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A woman walks in and smirks directly at Dream, she sits down in the bar chair next to him. He still hasn't noticed her too invested in his phone and whatever was on it.

I feel a slow acidic feeling in my stomach the moment the woman turns and stares at him.

I'd seen her making googly eyes at him the entire night but he hasn't noticed not once. I rolled my eyes as she coughs loudly and finally Dreams eyes meet hers.

I grab as much of the drink as I can from the canister and make my way from the group of happy party goers.

I look back over to Dream and the woman and they are laughing already. I feel that gross uncomfortable feeling in my stomach again. I walk over to Sapnap and Karl laughing at something with another group of creators.

Of course as soon as I walk over sapnap says something diabolical and Immediately I get annoyed. "Isn't that right Georgie" he smirks at me and chuckles, Karls giggling not far behind.

I roll my eyes "whatever" they giggle together again and make fun of the way I said 'whatever' calling me too British.

"Wuteva" "whut eva"

They are basically slapping each other silly while they giggle. I smirk a bit and look back over to Dream and the woman.

The woman had moved closer and was now sitting pretty close to Dream. My somewhat contempt feeling leaves once again and I just begin to feel strange hatred.

"Do you know that woman Dreams talking too?" I ask

Sapnap flushed and giggled out looks over to me, I watch his eyes trail around the room trying to find Dream until I point at them and his eyes follows the direction. His eyebrows crease "Not a clue"

I hear Karl whisper "not sure."

Sapnap mumbles "looks like they know each other though." Then he looks back at me with an uncaring grace.

I roll my eyes again "Yeah ... they might."

"Oooh someone's Jelly" I look up to Karl. "I'm not jealous just confused."

Sapnap chimes in "Confused about your feelings, son?"

"Don't call me that, and no there are no feelings to be confused about. It's the woman who is she?"

"Is someone in love with a mystery woman" Karl says clearly teasing.

"Love at first sight" sapnap smirks.

"No" I look at the floor for a split second.

"It's ok man just ask Dream about her later."

Later never came though I ended up leaving a bit early to my hotel room. I couldn't get my mind off of the woman and Dream so I texted him.

George: Hey you up??
Dweam: yea

George: wanna hangout?
Dweam: where?

George: come to mines
Dweam: kk see u in 15

I went back to watching TikTok untill I heard the loud knocking on my door.

I went over and opened it "Hey"
I say as I feel a stupid smile growing on my face.
I can't help it, there's always this energy about Dream that just makes me happy whenever he's near. I inwardly cringe at myself.

Dream smiles back softly and walks in holding a laptop and a blanket.

"Why'd you bring the blankie gonna sleep with me?"

"Naw I was gonna cuddle up on the sofa while we talked and I edited."

"Good party huh?" I say trying to sneak in why I wanted to talk to him to begin with.

"It was cool.. fun" he said as though it was an afterthought.

"What did you end up doing after the party?" I ask trying to not be obvious that I'm very interested in the answer.

He started to set up his little area on the couch "nothing much... Came back to the hotel with sapnap and watched a movie with him until he fell asleep, then I went back to my hotel room and started editing."

I walked over to the bed and sat down in front of him.

"Oh, what about during the party"

"Sorry, I know I wasn't really hanging out with you guys today I was a little focused on getting a business call rescheduled and getting another one set up for a different business endeavor... " He ranted.

I could see his eyes get more sparkly in the light as he talked, it always Intrigued me. I love when he rambles.

I looked away before he realized I was staring.

"No need to be sorry, it was fun... Just wish you would've taken some time off from all of the piled up work you have."

"Hey it's piled up for a reason."

He smirked at me I felt my knees buckle a bit even though I wasn't standing. I had to look away why am I reacting like this to him just saying words. I search the floorboards for answers but find none.

"Why're you like.. interrogating me."

I look back up quickly to him as a small blush breaks out on my cheeks.

"Uuuhh, wellllll, I was just checking in wanted to know about your day."

He smirked at me "yeah because you care about that for some reason. Be honest George... Look.. this is a safe space.. tell me about your day."

"It was fine, I do have a question?"

"I might have an answer" he said snarkly.

"Who was that woman?" I could see him searching his memories for what I'm referencing. "When?"

"At the party?" I suddenly see his face have a moment of recognition and then a clicking moment of clarity.

"Oooh," he says as he laughs breathlessly. "What?"

"George.. Ge-George hahaha I can't believe it... You're."

He continues laughing but none of his words were making any sense.

"Yeah what am I?" I ask confused. But also feeling like a kid who got caught by his mom. Drinking milk out of the fridge without a cup.

"You idiot.. You're JEALOUS!"

I feel my blush deepen. "STOP! no I'm not" I yell and then stop myself to try and come off as though I don't care.

It clearly didn't work. Dreams blushing as well but his is from riling his self up while laughing.

I stare at his pretty rosy face as he looks me in the eyes with the prettiest yellow (green) eyes I've ever seen.

He suddenly opens his arms asking for a hug and I feel all my denial slip away. I basically plunge into his arms throwing his laptop safely to the side but not safe enough for my phone not to fall onto the ground.

"It's ok, she was a fan."

"Oh"

"Idiot"

"I'm not jealous"

"Of course not you would never be. Admit it, you missed me."

I feel him gently patting my shoulders breaking the hug.

"I'm worried about you." His face shifted not in a noticeable way but his eyes felt a bit more tired than before.

"Yeah I know, work this, work that. Maybe tomorrow we could hangout."

I felt my excitement bubble. I shook my head nonchalantly trying to come off like I didn't care that much.

Why do I care this much. I don't understand, and his hands softly enveloping me and patting me is doing undescribable things to my emotional state for some reason.

He shifted to move away and I felt my disappointment grow at the action.

These feelings have been getting stronger as of recent but they can't be real. I have to ignore them. Not only for my sake but for Dreams sake too.

I move away from the hug and go back to the bed. I need these dumb emotions to go barrie themselves under cement.

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I giggled as I read the tweet about me at vidcon and continued scrolling.

The next shot was of Dream and Sapnap sat next to each other. I recognized it as the stream sapnap had done last night.

I read the header of the tweet 'Dritties'. I stopped smiling and got mildly confused what does that mean? Dritties?

I looked at the tweet and the picture again for context, but no new information came out of it.

I shrugged slightly and clicked on the tweet to see if the comments explained further. Everyone was spamming 'dritties' and 'cover them'. I furrowed a brow. Who has to cover what?

I continued down to my discover tab under the tweet and I find more up close pictures of dream with them mentioning 'dritties' in some way or form.

I clicked on the next tweet. This time I found context the person in the comments said Dream is beautiful, what a nice chest I bet he's buff. Then it suddenly clicked for me.

I giggled to myself as a vague memory flooded into my minds eye. It was of me and Dream talking about his fandom "Hey did you know that they add 'Dr' to anything that has to do with me. They called it the dream dictionary."

I started to laugh softly as I scrolled back up to see the tweet again. I clicked on the picture and studied Dream.

His clothes were pretty nice looking despite him being in a rush to put them on. His mask was covering his face. What part of him could be a so called drittie and then I suddenly was struck again with understanding.

Oh

I felt my face shift, as I slowly put the pieces together I looked down at Dreams chest and immediately understood all the fuss. I quickly looked away and blushed a little. I can't look at his chest can you imagine he was just a random man and I was thinking about him like this. I look back at his face covered with a mask. Though he isn't some random, he's my best friend. I felt guilt shift in my stomach.

I closed Twitter on my phone deciding that was enough for the day. I meekly walked out into the lounge and found Dream and Sap talking on the couch. They finally had some down time in their bustling schedule to get lunch.

I walked over and sat on the couch opposite of them. I watched them giggle about something. Then I focused on Dream, I still couldn't get that tweet out of my head.

What if I? Or we...

NO! bad thoughts, I thought as I shook my head softly again, I didn't want to draw any unneeded attention to myself.

I hoped this wouldn't be a consistent thing in the future. I blushed slightly and studied the floor as the two continued to talk in front of me.

That picture of Dream flashing in my head I felt my blush deepen.

I looked back up at the mention of my name. "Huh" I said stupidly. My eyes met with Dreams crinkled smiling green eyes and in that moment all I wanted was to get lost in them.

"Did you want breakfast" Dream said. I shook my head trying not to look so lost.

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I giggled to myself as Dream walked out stretching his probably aching body. I heard a grunt come from him.

I looked over to him again and screamed "Happy Birthday Idiot!" As loud as I could.

He jerked back and then let out a hissing breath from the motion. "George what are you doing there and why are you screaming? It's 1:00 am in the morning."

I walked out from behind the curtains hanging from the window. I shrugged "I just wanted to surprise you."

He looked down and sighed "Yeah, you almost gave me a heart attack." He looked away seeming annoyed. Guilt started to trickle up my spine. I mean he's just coming down from being sick.

"Sorry I know you're still recovering" suddenly I heard quick feet running from the hallway we both looked over. As none other than Sapnap runs out with patches not far behind.

"Was that you screaming George?" He also looks annoyed. I shrugged, "He tried to scare me" Dream says I smile innocently at sapnap.

Who just rolls his eyes in response. I walk over to the couch. "You feeling better Dream?" I say.

Sapnap walks towards the kitchen heading for the fridge.

Dream walks over to the table and sits down slowly. "I guess" I stop what I am doing to properly look at Dream.

