Changed Forever [Discontinued]

IV

tw // implied sh, swearing
—Notes at bottom— 
Edited (08/22/2022)

{Skeppy's POV}

I heard Bad crying.

It didn't seem like he was at his computer, but rather somewhere further away from it. The audio was a bit choppy but I could make out that he sobbing about something. 

Concerned about him, I started to call out to him, hoping that he would hear me from the speakers of his computer, as I knew he didn't use headphones when streaming. 

Bad didn't respond so I tried calling his phone as well, thinking that he might've brought it wherever he was. Dead as well.

I thought of just leaving him there and calling him back in a few minutes when he got back to his computer to ask what was wrong, but then it stopped and everything went silent. Only for a moment however; it was broken by a drawer slam and recontinued sobbing. 

Only this time, I could faintly make out some words that he was saying. Unplugging my headphones, I turned my volume all the way up to try to hear what he was saying. 

Bad could've been mad at me for this, as it was technically snooping on his privacy, but I was curious and really worried about him.

The worry grew when I realised that he was mumbling something about a ghost and everyone hating him. This didn't make sense to me at all, was this what he thought about himself? What was this ghost he was talking about?

I was spiraling in my own mind thinking about what he meant when I suddenly heard a sharp hiss and silence. That's when I started yelling his name, hoping that I would somehow get him to hear me; even if it hadn't worked before, I hoped.

The silence was suddenly broken by the most apprehensible thing I'd heard so far: "Fuck it." 

This comment surprised me so much, as Bad, even outside of streams, didn't swear at all. The worst thing I'd heard up to that point from him was a panicked fumble of, "oh crap", which he apologies profusely for afterwards.

I knew that I needed to help him somehow but was out of ideas. All I could do was sit there and wait until Bad got back.

While I waited, worry flooded through me. To try to get my mind off of the situation, I tried editing my new video, but couldn't get through even a few minutes without reverting back to the scene I'd just heard.

I restlessly waited for an hour but never got an answer or anything other than an occasional jingle from what I assumed was Rat's collar.

Then, after waiting for what felt like an eternity, I heard muffled noise near the computer as if someone were walking towards it. This made my ears perk up and start reciting Bad's name again, just in case that was him and he was able to hear me.

To my luck, this time he could.

Based of his surprised scramble over to the computer and a fumbled string of blabber, he hadn't realised he was still in the call and that I'd joined. 

From here, I tried asking what was wrong and about what I heard, but all I was getting were evasive answers that had nothing to do with the questions being asked.

At some point, I gave up on trying to pry at what was going on and just surrendered to his privacy. I told him that he could always come to me, but he seemed reluctant and hesitant on that.

After that, we tried to start up a conversation like usual, but this time, we both seemed distant and it wasn't the same. Maybe it will never be like it used to. 

In the end, I made an excuse that I needed to take Rocco out on a park because my family was busy and volunteered me to do it.

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Hey, it's been a hot minute. As a bit of a backstory, I've mostly fallen out of the MCYT community, however, I still kind of keep up to date with major things within the fandom. I started this book when I was at the beginning of my MCYT fandom obsession (I started out with Bad and Skeppy as my main role models). Since then, I've fallen out of Dream SMP lore and certainly with what's going on with Bad and Skeppy, so I'm sorry if any of this is inaccurate now; I'm simply just basing them off what I remember of them.

Although I fell out of this community (mostly, at least), I don't know much, so it's probably not going to realistic, but it's on the track to be finished at least. I personally hate when authors have a plot and don't finish it, leaving it abandoned, so I'm trying not to do that myself. This will mean, however, that the plot is going to be more fast-paced but shorter than an average fic/slow-burn. I'm just trying to finish this book while still being exercising my writing skills. So, sorry if my writing feels rushed or anything. 

There will most likely be 2 more chapters, and this book will be officially complete. May also go back in to previous chapters and edit the grammar and comments on them as well, so if there's new updates of older chapters, that's probably why.

-Thank you very much; E.