Hi!Exactly a week! Haha. Enjoy the chapter! Check my deviantart account to see the triplets in their suits and Fordsie fresh xD
(I wanted to thank everyone who has been following me and supporting me so far! Thank you, guys! And I wanted to thank Fantasy Fan 223 and her story Learning to love for being the motive I wrote my own fanfic, if I hadn't read theirs, smol Seb would have never existed!)
"Oh! My babies look SO grown up!" Kari sobbed happily as the Stans grimaced in the living room.
"Mom!" They whined as Kari squeezed their not –so-chubby- anymore cheeks.
"You are embarrassing us!"
The triplets were sporting their new immaculate clean suits. Stanford had a blue suit and Stanley a pink one. And both of them were rolling their eyes as their mom cooed at them. They were almost men! For God's sake!
Stanley would be driving them (and Carla) to school, because he finally bought his car but they couldn't leave without their youngest triplet and he was taking so damn long!
"Your-Your brother really got a suit, Stanford?" Kari asked guiltily. She was such a bad mother, she didn't fight enough for her little boy and he probably might not go to his party.
"He told us he did, but he didn't show it to us" Ford shrugged, glancing at his watch "Stan, we are gonna be late!"
Stan groaned. "Sebastian! Come down! You are worse than a girl!" He called him.
Meanwhile, Sebastian was taking his time looking himself at the mirror with a determined look on his face.
Your suit is fine. It looks fine. Everyone will envy you...
'Well, I can't deny it. It looks pretty damn awesome. If I were human, I would wear that shit' Bill2 praised, for the first time in his human life.
He had sneaked mom's eyeliner and was nervously examining if it wasn't too obvious. He loved how long his eyelashes looked with it but he didn't want to risk another scolding from Kari. After his nails were painted, he put on his white gloves and his eye-patch and sighed. He was ready.
Filbrick huffed. "Well, he doesn't have a suit so he obviously isn't going. Better call him because he must clean the store today"
"As much as I would love to stay to be Cinderella tonight, sir, I have a dance to go and my fairy godmother didn't put a time limit" Seb replied sarcastically as he walked into the living room.
The Stans gaped. Sherman gaped. Kari gaped. Filbrick gaped with an angry expression and Seb suddenly felt self-conscious...again.
"Dude...You MADE that?!" Stan exclaimed and approached his brother to examine the suit.
"Wow" Ford blinked. A yellow suit was really extravagant and unseen and the color didn't suit either of them, but for some magical reason, it was perfect for Sebastian.
"That is the suit you drew!" Shermie exclaimed as his parents continued gaping. "I like it!" He giggled.
Kari just stared at her baby boy looking so elegant and grown up, with his curly hair combed, wearing gloves and only one of his horrible piercings...She still was upset about it but Sebastian wasn't a baby anymore...
Sebastian had a black vest below his yellow jacket. He wore a yellow bowtie, black pants and shoes.
"Can-Can we go now?" Sebastian asked his older brother and he nodded with a smile.
Filbrick just stared at the boy. He wasn't supposed to get a suit! He huffed and glanced at his two sons. "If you are gonna get laid, use a condom" He looked at them briefly and went to his room.
Kari easily ignored Shermie's questions of 'what is get laid' and 'what is a condom! Mommy!' to exclaim a quick "No! A photo first!" and she scrambled to the kitchen to get the camera. She urged her three older sons to smile.
Stan hugged his brothers and smiled brightly. "Say something stupid!"
Kari took the photo. It had to be done twice because Shermie thought it would be funny to photo bomb in his brothers' photo...
-.-
"Thanks for waiting us, guys!" Carla said to the triplets as Stan parked in the school parking lot.
Ford and Sebastian narrowed their eyes. They had had to wait Stan in the car for 25 minutes with a pout as he picked up Carla from her house. Her parents apparently wanted millions of photos of the young couple and a toast! Just for a school dance!
"Sure, flower" Seb said with a smile with gritted teeth, using the nickname he gave her at 14.
Stan helped her get out of the car and the four teens entered. The music was loud, there was food everywhere and the teens danced around happily.
Stan went with Carla and their friends, Seb went to look for Iván, and Ford pulled out his list from his pocket, reading and going over his steps.
Seb smirked at the gaping people who saw him, either because of how awesome or weird he looked. And you know what? This night, he didn't care. He was going to talk to Iván once and for all and apologize for ignoring him so long while looking fantastic!
'Idiot' Bill2 sighed.
He walked around the place, looking for his friend between the dancing kids. He eventually found him sitting in a couch with his other friends, talking and laughing. Seb hadn't noticed before but most of Iván's other friends were the unpopular kids at school; loners, shy kids or simply without friends...Why would Iván hang out with them instead of him? Did he really prefer being with those losers?!
"And yeah, after the incident, they had to stitch up my arm and the doctor prohibited me from doing tae-kwon-do again...What a pity because I was the best in my school" He was telling the other teens.
"Iván!" Seb called as he walked toward them.
"Oh hey! Look who is that! It's Cyclops!" He smirked and the kids around him laughed. Seb stopped where he was and looked at him with a hurt expression "Oh, come on, you really can't take a joke, can you?" He tutted and called him over with a slight movement of his hand.
"What are you doing here? I thought I made myself clear when I said you weren't my friend anymore" He asked and Seb bit his lip.
"I am sorry I didn't talk to you...I was busy..."
"Yeah, that's why you are a terrible friend!" Iván said and the kids around him laughed to please him. He was a cool kid talking to them! Willing to be their friend!
"I don't need you, I have better friends, those who don't abandon each other!" He grabbed a girl by her waist and dragged him closer to him, clearly uncomfortable. "And-my girlfriend" He kissed her lips hardly and the girl closed her eyes tightly. She didn't like when he did that but he loved her!
'YYYIIKEESS! Is that the sound of a heart shattering in tiny million pieces?! It is yours, kid! HAHAHA!' Bill2 laughed loudly. Seb took a deep breath to remember Iván didn't like boys...
"I-I want to be your friend..." Seb muttered after Iván and this girl separated. He wasn't so convinced about it anymore though...The latino boy hummed and looked at his friends with a thoughtful expression.
"Ok...Wanda, go with him and bring me a drink" Seb stared unbelieving how the girl immediately stood up.
"Yes, baby"
"You are the best" Iván winked and with a hand movement he shooed them away.
Seb and this Wanda girl walked to the table in silence. He had never seen her in his classes, maybe she was younger? He didn't like how Iván ordered her around...
'Calm down, kid. At least it is not you anymore...' Bill2 rolled his eye in his mind.
"Since...since when are you with Iván?" Seb asked him and the girl who was pouring the fruit punch in a plastic cup looked at him.
"Um...We had been together for almost 4 months!" The girl exclaimed excitedly. "I love him so much and he loves me so much too! He is almost a senior and foreign, and cool and popular!" She said. "And he is dating me!"
Seb nodded with his head low. Four months...and Iván didn't even tell him... "I'm glad...He is really cute"
"What?"
"Nothing!" Seb gulped all drink in one and the younger girl giggled. "I don't know your name. Iván never mentioned you..."
Seb sighed. Of course he didn't... "I'm Sebastian"
"What happened to your eye?" She asked curiously. Seb hummed and smiled.
"A bird ate it" He shrugged but smiled as the girl laughed loudly. He liked her already, she seemed nice. Suddenly, she stopped and covered her mouth with her cheeks flustered.
"I'm sorry..." She grabbed the plastic cup that was for Iván and started walking back. Seb followed her closely. He snatched it from her so she looked at him. "What? Why?"
Wanda huffed and looked up "Iván says that I laugh horrible, ok?!"
