Hybrid Of The End

~Act Two : Chapter nine~

A couple days past since Niki wrote the letter to Blade; Tommy, Michael and Ranboo now more or less lived together in the room above the cafe.
  The bed ranboo slept on had been rotated along the other wall, the table next to it and a large air bed was placed at the other side. Tommy mostly slept on the air bed, where as Michael slept wherever he wanted (they couldn't say no to him even if they wanted to).

The plan was, if anyone saw the two beds, or the double amount of food brought by niki, or even the boys themselves, was to say that Ranboo's friend (and his younger brother) had been sleeping over.
(Niki came up with the idea to say it was because of the recent facility fire near where the two boys lived).

   This plan was mostly due to a small situation that had happened days prior...

A few days ago, a man had walked into the cafe when it was closed. The man wasn't very tall, however he was lean and a bit of a bitch.
He was bald, causing both ranboo and Tommy to stand and giggle at him when he first came in - hiding behind the cafe desks next the staircase up to the house.
  He had seen Ranboo but not tommy, and kept yelling "Oi, you there! Com' here!"

The two stared at eachother for a good whole minute before the man started to degrade ranboo with questions.
For starters, he'd ask questions such as 'why was he here', 'why did Niki accept him at the café' and how he knew her, for most of the questions, Ranboo only stuttered and choked on his words, causing the man to get more annoyed at him.

Thankfully, Tommy had told Niki about the man and she came down after the questions where starting to get heated.

  "Jack? It's closing time, why are you here?"

"Niki, there you are, who is this?" He waved his finger at Ranboo.

"That's ranboo," Niki held an arm behind the boy, "he's helping around whilst I baby sit him,"

Jack only looked more cautious, "oh really?"

Yet, Niki only mouthed something and the man had immediately switched his behaviour, going from a hateful glare to a sorrowful and an almost apologetic one.

"Sorry, or whatever, I saw the guards and thought something happened"

"What guards?"

Jack only stared at her confused, "the guards, everywhere, they've become more common in the upper city so I thought something must have happened down here"

Only, niki shook her head.

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"Tom, guess what," Ranboo sat on the bed, poking at Tommy who was trying to sleep.

"Hm?"

"Guess what"

"You're going to let me sleep?" Ranboo only scoffed and poked him harder.

"No, we're going to go to the shops!" Ranboo smiles, then pushes Tom out the bed when no noise comes from him.

"Flexus Christ, fuck you!" Tommy snarled then put his head back into the bed, whilst his body was still on the floor.

"Cmon, wake up!" Ran shoves his head up, and smiles at tom.

"Ugh fine." Tommy rolled his eyes. "What day is it?"

"Uh, Tuesday?"

"Twesdaey" Tommy mimicked him, rolling his eyes as he stood and stretched. "Meh meh meh"
Then he paused.

"Oh shit! Shop day!" He smiled and grabbed some of his clothes on the wooden side. "Why didn't you say so!?"

'shop day' was a rare occurrence, once every Tuesday either tom or ranboo (and sometimes both) would go to the local market and gather some things for Niki.
Michael would always have to stay home, due to his small snorts and well, scar, though - each Tuesday the boys go out, they'd make sure to bring him back something shiny.