Not a Fan (Wilbur Soot)

Aurora

"That's great! Update me more later, love you Wil, bye!" Niki answered, clearly not having paid much attention as she jogged across the street. 

"Love you too Niki." Wil answered with a smile, hanging up. He kept his phone in his hand, scrolling over to his contacts, opening the very first one- Aurora. 

"Be cool, Wil." He whispered to himself, looking over to the wall before texting her. 

Hi Aurora

He watched his phone anxiously as the line under his blue message switched from Delivered  to Read at 7:21pm. 

Hi Will Bee

He shouldn't be so surprised that she answered quickly, she was most likely just laying in bed. At least he hoped she was laying in bed. She looked so tired earlier. 

So I think I owe you an embarrassing story before you see it on the internet

Or from Tommy and Toby

He typed out his messages quickly, hoping she wouldn't mind the double text. He had always been the kind of person who sent multiple smaller messages instead of one paragraph.

Okay, lay it on me. What's the big secret?

Wilbur started typing, quickly deleting his response. He repeated this process several times before making any progress with his message. He didn't even bother rereading it, knowing he would just want to do it over again. 

When we first met at the grocery store, I kind of assumed you were approaching me because you were a fan. That sounds so conceited, christ. Basically that was why I was so weird, I was waiting for you to ask me to take a picture or something. I also may have described the interaction on stream with Tommy, making a complete fool of myself. 

Wilbur waited anxiously as the minutes ticked by without her responding, even though the 'read' message appeared directly after he sent the message. Just as he was about to lock his phone, discarding it to his bed side table for the night, a message came in. 

So you're really some big hot-shot musician then? 

He let out a quick laugh at the message, hoping the message was intended to be funny. 

I'm really not, I get recognized more for my videos than my music

I just realized that probably doesn't sound any better

Wilbur texted as he made his way back down to rejoin his friends. They had abandoned their show, now bickering quietly in the kitchen over who should be the one to use the stove. 

"Just tell me what you're trying to make and I'll do it." Wilbur laughed lightly as he pushed them out of his small kitchen. 

"Can you make us cheese toasties?" Toby sighed in defeat, handing Wilbur a loaf of bread as he exited the kitchen. 

"Two please." Tommy chimed in, sitting at stool next to Toby. Wilbur agreed, checking his phone before getting butter from the fridge. Aurora hadn't opened either of his messages. 

I get the feeling you're looking up the clip right now.. 

Wilbur texted, a mixture of horrified and defeated. He knew there was no way she wasn't going to search for the clip after he had mentioned it. Maybe he should never have told her at all. If Niki weren't their common denominator, and considering her general lack of interest and knowledge in streamers, Rori would probably have never thought to look up such a thing on her own.