"What?! That's bullshit!" Seb exclaimed, angry at Iván. She was adorable! And was like, what? Two years younger than them?! How could he be so mean?!
'Uh. Sounds familiar' Bill2 hummed. 'Like when he said your teeth were weird?'
"Hey, Wanda. I think you laugh funny, but-but in a good way! Like, awesome, cool way!" He tried to explain, seeing the girl was about to cry.
"I don't like it when he says things like that...I feel bad..." She confessed him and Seb didn't know what to do. Iván wasn't...the most tactful person...But he wasn't bad! He-
He always called him names and he made him feel as bad as Wanda felt...
"Why are you still with him?" Seb asked, not sure if he was actually asking her...
"He says that he would leave me!" She looked at him. "I don't want him to leave me, I love him..."
They walked back to the group in silence. Sebastian was struggling to ignore the thoughts circling in his mind. Wasn't it the same reason he didn't leave? He liked Iván, still did, and he didn't want to stop being his friend...And...Iván wanted to be his friend too...Didn't he?
"Are you really friends with that Sebastian kid?!" A boy asked Iván, not noticing Seb and Wanda were just returning. "I've never had classes with him, thanks god, but I heard he spilled a chemical on his hand...and he laughed"
Seb stopped Wanda so he could continue listening.
Iván laughed. "He is ok sometimes, I guess. Useful when I need homework done. He was kinda fun at first but the idiot was just SO needy for attention! He literally did EVERYTHING I told him! So it was useful having a servant around...And, please, I wouldn't be friends with people like him! Ew! I just need him to carry my stuff or as a backup plan when my friends cancel plans or I need money"
Seb lost his voice and stared at them. Wanda worriedly asked him if he was ok, touching his shoulder. Iván wasn't his friend...He never saw him as one! He had taken advantage of him, and he had been so blind by these disgusting human emotions to realize he was being treated like shit, like a pet!...
'I toooldd you! Why don't you trust me more, kid?" Bill2 wondered aloud. 'You really acted as fool, didn't you?' He laughed.
NO ONE! DISRESPECTED HIM! He was no one's pet! He was Sebastian Pines! He was Bill Cipher! And he wasn't anyone's play thing!
He walked toward the latino boy with a scowl.
"Urgh, finally Sebastian, you really won't find any other friend when I leave, you are so slow" He rolled his eyes.
"What the fuck was that?!" He demanded and Iván feigned confusion.
"Well, isn't it true? You are a weirdo! Isn't he, guys?" He looked at his friends, his new pets, and they nodded.
Sebastian saw red.
"And you know what else you are?" Iván stood up and glared at him directly to his eyes. "You are a needy loser!" He laughed as Sebastian shook with rage. "Just like these idiots!" He pointed at his 'friends' and they stared at him disbelieving their words.
"You are so desperate to be accepted that at the slightest sign of kindness you open your legs like a common who-"
The teens around them gasped loudly when Sebastian punched him in the nose, drawing blood immediately.
Iván staggered backwards and fell to the couch clutching his bleeding nose. He looked up at Sebastian who was silently glared at him, his eye under the eye-patch, unknown to everyone, turning red.
"Oh, I'm going to tell EVERYONE what happened!" He threatened him with his face covered in blood. Curious teens approached the fight between the foreign student and the weirdo.
Sebastian laughed. He had an idea. "No, don't bother. I'll tell them" He hissed with a mad smile. "Hey, guys, I have something to say"
Iván looked around as a small crowd surrounded them with a hand in his nose. Was that princess really going to come out in front of everyone?!
"Guys! Iván likes boys! Did you know he kiss me?!" Seb asked the crowd nonchalantly. He guessed people might react the same way Iván did when he-he kissed him...
Iván's smile disappeared and he gaped. The bastard...
"N-No! It's not true! It was him!" He blushed at the stares and chuckles. Sebastian grinned evilly and continued.
Feel bad, dick.
"I don't remember. I think it was you who wanted to touch me! I barely made it out alive!" Seb exaggerated as people started laughing.
Sebastian turned to look at the petrified teen "I really thought you were my friend" He whispered just to him. "But I am tired of you and how you treat me and everyone else!" He hissed. "Besides, your freckles aren't that cute anyway" He winked with a grin as Iván gaped.
Wanda turned him around by his shoulder. "You're gay?!" She demanded her ex-boyfriend with a shocked expression. "We are done!"
"Wanda! No! I-I am not! I swear! Guys!" He looked at his friends who were laughing at him.
"Nah, we are too pathetic to help" One shrugged.
Iván covered his ears as the people around him started laughing at him. No! No! This couldn't be happening again! He stood up and ran away from the crowd. "I'm telling my mom!" He cried.
Seb sighed watching him leave the ball. It didn't feel good to humiliate him...
It felt. AWESOME!
Wanda suddenly hugged him and he froze. "Thank you, Sebastian...You, you saved me from a big one" She laughed awkwardly.
"Do you need someone to walk you home? Seeing your date just ran away?" Seb offered with a grin. The girl told him she lived really close but, remembering the gentlemen classes he had from Stanley, the former demon insisted.
They left the loud party and Seb exaggeratedly offered her his arm after bowing. The younger girl giggled and took it. The two teens walked in the night. Without the annoying purple and red lights from the party, he saw Wanda's dress was a navy blue. It was really pretty.
"I like your suit! It is super original!" Wanda smiled at him and Seb gaped slightly. She was the first person after his brothers to compliment him...
"Th-Thank you...I did it" Seb informed her and she gaped like a fish out of water.
"What?! No way! How!? I am just learning how to sew! Omg! That's incredible" The younger teen exclaimed with a grin.
"I'm a tailor's apprentice" Seb said. "I've work with him for almost two years now"
"Wow! You have a job? That's pretty awesome!"
Seb glanced down at the girl and couldn't help but ask. "How old are you, Wands?"
"Um...I just turned 14"
"WhAt?-!" Seb shrieked. "You are a kid! You know you are like, way too young to be with a 17 yr old?" Seb asked the girl. God! What was wrong with Iván?! Wanda rolled her eyes.
"No, I'm not a kid, Sebastian. You sound like my step-brother now" She shook her head disapprovingly. "But, yeah, I shouldn't have dated Ivan...he is a poophead" She pouted comically.
Sebastian laughed mirthfully and Wanda couldn't help but laugh too. "Can't agree more with you, kid" The girl's smile eventually fell and she looked down at the floor with a pout.
"I met Iván at school...I was-I am always alone...And- he seemed so nice..." The girl bit her lip. "You know... his mom told me he was bothered in his old school..." She whispered.
Seb shook his head. He didn't know that...He had told him he had been popular!
"She said...People always left Iván...and he was always alone...I couldn't understand why! He was so kind and sweet and I loved him..." She scowled. "But now I see he was just acting and lying...he even lied to his mom about WHY people left him! He is mean to everyone! And-And he wanted me to do things I didn't want to-"
"And he threatened you, that he wouldn't like you anymore...and he would leave" Wanda looked at him, surprised. After her short "yes" Seb sighed. "It's called manipulation, sweetheart...So familiar with it and yet I didn't notice...I feel so stupid" He mumbled the last.
'You are though'
Wanda pointed to a house. "That's mine...Thank you for accompanying me, Sebastian...And, for saving me from that idiot"
Seb chuckled. "Don't worry, Wands"
She knocked and before Sebas walked back to the school, she leaned closer and kissed his cheek, making the older teen blush.
"S-SEe ya..." He mumbled, feeling his face hot, and quickly ran back to the school as the girl giggled.
Stanford sighed to gain courage an approach his crush. Don't be a chicken, Pines! She was standing there alone, it was the perfect time!
