You were sitting on your bed, music softly playing in the background, desperately trying to finish your homework so you could go to sleep at a decent time. You had completed your english, history, science, theater, and health homework - the only thing left was math. As you pushed through the last page of math homework, your phone started buzzing. Groaning, you paused your music and got up to check your phone.

“Incoming Facetime call from Big T.”

“What the hell does he want now” you thought, checking the time and seeing 10:25 pm. For any other person, around 10:30 at night would be a very odd time to call someone, but not for Tommy. You decided to ignore your homework and talk to Tommy. Homework could wait, Tommy apparently can’t. As soon as you picked up the call, you were greeted with Tommy running a hand through his hair, looking to the side. He was seated in his room, on his bed. When he heard the sound of the call being accepted, he turned towards his phone grinning. 

“Heyyyyyyyy (y/n)!!!!!!!!!” he screamed, obviously excited about something. 

“Hi Tommy” you said, not being able to help the smile that spread across your face. “What’s up Big man?” you said, as you sat back down on your bed, getting comfortable once again. 

“What are you doing this weekend?” he asked, raising an eyebrow waiting for an answer. 

“Nothing..” you trailed off, trying to remember if you had any plans. “Why?”

“Well,” he started “do you want to come to the beach with us?” he asked, face in a sort of grimace thing as he hoped for a positive answer. 

“I mean, I have to ask my parents. But I think that they’ll say yes.” you said, smiling. 

He punched the air in excitement and started chuckling “POGGERS!!” he screamed. “WE CAN DO SO MANY THINGS”

Grinning, you eagerly nodded along with him, excited for the upcoming weekend. 

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Saturday morning rolled along, and you were excited. The night before you had packed your swimsuit, sunscreen, a towel, sand toys (?), and (insert whatever you take to the beach here). You had also packed a little bit extra cash and clothes to change out of after you finish swimming. You had eaten breakfast and you were just waiting by the door, in your swimsuit and towel around you, waiting for Tommy’s family to pull up in front of your house. You pulled out your phone, tired of just standing and waiting. Not even two minutes later, you hear obnoxious honking outside. You go to look and you see Tommy honking at the wheel with motherinnit scolding him. You grinned, and turned around to grab your stuff and say bye to your parents. 

You ran out to Tommy’s car, greeting mother and fatherinnit accordingly. They both greeted you and asked if you were ready to have fun. You nodded and answered accordingly. You put your bag in the trunk and opened the door in the backseat, matching the grin your best friend had on his face. You slid in next to him and buckled your seatbelt. As fatherinnit started driving away, you waved to your parents and turned to Tommy, the smile never leaving your face. 

“Hey” he said, raising his eyebrows up and down. 

Laughing, you responded “Hey Big Man” as you slightly shook your head. “You ready?” you asked as you rose your own eyebrows at him. 

He stretched and said “Of course I am,” he said as though that would be obvious “ready to build a better sandcastle than you” he said smirking. You looked confused for a quick moment, before realization dawned upon you. You had momentarily forgotten about the tradition you and Tommy had. Every time you go to the beach, you have a sandcastle building competition. You’ve won consistently throughout the years, but that doesn’t matter. You both do it for the tradition and the spirit (of course, you don’t mind having something to brag about). 

“You wish” you shot back at Tommy, crossing your arms “If I remember correctly, you haven’t won a single competition yet” you said, smirking “I think I’m gonna keep up my streak.” you said, nodding in affirmation. 

“We’ll see,” he said, also smirking. You could tell he was trying to make you nervous, so you ignored him. The rest of the car ride to the beach was spent smack talking and laughing, the feeling of joy never leaving. 

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Once fatherinnit pulled up to the beach, you and Tommy raced out of the car. Grabbing your bags and towel out of the trunk, you both raced one another to the beach. 

“3” he said, looking at you. 

“2” you chanted, narrowing your eyes playfully at Tommy.

