Twelve

I turned the channel to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade and explained to Tommy what all the different floats meant. When I got a second text from Wilbur,

***Indie Singer***

***Be at Me and Niki’s room in 10 minutes***

I quickly changed and met Dream in the hallway.

“so you also got a cryptic message from Wilbur today?” he asked

“yep, guess what day it is” I hinted. It took a second, but dream let out a big grin when he checked the date.

“this is gonna be fun” we stepped in together to see Wilbur and Niki lounging on the couch, there room was much bigger than ours. I noticed a huge dining table sitting right smack dab in the middle of the room.

“I called you guys here because you are Americans” Wilbur started, and I noticed Nick was the other person here.

“oh really? I didn’t notice” I said, falling next to Niki on the couch.

“I have a surprise for you all, but you can’t tell the other’s” Wilbur said giddily.

“ok now I’m scared” Nick raised an eyebrow.

Niki held up her phone, and I noticed she was on call with someone, Wilbur spoke into it with his George Washington voice.

“bring in the reinforcements”

I heard the door open,

“WASSUP B\*TCHES”

“I would recognize those mutton chops anywhere” I ran towards Schlatt and gave him a fist bump.

“I called in the best American out there” Wilbur said walking towards us.

“Yes, yes I am” he said blankly as he put down a scary looking duffel bag.

***a/n: classic Schlatt carrying a duffel bag (probs carries dead bodies or sum)*** 🙄

We were catching up with Schlatt when we heard a nearby door open. We all stopped talking and stared at each other, waiting for something to happen.

“Ollie, I want you to keep Tommy and Toby occupied today, Clay and Nick, you do the same for George” Wilbur ushered us out and I bumped into a confused Tommy. Clay and Nick walked the other way without saying anything.

“what’s going on?” He started and looked over my shoulder to see a snickering Dream and Sapnap skipping into their room.

“nothing, nothing at all” I took his shoulders and turned him around.

“why don’t we go out today? Just you, and Me, and Toby? We could go to the public Market!” I walked into our room to see Tubbo staring at the TV, stuffing his face with Muffins.

***a/n: bbh is shaking in his boots***

***---time skip wooooo---***

We decided to walk to the Market because it wasn’t a long walk from the hotel. It was busy, but since we were a small group we managed to stick together. I had forgotten my jacket at the hotel and after being In Hawaii for a couple days, the cold really gets to you. Tommy noticed me shivering and took off his hoodie.

“you look like you’re going to drop dead from hypothermia” he handed me the sweater.

“thanks brutha” I shrugged on the hoodie that was enormous but warmed me up. I saw a hint of Tubbo raising his eyebrows, but Tommy nudged him before he could say anything.

Tubbo wanted to go to the original Starbucks, so we let him go and get drinks, while me and Tommy wandered around. We approached a vendor near the end of the street, it was an old lady with many of what looked to be some of those handmade friendship bracelets I remembered making in Elementary school, the colorful yarn was woven in many different patterns. I could tell from how precise every single strand was that she had been doing this for years, maybe even decades.

“we need to get friendship bracelets” I pulled him over to the old lady.

“I don’t think I’ve ever owned a friendship bracelet” he said raising an eyebrow at my excitement.

“and that’s an even better reason why we need them” I handed the old lady 15 dollars, and she gave me a warm smile for the large donation.

“pick one for me, and I’ll pick for you” I started to trace along the table, looking for just the right one. And that’s when I saw it, the colors where red and white, (just like his favorite shirt) and they were braided together spectacularly, which made it look even cooler. I instantly knew it was the right one, so I picked it up and came over to where he was still looking on the other side.

“how do you like this one?” I asked as I handed it to him.

“woah” he tried it on, and it fit perfectly, we were still awing over the bracelet when he handed me one. It was a zigzagged pattern downwards, with multiple colors all fading into a what looked like a sunset.

“it’s beautiful tomtom” I took the bracelet and tied it onto my wrist, I put his arm next to mine, showing both of our newest pieces of jewelry.

“now we have a piece of ourselves for each other” I said and we both grinned.

Just as we left the vendor, we saw Tubbo crossing the street with a handful of drinks. We sat down on a bench looking out over the water and drank our coffee. As we chatted about streaming and stuff, I couldn’t help but glance down a to my wrist to see the beautiful colors, but then to get a flutter of butterflies in my stomach.

We finished our drinks and I insisted we walk around the city for a bit so I could give Niki, Wilbur, and Schlatt some time to get whatever they were planning for thanksgiving ready. At one store, we rode an escalator for almost half an hour. And at another, we all chose random expensive outfits to try on.

Once we had gone through almost every store downtown, (which took us many hours) we were exhausted, but still excited about tonight. The boys kept trying to get me to tell them what the plans were, but i kept my mouth shut.

“what do people even do on Thanksgiving?” Tubbo asked.

“eat” i answered,

“oh and don’t forget the football” I said rolling my eyes.

“dang. You Americans are boring” Tubbo said and Tommy laughed.

***---time skip woooo---***

“my legs are about to fall off” Tubbo said falling onto the couch. We had just gotten back from a day of walking around downtown.

