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He drowsily opened his eyes to the sound of something heavy falling onto the ground with a loud thump, followed by cursing and the faucet running. He looked over at his clock, the time 6:23 being shown. He groaned, what must’ve waked him up this early better have a good excuse.
He slipped on his slippers and grudgingly walked through the hall. He could see that light was coming from the bathroom and opened it. He didn’t know what he was expecting, but all he knows that it was definitely not his little brother standing hunched over the faucet, covered in bright bubblegum pink.
They stared at each other for a whole minute until Techno broke the silence first “Is that my hair dye?” He asked, looking more closely at the mess that Tommy had made. Tommy bit his lip and made it so that he couldn’t make eye contact “no?”
"You suck at lying" He sighed and rubbed his eyes “Okay 1, Why are you awake so early. Two, why are you using my dye and making a mess in here? And three, I heard a loud drop what even was that?” Tommy looked around everywhere except for where he was "jsaksjkakja" he muttered under his breath.
"What was that? Talk louder."
Tommy gulped and hung his head in shame "I wanted to be more like you and Wilbur with like hair and stuff... and I accidentally dropped one of the bottles...."
He should have been angry, he probably should've scolded the younger for using something of his property that he didn't give any permission for. But something about what he had said, gave him a tug in his heart, he never thought that Tommy was jealous of them, to be honest, it always seemed to be the opposite. Though as he was thinking back to it, there were times when he had stared at their hair a little too long, asking Techno if he could braid it and put flowers and whatnot in it, but he never expected him to be jealous.
"...You wanted to dye your hair so you can fit in?" he asked. Tommy bit his lip, nodding, and stared down at his feet. He snorted and moved toward him "You know it would've been easier if you just asked. Come one let's clean the place up and we can get started." His brother's face brightened immediately and a wide grin spread across his face "You mean I can still use it?" he asked in disbelief.
"I mean do you want to?"
He shook his head eagerly "Thanks Blade!"
"Yeah yeah," he said in his monotone voice, but in reality, he was desperately trying to hide his happiness when Tommy's face brightened even more. "Stay right here. I'll get some stuff to clean this."
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Trying to dye a ten year old's hair at 6 in the morning was probably not one of the smartest ideas he had thought of for sure. But he was just trying to help his brother out, and he was pathetically weak to the little happy expression he always does. He wasn't even trying to hide it at this point. "Okay stay still. It's going to be pretty hard, I've only ever done it with myself." He applied the barrier cream "It feels weird. Kind of ticklish" he squirmed in the chair that Techno had brought in.
"Yeah it can feel like that sometimes, but I want you to keep still." And Tommy followed his directions, sitting completely frozen in place. Techno only lasted a few minutes before he got fed up with the silence and started talking to Tommy. Tommy eagerly took that as an invitation to start talking about this new kid in school, his name was apparently Tubbo and liked bees a lot. But that was about the only thing he found out about him, he rambled on and on as Techno put on dye at the ends of his hair.
Tommy didn't even realize when he finished "And then me and Tubbo climbed the big ass tree. I pulled the branch off and there was also a ball there and I wanted to get the ball so I-" he paused and his eyes widened at the mirror. He pulled himself closer to it and put his hand up "Don't touch it!" Techno warned. Tommy turned to him "I wasn't going to" Tommy objected and frowned before turning back to look at himself more. Techno nodded "That's good, you'll have to wait for a few hours for it to dry."
Tommy didn't listen to him as he kept staring at his reflection, grinning from ear to ear. Techno opened his mouth to speak again "I didn't really want to do the whole head yet. i just wanted to try it out before we do something drastic and dye the entire thing. So that’s why they’re at the ends of your strands."
Tommy nodded, and Techno didn't have to be told that he was sure that it didn't really matter to him about that.
A few hours pasted with waiting and Techno was about to lose all his sanity with Tommy keep talking about another thing that happened at school yesterday. He was starting to silently regret starting a conversation with him.
On second thought…He probably should've thought ahead about what exactly he was doing, before he actually did it. Unfortunately, he remembered considerably late that other people lived in this house, the reminder hit him when the smell of eggs and breakfast hit his nose when he walked out of the restroom. He bit his tongue, right. Now how was he going to explain to Phil about this? He brainstormed it as he slowly went down the stairs, Tommy following behind.
They saw Phil spreading out the breakfast plates, and Wilbur already eating his food. Phil smiled when he noticed Techno “I made bacon and eggs. That’s okay with you right?” He asked. Techno nodded “Yeah that’s good” and turned to look at Tommy. They both sat down at the table, Tommy seemingly becoming nervous with him.
Techno looked away to think about an explanation as they both sat down and a meal had been placed. He didn’t get much time to actually think about it before Wilbur looked up at Tommy and then Techno to pipe up and say “So when are you going to dye it brown?” With a smirk.
Tommy almost choked on his piece of bacon “I’m not making my hair shit color”
”Tommy” Phil warned from the kitchen as he poured cream into his coffee. “No cursing remember? And what are you talking about anywa-“ he paused as he turned around and stared at Tommy’s hair. “Oh. Umm.” He sat down on one of the chairs and glanced at Techno. Tommy curled up in a little ball “Is it bad? Am I in trouble?”
Phil shook his head and put his arms up “No no! I’m just surprised by the uh. style that you’re going for now“ he took a moment “It looks nice, it’s your hair anyway. So when did you guys get it done?” He asked taking a sip out of the mug. The frown vanished and Tommy broke out in a grin "Me and Techno did it like a few hours ago!"
"Is that so" He looked at Techno with a raised eyebrow. Techno cleared his throat and pushed his hair out of the way "Yeah. He woke me up using my dye that I left. Then he asked me if I could help him with that." he shrugged "-So I did."
"yep!" Tommy said in approval. He turned to Wilbur "And I'm not going to make it an ugly brown color like yours" he giggled.
"Hey!" Wilbur gasped dramatically, pretending to be offended. "Nah, it'll grow on you. I think you'll want to be like your favourite brother soon."
"You're not my favourite brother." Tommy stuck his tongue out as they bickered back and forth.