Their interaction lasted more than he expected. He managed to start a conversation with her and held it for a few minutes. They laughed and Ford thought that was the biggest achievement he had done in his life! Obviously after that time he built his first robot at 9. That had been a great day...
He brought her fruit punch and then forgot the next steps of his list. She asked him if he wanted to dance with her but-but that was the last step! He-He wasn't ready! What was next?!
Pick-up line, was it? Oh god, she is staring at me! He tried to think in a nice pick up line but ended up saying the first one he remembered from Stanley...
Maria gasped outraged at the insulting pick-up line and threw the drink to Ford's face, stomping away.
Ford gasped when the fruit punch hit his face and he closed his eyes. The genius teen sighed defeatedly and took off his glasses to clean them. He sniffed.
"Hey, Pointdexter!" He turned around and saw Stanley walking toward him. "It is kinda warm here, isn't it?" The taller teen threw his own drink to his face and laughed. Ford smiled again and laughed along his brother.
"What the actual fuck are you two doing?" The Stans turned around and recognized the only kid in the dance with a yellow suit.
"Just refreshing ourselves, you should try" Stan invited and his youngest brother laughed.
"Ha! Sure! This is an original Sebastian Pines, kids! It won't get touched by filthy-"
Ford and Stan grinned at each other and threw fruit punch at him. Sebastian shrieked loudly and looked at his brothers with a deathly glare.
"Uh oh" The Stans mumbled.
"I am SO going to kill you!" He grabbed a cup of punch and started chasing his brothers around the coliseum to get his revenge.
The Stans screamed and ran away. The 16yr old teenage boys started chasing each other laughing like little boys, throwing drinks and food to each other. The other teens didn't mind the crazy Pines triplets running around provided that they stayed far away from them. Everything went downhill when Ford, with his excellent aim, hit a girl with a mini sandwich instead of Stan.
"Oops" He murmured.
The girl shrieked and her boyfriend looked behind him and punched the boy he thought had thrown that to his girlfriend. People started fighting and throwing things to each other. The teachers who were watching everything tried to keep their students from fighting, but it was impossible by now.
"Hey, let's get out of here..." Stan whispered to his triplets who were staring at the chaos with different expressions: Ford with horror and Seb with sick fascination. He grabbed their arms and dragged them away from the mess.
"And Carla?" Ford asked him curiously.
"Bah, she was picked up early...Wasn't allowed to stay too late"
"It's just 1am!" Seb exclaimed.
"Exactly" Stan laughed.
The three brothers walked to Stan's car silently and once inside, they started laughing like mad men. That had been awesome! Stan started driving back home when an idea formed in his mind.
"It's still early, what about going to the beach?" He glanced at his brothers briefly before turning his eyes back on the road. He heard halfhearted complains about being tired or that it was too late and he huffed.
"You know what, sourpusses? We are going anyway" He declared. He drove for a few minutes and parked the car. The three brothers took off their shoes and shivered slightly when the cold sand touched their feet.
"Stanley, you can't park this close to the beach, it is illegal" Ford scolded.
"Oh, Fordsie, when will you learn?" Stan hugged him by the shoulders and Sebastian laughed when Ford yelped. "When there are no cops around, anything is legal!" He winked and let him go.
They walked by the seashore, enjoying the cold water on their feet and went directly to their childhood swings. They assigned each one of them a seat as kids and it stayed like that since then. Sebastian was in the middle. Stanley was in the right one and Ford in the left one.
"I can't believe it..."Stan said as he swung absentmindedly. "One more summer and then we go..."
"I know...We-We are so close to finishing school..." Ford mumbled and looked at his youngest brother.
"Finally" Seb was swinging for real. He stared at his sand covered feet as he swung. "Then we can get out of this dump, just like we planned, right?" He stopped to look at his brothers and they smiled.
The three almost at unison turned their head to look at their almost finished ship. It was tied to the shore and floated calmly in the water.
"You know...I can't believe you made me ruin my suit for nothing" Seb stuck his tongue at his brothers. "I worked so damn hard on it, you know?! Just to have it all sticky and gross! You two are the worst!"
The Stans laughed. "No. You know WHAT I can't believe?" Stan exclaimed with an angry pout and Ford smiled like a little shit.
"What?" Seb asked confused.
"Mom admitted she had been lying about who was older" Ford smiled smugly. "Turns out I AM the oldest triplet"
"For eight minutes..." Stan hissed. It had shocked him so much to learn he wasn't the oldest that he almost had a heart attack...And Mom just laughed at his despair!
"I don't care! Alpha triplet! Alpha triplet!" The boy with glasses chanted.
Seb rolled his eyes but laughed at his brothers. "I punched Iván in the nose..." He said casually as he swung on his swing.
"WhAT?" The Stans exclaimed and burst into laughter. "How?!" Stan asked.
Seb stopped swinging and pouted angrily. He hated admitting he was wrong... "You-You were right about him...He was a dick..." He sniffed and looked down sadly. He couldn't believe his first friend was a manipulative jerk! That was his job!
Stan drew him close for a hug and Ford decided to abstain from telling him 'I told you'.
"I-I just wanted...You had been so absent lately and so busy to play with me...I didn't want to be alone" Sebastian wiped his brown eye before tears fell from it. "And I didn't want to lose my-so called friend..."
"Hey..." Stan made him look up at him and smiled. "Listen. We are the best friends ok? Nothing will ever change that! I'm sorry we left you behind..." Stan apologized and Ford did too.
"Crampelter might have been right about not having many friends...But when push comes to shove, you only need your two best friends at your side!" The stronger teen hugged stood up and hugged his lankier brothers who yelped at being crushed.
"I thought you were friends with the football team!" Seb exclaimed when Stan let them go and they could breathe again.
"About that..." Their now oldest brother scratched the back of his head.
"Ford told me what happened that day...The-The closet thing..." Stan said awkwardly and Seb flinched, glaring daggers at his apparently oldest brother.
He had been caught off guard! It wouldn't have happened if they had approached him by his non blind eye! The kids grabbed him and tied up his hands, covered his mouth and brown eye with tape as he cried and kicked for help before throwing him to a closet, saying 'monsters' should be in cages. Ford had seen everything and was threatened by the team not to tell Stanley or they would do that same with him. He didn't listen to them. After a few minutes waiting for them to go, he opened the door of the closet and saved his little brother.
Ford took him to the bathroom, still blind and crying with the tape over his mouth, and helped him pull the tape off his face with water. Sebastian, mid crying, pleaded him not to the Stan.
The backstabbing little bitch told him anyway! "Sorry..."Ford shrugged, not sorry at all.
"Sebastian, do you think I wanna be friends with idiots who bother my brothers?!" Stan exclaimed. "The only idiot who bothers you is me!"
The triplets returned home after playing in the seashore (not too far, Seb got scared if they did) kicking water to each other. The suits were already dirty anyway so a little bit of water wouldn't hurt. It was 2.31am and they were looking for an open store to buy snacks.
"Food! Food! Food!" The teenage boys chanted as Stan drove in the empty quiet street, his music playing loudly and bothering the neighbors. They found a convenience store and bought every kind of junk food they could see, including their own individual drugs and weaknesses. Ford bought bag after bag of jelly beans; Stan, toffee peanuts and Sebastian bought like four bags of Doritos. It wasn't always they could go and eat them so it was better to stack themselves to survive!
"Urgh! Are you really buying those?" Ford said as Stan picked up his snacks.
"I think your taste buds are as weird as you, Pointdexter because this" He shook the bag of snacks. "It's the most delicious thing on earth"
"No it's not. Ew" Ford stuck his tongue out.
"Girls, girls, both of you are pretty, no need to fight" Seb hugged them by their shoulders and led them out of the store after they paid.
