what's stopping you?

fresh trim

𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖌𝖊𝖗 𝖜𝖆𝖗𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖘 𝖎𝖓 𝖔𝖕𝖊𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖆𝖚𝖙𝖍𝖔𝖗'𝖘 𝖓𝖔𝖙𝖊

𐐪𐑂 ♡

"wagwan!"

jack pauses what he had been saying, looking up at the voice and smiling at his friend. "ayup ponk," he greets.

"yo, fresh trim?" the ravenette asks, taking a seat beside jack.

jack squints at the other boy, genuinely unsure whether he was joking to be a bitch or if he was actually under the impression that jack had shaved his head again in the last few days. "are you kidding?" he questions.

ponk's expression looks offended, but jack knows that it's just an exaggerated reaction- he's grown used to ponk's mannerisms by now. "does it look like mans jokin'?" he questions.

jack just rolls his eyes playfully in response, changing the subject by saying, "i was just telling the others about this weekend." ponk just looks confused, so jack elaborates, "it's my birthday on saturday, so you're all obliged to come round mine for a party and then sleep over."

ponk hums in thought, leaning back in his chair. "mans'll see what i can do," he replies, "but i can't stay 'cause i'm needed at the ends sunday morn."

"that's alright, just come for however long you can," jack replies with a smile, looking back at the others to finish asking, "is everyone else cool with that?"

george, wilbur and tommy all nod simultaneously, which makes sense because jack had already mentioned it to the brothers. sapnap is the first to reply with a simple, "yeah, i can come."

the conversation is put on pause for a moment when punz says, "dream, will you come up to the line with me?" and his twin nods, the pair getting up.

jack says, "wait, will you guys come on saturday?"

"i'm not sure," punz answers on both of their behalves, "i'll message my mom while we're in the queue to check that we're free."

"alright," jack nods, smiling at the pair as they leave the table. he shifts his attention, "tubbo?"

"i don't think i can," the young brunette frowns, "i'm at my mum's place this weekend so she won't want to drive me there and back."

"you should learn how to drive," sapnap suggests, "so you can just travel freely between houses."

"yeah! then i can do both christmases in one day without them having to do any work," tubbo jokes, earning a short scoff from the ravenette.

"do you want me to give you the number for my driving instructor?" tommy offers, "she's cool as heck and has good pass rates."

"yeah, alright," tubbo smiles, "text it to me." tommy nods, getting his phone out.

"you can sleep over on sunday night too and we can just walk into school together," jack offers, really wanting all of his friends to be there for his eighteenth. he had tried to get everyone together for his birthday last year, but it was too much with tubbo's parents' divorce and the fact it landed right in the middle of tommy's period, plus ponk had been over in america for some reason so it kind of just never happened.

"are you sure?" tubbo asks, though he's smiling excitedly, "i don't wanna like, overstay my welcome."

"you won't be," jack easily assures, using all of his strength to hold back the urge to say, 'you won't be the only one staying', and instead adding with a laugh, "my parents are gonna be gone for the whole weekend. i think they're expecting me to throw a massive party, so they're giving me time to clean up."

ponk glances back around the room, seeming to spot the boys in the line, which causes him to ask, "the yanks proper joining the mandem now?"

"yeah, i think so," it's george who answers, "they've been sitting with us like all week, and dream has been hanging out with wilbur outside of school."

jack's attention shifts to the taller brunette, "really?"

wilbur shrugs, and jack pretends not to notice the blush on his cheeks, "we have an english project."

jack hums, deciding to take the answer for now, even though he can clearly see there is something more there.

the attention shifts to ponk when the ravenette's phone begins to ring, and he stands up as he reads the caller id, simply saying, "peace mandem," before walking away from the group, presumably to answer the call.

"are we drinking at yours?" tubbo wonders, and the question seems to catch all of their attention.

"yeah, obviously."

"jeez, better keep george and punz away from each other then," wilbur jokes, earning a few confused looks, "they made out at hypno."

tommy looks at george with frantically wide eyes, looking shell-shocked.

"it was a meaningless kiss," george excuses with a dismissive hand wave. "i was proving a point. plus, he's hot."

sapnap scoffs at that, saying, "i'd like to see him try and pierce a tongue."

jack doesn't even try to hold back his eye roll. he thinks it's ridiculous how sapnap falls for every single one of george's teases, always jumping straight onto the defence.

he wanted to slap some sense into both of the idiots.

"oh, and by the way," jack randomly remembers, "no one get me a present, because i'm saving my money for uni next year so you won't get anything in return if you do."

𐐪𐑂 ♡

this chapter is a super short filler chapter but i'm going to give you a longer and more significant one later on today so plz forgive me <3

i love you!!

-kit