus remained.

"Come on its easier if you just talk" Submissiveman groaned into the microphone as spicyhummus sang a gorgeous dazzling sexy song in the background. Stix stared, waiting for a reply from someone yuat Submissiveman had been conversing with.

Gooby: no. Dumb fucking stix is here

Stixs eyebrows furrowed angrily and a snarl escaped their lips at the rude comments but remained still seated as the conversation continued.

"Pubeyyyy, stix isn't paying attention anyway they probably aren't listening" Submissiveman argued, wanting someone desperately to chat with.

"Hello" gooby spoke after a while and stix froze their movements completely, the rich Irish accent caught stix off guard as they stared open mouthed at the phone and gulped intensely, the chatting continued on normally but stix could hear nothing but the sound of gooby chuckling in the call, it was so annoying and it made stix blood boil.

"God I hate stix so much they're such a moron idiot" gooby admitted in a moment of silence on the vc. The cruel words broke stix from their trance and they stood up angrily, they itched their elbow and left the vc with a screen cracking finger press. Stix clutched fistfuls of their hair angrily and paced the hallway. Thinking about how if they ever met gooby in the street they would him Stix stood up ferociously and punched a while straight through the brick wall. A moose poked its nose through the whole and ate the rest of the pancakes while stix put on their coat tightly and grumbled under their breath before leaving for a walk around the forest.