His face is a little paler than normal, his messy curls falling into his eyes, and his eyes has bags under them.

I get up and walk over to him. He looks up at me, confusion in his tired eyes.

"Wow you look like rubbish" that gained a smirk out of him. Probably because of the use of the word 'rubbish'.

"Yeah and so?" He asked.

Sapnap walked over to us and leaned against the table. "He's right you look tired."

Dream's face fell and he looked back down with a very heavy sigh.

"You should get some rest."

Dream looks up at us "well I'm not tired though."

Me and sapnap look at each other, he places down his water and we grab the obviously tired guy by the shoulders and arms.

"Wait" he says as we get him up. "You're tired and plus we have a surprise for you and you can't be around while we get it."

We shuffle him up to his room acting like we are assisting an elderly person. He huffs and grumbles the whole way.

At his door we tell him to sleep and in the morning his surprise should be waiting for him.

He walks in disgruntled, but playing along with us. "Fine" he says as he falls onto his comforter with a huff.

Me and sapnap shuts his door and begin preparing the gift.

We bake it using a recipe sent from Dreams mother, plus an extra surprise from his Grandmas recipe book.

In the morning he walks out and all the decorations are hanging me and sap standing in front of the kitchen table. He looks at us "so where's the 'present' you were talking about" he asks sarcastically.

Me and sap both move away as we say "Happy Birthday" and sitting right there is pudding and a cake badly designed but badly designed with love.

Dream smiled and opened his arms as we walked over to him and gave him a group hug as we heard a small meow not far off. We all giggled a bit.

Dream let us go and walked over to the cake. It's times like these that reminds me that these two aren't just my best friends they are my family. My coworkers.

I look over to Dream the now 24 year old man and smile as he takes a finger lick of the icing from the cake.

"Thanks guy's this looks good. The sentiment is what's important." Dream doesn't actually like sweets so he's not very likely to finish eating any of the treats we made.

I find myself smiling because that's so him to thank us but also not want to completely waist our birthday regards.

I found myself wanting to give Dream a fun birthday with me and Sap maybe I can ask if we can all go somewhere or watch a movie together later.

I looked on in wonder as Sap and Dream started talking about the possibility of Ninja ducks infiltrating the ninja turtles. I started to laugh because what are they even talking about. Also Dream was so wrong, the ducks would immediately lose that fight.

I walk over and ask about the weather today and they immediately start to laugh. Good because all I wanted was for Dream to be happy today.

He started talking about coding something and a new project and then I started to listen in on what he was describing.

Me and Dream take tiny slices of cake and ice cream and start to transcribe the ideas for our next project and the possibilities of how we can go about coding it.

Dream was smiling through most of it, his yellow(green) eyes dancing with excitement but I'm not sure he actually was having fun.

Sap started binging a show in the living room while eating the left over cake and pudding.

I grabbed Dreams hand in the middle of him explaining whether that code should be an 'if' carryout or not.

He stopped talking and wrinkled his eyebrows looking at my hand. "What you doing?" He asks obviously confused.

" Let's not work today, come here let's watch whatever Sapnap's watching."

I drag Dream over into the middle. Me and Sap making eye contact yes let's try and get this guy to stop being a workaholic for one day.

So that's how his birthday went his family came over later as a surprise and gave him a gift or two. It was calm and sweet honestly. I enjoyed every second of it.

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I smiled softly at George as he plunged head first into the balloons covering the floor.

He made a little grunt noise which made me roll my eyes, he was obviously being overdramatic because he wanted me to clean up the mess that he made.

"Come on get up... Why'd you even do this?" I giggle to myself as I hear another grunt from under the balloons.

"To live a little" I quirked an eyebrow. "Yeah because living a little includes destroying our house." I sniffle as George gets up from the balloons.

I start to laugh uncontrollably as I see the piece of tape attached to the side of his face.

"What!?" He says in the most British way ever.
'wut'

I continue to laugh as he walks closer to me.

"You decide to finally show yourself to the world after days and the first thing you do is make fun of my adult decisions and laugh at me."

I laugh further throwing my head back a bit, I could feel my throat cramping from all the laughter. It hurts to laugh when sick.

George giggles a bit and then he starts to laugh too though I can tell he was still confused.

I finally calm down holding my stomach from the chaos that is George.

He smiled softly back up at me. I walked closer to him grabbed the tape from his face. His eyes following my actions. The moment suddenly felt very intimate.

Then I noticed how close we actually were. I feel a soft touch to my chin. I look up into his eyes.

"Where did your smile go?" He whispers to me. I feel my cheeks heat up. I shake my head walking backwards. "Nowhere."

George smiled again I smiled back. "Clean this up" I say laughing again.

He giggles and walks away "Sapnap has to clean this up he made the mess."

I roll my eyes at him being a menace. I look back at George's retreating back, and touch my chin where he touched it. I feel my breath stutter.

Weird, not sure what that was.

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George was laughing loudly from his room. I moved a bit on the couch trying to get in a more comfortable position.

I heard sapnap go into georges room and yell. I heard weird sounds coming from george. I rolled my eyes, those guys are crazy for no reason. I smiled to myself as I looked through Netflix for a good movie to watch.

I heard the sound of scampering feet from the hallway, out popped George with sapnap not far behind carrying a pillow.

I looked over at them as sapnap hit george with the pillow. I giggled to myself as George blocked the pillow and jumped sapnap with his own secret hidden weapon which was also a pillow.

They were wildly laughing and screaming while hitting each other with pillows.

One might say a pillow fight between grown men is a strange sight but it's not abnormal to see in this house.

I tried to continue looking through Netflix until I heard it get quiet in the sap and George corner.

Suddenly im struck by softness in the face. I look over and see them chuckling and George readying his arm for another pillow launch my way.

I grab the pillow that was thrown at me and throw it back at sap missing him completely. They both ran at me and began hitting me with their pillows. They screamed and so did I. "Why!" I yell dramatically while they break into laughter again.

I grab George around the waist and pull him onto the couch cutting his barrage of pillow bashing Short. I grab sapnap by the hoodie strings and pull him into a hug on the couch.

Sapnap hugs back and George cuddles up to us. I sigh softly as their laughter dies down. "So what's the movie that we're watching tonight?"

I feel all warm inside from the comfort.

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Dream and I had been coding for hours. I walked up to his door pushing it open expecting a fully energized Dream to be typing away at his key board.

Instead all I got was one of the most heart fluttering scenes.

Dream was sitting at his desk with the Spiderman plushie I had gotten him as a joke for Christmas under his chin. I could see he was asleep from my position.

His hands were still on the keyboard the computer was still turned on, half typed code on screen. Waiting for an official command.

I walked over to him I wanted to wake him up to move him but that also felt rude.

I couldn't stop staring either which wasn't helping. His floppy curls spilling out over his shoulders and sleeping face. The light aroma emitting from him, musky and sweet. His pretty face looking as though he were at peace.

I reached out, hand hovering over the soft looking curls. I lowered my hand and quickly walked over to the bed. I grabbed his blanket and pillow. I walked back over and gently shifted the pillow under his face.

I placed the warm blanket over his neck and shoulders. I grabbed his hand feeling his warmth transmitting to me, bringing immediate comfort.

I placed his hand under the blanket.

As I took my hand away Dream immediately started to shift getting comfortable under the blankets. In his sleep I heard a soft whisper of "the light" not sure if he was aware of me or not I walked over to the light turned it off and walked over to the door still staring and then I shut the door as quietly as possible.

"Goodnight" I muttered under my breath. Feeling my heart start to flutter thinking back to Dreams face and the feeling of his hand in mines.

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I looked over at Sapnap and Dream in a deep conversation about football. Boring...

I sighed.
"Y'all are boring me to death." They look up Dream giggles and rolls his eyes. Sapnap shows me the middle finger.

They continue their boring conversation. I get a call from a friend.

I pick it up "what" I say as a greeting. I hear laughter on the other side of the phone.

"Why'r you already mad, I just called."

"I'm not mad, I'm just bored."

I hear more laughter "Well why don't you tell me something about your crush?"

I gasped dramatically not expecting this idiot to bring up Dream while I'm looking at him.

They both look over and then shake their head at my antics. Thank God they didn't question me.

I walked back towards my room. "I wasn't in a safe area to be bringing up dumb things like that." I hear more laughter and I roll my eyes.

"I legit can see the crushing love in your eyes in this picture. I have no idea how he hasn't noticed yet."

I ignore him and continue on shutting my bedroom door and letting myself spread out like a jellyfish on the bed.

"Stop, let's talk about something else." I say feeling annoyed.

I can hear him roll his eyes through the phone. "You seriously need to figure your stuff out cus this doesn't look pretty for you."

I roll my eyes again "And yet you continue the conversation."

"George the ONE is staring you in the face and you won't admit it. Why?"

I suddenly feel as though I'm on the verge of cracking.

"Because it'll mess up our established boundaries, ok."

He goes quiet " I'd say do it anyways what's the least it can hurt."

"Bye idiot." I hang up not wanting to continue the conversation.

"Geo-" he says.

I flatten out on the bed feeling a slight headache begin to creep up.

Knock* knock* I look over to my door opening a crack. Sapnap standing on the other side.

"Yo so we're going to the ice cream place on the way back from the game later did you want anything?"

"No." He shakes his head ok.
"Everything ok?"

I look back over at him to see worry written all over his face.

