SMG4 And The 'Therapist'

SMG4 Goes To Macca's

(Set between A Happy Little Road Trip and Our New Home)

Every single night that passed was yet another one full of nightmares. One of  this night's was a nightmare in which SMG4 never listened to what SMG3 said when he was making the perfect video, causing them both to die in the destruction of the castle. Then, a world-threatening attack meant that SMGs 1 and 2 would have to try to single-handedly save the day but failing, causing everyone he knew and many others to die. And it would be all SMG4's fault for not listening.

It would all be his fault.

"You okay?" A voice spoke to him. A very concerned voice. The voice of... Meggy?

"mhm." SMG4 was finally waking up from his deep yet dread-filled sleep. He opened his eyes to see some of his friends - Meggy, SMG3, Tari and Boopkins - all looking deeply worried. A disturbing thought suddenly occurred to him. "H-have you been watching me sleep? For how long??"

A response came, this time from Tari.

"When you weren't up by twelve, we used the spare key to check on you." While Tari was explaining this, she signalled to Meggy to check the current time. Meggy noticed this, and checked her watch.

"We've been here for... about a minute now." She brushed her orange hair away from her face and smiled.

SMG4 sat up. "Twelve? That's pretty late for me." Everybody could tell that he was lying.

"SMG4, we're all really worried about your mental state, ever since the whole 'perfect' thing," SMG3 said. "Oh, and we know you have started sleeping until, like, 3PM."

SMG4 looked very confused at this. "What makes you so sure? Have you been spying on me?"

"WHAT? NO! Pretty much every single time any of us are nearby, you ask us about breakfast in the middle of the fucking afternoon."

"mhm, ok..." SMG4 was starting to drift off to sleep again.

"NO. DON'T GO BACK TO SLEEP."

"Please, please, PLEASE, SMG4? We have a fun surprise planned you! Meet us out here in half an hour!" This time, it was Boopkins who spoke.

"Fine, Boopkins." As the others left the RV, SMG4 took in exactly what they had said. They were right - his sleep schedule was fucked up. He'd stay up until 3am due to needing to make videos whilst also trying to prevent just that, causing him to edit late into the night. Sure, he still got a whopping 12 hours of sleep, but the quality of said sleep had taken a meteor-size drop ever since the Perfect incident.

The Perfect incident.

SMG4 didn't want to think about what happened or what could have happened if he did something differently. Instead, he picked a topic out of his mental-pile-o'-distractions: Meggy's watch. Since when did she have a watch? Yesterday, she didn't have one. Did she buy it? Was it a gift? SMG4 was glad to have picked this distraction due to its sheer... distractiness?  

After getting breakfast and brushing his messy hair, SMG4 was ready to go. He left the RV, felt something brush past and he saw his friends from before - Tari, Boopkins and Meggy. Wait a second, where was SMG3?

"Get back here, SMG4!" called SMG3's voice from inside the RV. SMG4 could almost hear the smug grin on Three's face.

"Hey... what's going on?" SMG4 had no time to react to anything that was happening.

"SMG4," said Fishy Boopkins, "we're going on a ROAD TRIP!!"

"WHAT? NO!" SMG4 knew he had waaay too many other things to be doing, like editing videos. However, he also knew that he could easily get too absorbed into it once again. "SMG3, where are we even going?"