Before You Go (Skephalo)

Chapter 2

Skeppy woke up around 2 PM and went to the kitchen. He saw some muffins on the counter, making him smile and grab a chocolate one. He took it over to his desk where he sat down. He checked Twitch and there was his buddy, Bad, streaming on the Dream SMP. Skeppy decided to join both his stream and game.

Instantly he heard bad go "Guys look! Skeppy joined! Hi Skeppy!"

Skeppy: hi bad <3

"Are you watching my stream?" Bad asked out loud.

Skeppy: no

"Oh okay" Bad continued playing for a second before realizing. "Wait a m- Skeppy!"

Skeppy giggled at this and took another bite of his muffin. He walked up to Bbh in game and started crouching, getting all up in his face, covering Bads screen.

"Yes hi Skeppy, what do you want?"

Skeppy didn't reply but instead placed TNT, lit it, and ran.

"Gah- Skeppy!!" Bad whined.

Skeppy laughed and thought about how fun messing with him in real life would be. Skeppy eventually joined his call and the two continued playing for hours.

On Friday night, BadBoyHalo got on twitter. He was replying and liking stuff until he saw something about Vidcon. He felt his heart jump. He was supposed to fly there tomorrow. He looked over at his suitcase and felt so many emotions. Joy, excitement, fear, anxiety, etc.

He decided to go to bed early so he'd be all ready for tomorrow. He got all tucked in and.. nothing.

For hours he could not fall asleep. It was around 3 AM when he finally just got back on his phone.

Skeppy had made a tweet just a few minutes ago. 'That muffinhead..' Bad thought. He decided to call his buddy.

"What's up? is everything okay?" Skeppy questioned.

"Yes, I'm just super nervous to go on the plane tomorrow, are you busy at all?"

"No, I can't really sleep, I'm super nervous too."

"Aw I'm sorry, Skeppy.." There was a bit of silence. "Hey Skeppy?"

"Yeah?"

"Can you sleep on call with me?" Bad asked nervously.

Skeppy blushed and replied, "Of course."

They talked for a while longer and both fell asleep with big smiles on their faces, the call still going.

Around 7 AM, both Skeppy and Bad were woken up by Bad's alarm blaring. It was one of those annoying ringtones that everyone knows, one that was memeable.

"Bad can you turn that off!?"

"Aah-! Skeppy!" Bad had assumed Skeppy already hung up. He frantically turned off his alarm. "I'm so sorry, I-" He was cut off by Skeppy giggling.

"Don't worry about it, dude, my alarm is supposed to go off in fifteen minutes anyways."

Bad felt his heart jump, remembering what day it was. He was going to meet his best friend. He then looked down at his phone, the call had been going on for about 4 hours. Bad thought he should probably hang up soon and get ready but.. he didn't want to?

"Bad, you there?"

"Yes, Zak, I'm here." Skeppy paused and his face scrunched up. He said his name in a deep, sleepy voice. He didn't even say Skeppy, he said Zak. He felt a tingly sensation in his stomach. "Skeppy I'm so excited to see you today." Skeppy felt his face heat up and a wave of confusion hit him. Something about that call just.. No. Skeppy shook his head. That was stupid. He's just tired. It's too early. Every excuse in the book flooded his head. "Skeppy?"

"Oh! Sorry, I dozed off. I'm super excited to see you too." Skeppy smiled. That was it, Skeppy was just excited, that's all, right..?

BadBoyHalo was walking through the airport, looking for his plane. Finally he found it, Florida to California. He let out a sigh of relief and sat down. He was an hour early and decided to browse Twitter. He hadn't realized quite how excited fans were about the meetup. His DMs were blowing up! He smiled as he saw Skeppy's tweet, "GUYS ITS HAPPENING"

About 6 to 7 hours later, he was finally off the plane. He spent most of the time with headphones on, pretending he was anywhere else.

First thing Bad did was call Skeppy. Due to timezones, it was only 2 PM in California, so they had the whole day to themselves.

"Bad! Hi! I was just about to call you!"

"Hi Skeppy! I'm off the plane!"

"Lets goo! I'm so proud of you!" Bad smiled quite a bit, Skeppys approval meant a lot to him. "Where are you?" Skeppy asked.

"I'm still at the airport, where are you?"

"I'm in my hotel, you wanna room with me?"

"Huh? What? Really!?"

"Yes really!"

"Of course, Skeppy! Send me the address!"

Bads phone pinged with the address. Bad had already reserved his own hotel, but decided not to tell Skeppy that. For some reason he really wanted to share that room with Skeppy instead.

They continued talking it up while Bad walked, it helped ease his nerves. Don't get me wrong, Bad was internally freaking out, but Skeppy's voice was so soothing.

Skeppy already gave him the room number so Bad decided not to tell him when he got there. He wanted to surprise him at least a little bit.

Bad saw a taxi and sped up so he could get to it first. The nice driver smiled and Bad gave her the address.

"Alright Skeppy, I'm gonna hang up now, I'll text you when I get there okay?"

"Agh! Okay!" Skeppy excitedly yelled out.

Bad hung up and sat down. He talked to the driver about Skeppy and how he was going to meet him. The driver listened and was very kind, enjoying Bads positivity. After only about 5 minutes, the taxi reached the hotel. Bad thanked the driver and got out. He giggled, imagining Skeppy's shocked face and squeezing him tight. He was so excited.

He walked up to the receptionist and checked in, Skeppy had already called them and told them about Bad joining him. He got a key card and went up the elevator. He walked through the hallway, counting the numbers..

209..
210..
211..
212..
213..
214...

Bad stopped. There it was. Their room. His best friend was just behind that door. He felt his stomach churn as he stood there, reading the room number over and over.