"I'm ok. Just need to sleep probably." I say yawning. He shakes his head again and then shuts the door.

I stare back up at my roof, contemplating my thoughts.

Would it ever work out?
Could it ever work out?
I close my eyes, these are dumb things to think about. Of course it wouldn't.

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I walked over to the freshly printed picture of me Dream and Sapnap. I smile, Sapnap kept trying to hit me in the knee during this photoshoot. I have no idea how they got one picture where he wasn't trying to be violent.

Then I zero in on Dream I feel my heart bounce in my chest.

Why does that fluttering keep happening, I ball my fist up and put it over my heart.

I put the picture back down. Maybe my friend was right I need to stop being stupid. I just need to tell him.

I feel a giant leap of courage come over me. I can do this. I can do this. I keep my mental chant going.

I walk over to my door and open it with a sudden found determination.

I storm out of my room walking towards dreams area. I walk up confidently and knock. I hear some stomping around on the other side of the door.

"Who is it?"

I hear the door unlock and then he opens the door. His hair fluffed around his face, and his towel wrapped around his shoulders. He looked like he had just woken up.

"Oh hey" he smirked "want something?"

He asks sparkling green eyes looking back at me.

I feel my confidence start to wain. "Hey." I look off to the side awkwardly realizing I was staring too long.

"I uh... Can I come in?"

He looks slightly confused. "Sure dude, wassup." He walks further into his room I follow him heading to a chair near his bed. He walks over to his dresser instead. I shift uncomfortably.

"I was just getting ready to take a shower." He says factually. I nod my head not caring that he couldn't see me doing it.

I sigh "yeah it's fine it should be quick."

I see him nod, but I'm sure that he knows I can see him doing it.

He walks over I see him holding some clothes. His expression is understanding.

"Sure what's up?"

He asks as he sits down on his bed looking me in the eyes. I look away again feeling my cheeks start to flush with blood. I hope he didn't see my blush.

"You ok?" He asks again seeming more worried now. He definitely has seen the blush and thought I was sick now.

"I'm fine... It's just"
I look back up into his pretty sparkly eyes. "I think I might have a crush" I blush harder. I see Dreams face shift from worried to a soft smile almost jokingly.

"Yeah oh ok that's not too bad." He started laughing a bit seeming relieved.

"Who's your crush bro, you better not say Sapnap." He says jokingly again.

I cough awkwardly again and then I smile trying to seem confident and not like a floundering mess.

"He wishes." I say smirking. Dream laughs at me. "That's fine be all secretive." He says again joking he holds up his hand looking at me. I roll my eyes and high five him.

"She's lucky" he says and I giggle again. "Why'd you tell me this though?" He says laughing.

"I just needed a confident, someone to talk to about crushes and what not. He shook his head
"ok"
"yep"
We stare a little longer smiling. "I'm gonna go take that shower now" he says. I laugh "yeah sorry for coming at such a random time in your busy showering schedule." I say getting up to walk towards the door.

"Aye" I turn around and look at him questioningly.

"I'm glad you chose me to confide in. I know talking about emotions isn't your strong suit."

I nod and whisper "loser" on my way out smiling. Well at least I told him I had a crush it seems I did the best that I could. With my improvised confidence.

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Well there's being egotistical than there's being confident. Separating the two is hard for some people.

I roll my eyes "yeah you only think you can win because you know I've never played it before." I say feeling like chopped liver for some reason.

Sapnap stared me in the eyes
"I got this one hundo I don't need your help."

Just to top it off he in fact did win this round just like he had the other five.

I threw the remote feeling like ate liver now. Sapnap started emoting next to me in real life mocking me with a L hand symbol. I got up and pushed him jokingly heading for the chips in the corner of the room.

"So what you been up to scoundrel?" I look back up at the moron "nothing" I say scarfing down the chips.

"That's not what Dream told me" I looked back at him and saw him giving me the eyebrows. I felt my heart jolt a bit. Oh.

"So who's your crush?" I see one eyebrow peak up. How was he doing that and why was it making me mad.

"None yo" I say
"Oh, that's how it is?" He questioned dramatically.

I rolled my eyes again.
"Come on tell me."

"You know you can always just tell me you like me no need to hide it."
He says sounding full of himself. I roll my eyes again. "You wish"

He laughed slightly "sooooo"
"Nothing" I state trying to end the bombardment.

"Fine I'm going to say stuff and your face will give it away anyways."

I look back up confused what does he mean by that. He starts "girl?" I feel a bit more lost than before.

He shakes his head "no not it." He smirks "guy" I feel a bit put on the spot by this and I guess my expression must've changed because now a shocked sapnap was staring back at me.
"WHA" I clasp my hand over his loud mouth. "Shhhh"
He grabs my hand and tells me to never silence him again.

I roll my eyes again. "So, a guy, you like a guy." He says way more serious than the other time's he's been asking me questions.

I once again feel put on the spot. "Uhh" I try now feeling like a very dumb fish out of the water. Damn why me and why right now. His facial expression softens. "It's cool if you do bro, no need to be scared. You can always tell me anything." He says carefully he places his hand on my shoulder.

I nod my head I still feel a little in shock at what had just happened so I see myself to the door and look back at Sapnap smiling giving me a thumbs up.

I walk out and close the door. Well that was unexpected.

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There's an issue my worst nightmare it seems has come true.

I think Dream is dating someone, he's been putting off telling us what he's been doing, but when he randomly leaves or just goes silent I feel confused by it.

Like earlier I was walking downstairs for some food and boom out came Dream prancing around all happy like. He was smiling at his phone and I thought he was just looking at some random meme.

So I started laughing which I guess surprised him enough to look my way. "Who's got you smiling that?" I say copying a meme to appeal to his 'meme state' of mind.

He smiles and laughs then starts to walk up the stairs. I try and grab a peak at his phone but he saw me doing this and quickly turned it off putting it in his pocket.

I laugh awkwardly as he just brushes past me.

Ok odd right.
Why would he care if I saw his phone.

The day before that Sapnap and I were in the living room watching a really weird Russian movie that was just getting to the good part. When I started feeling hungry and my stomach growled loudly.

Sapnap noticed and asked if I wanted to go out to my favorite sushi place. I said yes of course but I wanted to invite Dream.

I shook my head as I ran upstairs and knocked on Dreams door he answered it dressed in a very professional looking tuxedo. Wow he was gorgeous green "gold" glistening eyes light brown golden curls spilling out over his head and pretty pink smiling lips with a very nice black tuxedo. It fit him very snuggly showing off his arms and legs. My sudden urge to grab him and hug him forever is stricken deep within my heart.

All of that threw me for a loop. That I forgot how to speak for a second. "Dre"

He looked confused by the nickname.

"Sorry I meant to say Dream you wanna go to dinner with me and Sap we're going to get sushi?"

He pulls an empathetic face "so sorry but I already have a booked dinner in a bit."

I nod confused but accepting. It seemed like that's all the information he wanted to say because he shut the door immediately after.

I sighed feeling like washed up waste.

Privacy when on his phone, booked dinners he has to be dating someone in private. I just wish he told us even though I'm sure my stupid heart would explode into a million pieces and then be sucked into the black hole of my soul.

Then it happened.

Me and Sapnap sat looking at newly packaged and bought trading cards. When in came a rushed looking Dream. When he laid eyes on us, his expression went from calm to a bit surprised.

Which confused me because we live here, what was he expecting.

"Hey, guys uhh there might be a friend of mines coming in a bit, not sure if y'all are down to meet them or not."

Me and sap just kind of looked at each other.

"It's cool" Sapnap said.
I shook my head.

20 minutes later we heard the ring of the doorbell and a quick greeting from Dream opening the door.

Sapnap was still invested in the cards but I tried to focus in on Dream at the front of the house which I'm sure Sap noticed because he kept snapping his fingers in front of my face.

"Earth to George"

"Stop" I say annoyed.

I slap his hand out of my face and then he does it again to annoy me and he starts laughing.

I grab his hand and push it down on the couch then he brings his other hand up to my arm trying to wrestle me.

Dream chose that moment to come in.
"Hey, guys this is Leane." He says happily and boisterous from the hall. This gets me and saps attention again cutting our wrestling short.

I look at the woman and I'm a bit surprised. She was pretty but seemed a bit emo styled in nature.

A cool aesthetic but my heart immediately jumped with jealousy.
This felt suddenly very reminiscent of when we were at that party a while ago. Nice to meet you! Nice to meet you! Me and Sap say one after the other.

Leane shakes her head and waves at us with a smile. "Woah you weren't lying you actually had friends" she says jokingly to Dream. Who coughs at the sudden roast.

Then they both laugh and I get the urge to roll my eyes so hard they fell out of the sockets. However I obtain from doing so.

"Yep we're real" I say conversationally. Sap chooses that moment to try and roast me, "Except George, he's clearly a fake motherf*****." I do roll my eyes at this. Dream grabs Leanes' hand "Ok guys it was nice chatting we're off."

I look back up at Leane and wave
"bye" I say. I really want to know how they got together. I wanted to know everything the giant urge to study their relationship and ask why not me. But I ignore that part of myself.

This has nothing to do with me. I should be happy not feeling like a squashed Mellon, my best friend just said he's dating someone. But I can't help but feel like a sulking loser.

