Relieved that he doesn’t have to go back to bed, to lay in the dark bedroom while his brother sleeps soundly, he lifts his head to look at his mother. “Okay,” he says, his voice much more timid than his usually confident self. “Like what?”

“I do need them!” Tommy says, padding his feet against the carpet with a sigh. “I need them upgrade my weapons and my skins and to get through the levels! Billy had V bucks and now I don’t! That’s not fair,” he frowns, his face crumpling as he looks towards the loaded screen.

He’s always looked up to ⌜ 𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐘 ⌟

He may or may not have hidden all of ━.𝑾𝑨𝑵𝑫𝑨.’s make up.

So Dad… about those V Bucks … ⌜ 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐕𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 ⌟ (seen MoM)

“MOOOOOOOM!” Tommy yells out, rushing through the house to find ━.𝑾𝑨𝑵𝑫𝑨. with an angry expression etched into his young face. “MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!”

Don’t tell ⌜ 𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐘 ⌟ but he went and got ice cream with ⌜ 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐕𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 ⌟ (seen MoM) as a treat!

He’s about to run ⌜ 𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐘 ⌟ off to the Antarctic and leave him there if he doesn’t stop taking the batteries out of my controller.

He’s pelting ⌜ 𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐘 ⌟ from across the room with chips.

He’s just going to go ahead and pelt him with more chips.

New shoes? Really?!

He’s wondering when he gets to see auntie Nat ⌜ 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐀 ⌟

You were too scared to go on your own!

Dad!! Tell Billy he’s wrong!!

…… mom?

Tommy squints, his eyes narrowing in confusion while he tilts his head. She looks like his mother, and sounds like his mother but … there’s something different. He doesn’t move towards her. “….mom?”

He wasn’t sure what had happened, or how he had gotten separated from his twin brother but he had been alone for a long time and seeing his mother like this had thrown him. The sound of her voice is comforting and he wants to run up and throw his arms around her. But he can’t

DAD!

Mmmhmmm! Yep! Where have you been?!

Daaaaaaaaaad