When they got home, it was almost 3am and they found their mom waiting for them, awake but tired.
"I thought you would be here later..." She mumbled tiredly until she actually saw her kids. "Why are you all wet?! What do you have in those bags?!"
Stanford opened his mouth to answer but his mom sighed, massaging her temples. "You know what? I don't even wanna know...Go change yourself before you catch a cold..." She mumbled tiredly and went back to her room. "Night, boys..."
"Night, Ma" The teenagers waved. When she was gone, they ran to their rooms to change from their sticky and wet clothes and put on their Pj's.
Still with energy, Sebastian already devouring his second bag of Doritos, they made a small tent with a blanket in the living room and Stanley brought Monopoly to play. Ford turned on the Tv with low volume and they started playing and eating, which ended up in a heated but whispered argument between the two Stans because Stan claimed he wasn't cheating but it was impossible for him to have two hotels in the same place!
Sebastian passed out of exhaustion after his fourth bag of chips on Ford's shoulder and cuddled next to him. His older brothers smiled and fought each other for his properties... Half an hour later, the three boys were sleeping soundly on the floor covered by blankets and surrounded by empty bags of snacks, feeling safe and happy with each other.
They would always be together, that was all that mattered...
-.—
It was the 90's! Last decade of the 20th century and the beginning of the modern technology we enjoy today!
At dawn of June 15th, the triplets sneaked out of their house to celebrate their 17th birthday in the beach, watching the sun rise from the horizon. They were in Stanley's car, smiling to each other and wishing they were finally adults to leave and go on their life of adventures...Together...
But first, they were ready to enjoy their last summer vacations before finishing school!
It had been a few weeks after their birthday and it was a really hot day of early July. Stan and Ford were watching Tv in the living room, but they were mostly moaning and complaining of the heat. Both of them had bags of ice on their faces.
Sebastian and Sherman were in Seb's room. The attic was surprisingly cool in summer (and cold all year long) so it was the perfect place to be right now.
"Check mate" Shermie announced, taking Sebastian's horse and declaring himself winner.
Sebastian massaged his temples. He hadn't thought it would be so hard to teach his little brother how to play chess! Liam taught Bill, who was a stubborn and crazy child triangle. He had thought it would be easy!
"Shermie, that's just my horse..."
"Yeah, but with no horses I win"
"...That's not how you play!" he frowned. Suddenly a shriek was heard in the entire house and the siblings jumped startled. Stan rushed to his room, his eyes unfocused and a terrified look on his face.
"Guys! Guys! HELP! I think Pointdexter is possessed!" He exclaimed.
"What?!" Sebastian stood up. It couldn't be possible! What demon he made a deal with?! "What?! Had he been hurting himself? Are his eyes normal?!"
Stan frowned. "What? Dude, no...You-You better see it yourself"
The three brothers went to the living room where Stan had been with Ford. "You know how he has been acting super weird these days, right? Well, we were watching a movie and suddenly a dumb commercial played on TV. Ford screamed, like, loud! And started, like, I don' know! Convulsing?! Just there, muttering incoherent words and then ran away shrieking to our room...I'm scared, Sebastian, those screams were inhuman!" he looked at his shorter triplet and started shaking him by the shoulders.
Sebastian growled. "Let me go, Fez!" He freed himself from the taller teen's grasp. "I bet it is nothing" They found the living room empty but something wasn't quite right... Shermie shivered in fear and clung to his brother's leg.
"Um...Stanford?" Seb tried and nothing.
"Come on, Fordsie! It's not funny!" The first grader pouted.
"I think he is not-" Stan started when out of the blue, Ford jumped from behind the couch wearing a hat backwards and his brothers screamed loudly.
"I'LL FLIP THE CAP BACK, AND ROLL THE DICE! DON'T STEP TO THE WIZARD, 'CUZ THE WIZARD DON'T PLAY NICE!" He rapped with all his might. His brothers continued screaming for a while more before they stopped to breathe.
"Guys! Guys!" Ford squealed, shrieking like a little boy. "AaahAHHHHH!"
Seb hugged his younger brother closer to him. The hat backwards, dark glasses...the annoying rap...oh...OH NO! OH GOD NO! NOT THIS AGAIN!
"The updated version of Dungeons, dungeons and more dungeons was finally released in the stores and it is the dopest thing I have ever seen!"
The triplets groaned loudly. They had been tolerating Ford's 'cool' language for weeks!
"Dope?" Seb frowned worriedly. It was so weird to hear Ford speaking like that! "Ford...Have you really been possessed?" He asked completely worried for his brother's mental health. Their Ford would never dress up like a Breakdancer or hip hopper or whatever this craziness was!
"Nah my homies!" Ford adjusted his backwards hat. Stan held back his puke. "Everything is hella nice!"
Shermie frowned. "Why is Ford speaking like that?! Is he ok?"
"No, Shermie...He is not ok..." Seb told him with a panic expression. That wasn't their Ford anymore...He was...
Fordsie Fresh...
"Ford...Just... calm down, ok?" Stan raised his arms as if trying to calm down a raging animal. "Let's just take this awful hat and speak like normal people...ok?"
Ford rolled his eyes and stepped backwards. "Urgh, Stan, like, step off! This game is the shit! You are just being shady, ok?!"
"What the-?!" Stan asked confused. He didn't understand this weird alien language!
"Just, like, stop icing my grill ok?! I am buying that game and I will look super cool and you will stop annoying me!" He poked him in the chest and Stanley looked at him as if he had eaten his finger. "Peace out! I need to go ask Ma for beans"
The three brothers blinked. At least they managed to understand what he said.
"Oh my god..." Stan mumbled and Shermie giggled. "If he continues like this, people are so going to annoy him when we get back to school..." Stan lamented.
"Or maybe he becomes cooler" Seb made quotes with his fingers and the triplets laughed. When they heard their triplet shouts "Haha! Score!" from where mom always worked on the phone, they knew he got money for his dumb game.
Seb sighed. "Nope. We lost him"
The worst part wasn't seeing Ford looking like a rapper dressed in neon clothing, it was BEING FORCED to go with him looking like THAT!
"Your brother is really excited about this" Kari had told them, smiling at her three pouting sons. "Go with him. It is good for you to do sibling stuff"
Seb huffed. As if they didn't do everything together already...
"Mooommmm" Stan and Shermie groaned immaturely.
"Ma. Sixer has gone nuts" Seb deadpanned and Kari giggled.
"Stanley, your brother didn't bother you when you grew a mullet" Kari reminded her second oldest son.
"Yeah, well, my mullet didn't burn the eyes of the people who look at it! Look, Ma! Shermie is blind for the brightness in Ford's clothes!"
Shermie walked around like a zombie and crashed against a wall on purpose to prove their point. Seb winced and helped him stand up.
"He is excited, sweetie. You don't see Stanford so happy about things like that and it is going to make him happy if you go with him...Please? Do it for me?"
The two teens and the child groaned loudly and pouting, they approached Ford. "Wait, Fordsie Fresh, we are going with ya" Seb deadpanned.
"Rad!" Ford smiled and it took his brothers all their might not to do a double turn and go back inside. "Let's bone out! Quickly!"
Stan put on dark glasses and a hoodie (in summer) and followed them with his head low. "Chill, relax, Pointdexter...It is not like there would be a line to buy that dumb game anyway..."
"Are you kidding me?!" Stan exclaimed when they went to the store. There was a line all around the block with nerds dressed up like...nerds...Even nerdier cosplayer nerds!
"NOOOO!" The six fingered triplet screamed pulling his curly hair.