"Hhhhhhhhhhjj" I sigh. "Wow what's wrong with you?"
"Nothing"

"George don't lie to your crush like that." That caught my attention, only to find out the moron was talking about himself not Dream I relaxed.

"What are you talking about?" I raise an eyebrow.

"What you're clearly jealous of Dream, man."

"Huh! how?"

"Like one second ago you, looked super scared I think your anxious cus your not dating someone and your best friend is."

"Bro's big yapping." I let out sarcastically.

"Don't get snarky with me," he says like a patronizing mom.

"Well you aren't alone, I'm also jealous, I want a partner."

Then he shakes his head at me making a stupid Chad face. "Sooooo, you and me and a beach, some candles yes or no." I laugh because clearly he was trying to cheer me up.

"Shut up, everythings fine just look at the card I just found cus I'm topping."

He looks and his eyes go big "those are super rare."

We continue doing that for a bit and then he goes to stream and I'm sat left with my dumb thoughts.

"Hey" I look up from the TV and there stood all of my problems. Leane "Oh, hey wassup." I say trying to appear nonchalant.

"What you doing?" I say because curiosity is killing this cat. "Dream said he's going to go get something and to look around the place while he's gone." But a weird answer seems to have brought it back. Dream leaving the house without a good reason is very odd now I kind of want to know what he was doing too.

"So what's up? You're George right" I shake my head she smiles.

"Sap's streaming right now."

"He wasn't lying then y'all actually are streamers?" She starts laughing. "What's so funny." I say faking my offense. "No nothing" she says playing into my joke. I actually start to laugh too. My envy is less heavy but it's still there.

"I didn't even know Dream was dating someone."

She looks slightly put off by what I said. "what?" She shakes her head as if to say nothing.

"He hasn't told you guys about me? I guess I shouldn't be surprised I don't really know what we are right now."

"Really?"
"Yeah he never asked me to date him and I never did either."

That strengthened my envy. How could she just do that without caring about whether she was even actually dating Dream or not. My mind just couldn't wrap around the idea.

"This place is giant, y'all must be awesome streamers to watch."

"I mean yeah, we do stuff on most socials."

She shakes her head looking around the room.

"How'd you guys start dating?" I say.

She doesn't seem surprised so at least it didn't seem like a weird question.

"Met him during a meeting."

I looked at her confused. "I'm an assistant at a movie and film production company he was there and just got done having a meeting with my boss. He was so sweet and handsome I had to ask for his number."

I wonder what he was there for. Odd, I swear Dream can be an enigma at times.

"How many dates have you guys been on?"

She looks at me "quite a few." She shakes her head with a smirk.
"Wow were they romantic?"
She looks up wistfully as if remembering something. "Oh yeah they were." It seemed like she was eluding to something else like a double meaning. That I just couldn't get unless I was there when it happened.

My heart cringes for me. "Oh, interesting I never thought he could be romantic, weird and stupid is the only thing he's ever been." She laughs and I smile at my joke.

"Yeah" she says looking at me as though I'm the enigma. I just met her that doesn't make any sense she doesn't know me.

I hear the front door open and close. Up comes Dream with a cake.

"Happy birthday to you!" He sings I look back at her she starts giggling and smiling "aww, thanks so much sweetie."

I smile too and start to sing along with Dream oh it was her birthday.
That's why Dream invited her over to party with us.

Chapter Text

Ok so there's been this new thing I've been noticing about myself.

Whenever Dream accidentally grabs my hand I want to barf all over the floor. Ok, maybe that's not exactly the right wording.

I get incredibly nervous and embarrassed. Maybe it feels like that because he's making contact with me and that's messing with my head all I know is I need to figure out how to get it to stop.

I grab my popcorn with extra force accidentally crushing the side of the bag and spilling popcorn onto the floor.

"Here idiot" I say handing it to him. He swipes it from me smiling like that wasn't an insult. I try and play off how much his hand accidentally grabbing mines has effected my psyche.

I felt like a third wheel.

His girlfriend sat next to him and his arm was around the back of her chair.

Sap sat next to me, occasionally whispering something absurd into my ear. Which did help me to not feel so much like a loser third wheel.

I really wanted to get up and storm off like a big man child. Of course I refrain myself from doing so, though, but hearing those two giggling next to me is messing with my heart.

I softly roll my eyes at the latest one line zinger Dream had just told Leane about the main character in the movie followed by two dumb laughs.

Sapnap grabs my hand and I look down, then back up at him smiling back at me. "Let's do a double date, so we don't feel like third and fourth wheels."

This does get a laugh out of me. "I'm game, I can barely hear over the tooth rotting cute couple next to me."

I think Dream was listening because I hear him laugh at us or at least in our direction.

Sap pulls mine and his hand up. "Where are we going after this the ice cream parlor, oh let me guess a nice walk in the park?"

I roll my eyes again. "You're going to a parlor alone and bringing me back flowers first otherwise it's not a date." He laughs and I smile at him.

__________Dreams POV___________

"Well I think that it depends on how you view us." I laugh, George and Sapnap randomly started a dating bit in the middle of us all watching a movie. I just went along with it.

"Alright love birds, who's gonna buy who dinner?"

I heard Leane say and Sapnap obnoxiously swinging his and Georges arm around, didn't make things any less random and cartoonish.

"I'll do it, if George agrees to marry me."

They both laugh but I can see a cute blush appear on Georges cheeks. Why's he blushing? is he actually embarrassed or did he actually like the idea of marrying Sapnap.

Cute, did I just say that? I mean it does make sense there are some things that George does that's undeniably cute. I shake my head at the thought as if trying to force the thought to fall out of my head.

I look over at Leane for confirmation that she saw it too. Though she was looking at her phone. I looked back to the two next to me as we walked.

"We're still hitting up that ice cream place?" I shake my head.

George looks down in thought. Why was I even watching them, they were just so random that I couldn't help but laugh.

"Alright this double date is continuing!" I hear Sapnap declare followed by a George giggle.

I suddenly feel a soft bit of annoyance seep up at hearing it, I ignore whatever that is. I smile and I see Leane does too. She seems to be fitting right on in with those two I smile at that.

I bring her close and give her a soft squish which she reciprocates by squishing my hand.

We walk into the ice cream place, I don't really eat it but to be romantic I bought a shared double scoop. Sapnap and George bought separate ice creams thankfully.

We ate quietly for a bit. "So where'd you two meet?" I heard Sapnap say to Leane. "At her place of work" I say feigning as if I don't want to fully talk about. Mostly because I actually didn't. Those times must not be brought up, especially around George. I was at a weird place mentally and I'd rather not remember those times. Leane was the only good thing out of that.

"A meet cute?" Sap asks Leane, she looks at me with kind eyes. I feel a smile grow on my face. "Something like that." I say not really thinking about it too much. She shakes her head, I visibly see Sapnap realize I didn't want to talk about it so he changes the topic. Though George just looks inquisitive which wasn't a good sign.

Later that day after dropping Leane back off at hers and Sapnap left upstairs for his daily stream. George and I lazed around in the living room mindlessly watching stuff on our phones while a movie played on the TV.

I see him stop and look over at me. I only realized because he'd been staring for longer than normal. Than I wondered if he realized I can see him staring.

I finally looked over at him and then he quickly looks down for a second and then at the ceiling.

"What's up?" I say to him. "Chicken butt" he says back. "Woah that was unnecessarily clever." He smiles at the bad joke.

"I'm just awesome like that without even trying." He says as though it were nothing to say dumb puns and dumb dad jokes every few hours. I laugh a bit which makes him look back up at me, I can see his eyes tracking something which confused me. "Why didn't you wanna talk about where you and Leane met?"

Suddenly I was ripped out of my own home and tossed back to then. Younger Dream desperate and alone Dream. Wanting the haunting loneliness to end, the giant amounts of passion I had, but this weird void in my body in my soul. I wanted nothing more than to feel myself with something other than discretion.

I shake my head again like I was trying to physically remove the memory from my person. "No reason." I see George freeze up. "Right."

He looks back at me as though studying for a quiz. I looked down, "I'm gonna go edit, I'll see you." I say trying not to be obvious that I just wanted to remove myself from the conversation.

I see Georges eyes trailing after me. I hope he doesn't keep asking questions like that. I really didn't want to disappoint him.

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I look up at the roof, man it was sweltering heat in this room. I get up groggily walking to my door and yawning loudly.

I walked out to the dining area were the beautiful smell of breakfast pancakes with eggs was coming from.

I felt my hunger triple. Sitting at the table is Sapnap and Milo under him and Dream making breakfast at the stove.

He turned around wearing a fluffy pink apron that said 'mommys the cook' on it. I laughed at that. "What?" He looked up at me. "Nice apron." I say.

He shook his head like I had answered something correctly.
I rolled my eyes and sat next to Sap. "It's hot." Complained Sapnap, "I know." I say back.

"Guys we're running low on some food items wanna go to the store with me later."

I get a bit excited "yeah I want to stack up on snacks."

Sapnap shook his head "I want to eat all your snacks." I get mad at that "you won't though."

"Who said that I won't?"

"I did"

"Who's gonna stop me?" I look at him annoyed. He laughs "you think you're gonna stop ME!" I laugh at him being obnoxious. He starts aggressively showing me his muscles on his arms and I laugh at him being dumb.

I can see Dream laughing too, he grabs the last pancake from the pan and places it onto the plate.

"Ok breakfast is done idiots."

"Is it a special occasion? Why are you making breakfast."

