Chapter 4: One Million
TWs: Mentions of Social Anxiety, Bullying and Homophobia
It was a new day and it was a good day, Ranboo for the first time in a while felt relaxed and energized for another day in this cruel world.
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"How about after work we go for a drink to celebrate?" asked Wilbur, cooking up some eggs for breakfast.
"What do we need to celebrate?" Ranboo question, sitting down at the kitchen island and earning a confused glare from Will.
"You don't know?" Ranboo shook his head.
"Last night after you went to sleep, you hit one million followers on twitch, we were all still in the discord when it happened, it was awesome" Ranboo was in shock, in two days, he went from normal maths teacher to a famous streamer, well sort of famous.
"Wow, really" answered Ranboo, quickly pulling out his phone from his pocket and checking his twitch channel to see if it was true, it was.
"I know, it's crazy, one million in two days, your viral mate" Will said handing Ranboo a plate of eggs.
"That's got to be some sort of record, right?" Ranboo wondered, happily digging into his scrambled eggs like he was a kid.
"I don't know but either way it's an incredible feat and we need to celebrate, so after work should we and some others go for a drink?" asked Wilbur, also eating scrambled eggs.
"Drinks at like a bar? I'm not 21 yet" wondered Ranboo.
"Hey, your in the UK now, you only have to be 18 to get into a pub or a bar and last time I checked you had to be older than 18 to be a teacher"
"Oh right, sorry I forgot"
"It's fine, How old are you anyway?"
"20"
"Perfect then, come on let's have some fun to celebrate"
"Whatever but if I get a hangover from it, I will kill you" Ranboo threatened, finishing off his eggs and going to get ready to leave to go and start another long day of teaching.
"Okay, Okay" answered Will, already exiting the house.
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They had arrived at the school and it was virtually an exact repeat of what happened yesterday. Tons of kids standing around, just staring at Ranboo and Will but that was guaranteed cause he was always with him. In fact the only thing that was different from the day before was that it was Tommy who approached Ranboo instead of Tubbo.
"Hey, Mr Boo, I would be like to congratulate you on one million followers on your twitch, your first two streams have been great" Tommy exclaimed.
"Well thank you, Tommy" Ranboo responded, smiling through his mask and glasses.
"Are you ever planning on taking off your mask and glasses here at school or on your streams?" asked Tommy, the mood of Ranboo instantly changed, from happy and cheerful to panicked and fear.
This was a sensitive topic with Ranboo. The only people that knew why he wore them were Wilbur and the other staff at the school but he never really told any of the students about it apart from telling them not to ask about it, the reason was because he never thought that it was important for the kids to know.
"I will talk about it another time, okay, now go back to your friends, Tommy" and with that Tommy left.
"Are you okay, mate?" Wilbur worried, he knew something was wrong with Ranboo.
"Yeah, I'm fine, let's just go in, I don't want to be late, now" something was wrong with him but Will knew he couldn't pry and makes things worse.
As they were walking in and around the school, Ranboo heading to his tutor class, there were students congratulating him and wanting to talk to him. He dint want to admit it but I did improve his mood a little so by the time he had reached the tutor room he as back to his old self, almost.
"Hello and good morning everyone" George shouted to their shared tutor group.
"Good Morning, Mr Davidson and Good morning Mr Boo" everyone in the group responded, Ranboo giving them all a quick wave.
George took control for most of the tutor group sessions and whilst Ranboo was overall fine with the situation, he couldn't help but feel a bit sad at it, as he wanted a bit more control over the tutor sessions. Most of the time it was a case of Ranboo just sitting in his chair at the teacher's desk, watching and listening or walking around the classroom to see what people needed or wanted.
"Today, things will be a bit different because as most to all of you might know, Mr Boo here, after only two days, reached one million followers on twitch. So as a congrats to him, I am going to leave all of you to him and we can do whatever he wants" George finished, and the whole class of kids cheered. Whether or not it was about the one million or that they can do something fun was another question.
"Okay, so I didn't really prepare anything because I didn't know that this was happening, so I am going to take suggestions" as soon as Ranboo had finished his sentence he was met with almost every kid in the class having a hand up in the air, all except Freddie, who almost looked dead in the back of the class sitting next to the lively duo of Tommy and Tubbo.
