Generation Loss: The Lostfield Incident (AU)

Friendship

It was the end of the school day, Ranboo was walking out of civics class. He didn't know if it was just him but the bell ringing lasted a longer than usual, and it sounded very far. He didn't care though, maybe it was just because he was tired. Ranboo walked down the halls to go to wait for his bus and noticed Tommy walking out of his classroom.

Ranboo waved, "Hey Tommy!" He ran over to the blonde haired boy.

"Hey Ranboo! I'm about to head to the bus waiting thingy this school's got, do you take bus?" Tommy asked, ruffling his own hair and readjusting his backpack.

"Yeah I do! I ride bus 4012, what about you?" He and Tommy started to walk down the hall together and eventually down the stairs. The halls were pretty empty, for  Ranboo liked to leave class a bit late so he wasn't pushed around.

"Oh, I do too!" Tommy said as the two made their way past a new building the school installed.

"Oh, sick! Wanna sit with me? Ranboo offered as he and Tommy walked.

"Yeah! I just moved here to you'll have to show me the way 'round the neighborhood, heh" Tommy smiled. The duo eventually made it to the bus stop and took a seat, their bus came later than others so they could sit and chat.

"Wait, you just moved here? I think you live like a house past mine! Yooo!!" Ranboo exclaimed, his wrists shaking in excitement.

"Holy shit, awesome!"

Ranboo nodded and looked at his phone, 4:15 PM, his bus normally got here at around 4:20 so he'll be home soon. He looked back at Tommy who was on shein looking at a brown coat. It looked a bit fuzzy and soft. Ranboo then focused back on his phone where he went onto Spotify, connected his earbuds and put one in his ear. He then turned on drunk by bugsy and listened while drumming his fingers against his legs.

Once they got on the bus Ranboo waved at Tommy from his seat, implying that he'd sit with him. And so, Tommy takes a seat beside Ranboo, putting his bag down on the floor.

"I saw you looking at a coat on shein, looks pretty cool!" Ranboo commented, lowering the volume of his music.

"Oh, thank you! My uh.. an old friend of mine had one like it and I always thought it was cool so I wanted to see if there was one like it."

"That's cool!" Ranboo looked outside the window and stared at the clouds before gaining an idea, he gasped, "What if you come over to my place? We can hang out, only if you want to." He smiled, clearly too excited for such a simple thing.

"Yeah, lemme text my mum." Tommy pulled out his phone and went to contacts and indeed, texted his mum.

"Pfft- mum, hehe" Ranboo snickered.

"Oh shut up you American fuck!" Tommy groaned light-heartedly, rolling his eyes.

"Well it's bound to happen considering you're in America."

"Ya see, us brits are so sophisticated and humble that we don't make fun of you guys for saying mOM, while you lot laugh at a man being punted in the face." Tommy chuckled.

"Damn, you're pretty cocky" Ranboo raised an eyebrow.

Tommy laughed, "hehehe cock" He shouted

"AY! And you're making fun of me for being Immature?!" Ranboo angrily shouted, he wasn't actually angry, though.

And just then, their bus came to a stop.
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It was around 5:30PM and Tommy and Ranboo arrived at his house. Ranboo gave Tommy a brief tour before making it to his bedroom. Tommy stared at the room, admiring it, sure it was messy but he liked how it was decorated.

Tommy's gaze met a box of cassette tapes and a television with a VHS player connected to it. "Uh, Ranboo. What's this?" Tommy pointed to the box and TV.

"Ah-" Ranboo began, stepping over to him, "well, this is my TV and a VHS player that I found in that box with the tapes actually. I found em in some random park while on a walk." He explained. Tommy wrinkles his nose bridge.

"What's in the tapes? Have you watched them?" He quickly asked, taking note of the Soot Inc logo on them. He seemed very eager about them for some reason.

Ranboo nodded, "Yes, they're from this investigation from like the 1980's. It's called the Lostfield Incident." He said, taking the tape he watched last night out of the player.

Tommy crossed his arms, "Y-you shouldn't be looking into that stuff, man. It's real creepy.." his eyebrows furrowed while his eyes were glued to the box of tapes.

"I don't see the harm in it. I already think I've figured out most of it. I think.." Ranboo tossed the tape into the cardboard box that held the rest of them.

"Wh-what do you know of it?" Tommy asked, he seemed a bit tense, Ranboo noticed.

"You okay? You seem very put off about it." Asked Ranboo, taking a seat on his bed.

Tommy nodded and sat next to Ranboo, "Yes. Yes I am okay I'm just curious about it. I-I was too scared to look into it on my own, it seemed too just- odd."

"Hm. Well as far as I know there's this guy named Grayson Heliotrope that was killed by the 2nd owner of Soot Inc in like- 1986, Wilbur Soot, who then killed himself later on. Apparently people called him crazy before then because he was heard talking to himself, apparently he hallucinated. And then I found this poster of some kid named Thomas Gold that went missing in 2018, but that aside it's all I've got." Ranboo shrugged.

Tommy took sigh, to Ranboo it seemed like a sigh of relief but he didn't question it, "That's- that's brutal man.." Tommy commented, his foot bouncing against the floor.

"Yeah. I actually found the poster in Lostfield park, it's also where I found the tapes and VHS player. It's where Grayson was killed. There was a news report about weird sounds coming from there and a tall, pitch black, lanky man in the forest beside it which is why it's closed off. My guess is that the figure is Grayson's like- ghost or something."

Tommy looked on edge to say the least, "Wow- uh, sorry if I seem like- scared or worried I just am not comfortable with talking about these things." Tommy shakily said, gripping onto his sleeves.

"Oh- shit I'm so sorry Tommy!" Ranboo apologized, hugging Tommy. Tommy leaned into the hug. It felt too soon in their friendship for a hug but neither of them minded.

"It's- it's okay Ranboo, don't worry." Tommy smiled, "I'm a big man, I can deal with it."

"Alright, hmmm.. let's lighten the mood a bit.." Ranboo looked around, his gaze meeting the doorway. "Do you like animal crossing? I have a switch and a lite we can play on downstairs."

Ranboo could swear Tommy's eyes lit up, "YES- Yes!" He shouted, immediately getting out of Ranboo's arms and running downstairs, Ranboo following behind him.

The Lostfield Incident

(Hiiiii, I know I was going on a break but 3AM me wanted to write this. sorry this chapter isn't too eventful and doesn't cover much of the LFI lore (LFI is short for Lostfield incident so I might just refer it it as that now) these lads r jus becoming friends but next chapter will probably have something :)) so as always I hope you enjoyed this