I add to that "He wants Leane to try some of his food to impress her. So he's cooking a lot to get better. Am I right?"

We both laughed teasing him.
He pushed the plates in our direction making us laugh harder because that was a silent yes.

After breakfast we all climbed into the car since I out sprinted Sapnap. I got the passenger side.

I pointed and laughed at Sapnap in the back looking like a disgruntled child. "Hahaha loser, I'm in the front, you're in the back."

Dream sat at the drivers side and looked at me smiling. "Stop he's gonna pull you back there with him."

He says and we both start laughing and I see Sapnap starts to laugh at it too.

The car ride was mostly uneventful, I turned the music down at one point and Sapnap threw something at me telling me to change it to something louder. Dream asked for Sabrina Carpenter, but I ignored that and started playing the Wii theme song full blast.

Finally when we got there, I had just realized Dream still was wearing the apron so I asked if he wanted everyone to know that he was a stay at home mother.

He ended up taking it off.
"I actually forgot I was wearing it." He giggled I laughed at that too. We walked up to the grocery store and Sap grabbed a shopping cart.

We walked around picking random food items off of the shelf throwing them half hazardly into the cart some missed though.

"LeBron James!" Yelled Sap as he threw a bag of seaweed crisps hitting Dream square in the chest and then falling into the cart.

Dream didn't seem to notice because he was looking past us at something else. His face was slowly getting more and more disgruntled though. I'm not sure if it was from the crisps to the chest or not.

"You ok?" I asked, his dazed expression, started to clear up as he looked at the ground with contempt written all over his face.

"I didn't see you there. How have you been? Dream?"

I looked up at the voice and there stood a tall broad chested blond man with a buzz cut. He was moderately handsome and looked very much like, if my mother were here, she'd tell me he was nothing but trouble.

The man looked at me as if I were a new creature he had never seen before. "You must be George." He grabbed my hand overly flirting with me as he put his other hand over the combined ones.

"Wow what a beautiful specimen, I can't believe I got to see you in person."

I took my hand back feeling slightly violated.

Dream was still looking at the ground, not saying anything.

Sapnap walked back over carrying a bunch of protein filled snacks. He stopped just short of the cart and threw them all in there except for one which hit the blond guy in front of me in the chest and it fell into the cart too. I rolled my eyes at Sap.

He looked up "you must be Sapnap." He said it like he had a slight distaste for the word.

This time sap says something "Wait who are you and why's your voice so familiar." I look back at him. What does he mean by familiar who is this guy.

The guy stared at Dream who was looking at his hands gripping our cart. The guy felt off though like he was staring at Dream like prey not like he was a long lost friend.

I got the urge to cover Dream up and hide him some place safe, I'm not sure why.

"Let's go." Dream says. The first words he's said the whole conversation. I shake my head ok then the guy makes a move. He walks up to Dream and grabs his face pushing his chin up to look at him. I heard a small gasp come from him. "Oh come on that's no way to treat a friend."

Dreams face goes still doing a perfect poker face.
I grab the guys hand off of Dream.
"Excuse me guy?" He looks at me smiling.

"Yes"
"who are you?" I ask.

He smiles again then looks back at Dream. "Me and Dream used to date." I almost fall over right then, all I can muster to say is.

"Huh?" Now I was also doing a perfect poker face.

Sapnap grabs the cart "we were just getting some groceries." The guy shakes his head.

"Want to talk some more?" Dream shakes his head no.

"Yeah we ought to be going."

The guy shakes his head acknowledging what I had just said. "ok, but, before you go George here's my phone number."

I'm not sure why he gave it to me but I took it and smiled and waved as he left. Thank the heavens that weirdo is gone.

Dream was silent from there he didn't talk or smile for the rest of the grocery trip, not the car ride home either. When we got home he silently put things away in the fridge and went up to his room.

I grabbed my snacks and walked back to my room. Sapnap knocked and let himself into my office.

"So that was fun." He say's making it obvious that he clearly didn't think that trip was fun.

"You said that guy was familiar?"

He looked at me. "He sounded familiar. I'm not sure why though."

"Should we go check up on Dream? He was acting so weird after."

"Yeah I know he even left his mother apron in the car, when he knows that's the only thing that'll impress Leane and make her like his cooking." We both silently look at each other and start laughing.

Sap and I sat and talked for awhile about dumb stuff until he went off to stream. I walked over to Dreams room and knocked. It's quiet until he finally opens the door.

He looked gloomy "hey."

He looks up at me and shakes his head and gestures for me to come in.

"So, who was that guy?" I say trying to get right into the meat and potatoes of the situation.

"An ex."

I shake my head, I knew as much, the guy himself told me that.

"What happened between y'all. Your entire demeanor changed from earlier."

He looked disgruntled again. "I... We.. I-I"

I opened my arms for a hug. He looked at me and walked into the hug. Holding me close making my heart do little happy leaps.
He sighed heavily.

"Fine I'll tell you."

We looked into each others eyes I shook my head, letting go of Dream. We sat on opposite sides of the bed.

Chapter Text

I see Dream start to curl up on the side of the bed hugging his knees to his chest I scoot closer to him. I'm still far away enough to not be touching him.

He wore a very sad expression. "I feel overdramatic." This confused me. "How?"

"That guy wasn't an old friend. His names Ren, he used to be my bully when I did go to public school."
I feel a blown out awe come into my mind. He continued not looking in my direction. He seemed wary like a scared child backed into a corner.

"I had bumped into him again last year and he had gave me his number asking for an interview now that I was a big well known face." I shook my head, I wonder when that had been.

I didn't have time to think about it because Dream was talking again.

"Well I went to his place it was a giant filming firm, I guess they made movies or something. Ren flirted the entire time. I was not picking up on the vibes he was putting out, at all. Until at the end of the interview after the constant touches and obvious flirtatious compliments, he asked me out. Though I still didn't realize it was a date I just thought he wanted to hang out."

What? So Dreams super oblivious. That's not that hard to see. I hope he didn't realize I had a crush on him either.

He started talking again "The date was fun so we went on more the entire time I thought we we're just hanging out. He was so insistent, and I just obliged because we were friends right, and that's what friends do they hangout."

He sighed.
"Finally one day he gave me flowers at the beginning of one of our hangouts. I took it and made a show of loving them as a joke and to show that I genuinely saw the kindness in the act. Though he took that and ran with it. That day he was more insistent with his touches and holding me. At the end he kissed me. Which really shocked me so I pushed him and immediately felt like an a**hole after I did it."

________Dream POV______________
_______A few months ago_________

"Sorry, I thought I read the connection right" said Ren. Dream still in shock however muttered.

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to push you like that. Why'd you just kiss me though?"

Ren had been flirting the entire time when he first was doing it Dream found it funny. But it started to get odd and obsessive when they were out and Dream had to talk to other people like waiters or when someone else touched him by accident. Dream noticed Ren acting weird.

"You're handsome wouldn't anyone want to date you."
Was Ren messing with him.

"Uuhhm, but we just re-met again it's only been two weeks." He shook his head dramatically. "Exactly, that's why I would like to get to know you more."

Date Ren? He seemed nice enough a bit smothering and overbearing at times. Like he wanted nothing more than to eat me whole which was kind of scary too.

My first time dating a man. I should give it a try, plus it might be a lot of fun. "Sure, we can go out on more dates."

Ren immediately grabbed me and began forcefully making out. I pushed him back again a bit more gently this time. "Aren't you gonna take a girl out on a date first!?" I say jokingly. I saw an odd twinkle in Rens eyes. "Yes."

________George's POV____________
________Present day______________

"I met Leane the same day I met Ren, he's Leanes' boss. I make an effort to not go to her place of work."

A giant OH! Echoes in my mind.

"That makes sense." So he didn't want to talk about meeting Leane because it reminded him of his ex.
Dreams facial expression still screamed something was wrong. Which made it obvious he wasn't telling me either the full truth or the whole story.

"Yeah I just don't want to be seen by him."

"He seemed pretty grabby feely too." I say remembering how he had grabbed my hand without asking or how he had grabbed Dream.

I felt violent remembering how scared and cautious Dream looked when the man had grabbed him unprovoked. I shook my head a bit.

I put my hand on Dreams I saw him physically relax at the motion. "I'm sorry your ex had to show up and ruin things today."

"It's ok. Thanks for cheering me up ."

I smiled I got up and walked over to the door. I looked back once again to see Dream staring at the floor again.

"I'm gonna give you some space." He shook his head as I closed the door. I think I need to study. Who was this Ren guy and why was Dream so cautious. Why was he leaving out things from the story it seemed like he didn't want me to know the full truth.

It irked me, and I knew I'd need more insight from the best second source there was. I grabbed my phone looking for Leanes' name contact. I continued my slow trek back to my room.

Chapter Text

Leane didn't answer. I put the phone down and sigh. Ok I have to think. What did Dream just tell me.

I look up at the ceiling he dated Ren, who was his bully and also was pushy and insistent.

I scowl at the thought. Insistent people are such an ick.

I remember back to how Ren had grabbed my hand. The urge to wash my hands flickers into my mind.

"So what was it?" That almost scares me out of my skin. I look up and there's Sapnap standing in my doorway.

"Did I scare you?"

I shake my head.

"Sooo?"

"He kind of repeated what the guy already told us. Apparently he was also Dreams bully." I see a cord is struck within Sapnaps mind.