"Oh, okay, let's start with..." his eyes scanned around the class until they met a tall boy, year 11, his name was Dave or also known as Technoblade around the world of Minecraft "Dave, let's start with you".
"How about you do a live stream from here in the classroom?" he was answered with a quick "No" that for some reason made everyone laugh.
Ranboo continued to ask around the class until there was no one left with their hands up. Throughout all the suggestions there was a few good ones, playing kahoot, watching a movie and just to let everyone talk amongst themselves.
Ranboo agreed on the kahoot idea that was made by Tubbo.
They did a Minecraft kahoot and a Fortnite one for the jokes and by the time they were done, the bell rung through the classroom and the entire school with a large soundwave that woke up Freddie, who was sleeping in the back.
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The rest of the day was rather uninteresting, apart from what happened at lunch.
12:53pm.
Ranboo was on his way to the staff room when as usual he ran into people beating up Freddie, but today it was different. Today, Freddie was fighting back. Every single day at this school, Freddie would be bullied and beaten by a certain group of kids and he would just take it and deal with it until it was over because he knew there was no point.
But today he was trying to fight back, obviously it wasn't working as he was to weak to take on a group of much bigger and stronger kids.
"Hey, break it up, guys!" shouted Ranboo as he turned the corner and ran over to the commotion, stepping in between Freddie and the group of bullies, whose names Ranboo actually ad learned over the past week of teaching here. There was three of them, they went by the names of Callahan, Punz and Jack.
"Why the hell would you help this fag?" shouted the one who went by the name Jack.
"Shut up!" shouted Ranboo, tempted to start beating up a kid but of course resisting. "Has he ever said he was gay and even if he was you should never call anyone that!".
"It's quite easy to tell that he is gay, look at him" Punz answered who looked like he didn't even want to be there.
"Just leave him alone, okay, or I will do everything in my power to get you guys expelled!" Ranboo shouted threateningly and they gave in and left, shooting glares back at Freddie and Ranboo, well at least Callahan and Jack did, Punz didn't do anything apart from look ashamed.
"Thanks Mr Boo" Freddie said, holding his arm in pain.
"Yeah, no problem, let's just get you to the nurse, shall we?" replied Ranboo, ready to hold Freddie if he needed help to walk.
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By the end of the school day, Ranboo had completely forgot about the after school drinks to celebrate his achievement.
"So what are we doing tonight?" Ranboo asked, in the staff room, where all the teachers were. The other stared at him with a confused stare. "What?" Ranboo proceeded with.
"Did you seriously forget?" asked Nick, he was the other PE teacher along with Clay and he was sitting on a couch, watching a anime show on the TV screen that was in the staff room. Ranboo shook his head in response.
"The drinks, we're just about to head to a bar to celebrate you hitting one million" Zak answered, sitting and scrolling through his phone.
"Oh yeah, sorry it's been a long day, I just forgot, I'm still up for it though" Ranboo answered.
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They had arrived at the bar, only a little while ago. Zak, Nick and Wilbur were already almost drunk and everyone was just chatting about future plans for Ranboo after blowing up on twitch.
Tonight also was the first night that anyone would see him without the mask and glasses but he was fine with it.
"Woah, Ranboo you look good" shouted a clearly drunk Nick, who was almost falling of his seat.
"Thanks, I guess" answered Ranboo, who only had one drink at this point so he was still okay.
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As the night went on everyone proceeded to get drunker and drunker until none of them could drink anymore.
None of them could drive with how drunk they were so they all had to walk back to their houses, well the ones that could still walk had to.
"Maybe...W.e should of waited till the ..end to do this, as we still have to teach tomorrow and we're all going to have hangovers" Ranboo slurred as him and Wilbur were heading to their house.
"It's fine there's going to be a bunch of supply teachers, Phil has already sorted it out, it's all good, plus your more important, what you did was a great achievement"
"By the way, I'm going to have to kill you in the morning"
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After a long walk and two near death experiences they had arrived at the house.
As soon as they had entered, Ranboo was in his room and went to sleep.
This was going to be a bad hangover.
The End of Chapter 4.