"Oops, what a shame, Fordsie. Let's go" Seb said as he carried a tired child on his back. It was too damn hot to be here outside! He hated the sun! It made him sweaty and smelly and urgh! HUMANS BODIES!
"No! We will stay! I NEED that GAME!" He exclaimed and firmly stayed put with his arms crossed.
Stan was dying inside his hoodie, he couldn't breathe well and he was melting under the sun but he wouldn't take him off! Just thinking of the embarrassment he would feel if someone from school saw him forced him to stay with it on! His reputation would be destroyed!
"Seeeb! I'm tireedddd! It is too hot!" Shermie whimpered.
"Foorddddd" Seb whimpered along his brother but not even their whimpers moved their oldest sibling from the line. Hours passed and the line advanced like a turtle with a broken leg. It only seemed to grow behind them.
"How many nerds live in this town?" Sebastian wondered aloud. A kid younger than him with huge braces and fake troll ears stood up.
"Excuthe me! We are just pathionate about board games!" He snarled and Sebastian's eye twitched under his eye-patch when the boy's accidentally spit drool as he spoke. Another boy stood up, wearing a wizard's hat and hip hop clothes.
What the fuck?
"Yeah! And who are you supposed to be?! Are you the mighty Captain Destructor from level 23?" He touched his chest and Seb shrieked.
"Gah! Don't touch me! Go fuck yourself! Ford! These kids are even weirder than you!" Seb shouted scared.
At some point in their long wait, Stan literally lost consciousness and fainted from heatstroke and Seb barely caught him before he hit the floor.
"Fez! No! Come back! I can't be the only one suffering this, you traitor!"
He had to sit him down under the shadow of a tree and split his attention between watching him, Ford and Sherman. The latter was complaining and crying he wanted to go home.
'Do you think Fez is dead?' Bill2 asked, obviously helping to reduce Sebastian's stress. 'He hasn't moved for a while now'
Sebastian hated being the one in charge! Now he had to deal with his unconscious (hopefully) brother and his whining little brother while Ford socialized with the nerds around him.
At least one of them was happy... The cretin...
"Yo! Stanford!" A boy a bit older than them approached him, dressed up almost entirely like one of the characters and carrying a bag with the game inside.
"Michael!" Ford greeted him. Huh. Who could have known? Fordsie had friends...
Their eyes widened and took their hands to their chests making Sebastian roll his eye so much it disappeared.
"With pen and paper, shield and sword...Our quest shall be our sweet reward!" The nerds said and later laughed.
"Who is this?" Seb blinked a few times, thinking he was going to faint too, and looked up at the man.
"Seb, this is Michael! Michael, my triplet" Ford introduced him. "We are friends"
"That's new" Shermie grinned to annoy his older brother.
"Shut up!" Ford frowned in his direction. "He is the director of our role game of D,D and D, or as it is now!-"
"Diggity dungeons and all that!" That exclaimed at the same time and laughed again. Seb groaned.
"I think I'm gonna throw up" Seb deadpanned.
"Well, my blood. Imma leaving now. The store is completely full right now! Hope you get your own! See ya next week!" He left and Seb didn't lose a second to talk to Sixer.
"I didn't know humans could hold obsessions for so long... He is an adult!"
Ford rolled his eyes and wiped the sweat of his brow. "No he is not. He is 19! There are older people in our group!"
"Why are people OLDER playing this game?" Seb pinched the bridge of his nose.
"Because it is the shit!"
'CAN YOU PLEASE KILL HIM?!' Bill2 shouted in his mind.
"Aaaahhh! I can't take it anymore!" Seb screamed and ran away, leaving his baby brother with Ford. He went to check on Stan who had already woken up. He was dizzy and glaring at him for abandoning him there. He simply handed him a bottle of water. "Drink. Don't die. It is your turn to stand Ford" he rolled his eyes.
Stan drank the entire bottle and stood up. Just when he was about to go with Ford, some kids from the baseball team walked by and saw him.
"Pines?! What are you doing here?!"
Stan's breath hitched and unconsciously pushed away one nerd who was close to him. "Nothing! Just...Laughing at these nerddsss!"
The boys laughed. "Cool, bro...Hey, wanna hang out?!"
"Yes!" Stan stood up. "Take me out of here!"
"Hey!" Stan cursed when he heard Seb's voice. He was coming with Shermie who was throwing the biggest tantrum till now. It's been hours, it was hot and the little boy was obviously tired.
"Where are you going?" Seb demanded.
"Ugh...you are with your brother..." One of them grimaced.
"Well, I was just going with my friends, duh"
"Ma said to return together for lunch" Seb crossed his arms over his chest. Shermie imitated him.
Stan blushed, glancing at his friends who were raising an eyebrow. "Dude, I don't care what Kari says, pfft! See ya, little bro"
"Let's go, Stan! The cheerleaders are at the pool!"
"Coming!" He shouted before running toward his brother and quickly whispering. "Please, don't tell Ma I said that! Sorry!" Seb growled in anger when Stan left him there.
Seb took Shermie to the small store around the block and bought him an ice-cream to keep him quiet as they accompanied Sixer. When they got back, Ford had advanced a lot in the line and was excitedly talking to many nerds about his name. He hated being there, but seeing Ford happy and smiling brought a smile to his face too.
"Imagine if there was a dice with even more faces!" The nerds gaped at the six fingered boy's idea. "Or if it was infinite! Infinite probabilities!"
"That would be rad!"
"Nicee"
Seb blinked. Nerds shouldn't speak like that...
The wait became a bit shorter when he started singing with his little brother under the comfortable shadow of a tree. He had educated him in cool bands and at age seven, Shermie was an expert.
"Acting Funny! But I don't know Why! Excuse me! While I kiss-"
"The sky"
"This guy!" Seb sang the lyrics wrong.
Shermie looked at him with a confused expression. "That's not the lyrics!"
"Yeah, yeah...The...Sky..."
"You can't kiss a guy!" Shermie continued. "You are a boy!"
Seb nodded defeatedly "Ye-yeah...You-You can't. I was just joking" He forced a smile on his face and Sherman giggled.
"Ok!"
The time flew by as they sang; their songs also included Disney songs like the Aristocats, the Jungle Book and the Little Mermaid! Seb loved changing the lyrics and making his little brother laugh.
When they looked up, their brother and a group of nerds FINALLY reached the door of the store!
"Finally! After all of these years!" Seb thanked every god he knew their names of.
They stood up and entered with Ford to the store, pushing nerds, just to be met with the most horrific notice ever.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T HAVE MORE?!" Sebastian roared at the seller. "DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG WE HAVE BEEN WAITING UNDER THE DAMN SUN?!"
"Sorry, kid! Everything was sold!" He apologized. "To be honest with you, I didn't expect it" The man laughed.
Ford was frozen to the floor, staring at the empty shelf where the games had been.
"Now, listen here you piece of shit" Sebastian cursed, covering his innocent brother's ears. "We have been all the fucking morning waiting for that damn board game and I'm not leaving without one!" He screamed.
"But-"
Ford screamed, startling everyone inside.
"Ford? Where are you going?! Sixer!" Seb shouted.
Ford angrily ran out of the store and stood in front of the nerds still waiting outside. "My friends and warriors of Dungeons, dungeons and more dungeons!" He caught the attention of the nerds.
"DDD was ALL sold out!"
The nerds gasped loudly and started muttering among each other. Ford didn't stop.
"We have been deceived! We have been waiting for hours and all was in vain!"
"It must be the work of Probabilitor!" A nerd shrieked. Many supported him.
Seb and Shermie, the only people left inside the store along with the man, stared at the group of dressed up nerds screaming and shouting.
