[DISCONTINUED] you're my best friend // tommyinnit & tubbo_

five - anticipation

count on me - bruno mars

with tommy facing a brand new adventure, i figured i'd choose a nice and simple song about friendship to signify tubbo's commitment to supporting his best friend through everything. :)

at the beginning of each chapter i'll select a suitable song that you can listen to, hopefully to help the mood and atmosphere because my writing may lack it at points.

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Tommy slips on the red-trimmed headset as he leans back into his chair; another evening to be spent doing something he loves, with the person he cares the most about.

He launches Minecraft through the launcher application and opens up Discord in the background, awaiting Tubbo to join his call so they can get started on the server. So far they have made considerable progress on the world, having garnered a number of diamonds through the many hours they spent mining the night before, and were now preparing to explore the Nether dimension for the first time. Tommy connects to the server even though Tubbo hasn't arrived yet, and he gets to work harvesting the crops on the farm and breeding the animals in nearby fenced pens.

Then, the all-too familiar sound emits from Discord, quickly followed by the voice of Tubbo: "Hi! Sorry for the wait, had some stuff to do."

"No worries man," Tommy replies, taking a sip from the can of Coke on his desk. "What's the plan for today?"

"Well actually, I wanted to talk to you about doing something else." Tubbo joins the server and runs up towards Tommy's avatar. "You know the internet friends that I've told you about a couple of times?"

"Yeah?"

In truth, Tommy can hardly remember these friends that he claims to have talked to him about. Perhaps it was a conversation subject swept away amongst the many other things they'd talked about over the last week of knowing each other, but Tommy struggles to recall any specific discussion of Tubbo's online friends - all he knows is that they exist.

"Well, they've been playing on this Minecraft server together for a while and the owner asked me if I wanted to join," Tubbo explains. He holds his breath for a few moments. "I was hesitant at first, and asked him if you could join too because it wouldn't feel right playing Minecraft so much without you. And I knew how serious my friends were about this server, because they pour hours into it daily and don't shut up about it."

Tommy takes this all in. "...So what did your friend say?"

"He said you can join as well," Tubbo says. "He'd like to talk to you over Discord first though, because everyone on his server gets added to this Discord server where we can all talk and make plans and stuff."

"I..." Tommy pauses. Even though talking to new people over the internet is far easier than in the real world, Tommy is still apprehensive about the whole ordeal. Knowing that these people have been friends of Tubbo for considerably longer than him... Tommy could feel his stomach tighten.

"It's okay if you need some time to think about it," Tubbo chirps in immediately. "You can join the Discord server anyway and let the others introduce themselves to you, and I'll tell them to be especially nice and welcoming."

Tommy opens his mouth to speak, but quickly realises that no words are coming out. He sighs in defeat.

Tubbo picks up on this. "And don't forget, I'll still be here. If you let me know when you're going on the Minecraft server then I'll be sure to go on too so you're not alone. But I'm pretty sure you'll get along with the others perfectly fine."