What one can hide

Chapter three- Explanation

Trigger Warnings: Mentions of abuse, cursing, anxiety attack (kind of)

Wilbur Pov

Wilbur looks over to see his phone buzzing on his desk. He stops listening to whatever Tommy was rambling on about as he flips his phone over to see who the call was coming from.

Incoming call from Nihachu

"Hey, I'll be right back, I gotta answer this," he quickly says into his mic, cutting off tommy's screams from being attacked by a zombie, before muting and deafening himself. It was nice being on call with Tommy when he wasn't streaming, he was much different when thousands of people weren't watching him. Then again, everyone acted different without their viewers. Not a bad different, no not at all, it was actually kind of calming. It reminded him that they were all human, if that even makes sense

"Hi Nikki!" Wilbur says happily into the phone's microphone as he takes a step outside of his office. The cool air hits his face immediately as he walks out on the pavement. He doesn't know why he actually left his office, he could've just stayed inside in the warm, he was muted and deafened anyways. Perhaps he needed some air.

"Hey Wil," Nikki quickly replied, sounding as happy as ever. "I got all the candies I wanted you to try, but I was just wondering if we needed baking powder or baking soda for the baking stream."

"Baking soda, I'm pretty sure," he replies with a smile on his face. He was excited to do this stream once Nikki came back to Britain. She was currently in Germany gathering up the rest of her belongings. A few days after she gets back, they were planning on doing a taste testing stream of a bunch of different candies from Germany, and then they would both make a bunch of different kinds of cookies to find their favorite. Wilbur had forgotten to get the baking soda, so he asked Nikki if she could grab some before her flight home in a few days. Wilbur wasn't a big baker, but he was just excited to see Nikki so happy about it.

"Okay good, so I did get the right one," she replied with a giggle. Wilbur could faintly hear the beeping of Nikki checking out her items, so he assumed she was about to be on her way home. He decided to stay on the phone for a little while, just enjoying talking to Nikki.

Once she had safely made her way home, they said their goodbyes to each other. Wilbur felt a tang of guilt when it had shown he was on the phone for 15 minutes with Nikki, but he knew Tommy would understand, Wilbur hadn't gotten to talk to her much when she went back to Germany. Wilbur knew Tommy was going to end the stream a few minutes after he had left anyways, so it's not like he left him in the middle of a bit.

He makes his way back into his office and sits down in his chair. He plugs his phone in before slipping on his headphones and unmuting himself in discord.

At first his stomach drops at what he hears. Is he crying? Wilbur thinks. "Tommy?" Wilbur asks, surprised if he even said it loud enough for his mic to pick it up. A quiet sob, sounding as if it were far away, playing in his ears quickly answered his previous question, He was definitely crying.

He quickly glances to the monitor where he had Tommy's stream open previously, just to make sure his fans weren't watching. He feels a little bit of relief flood over him when it shows the stream ended 8 minutes ago. But what the hell had happened within the span of 8 minutes to make this boy this upset.

Wilbur was very close to Tommy, but he had never really gotten the young boy to open up about anything serious. Wilbur had just assumed that nothing really terrible had happened to the boy, which he was thankful for, but he couldn't have been more wrong, he just didn't know it yet. Wilbur always knew Tommy as the funny, loud, young child, it was strange seeing him so upset about something.