"Seb? What is Ford-"
"Shh..." Seb put a finger on his mouth. "Here we have A/C"
"My brothers! Raise your weapons with me and let's take revenge in the minion of Probabilitor! For making us lose our time! " Stanford shrieked and his army raised their wooden and carton weapons.
"With pen and paper, shield and sword...Our quest shall be our sweet reward!" Was shouted at unison before barging inside the store with a battle cry.
Kari opened the door and saw 3 of her boys behind it.
"Stanford! Pumpkin, what happened to you!?" Kari screamed as Shermie hugged her legs, glad to be back home.
The oldest of her sons was all dirty, sweaty, with one of his glasses' lenses broken and some parts of his clothes torn.
"It...It was the best thing I've done in my entire life!" The teen smiled like a little boy.
"What happened!? Were you attacked!? Didn't you go for your game?" She asked but Stanford was already limping to his room, still smiling for the violence he witnessed and was part of.
"Stanford! Stanford Filbrick Pines! I am talking to you!" Kari scolded.
"Ford is banned from entering that store again, mommy! With all the other kids he attacked the employees with!"
"Stanford what?!" Kari shouted surprised. He could expect it from her free spirits Stanley or Sebastian...But her all straight A's son Ford?!
"He punched a guy and broke his nose!" Shermie exclaimed happily. "Then the other kids started throwing things around and kicking the other employees because they were angry"
Kari's left eye twitched and looked at Seb for confirmation. "Yup...Ma, he couldn't invent it even if he wanted..." Seb sighed. "Carton swords can be lethal if used with enough force...that was interesting to witness..." He informed her. "Well, I'm taking a bath...I am sweating like a PIG for being under THE SUN FOR NOTHING" He shouted in Ford's room direction. "Aand I think I have blood in my clothes..."
They had lunch almost after Seb was out of the shower, clean, fresh and with tons of deodorant and perfume. He felt like he changed from meat sack!
Filbrick gave an unimpressed glance at Stanford and continued eating, not caring at all why his oldest son was putting a bag of ice on his eye and how he got a black eye in the first place.
"I can't believe I didn't get my game..." Ford sulked as he munched his food.
"Maybe next time, sweetheart" Kari comforted him.
"Nop. He's banned from all the stores...The guy said he would make sure of that..." Seb told his mom.
"Yeah he said something like...'You little shit! I'll make sure you don't get your fu-"
"Sherman!" Kari scolded the youngest boy sternly. "Don't repeat those words!"
Ford groaned and hit his head against the border of the table. Why was the world against him?!
Stanley and his baseball team were in a pizza place. One of them was ordering and the rest of them was chanting for pizza.
"Here it is!" The boy brought the boxes and the team screamed loudly, bothering the rest of the costumers. As they ate, Stan gazed down at his slice with a pout.
"What's wrong, man?"
"O-Oh...nothing...I just...Left my brother alone, you know" Stan told his friend with a small guilty smile. "I feel kinda bad..."
"Meh, don't worry about it, he should be fine. I mean, those were nerds! What damage could they cost?!" The boy patted his shoulder.
"Yeah... haha...nerds" Stan smiled but still felt bad. He left Sebastian alone there and he didn't deserve that...
After eating, Stan said bye to his friends and started walking back home. He needed to make it up for Seb...What could he give him? He didn't like to admit it, but he was as nerdy as Ford was. He just didn't show it to anyone. Since they started 9th or 10th grade he had been paying a lot more attention in class and getting really good grades. And Stanley was actually the only one to notice how much Seb wanted to be Ford's equal in academic related matters.
Maybe he would like that game too? He played it with Ford so he must like it...right?
Determined on finding one of those nerdy games for his younger triplet, Stanley walked back to the store they had been waiting, just to find it empty and closed. Huh. Weird.
He hummed, stroking his chin in thought. "Hey, what's that?" His train of thought disappeared when something on the floor caught his eye. He bend down and found a really pretty rock, it was green with bluish spots. It wasn't worth a dollar though, working almost all his life in his Pops's pawnshop allowing him to recognize fake stuff when he saw it.
He picked it up anyway (he could give it to Carla, she liked shiny and pretty stuff) and continued walking to another store. This time, it didn't have the stupid game! Were they serious?! ALL sold out?
This time, laughter and nerd words caught his attention. He saw some kids playing in the park, dressed up like one of Ford's weird characters. And the stupid board game was there! Untouched on a table!
"Hey, kids! How much for the game?" he called.
The kids, not a day older than 13, looked up at him. "We are not selling it, dude!"
Stan frowned and glanced at the bright rock in his hand. A big evil grin (really similar to the ones his youngest triplet master) spread across his face. "Not even with an exchange?"
The naïve kids looked up, interested. "Like what?"
Stan grinned even wider. "My...great-uncle works in Ballway games, you know, the creator of this game, and he gave me this...magic stone, limited edition of the game..." He hoped the kids were buying his lie.
They totally were. "That's...That's the Wish Stone!" One of them gasped.
Stan held back his laughter and continued. "Yeah...special for...official role plays of the game..." What was its name again? "And...I thought I could give it to you in exchange of the lame board game"
Stan waited for a response, and in less than three seconds he had the kids screaming.
"Give it! Give it to me!"
"No! Please! To me!"
Stan threw the shiny stone to them and they started fighting over it. He picked up the board game and whistling he walked back home.
He saw his triplets in the Pawnshop; Ford was cleaning the objects with extreme care and Seb was sweeping the floor.
"Hi, Pops! Sebas, Poindexter, geesh you look horrible, what happened to you eye?" Stan saluted and his father nodded in acknowledgement. His brothers looked up at him with different expression. Seb narrowed his eye when he saw him and Ford looked surprised, because to be honest, he didn't notice he had left when they were back in the store.
"I brought you something to say sorry for abandoning you!" He showed the box to Seb but it was Ford who gasped.
"STANLEY YOU FOUND ONE!" Ford left the object in the shelf and snatched the board game from him, shrieking. "Thank you!" He hugged him tightly and ran upstairs to look at the instructions and read the manual.
Stan stayed in shock, with his hands still stretched as if holding the box. "But...But..."
Seb approached him. "How did you know we didn't buy the game?" Stan shook his head and looked at him.
"I...didn't...I got it for you" He lamented but frowned when Sebastian cackled.
"Me?! I don't like that game, Fez!" He laughed. "I'm glad you bought it though, because Ford would have been whining ALL summer if he didn't have his game!"
"Yeah...bought it..." Stan mumbled.
"Oh and, you still owe me for abandoning me there...I want a box of wool of different colors to knit" He patted his back and continued cleaning.
Ford's obsession with DD&allthat dragged along all summer to their first day of school. It was their first day as seniors in high school and they had to spend it covering their faces slightly as they walked behind Stanford. Their mom said it was JUST a phase! But school had already started and he was as neon and colorful as ever!
This year the three shared most of their classes and it was both a blessing and a curse...They hadn't shared classes since middle school and they were glad they were together...but Ford looking like a human disco wasn't helping either of their reputations.
'You know...If I had known Six fingers would do this shit back in my universe, I would have used this as blackmail to force him to work faster' Bill2 commented without regret and Seb rolled his eyes.
Blackmail as an adult? When this phase is gone I'm so going to blackmail him the next following months...
Their first week was spent like that. Seb and Fez were there, always behind their oldest brother to keep idiots away and to punch assholes in their faces when they talked about Ford.
They thought Ford didn't know people were talking about his...outfits...but they discovered after the first week passed, that their brother was feeling worse than they thought...
"S-Stanley?" He asked him once after P.E. They were in the restrooms cleaning themselves after playing sports and Stanford had approached his triplet.
"Hm?" He asked as he pulled off his shirt without a shame in the world while Seb was changing in one of the stalls.