“what time does Wilbur want us” Tommy asked grabbing a muffin that was left from this morning.

“5 o’clock sharp” I smiled and thought about what possibly would happen tonight.

“he also said to dress nice” I added.

“ughhh why does he insist to do this to us” Tubbo rummaged through his suitcase to find a black dress shirt.

“that would be perfect toby” I gave him a thumbs up and decided to check twitter. I saw the first tweet from Tubbo, attached was a selfie of all of us gleefully smiling on an escalator.

***Tubbo| @TubboLive***

***Escalators are fun***

***↳ ollie | @OllieMolly***

***Correct.***

***↳ tommy | @Tommyinnit***

***Agreed.***

***--time skip to the ✨suprise✨---***

I changed into the same dress I wore for dinner that one night in Hawaii, and tommy wore a light blue polo t-shirt, which brought out the color of his eyes.

“looking sharp sir” I fixed his collar and grinned.

“as do you woman” We had a moment off silence before bursting out with laughter. At 4:59, we knocked on the door of Niki and Wilbur’s hotel room. Niki opened it after a few seconds still wearing a cute little apron.

“aww Niki your apron is adorable” I walked in and saw the dining table from earlier was decorated.

“thanks Ollie!” she cheered and closed the door behind us.

“so is this…thanksgiving?” Tubbo asked looking at the carefully placed silverware.

“from my research, yes” she clasped her hand together in excitement. I came over to the table and saw Wilbur fiddling with something on his laptop. When I looked over his shoulder, I noticed the camera he had was set up on a higher chair a couple feet away, displaying the entire table.

“oh my goodness Wilbur you are so smart”

“damn right I am” he leaned back in his chair and put his hands behind his head.

“we’ll start the stream in about 20 minutes once everyone has their food” I looked over to the kitchen and noticed many traditional thanksgiving dishes.

“Niki you can cook thanksgiving dinner?” I came over to where Niki was checking something in the oven.

“Yes! Can’t you believe it ollie!” she was so excited she looked like she was going to jump up and down. A minute later, the dream team arrived, and George automatically giggled at the sight of thanksgiving dinner.

“oh I’ve always wanted to do this” he smiled.

I seemed to notice Schlatt was absent, and I knew that was part of the bit me and Wilbur planned.

We all decided it was time to get prepared for dinner, I had to explain to Toby and Tommy that on thanksgiving you eat dinner early, since there is so much to eat. I sat in between Niki and Tommy, and Wilbur sat across from me.

***Idk\_hi: AHH POGCHAMP***

***Dreamnotsap: I’m missing my family dinner for this***

***User4555: please tell me yall are gonna eat on stream!!!***

“hi chat!” we all said identically, after a moment of recognition we burst into laughter.

First, we applauded Niki for making the dinner, and the chat spammed NIKI SUPPORT ❤ for about 15 minutes after that, then we showcased all our favorite foods. We were chatting with the British people about how their very first thanksgiving was going so far, when Wilbur gave me a small nudge from under the table, and I knew it was time for the bit.

“Hey Wilbur, um why is there um.. 2 empty seats at the end of the table?” I asked quizzically. i knew there was only supposed to be one but i shrugged it off, George, Tommy and Tubbo, looked confused.

“well you see Ollie, um well one is for the holy spirit” and he paused, everybody burst into laughter. Before we knew it, Sapnap was singing “bust that bible open” and tommy was kneeling on the floor saying “WAP WORSHIP AND PRAYER FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT” when the laughter receded, Wilbur continued,

“and the other is for, our special guest” Tommy turned to me, and I gave him an un-convincing shrug off my shoulders. Before he could ask, the door was kicked open, and Schlatt, wearing his signature merch, a cowboy hat, and holding a 2-foot-tall Schlatt youtooz plushy stomped in. Everybody burst into laughter, and the chat was going so fast you could have gotten a seizure.

***Fundyxdream: BAHBAH SHCLATT AHFB***

***Heatwavesfan: THE COWBOY HAT :D***

***Honeybunches: GUYS ITS SHLAGG***

Everybody, even me, who knew about Schlatt was surprised and laughing until they were on the floor. Schlatt sat down at the end of the table (next to the holy spirit of course)

Schlatt didn’t say anything, just picked up a fork and started eating, oblivious to anything going on. We were all crying from laughter at this point. Once we had wiped our tears away and started eating, we just talked about normal things we would talk about while chilling on the SMP, it was oddly familiar. There was no doubt these people were my family. We talked with chat a bunch and had a couple bits that ended up with us in tears laughing again.

“but seriously, why is there even another chair, like there’s no more room at the table anyway” Tubbo said laughing at the empty chair between him and Schlatt.

“well there is another surprise I have” Wilbur said suspiciously, this time it wasn’t just the Brits confused, even Niki was eyeing Wilbur. The only person not fazed, was Schlatt who was chewing on a Turkey leg.

“we have something very similar, almost the exact same, to the holy spirit” Wilbur said as he walked over to the same door that Schlatt came through and opened it.

a figure wearing a LAFD beanie walked through,

“HOLA MUCHACHOES”