T/W: Mention smoking and alcohol addiction, suicide, child abuse

Not everything is great. I quietly think to myself while eating breakfast. For instance, me. I'm not rich like the Grimstones (guess who :]), or smart like Coding Club. They were all special, but not me.

The only thing I had going for me was I was good at sports, but I guess I was pretty good at that. I mean, ever since I joined the football team (American), we've gone undefeated. But that's about all.

"Hey, are you awake?" Will says from across the table while feeding ■■■■■ (Fundy's dead name in this AU).

"I'm good," I responded.

Three years ago, when Will was 15, he and his ex-girlfriend, Sally, who was 16, gave birth to ■■■■■. They tried to keep it under wraps, but eventually, news got out. They were the talk of the school, all eyes were on them. The pressure eventually got to Sally, and she committed suicide a year after ■■■■■ was born.

After hearing the news of Sally's death, Will fell into a deep depression. He started to smoke and drink to ease the pain, to the point of addiction. He lashed out at everyone, especially at ■■■■■. He hit and yelled at her whenever she cried. Phil, Will's father, took care of her and tried to keep her away from Will.

Eventually, Will was put in rehab for a few months, then juvenile detention after that. He had to go back a year because he missed so much school. He's gotten better lately, with the help of Nikki and therapy, and has started to take care of ■■■■■ more, and being more of a father to her.

"Hey, you should go wake up Tommy. I got to drop ■■■■■ off at the preschool." Will said.

"Ok. Tell Mrs. Sqaishey I say hi." I say as I walk upstairs.

I open Tommy's door, walk over to his bed, and poke him in his face. He's a deep sleeper I think to myself as I pick him up out of his bed. Then I dropped him on the floor.

"What the f*** Techno!" Tommy yells as he picks himself up.

"I had to wake you up somehow, and that was the quickest option." I responded.

"Well, you could at least sleep for a little bit!"

"Are you forgetting that today is the first day of school?"

"... F***."

I chuckled behind Tommy as he raced to get dressed and get down stairs. Me and Tommy have a few things in common. For one, we both have some sort of rivalry with Clay (Dream), even if Tommy's is more one sided.

Number two, neither of us are actually Phil's children, he's actually our legal guardian. My past household was not a good environment, and I know nothing about Tommy's. He always ignores or deflects the question whenever it's brought up, which is perfectly, it's his own personal stuff, not mine.

"Hey, Techno! We're gonna miss our bus if you don't hurry up!" Tommy yelled, snapping me out of my thoughts.

I quickly grabbed my backpack and headed out the door, making sure to lock it. I ran up to Tommy as we made it to the bus stop. When we got there, Tubbo, Ranboo, and Nikki were waiting for us. There are a few other people at our stop, like Lizzie and Joel (I think that's their names), or that one brown haired kid with orange stripes (I think his name is Owen).

Tommy shouted, "Tubbo, my man!"

"Tommy! Are you ready for school again?"

"Not really, are you?"

"No, I'll miss all the freedom, how 'bout you Ranboo?"

"Um, yeah, I'll miss that too..." Ranboo said nervously as he was fidgeting with his hands.

Nikki waved at me and I nodded back. Soon the bus arrived, and it was just as noisy as ever. The bus driver was some guy (I never got to learn his name), but he was always nice.

I went straight for the back, and sat next to Tommy. We started bickering, as we always did, about things like how I'm significantly better at everything than him and stuff like that.

After a few stops, we were at the richer side of Minceft (mince-ceft), where people like the Grimstones and the Moons lived. Speaking of which, Pearl, the Moons only child, had some drama go on over the summer, but it was nothing more than rumors.

One of the Grimstones said something to the bus driver like "What's up, big T?"

Then Tommy yelled, "No, I'm big T!"

Bad, who was sitting next to Skeppy, erupted into laughter, for some reason, and soon, everyone followed suit

Soon we got to the school, and I felt like I shouldn't be here, but I looked at my friends, who all believed in us doing great things. And I thought to myself,

I may not be special, but I at least have friends who care for me and believe in me.

I wrote another chapter! ( '∀' ) I have just been in a groove lately.

So, I don't know when I want this thing to be angsty, but it just happened. So prepare for that.

When I was writing Will's backstory part, my brain went "Haha, angst go brrrr~" lmao

Anyways, I hope you had a fun time reading this, and you look amazing right now.

Also tell me if the trigger warnings make since and if there is any I should add for this chapter.

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