"Do-Do..." He sniffed and Stan immediately knew something was wrong. "Do you have any spare clothes...?"
Seb came out of the stall just in time, wearing one of Stanley's outgrown shirts and heard Sixer.
'Awww...Is little Sixer embarrassed of what he was wearing?! Circles, what a loser...Can't believe that idiot defeated us'
Shut up!
Stan nodded slowly and pulled out one clean shirt he always kept in his locker for emergencies. "What happened?"
Ford looked around to make sure no one else was around and he let out a sob. "I-I don't want to wear my clothes anymore..."
Seb and Stan couldn't help but feel like shitty brothers for being immensely grateful and relieved, but they also felt bad for Ford because he had been so happy with it...
"People don't stop making fun of me...I tried to ignore it because it is always something about my hands...but they were saying how I looked pathetic and was 'trying too hard'..." He took off his glasses to wipe out his tears.
"It's ok, Brainiac..." Stan pulled him close to hug him. Seb stood awkwardly next to them, patting his shoulder and hoping he was helping. The Stans always knew what to do or say when he was sad and he never knew what to do!
"I'll never be cool...They will always see me as a stupid nerd" Ford sighed.
Seb grinned. "Hey, you are cool for us!...In your own way" He chuckled sheepishly. Ford looked at him.
"Really?"
"Sure" Stan shrugged. "That look just...isn't you; you know...It doesn't look rad..." That made Ford giggle a bit.
"You are cool being Ford, and we...tolerate you, being Ford, the nerdy guy who loves the supernatural and reading huge books until he has to be awaken all day so he wouldn't bump against a wall...Not Fordsie Fresh"
Ford sniffed and smiled. "Thanks guys...Though, I really think we should go to class, we are gonna be late"
-.-
Seb opened the door for Matsuda's house, whistling. He had been given a spare key for him to come and go as he pleased. He found the store empty and noticed his old boss forgot to open it again.
The boy changed the sign to 'OPEN' before going inside, taking off his shoes and walking to his boss's room really quiet, not wanting to wake him up if he was napping.
As suspected, he was and Seb smiled to himself. He picked up the dirty clothes piling up in Matsuda's room, his own clothes (half his wardrobe was in Matsuda's house) and put them in the washing machine just as he started ironing those already washed. He greeted Erick and gave him some treats before going to the shop.
He started receiving the costumers and writing down their orders, some paying before and some after their clothes were ready. He was working on a skirt he needed to shorten and adjust in the waist when he heard coughing.
He glanced at the hour. It was time for dinner already?! But he hadn't done it yet! He changed the small sign from 'Welcome' to 'Sorry we are closed' and went to the kitchen to look for Matsuda's pills and to start making dinner.
Wrapped up in a soft robe, Matsuda walked into the living room, looking tired and weak despite being asleep all the afternoon.
"Musuko?" He muttered before coughing.
"I'm in the kitchen, Matsuda-san" Seb replied. "I'll take you your pills"
The man coughed again and, clutching his chest, he slowly approached his pet axolotl. When he saw Seb walking toward him, the man gasped.
"Oh no! I-I forgot! The-The shop!"
Seb smiled reassuringly. "Don't worry, Matsuda-sama, as soon as I came from school I opened it"
"What-What would I do without you, son?" He smiled at the teen, receiving his pills and the glass of water.
Seb blushed and went back to the kitchen. "I was going to make katsudon...but I didn't have all the ingredients, I made instead one of my Ma's recipes, I hope you like it, I'm never able to make it taste like hers..." Seb mumbled as he put the plates on the table.
Matsuda, who was stroking Erick's soft squishy head, looked up at his boy with a grateful smile. "I bet it tastes really good, son"
Seb looked down to hide his flustered cheeks and served two plates.
"Oh, Mrs. Mills picked up her dress and her son's jacket, she was really happy with the outcome"
"Well...You fixed them after all, why wouldn't she?"
Seb laughed sheepishly, his face red once again because of the praise but secretly enjoying it.
'Aaaw...Wittle Sebastian likes it when daddy praises him? Hahahahaha'
"How- How is your problem going? I think I need to go buy more pills, don't I?" Seb didn't know why Matsuda didn't want to tell him what was wrong...He said he had a problem in his throat but it's been too long and his coughing was getting worse!
"Um..." The old man swallowed his food. "Y-Yes...Yes, my boy" He smiled. "I-I actually went to the doctor, like you have been insisted"
"Finally!" Seb exclaimed with his mouth full of food. "So, what did they tell you, Matsuda?"
Doubt and fear flashed in the Japanese man's eyes, but he quickly gave the boy a smile. "Oh, just a little infection in my throat, I'll have to take pills"
Seb narrowed his eyes, knowing Matsuda wasn't telling him everything...That much coughing and pain for an infection?! He was brought back to reality when Matsuda coughed into his napkin.
"It's ok...I'll just remind you to take them because you are even more forgetful than I AM!" The teen laughed and Matsuda smiled, folding the napkin.
-.-
Seb had always been Stanley's support in the things he liked. Their parents had always given Stanford everything he needed for his huge brain and high IQ to continue developing and getting bigger as time passed, but it had always been HIM who motivated his brother to do sports in the first place, taking Stanley to realize he was good in sports which required strength such as football and baseball.
He became Stanley's moral support since day one. He went to his games and matches and celebrated with him his victories. It was obvious that if Sebastian hadn't been a part of Stanley's life, his talent in sports would never have been cultivated and motivated.
Sebastian was so proud of him, despite Bill2 saying that even Stanley, the dumb twin from his own universe, was better than him and he should feel envy. He refused to give in to those feelings. That Stanley wasn't here. This was Fez, his triplet, and the best athlete to ever breathe! He could be jealous of everything else; material things, toys, clothes, physical appearance, but never of his brothers...
So that was why now he was trying hard not to cry, trying to ignore that part of his brain selfishly regretting supporting Stan in the first place...
He had been eating dinner with his family. It was Friday and Matsuda practically kicked him out, saying he should go with his family from time to time.
Seb looked down at his food with a grimace. After sixteen years of living he got tired of eating and he couldn't even finish a plate, not even if it smelled delicious... Maybe that was why he didn't grow up as tall as the Stans...
Eating as a human sucks. He mentally pouted. Especially what came after eating. He shuddered. He still didn't get used to that... Bill didn't have to do that!
'Hadn't it occurred to you that maybe you just suck in general?' Bill wondered and Sebas smacked his hand against his head.
"Shut up!" he said aloud and his family turned to look at him with different levels of worry.
Stanford cleaned his mouth with a napkin and smiled at his triplet. "Is your imaginary friend bothering you again?" He asked mockingly and Seb glared at him with his uncovered eye.
Shermie looked at his two older brothers with a frown. Oh no, not this again...
"How many times do I have to tell you that he is not-!" He shouted, just to flinch when his father hit the table.
"Stop screaming, William!"
"Sorry, sir" he swallowed his pride as well as his food with a pout.
The silence was suddenly interrupted by a loud 'bang' and heavy footsteps running up the stairs.
"Ow! Damn!" The voice cursed and the footsteps continued.
"The knucklehead is here" Filbrick mumbled, sipping his glass of water.
"Ma! Pa! Listen! Listen!" Stanley had stayed late for training and said he was going to arrive late. He suddenly appeared by the door, sweating for his training and gasping for air. He tried to speak but he just wheezed.
Stan grabbed Seb's drink and drank the whole glass before speaking, ignoring the shorter teen's protests.
"I was in my football training! As usual! And-And when we were finished, the coach told me he needed to talk to me. I was worried because I thought I was in trouble! You know, because I almost broke my arm in boxing and couldn't train for a week"
"Stanley" His mom urged. "What did he tell you?"
