The Boo and The Boy

Chapter Three: New Clothes

Ranboo opened his eyes to an..odd, unfamiliar sound.

"⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬..?"

He looked around and saw a light coming from a piece of metal and glass Tommy was holding, illuminating his face. Tommy didn't look up.

"⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬?"

He crawled over to Tommy and patted his cheeks a few times. Tommy looked over to him.

"Oh! Hi, you're awake!"

Ranboo nodded, and looked towards the metal-glass slab. He tilted his head.

"Oh, you wanna watch with me?" Tommy said, a warm smile spreading on his face.

Ranboo nodded again, and Tommy gently put an arm around him. The metal-glass slab started talking.

"..Mon?"

"Mhm?"

"If you were at lunch alone, how come it cost you $53 dollars?"

The black haired girl, who Ranboo assumed was Mon, paused, as the blonde put on her coat. Mon turned around to face the blonde.

"You know what probably happened? Someone must have stolen my credit card!"

People started laughing in the back.

"Ah. And sorta just put the receipt back in your pocket?"

The people laughed again.

"...That is an exellent, exellent question."

The people laughed once again. Tommy chuckled along with them. Ranboo smiled at Tommy's chuckle. It was warm and nice.

Tommy pushed a button on the metal-glass box, and smiled at Ranboo.

"Good show, we can keep watching later. For right now though, we need to go get you clothes. No one is home right now, so it'll be easy for us to get out of the house." Tommy picked him up and he giggled. "Aww, your giggle's cute. C'mon, let's go."

He walked out his room and down the stairs. While he was locking the front door, Ranboo wiggled out of his arms.

"Hey-- how'd you do that?" Tommy asked, bewildered.

Ranboo giggled and ran around a bit before clinging onto Tommy's leg, somehow upside down. Tommy just looked at him and blinked once or twice.

"You're..funny, y'know that? Both 'haha' funny and 'weird' funny."

Ranboo smiled, and Tommy pried him off his leg, and started walking towards a bunch of trees, a fence, and a gate. Ranboo looked around the vast space.

"Big yard, huh?"

Ranboo nodded.

"You can run around in it later." He unlocked something on the gate, then walked out of it. He locked it again and walked out of the trees. It was a big field, with large forests bordering it. Tommy walked through it, towards a big, black box with a pole sticking out of it. Ranboo pointed to it and made a confused noise.

"Oh, that's L'Manburg."

Ranboo nodded, and directed his pointing to the pole. Tommy getly moved his head to look up.

"Look up."

Ranboo looked up as he was told, and saw a piece of black, yellow, blue, white, and red fabric flying in the wind. Ranboo made a noise of excitment.

"That's where we're going." Tommy continued to walk there, with an excited and happy Ranboo in his arms.

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Tommy walked into a building while holding Ranboo's hand, and Ranboo was immediatley hit with the smell of laundry. If he had a tail, it would be wagging.

"Smells good, huh? Well, c'mon, let's get you some clothes."

There were rows and rows of clothes, as far as the eye-- at least, Ranboo's eyes-- can see. Tommy started walking towards a few racks of smaller clothes.

"Here. I don't know your size, so we can try some on. We can pull it over your T-Shirt since that thing barely even counts as a shirt right now."

Ranboo nodded. Tommy helped him try on some clothes, and Ranboo didn't like much of it until Tommy pulled out a plain, purple hoodie that was at least two sizes too big. Ranboo made grabby hands for it.

"You sure? I mean, it's pretty big."

"⌿⌰⟒⏃⌇⟒?"

Tommy didn't know exactly what Ranboo said, but he doesn't talk much (due to the language barrier), so Tommy was sure it was 'please' or something. He sighed deeply, and smiled.

"Okay."

Ranboo practically shook with happiness as Tommy slipped the hoodie on him. It looked like a dress on him. It was long, almost down to his knees, and the sleeves practically drug on the floor, but Ranboo loved it.

"You want that one?"

Ranboo nodded excidtedly.

"Okay, you can get that one. On one condition."

Ranboo tilted his head.

"I get to put some embroidery on it so it's not as plain."

Ranboo smiled and nodded.

"Okay, let's go pay for it." Tommy grabbed Ranboo's hand before picking him up and setting him on his hip. He walked to the registor and made some little small talk, but when he needed to pay he set Ranboo on the counter for the lady to scan the hoodie. Ranboo was giggling the whole time.