"What?" He shook his head at my question.

"Umm I think I remember him now. The guy was a freak." I feel my face scrunch up at the thought.

"He would knock on the door for hours and ring the doorbell for hours. I had to tell him to get lost a lot."

"So this guy would..." I trail off.

"You weren't here." I shake my head I'm sure I would've remember something like that.

"He only did it for a week or two. He was basically stalking Dream."

Huh. "What?"

"Yeah he tried to break in twice through the back window. He would lay on the ground outside and scream Dreams name." Well this is disturbing.

"I wonder what happened between them."

"I can't Tell you, you'd have to ask Dream." He shakes his head and shoulders at a loss for words.

"He looked so different today compared to back then." Well this isn't good. Hopefully he didn't follow us back home.

I run out of my room to the front door to lock it. I hear Sapnap follow me and I see him realize what I was doing. "I'm pretty sure we have a restraining order against him."

Wow that's a lot. I just look out the window to find nothing. Good.

I sigh again. "We don't" this time me and Sapnap look back up to see Dream standing there looking mildly uncomfortable.

"Hey, are you ok dude." Sap asks.

"I'm fine." Dream starts to walk heading towards the kitchen. "Sorry I didn't help unload the groceries earlier. How was your stream?"

Sapnap nods "it was good, don't worry about the groceries."

I shake my head. He disappears from our view. We look at each other sharing a silent 'this can't be a good sign'. Why's he apologizing.

My phone starts ringing, I rush to grab it and there is Leanes' name.

I start walking back to my room.

And then I answer "hey"

"Hi was there something important?" She says back. I hesitate.

"Yes, I had a question about your boss." I hear her cough.

"Yeah" she sounds meek.

"What's he like?"

"I don't like him, also why are you asking me this?" She says sounding annoyed.

"umm ok long story short did you know about Dream and him. "

I hear a large sigh from the other end of the phone. "Yes."

"Well.." I say questioningly I wanted her to continue.

"My boss is up his own ass most of the times. He believes he's some all authoritative awesome God like person. He only dated Dream for what I assume are superficial relations."

Gross how can someone do that.
"I hope he at least treated Dream ok." I say in resignation.

"I doubt it. I honestly hated how he'd talk about Dream. He seemed like a sweetheart to me. He always gave me coffee even though he said he himself didn't like it, so I think he was going out of his way to do so. Yet Ren talked about him like he was an object, or a piece to a game."

I looked down knowing my next question will make me want to hunt Ren down when I hear the answer.

"What type of things would he say about Dream?"

"He talked a lot about overpowering, being Superior, stronger, though he never insulted him head on. "

That sounded kind of neglectful, my stomach soured at the thought. A picture of a happy smiling Dream popped into my minds eye. I felt the sour feeling in my stomach intensify.

"He sounded neglectful."

"I don't know for sure if he was I have my own ideas that lead to that outcome though. He also seemed very obsessive."

"From what Sap described he sounds like he was stalking Dream to a point."

I heard a sound from the other side of the line. "It got worse after they broke up. Poor Dream, luckily he got out of that evil creatures clutches."

I smile at the nickname she gave Ren. "Why don't you like him?"

I hear a heavy sigh. "He's done a lot, he is the bane of my existence. He treats me like trash, as an employee."

I shake my head. "Ok thanks for answering my questions I know it was abrupt."

"Anytime, George how's Dream doing?"

I smiled "he's ok...ish, we actually seen Ren today thats what brought on all the questions."

"Oh" she goes incredibly silent. "I'll call him, thanks for the update, goodbye."

She sounded a little distressed. "Yeah, goodbye."
That's the whole picture hopefully, a superficial relationship that seemed more one sided and kind of neglectful. I sigh. At least that Ren guy isn't messing with Dreams head anymore.

I lay down and scroll to my notes app were I start to write in my very professionally created diary.

Chapter Text

The next day I was woken up by laughter and stomping downstairs.

I walked out to smell more delicious breakfast smells. Mmmm, I let my nose do the guiding.

I walked into the dining room to find Dream cooking again with his silly fluffy pink mommas the cook apron on again.

Is this a repeat of yesterday, because last night Dream seemed really sad.

He turned around smiling, "Oh, morning George." I smiled back was he actually happy again.
So soon after seeing his Ex.

"Morning"

The Texan shovels eggs into his mouth. "His girlfriend is coming over."

Oh.
I mean it's not like I had anything personally against her it's just I'd rather not see my competition right now also the scene of Dream and her being a happy couple for hours. Ugh

"I'm sorry guys, but I have a breakfast date." I lie.

Sapnap and Dream looked at each other. "You're dating someone?" Sapnap says while Dream just looked confused.

"No, I'm just going on a hangout coffee date is all." Though they don't need to know the 'date' will just be me, alone.

"Oh, I think what Sap is asking is if it'll be romantic or platonic." Says Dream smiling at me but for some reason his smile seemed off. A bit forced.

I shake my head "yeah"

Sapnap laughs at that. "Well which one is it because yeah isn't an answer."

At this point things are getting awkward and I think I've butchered the whole thing just by saying the word date instead of hanging out.

"Just, Yes." I say painfully awkward now. I see Dream turn up a brow, I'm obviously making things worse.

I start to walk backwards and as I go to grab my bag I turn away from their confused faces.

I hear a quiet 'huh' from behind me. Same buddy same. I have no idea why I just impulsively lied.
I shake my head trying to clear the fog. I put my shoes on and brush my teeth, I looked over to the shower. Maybe later for now cologne will do just fine.

I walk back to the front.

Where I now see Sap and Dream eating together with a third breakfast plate made and waiting.

They look over to me. "Bye!" I hear Dream yell.

I shake my head at him and continue walking to the front door. I call a Lyft and wait for a few minutes before I finally get picked up.

Ok, there's no where to go I didn't really think this through. I just chose a random plaza area. Shopping centers are better for lonely people like me. Especially when they are trying to avoid being a third or maybe fourth wheel.

I thank Harry my Lyft driver for the free breath mints.

And then I walk around for a bit at the plaza, more like a lost wanderer than a local. I enjoyed the fans coming up and taking pictures but I was trying to be a bit incognito today. I pulled my hat down further on my head.

I walked into the nice coffee shop and sat down staring at the menu. A mocha latte sounds good in theory. I laugh at the thought of Dream drinking it and being disgusted.

From the corner of my eye I see someone walk over. Then sit down right in front of me. Why can't this guy get his own booth. I look up right into brown eyes.

"Hello, beautiful man." I cringe at that.

"Uuhhm hi strange man?"

"Wow, I like that." I snort, this guy has no tact.

I start to get up from the booth "nice meetin-" the man stops me by placing his hand over mines on the table.

I look back down at him.
"You know Ren don't you?"

HUH!
I slowly start to sit back down. I'm sure if I were in a hit thriller movie intense music would start playing right about now.

"Yeah, I just met him."

"Great news for me!" He sounded excited.

"Ok?"

"Why the weird look?"

"How'd you know that I knew him?"

He starts to laugh like what I always thought rich men would laugh like. Until I met Dream in person.

"I'm your problem solver" I feel my face squish up at the idea.

"You're gonna get wrinkles if you keep making faces like that." I ignored the advice.

"Anyways, I want to get back at Ren and what other, or better way to do that than singling in on his obsession."

I blink slowly
"What obsession?"

"His ex."

Dream.

I shake my Head at the thought of this random man messing with Dream.

"I'm sorry I can't hel-" he cuts me off, "pretend to be my boyfriend."

Huh! "Why would I do that?"

"I used to date Ren, and I really liked it" someone actually likes that creep. I ignore the fact that Dream used to like him to some degree.

"I'm gonna ask again how did you know about me meeting him?"

His smile widens all toothy and happy for no apparent reason. "It's a trade secret. A full blown fake boyfriend for the answer."

I snort again, and then sigh heavily.
I need to say something if I want an answer on how this rando had personal information.

"Ok, but only pretend when we're in front of certain people."

He shakes his head. "Good, I used to be Dreams friend too, okay. He was a nice guy. Ren told me, by the way, about yesterday him seeing Dream at the store with a handsome British man and his short curly haired friend."

Why did this guy feel like he was insulting me and my friends while also giving them compliments.

"Hmm" I say intrigued but prepping him to continue his talk.

"I want the life style that comes with Ren, I don't miss the relationship." Odd I felt like I was stuck in some weird love triangle. Should I actually go through with this or forget about it.

This guy also felt superficial just like Ren. Then a thought hit me, a dumb but important idea. What would Dream think about me dating someone.

I doubt he'd care.
Right?
I think back to earlier he looked confused, conflicted almost. His smile was forced looking. Could I make him jealous?

And if that's possible would he break up with Leane and be with me instead. Would that even be possible.

These are very toxic thoughts. I shake my head I need to get my head on straight. I've been feeling a fog like cloud in my mind for that past few hours. Maybe all I really needed was a milkshake and a beauty sleep.

"This was a fun talk ummm you, I'll see you around." I say getting up fully now. Hopefully he doesn't pull anymore random personal information out of no where.

"It's Morgan, and wait before you go here's my phone number." He grabs a napkin and writes his number on it and then he looks at me expectaningly holding the pen and a new torn napkin paper.

"What?"

He squares his jaw. "Are you dumb? Write your number so I can have it."