"Right!" The teen beamed. "So-So I went and guess what! Remember I went to a game in Ohio to play against a school there? So, IT SEEMS that the coach of the Ohio State Buckears* was there! And-And that he talked to him saying he liked how I played and told him to ask me if I was interested in their school because they could give me a scholarship to study there and I could be part of the team and play and-"
"What?" 7 year old Shermie frowned. Stanley had talked so fast he barely understood a few words.
"Do-Do you mean...?" Ford gaped. "You are going to college?!" The genius triplet smiled slightly, not actually believing what he was hearing.
"This coach and some workers from there will come tomorrow because they want to talk with you guys about the possibility to study there when I finish school! And, like, I know I am not like Ford or Sebastian, I am lazy and dumb for anything school related stuff, but I would try my best to stay in that school just for the team! And even then, if I am super,super good playing they could let me play for them even if I don't study there! But they would pay everything!" He reassured his parents.
"And it will be a real training, professional! And-And I could be part of better teams later and then I could be famous!"
Stanley was practically radiating happiness, his brown eyes wide. He was already day dreaming of his name being known by everyone on the country and the money he was going to win!
"Oh! My baby!" Kari stood up and hugged her son tightly. He was slightly taller than her now but she didn't care. "I am so proud of you, pumpkin!"
His triplets and little brother stood up too and congratulated their brother with big smiles. Sebastian knew Stanley was worth of so much more! And he was finally being recognized! He was so happy for him, but he couldn't help but feel his heart clenching tightly.
That would mean he is leaving us...That would mean he is leaving me behind...
"They want me to play as a professional!" Stanley screamed, his whole face lighting up as a bulb.
His father nodded at him slowly. "I'm impressed, knucklehead..." he muttered and his four sons gasped loudly.
Shermie had never heard his father being impressed by ANYTHING! Sebastian and Stanford gaped at his father with their brown eyes wide as plates.
Stanley practically squealed and squeezed the life out of Ford in an extreme hug. The boy went to the bathroom to take a shower and the family finished eating, hearing Shermie excitedly shout about having a famous big brother.
Sebastian pursed his lips, he glanced at Ford who wasn't as happy as he had been seconds ago. He was scowling, and his grip on his fork was a bit too tight.
The triplets had a meeting in the Stans' room and Sebastian asked the question that had been bothering him.
"You will leave to Ohio, won't you" Seb looked at Stan.
"Well, yeah! I have to be in that school to train" Stan smiled. "Urgh, but the coach told me to finish High School first with decent grades... well, good thing I have my two genius brothers who will help me right?!" He gave them a forced smile and nudged Ford. He didn't smile.
"But...But" Seb pouted but decided not to mention t. What about their dream? The Pine'o war? They had been working on it since they were kids, they couldn't just leave it there...He couldn't leave him...
"When are we going to see each other...?" He asked instead.
Stan hummed in thought. "You can always visit me! It's not like it is THAT far away! And I will also come for visits!"
Seb shook his head. Why did they want to take the only thing the three of them had in common?!
"Guys, I'm sorry, but I gotta sleep now. I have to train tomorrow if I want to be a professional someday, night" Stan got under his blankets and his brothers understood the message. They exited the bedroom to continue talking a little longer.
"I can't believe Stan will leave..." Seb mumbled.
"I can't believe Stan got Dad to say he was impressed" Ford finally admitted what was bothering him as a distressed whisper. "I always thought it would be me, you know?!" Ford frowned, wrinkling his nose. "He was never ok with Stanley doing other sports but because he magically got an offer to be famous and earn money now Dad is all over him!"
"Why do you care so much about that man's opinion? He is stupid" Seb mumbled and his brother looked at him seriously.
"You wouldn't understand, Sebastian...Studying is the only thing I'm good at! I thought he would be...more impressed by me...How am I going to prove him that I am more than just his freak son..." Ford was really bothered by this situation. He was happy for Stan! Of course he was! But Filbrick had always been strict with him about his grades. And he had never, NEVER let him down! This sudden praise to Stan, the kid who he had never been strict with about anything, the kid who was lazy and cling to him to pass most of his subjects, had shaken his insides.
"You don't have to prove that dick anything, Stanford" Seb looked at him directly to his eyes. Ford shifted from foot to foot uneasy. "I know you feel you owe him for what he told you as kids! But-"
"You don't understand..." Ford laughed tearfully and hid his hands behind his back, a habit he had taken up upon the years.
"Ford...You will stay, right?" Seb asked him with a puppy eye, his heart clenching painfully. "We-We promised we would be together...And now Stanley is leaving m-us behind..." He stared at Ford who ducked his head.
Ford sighed and both sat down on the floor. He put a six-fingered hand on his shoulder. "Uh...listen, Sebas...I was starting to considering going to college too..."
"What...?" Seb whispered, not noticing his lower lip was trembling.
Ford ran a hand through his hair. "I don't want to leave you, but this-this town isn't for me, you know?! I need to learn more! I need to get out of this town, Sebas"
"But we were going to do that together! We are bROthers..." Seb's voice cracked in his pleads. He needed the Stans, he hated how dependent he was of them, but it had been like that his whole human life!
Ford smiled slightly. "Look. We are very aware that the best colleges in the country cost a fortune, and-and we don't exactly have that kind of money laying around..." He stopped smiling when he saw his brother sob. He dragged him close to him and hugged him.
"No, sshh, don't cry, Seb...As much as it pains me to admit it...If I don't get a scholarship like-like Stan did, I won't be going anywhere...because I ain't going to a lame school, that's for sure! And we can continue working on the ship"
"But if you do?"
"Then you will have to visit us..." He ruffled his hair. "Good night" He stood up and entered to his room.
"...Night"
Sebastian sighed and walked by the dark empty hallway to his room. He glanced at the bookshelves, holding the trophies, diplomas and medals the Stans had won throughout the years.
He obviously didn't understand why Ford wanted to impress Filbrick. He had never needed to proof anything to anyone...He had never gotten Filbrick to treat him like his son, even less say he was proud of him...
Sebastian now dreaded their last day of school. They were just starting the school year, but thinking that at the end of school Stanley would leave...It made his insides clench painfully.
He told this to his boss and the man just said he needed to think in his brother's best interests. He tried! He really was trying! But how could he do that?! STANLEY was FRICKING leaving them alone! He wanted them to be together! They promised!
Bill2 knew he was upset by the situation and used his insecurities against him...When he was in the Mindscape, Seb tried to hide himself from him in one of his memories, but Bill always found him.
'Look at this beautiful little meat sacks! All happy and playing without a care in this disgusting world!' Bill2 pointed at his triplets and him when they were kids, a memory of almost a decade ago. 'I thought you wanted this to last forever, Sebas...And this can only last if they can't leave you...'
"Leave me alone, asshole!" He raged, trying to get away from the demon (his demon, his other half)
'Would be such a shame if Stan couldn't play anymore...No one has to know...It would be a little...ACCIDENT!' Bill2 squealed, flying around him.
Sebastian punched him in the eye and the demon fell to the floor moaning in pain.
"I said...LEAVE. ME. ALONE!"
He wasn't sleeping well. He couldn't think without having such invasive thoughts created by Bill. He hated them! He couldn't hurt his brother! He-He wouldn't!
And just when he thought things couldn't get any worse...
The science fair was announced...
Now, next chapter will be the intense one! Be prepared to have your heart ripped out of your heart, destroyed and ripped in tiny pieces! :D
(As you can see, Seb's presence was really strong he changed the timeline in this story, now Stan is also leaving NJ to persue his dreams and stuff and Seb is the one who would be left alone :3)
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