“ONE!” you both screamed, running down to the beach. Sand was being kicked up behind the two of you. At some point, you both dropped your bags and towel somewhere along the beach, mother and fatherinnit picking them up and taking them to the place that they claimed on the beach. You skidded to a stop at the edge of the ocean, already seeing Tommy in the ocean, smirking at you. You rolled your eyes, already expecting this result. After all, he is the “fastest dream smp member”.

“Loser” he said, looking down (or up) at you from the ocean. You stuck your tongue out at him and stepped into the ocean as well. You kicked up some water at Tommy, basking the feeling that came with seeing the expression of Tommy’s face. 

“Ohhohoh” he chuckled, smirking once again “you’re going down bitch!” he screamed as he started splashing you with water as well. You laughed and put your hands up in front of your face, trying your best to avoid the salty water. You both started splashing each other, it was war. 

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After around 15 minutes, you both came to a mutual agreement that this war would not have a victor. You both trudged out of the ocean, to his parents. Grabbing your towels, you both tried to dry yourself off. 

“Hungry?” motherinnit asked, as she gave the both of you the pizza that fatherinnit had just bought from the pizza hut across the street. 

Thanking her, you both smiled and sat next to one another, the air at a comfortable silence as you both sat and ate your lunch. 

You both finished your drinks, and threw the trash away in the trash cans. You sat back down, moving your feet back and forth. “So,” you started, turning your head to look at Tommy. He also turned his head, and made eye contact with you, waiting for you to continue. “Sandcastle time?” you questioned.

“Of course,” he said, getting up and grabbing the various buckets and shovels you both had brought. “How long should we get this time?” he asked, glancing down at his phone. 

You hummed, thinking. “An hour and a half?’ you asked.

“Sounds good,” he approved, setting the timer on his phone. You walked away from him, looking for your own area to build a sandcastle. You found a flat-ish area around 3 feet away from him. “Ready?” he called out to you. You nodded and grabbed a shovel and bucket. He clicked the “start” button on his phone and yelled “go!” You both went running down to the ocean line, grabbing as much wet sand as you can before taking it back to your spots. You had a pretty good plan this time around, and you were sure you were going to win. 

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“!!!!!!!!!!!” the alarm on Tommy’s phone sounded, signaling that you both had run out of time for your sandcastles. You stood back and looked at yours, with your hands on your hips, happy at the results. You looked over at Tommy’s and were surprised. His was... better than he normally makes. You saw him smirking and rolled your eyes, walking over to him.

“Nervous?” he jeered, looking back at your castle. 

“You wish” you shot back, as you both walked over to mother and fatherinnit, official sandcastle judges. They both got up and observed Tommy and your sandcastles. You both sat there, glaring at one another while trying to assert superiority. You were not letting your crown fall now. 

As mother and fatherinnit walked back over, you both turned your attention away from one another, instead looking towards them. “Y/N won again” fatherinnit said, smiling as you turned to Tommy, this time you being the one who stuck their tongue out. Standing up, you crossed your arms and looked down at the seated Tommy. “Suck it big man, some people just can’t build sandcastles like I can.” you said, flipping your hair as you walked away. 

Playfully angry, Tommy stood up and stomped towards you. He stopped in front of you, causing you to halt in your movements as well. “Oh yeah?” he jeered, walking over to your sandcastle. Foreseeing the future events, you started to scream running over to Tommy. Just before you reached him, he started stomping all over your sandcastle. You blinked in disbelief and looked up at him. “Not so great of a sandcastle now?” he asked, laughing. 

“Two could play at that game,” you thought and you walked over to his sandcastle, and stomped all over his as well. 

“Wha-” he said, staring at his ruined work. “That was uncalled for mate” he said, not being able to stop the smile from spreading across his face. You smiled too, looking down towards the ocean. 

“Anyways,” you started, “the last one to the ocean has to clean up all the sand toys!” you called, racing him towards the ocean for the second time that day.  Hearing him scream at you for cheating, you smiled. Nothing could beat days like these. 

:) i want to go to the beach so bad :(

also, i have so many ideas for other people but i only go through with tommy. i have favorites