I don't think I want to do that just yet, I still don't know this guy's game yet. "No thanks." I get up and grab his number on the napkin and walk out hurrying to get another Lyft back to the Dream team house.

Upon arrival Dream, Sap, and Leane stood around drinking orange juice and talking loudly. They stopped briefly when I walked in and stared at me. Until Dream finally called me over.

I smiled softly this felt strangely delicate it still felt like home. I walked over. "So how was your date?" Dream says as Leane ooos' loudly and Sap hits my shoulder like a congratulations was in diar need.

Could I do it to Dream. Should I? Would I be able to feel good about it if I did?

I look over to him and his glistening green bottomless eyes. They sparkle with passion as he describes some nerdy thing. His floppy curly hair bouncing almost in a silly fashion around his shoulders as he describes the perfect technique for something.

I'd do anything for him, to protect him. I look over to Sap. Same as I would for Sap. I gotta keep my head cleared somehow, I sigh.

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I smirk as I walk around the town center. A very overly joyous girlfriend hugs me tight as I show her the new necklace I just bought her.

Today is shopping day or as Leane called it 'get me better dressed' day.

She laughs "this is beautiful thanks so much." I shake my head at her thanks, feeling pride blossom in my stomach. That's a good reaction. I felt like I've been letting everyone down recently. Guess we can cross awesome gift giver off the list of issues.

She puts her hand on my chest steadying me I look back down at her only to see her staring hard at a shops sign behind us. It was a designer clothes store.

"I'll be right back this will be a surprise I want you to try it on when we get back to your place."

I laugh at her excitement. "Ok, I won't even peek I promise." She runs off.

I smile after her then I hear it.

A very familiar scream followed by a laugh. I look over though there's a pillar in my way.

I feel my head crease in confusion.

George?
Why would he be.... here?

I feel my eyes go wide because behind that pillar a few feet away from me stood George and some man. My stomach feels suddenly sick. Maybe it's from the onslaught of randomly finding out a secret about my best friend.

I feel a weird faraway thought.

This is stalker like behavior. I should just go over and talk to them.

Wait I recognize that man. It's Rens friend. I put my hand on my head trying to think of his name. Toregen, malgen.

I look up at George shouting "Morgan!" He starts to laugh as the man starts to tickle him.

I feel that weird itch to barf again, I scowl. I shake my head trying to clear it of whatever that feeling was.

This must be his 'breakfast date' he was so hesitant to talk about.

I jump in shock at the touch on my back and look down in shock at the small delicate hand on my shoulder. "Sorry" she says realizing she scared me.

"Jesu-" I gasp "Leane" she grabs my hand. "I got the cutest clothes for you, I know you'll love them." I shake my head. Anything she wants I guess.

I look back over to where George and that Morgan guy were only to find no one. Hopefully they didn't see me.

I look down slightly saddened at the notion of losing my best friend. Especially to one of Rens friends I mean we could never trust someone associated with him.

"You ok? You look very distressed." I look back at Leane. I can't worry her she's trying to cheer me up from seeing my ex.

"I'm fine" I don't know why but it felt like a lie. I really hope it wasn't. Maybe what I actually hoped was that George wasn't dating that guy. It would suck so hard to see him saddened by Morgan using him in some superficial way. My heart aches a bit, I need an antacid.

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"I guess today was our lucky day"

He laughs still trying to tickle me.
I slap his hand off of me.

"What are you talking about and why do you keep trying to tickle me?"

I had ran right into this guy again, maybe he was stalking me like Ren had Dream.

He just walked up and started talking like we knew each other better than ever. It was like the conversation from two days ago never ended because that's were today's conversation began.

"Sorry" he says backing off smiling like he knew something I didn't.

This guy is annoying and a goofball.

"Why? NO! HOW do you keep finding me?"

His smile turns into a smirk. "I've got a second sense when it comes to handsome men." I scowl at that.

"That was good work by the way the laugh seemed genuine enough."

Huh what was he getting at.
He grabs my arm and we duck behind a vase and a giant plant.

Then I see them, Dream holding Leanes' hand and a bunch of bags in his other hand.

WHAT!

I feel my eyes go wide.

"I just wonder how you didn't know he was here." He smiles and then I realize what the whole tickling act had been.

He had tricked me. I look back at him in shock, his brown eyes glistening with delight. "You tricked me."

He shakes his head seeming proud of me.

"Might as well continue the trick together now."

I feel a odd ball of sadness in me start to make it's way up my esophagus. Dream had probably seen me get surprise attacked and since he tickled me, he made it seem like I was laughing at something he had said.

He's going to think we're friends at the least. At the most he's gonna think we're....

I look back up biting my lip with nothing but discontent.

He's going to think we're dating or something.

I see them walk off into another clothing store.

It seems the decision was made without me. A fake relationship to start a jealous war.

"Fine, I'll do this." I say a sinking feeling pushing that weird feeling in my esophagus closer.

"It would be the smart decision."
I look back up at Morgan who's smiling like he's won some sort of game.

"Why didn't you let me choose"

I saw a twitch of his eye "because I need Rens money now, I need to pay off a bill, and if the only way back in is through messing with his little obsessions heart in the process it's not too bad."

The sinking feeling gets worse. "I love Dream"

He looks slightly shocked for a second until I realize that I didn't want him to know.

"He's my best friend."

He starts to laugh like he had it all figured out.

"That's what it was, you love him, I thought it was a crush."

I hate the feeling piling up in my gut.

"make him jealous with me, soon both of them will come looking for us."

I feel my face squish up.
"Y'know if Ren weren't my target I would've loved to be yours for real. You look cute when you scrunch your face like that."

I feel disgusted. How was this even making Ren jealous at all I didn't get it.

Maybe I didn't have to, this guy was an obvious douche and I can tell he wasn't going to let me make this decision for myself. Dream already bought it probably, so I might as well continue this horror show.

My phone starts to ring, I dig through my pocket and pull it up seeing Sapnaps name. I open it listening for the other end of the conversation.

"Did you find the wrench yet, this thing isn't going to fix it's self, and Dream will be back soon."

"Yeah I found it, I'm on my way."

"Hurry idiot."

"You're the idiot." I say deflecting and I hang up.

"Another friend?" I look up at the man "I gotta go."

I start walking towards the exit doors where the parking lot was.

What a disaster, hopefully we could fix the thing before Dream ended his date, Sapnap is the one that really broke it anyways.

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I bet he wouldn't feel very good if I punched him in the face.

I was staring at a picture of the brown eyed brown haired man that forced me into a dreadful situation.

That was him, alright. Morgan, his bolstering smile in the photo pissing me off more.

"Do you recognize him George?"

Dream said looking at me as if he were searching for something.

I try to keep my face as neutral as possible even though I was anything but that.

I stayed silent and hoped Dream would continue talking.

An awkward pause and then he probably got the hint. With a sigh he continued.

"I saw you with him, a few days ago, I didn't want to say anything then because it felt like I was intruding."

He looked at me with kind eyes begging for the truth. I wasn't sure if I should give it to him or not.

Could I... No should I?

"Well.." he says waiting for an answer.

I sigh and look down.

"George?"

I hear a deep sigh.

I can't look him in the eyes it feels like I'm lying and I haven't even said anything.

"It's nothing." I finally say and I look back into his emerald yellow eyes.

He looks slightly disheartened. "What? Nothing? What do you mean nothing? It's obviously something." He looked confused and angry.

"Look, lay out of my business ok."

That made him gap at me, I guess I said the wrong thing. Oops.

"It's nothing, he and I are... We're."

I turn away not wanting to lie directly to his face. I can feel his intense stare burning into my back.

"Dating?" He says surprising me, I turn back quickly to look at him. He looks like a kicked puppy again.

"This was your crush?" I feel my eyes widen at the word crush. Then I remember I had confessed to him that I had a crush.

"Uuh right yeah. He was."
His face turns a bit more crestfallen before he covers that up with a pokerface. It happens so quickly I barely got to see the expression change but it was there.

What does that mean exactly though, I'm not really sure.
I hate to see that sad look on his face especially if it's directed at me.

I gulp, "of course." He says sounding like he's coming to terms with the idea. "You know that guy was friends with my ex right?"

I look back up at him quickly trying to change my face to look shocked at the idea. I had to play it off to make it seem like new knowledge to me.

I can't believe I'm actually going through with this. Lying to your best friend is one thing but lying to Dream feels like if he finds out I'm lying the earth will end. I'm pretty sure that's just me being dramatic but maybe I'm not. Maybe my earth will shatter, because I think he's my earth.

He is..

He shakes his head knowingly. "You actually like him?" I shake my head yes pretending I could ever. I hate that guys guts, but I have no idea what's compelling me to lie for him.

"I never would've guessed your crush was a man but I also never would've guessed he'd be someone I already knew."

I cringe at that.

"So, how'd you guys meet?"

He scrunches up his forehead in concentration and I get the urge to soothe the area with my fingers.

"We met at a store awhile ago."

It's only been half a week but we could stretch out how long he thought awhile was.

"Oh, I guess that makes sense it's been a few months since you told me you had a crush."

"Yeah.." I say looking around anywhere but at him. He however didn't care about my wondering eyes he stared with intensity. My heart pulsating from the strength of the stare alone.

I bite my lips to try and take my attention away from this confrontation. I needed anything it didn't matter how small it was. I needed the comfort right now.

"Do you trust him?"

"I-"

His eyes are wide and questioning but all I feel is discontent with myself. My situation and the question. How am I supposed to answer something so straight forward. I can't beat around the bush, not after he already outed a major part of why Morgan should be untrustworthy.

"I didn't know he was friends with Ren I'll have to talk to him about it."

He shakes his head, then bites his lips too.

I follow the action with my eyes.
"Please do" I see his lips move to make the words and I wonder what type of lip balm he uses.

"Hello?" He snaps his fingers in my face. I slap his hand holding it as I look up smiling and he's smiling back, then I realize we're holding hands. He giggles a bit which is better than the intense air we just had for way too long. I hate serious talks they make me anxious.

He pulls his hand out of mines. "You ok? Seems like you got lost on planet dumb or something."

"Oh haha, you made a funny." I say mocking him.

"I'll look into it alright." I say finalizing the end of our convo.

"Ok," he says sounding tired "I was just worried about you that's why I'm asking." I smile at the statement.

"Yeah let's call it worry not what it really is." I say teasing him.

He laughs "yeah and what is it?"

"Love" he stops for a minute staring into my eyes with a smirk.

"Of course."

I stare into those big beautiful green orbs Dream calls eyeballs and I wonder what a cuddle in bed would feel like from him.

Sapnap chooses this moment to come in. "losers."

We look over to him and a blast of water hits me in the face. "Ahh!" I scream.

Sapnap had a water gun. He chased us around spraying us like a mad man.

He especially loved spraying me though. "GODS! WILL YOU STOP, I'M DRENCHED!"

He walks up beside me and hugs my waist pulling me against him.

"Look who's all hot and bothered from a little water."

He laughs and then he holds the water gun up to my head like an assassination attack was occuring.

We look over to a soaked dream ringing out his wet cat beanie. "Give me all of the cat beanies or this guy gets it." Sapnap says to Dream.

We all start to laugh softly. "Nooo! Not my cat beanies anything but them."

"What?" I say feeling like someones forgotten sandwich.

"Fine I guess I'll just have to take this wet blanket of a man back home with him."

"Nooo not my wet blanket" we all start to laugh. It's definitely a far cry from the seriousness of the conversation that me and Dream had been having before. I don't want to mess this up.

If Dream is my earth I'm gonna need to figure out a way to keep it spinning.

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I sat down and looked at the two laughing something felt slightly off about George but I tried my best to ignore it.

We had invited over our significant others for a romantic movie binge night.

Sapnap said he didn't want to take any part of the weird lovey dovey stuff and went to a friend's place.

So that left me, my girlfriend Leane, George, and his new boyfriend Morgan.

The odd thing is the whole time George just seemed uncomfortable.

Leane makes another dumb joke about how the main character of this movie really needs to be more proactive when socializing. I can't help but feel like I need to be less proactive when it comes to socializing.

This whole event of us watching movies has just felt so off to me. I'm not sure if I'm going crazy...

I just wanted to see how the two interacted up close. Plus to see if Morgan is a threat or not.

So far it just feels like George is forced to be here, which doesn't make sense because he agreed to this.

A giant sigh comes from George as Morgan pushes him to sit on his lap.

The sight alone makes me feel tilted for some reason.

Leane is cuddled into my side.

She laughs at the main character but I can't help but feel left behind. There's nothing entertaining about any of this.

I sigh.

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Dream keeps sighing and looking over every once in a while. I'd pay millions to any bank to tell me what he was thinking about right now, if I could.

I feel a bit disgruntled Morgan keeps hugging me and trying to be all romantic and coupley but I really don't want it.

At the same time I'm trying to not let that show, I hope it's been working.

I side eye Dream, he looks nice tonight he styled his curls in a different way making it fluffier somehow.

His clothes looked brand new too. Nice baggy jeans and a really nice black and green strapped jacket.

I wonder if he and Leane had picked it out together.

I looked back to the movie as a scream comes from the screen.

The main character had just did some miraculous stunt that impressed his town.

I smile I wish I could do that right now. Something to impress, I look back over to Dream. His green eyes focused on the screen.

Something to impress...

I feel a hand push up into my hair and fluff it out. Annoyance seeps into my veins.

I swear I'm gonna end this man if he keeps doing that.

I look back at him with a sneer and he offers me a smirk in return.

I doubt this is even making Dream angry the only person it's pissing off is me.

I get up I need some fresh air and water.

"I'll be back" I whisper to Morgan who shakes his head.

I get up and walk to the back of the house.

I grab a water cup and go out of the back door as quietly as I can.

I was thinking of heading to the studio house for some water. Which would mean a fresh breath of air on my way.

Instead I stopped and sat back against the wall for a bit breathing in the night air.

I breath in deep and then out again. Calming my mind and hopefully my soul.

I hear the door rattle and then open softly.

I look over to dark green eyes and a pale face with messy curls.

Dream?

He walks out cautiously and shuts the door. He looks at me with concern and care "You ok?"

I nod my head yes.

"You sure? You've bee- You seem weird"

I look at him again "thanks"

He starts to stumble to explain himself. As I laugh softly. "Wel-I mea- meant I meant, y'know you seem weir- or off. I guess.. kind of."

"Thanks for being a concerned citizen I guess."
He sort of looks flustered.

"George, is everything alright?"

"It's fine, I'm fine, I just needed some air and water, ok"

Even though he shook his head he still seemed unconvinced. "Ok" he says.

I shake my head and walk over to the other house to get some water. "Just go back in before Leane starts a search party up in your place."

He still looks concerned he nods his head softly and then opens the door again and walk backwards into the place staring back at me cautiously.

I stare back at him until he shuts the door and moves from the glass. I let out a sigh. Well he seemed suspicious, I really suck at this whole 'act like your dating your giant crush not your enemy thing.'

Maybe I should come up with something that'll make this more pleasant of an experience.

Dream ..
I walk over to the sink in the studio house. I pour some water in and take a sip from the cup.

I need to pretend like Morgan is Dream.

I can do this.
I can do this.

I cautiously walk back to the house with my water cup and walk over to the couch they are all still sat watching spooky films full blast.

Dream looks up at me smiling I get a nod of acknowledgement from Morgan. What would I want to do with Dream right now if we were watching films together without everyone else here.

Cuddle..

I sit down next to Morgan and I get to cuddling him, he seems slightly surprised by my actions since he becomes a bit tense.
He loosens up a minute after as he places his hand in my hair.

I feel annoyed but I try my hardest to imagine the hand as Dreams. I get a sense of comfort immediately.

I push into the hand, allowing the gentle pets.

After a few more hours of watching movies Dream turns off the last rolling credit scene of the movie. Leane yawns loudly and I find myself following along.

"Well I'd call this a successful movie night."
Dream says looking Between Leane and me. We all shake our heads. "Yep" "I'd say so" "of course."

He smiles softly, that warm sense of comfort comes back from the action alone.
"Good to hear everyone. I guess this is goodnight"

Everyone gets up and starts saying their goodnights and goodbyes.

"Nice to meet you."

A laugh "yeah you too" I watch Dream and Morgan shake hands like colleagues.

Leane saying goodbye and nice to meet you to Morgan.

"Goodnight." I say to the two as we walk them to the door.

Morgan turns back and ruffles my hair. I shake off the action, Leane gives Dream a hug and then me.

"Goodnight, George."

I smile back though it feels forced "Goodnight Leane."

They walk off to their cars and me and Dream stand there watching until they drive off.

We turn and look at each other. "Fun night."
"Yeah" he says looking faraway somehow.

I walk away heading for my room "goodnight."

I look back and Dream is staring at me with an unreadable expression.
"Night" he says, I nod my head gently and continue walking turning back toward the hallway.

Weird..

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I've been feeling a bit weird lately worrying about George too much. So much more than usual, and my usual was already pretty high.

I however can't tell if it's my normal amount of worrying or not. Every time I think about how annoyed and unusually unsettled George looked that night at the movie viewing with me, Leane, and Morgan the more I think he's being forced somehow to do something with Morgan.

I think my intuition was right about Morgan somehow. I need to gently ask or tell George but I also need to find a way to ask nonconfrontationally.

I mean this could seem like a best friend trying to 'lay into his business', like I remember him saying before.

I sigh at the wording. I still can't believe he'd think I wasn't asking questions because I was interested not because I was nosey.

Or..

Maybe I am being nosey.

This shouldn't be my problem but with the Dream team every issue of theirs is also mines.

I can't let George go through something alone.

I need him to be ok.

How can I ask without asking.

Maybe I can talk to Sapnap first and see if he thinks George has been off at all.

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I can't believe I let this moron win last time, so I checkmate him.

"Good game" I say quickly obviously catching him off guard.

"I can't believe it.." I look back at George's distraught face.

"You cheating pile of man pee"

"Wow, super uncalled for, you're lucky I don't destroy you again." I say getting up. Then of course in comes Dream.

"Hey, no knocking?" I ask.

He smiles "yeah what if y'all were playing chess or something in here?"

I laugh and I hear George laugh too. "Come here, I need you." He's pointing at me.

I smirk "Oh trust me I've been waiting to hear those words ever since we met each other, sorry George but don't wait up for us, ok." I walk over and see Georges confused face looking between me and Dream. The idiot didn't seem to be getting the joke here.

I laugh again at the hypocrisy.
I follow Dream back to his office. He shuts the door all secretive like. Wait, did he actually mean that or was that actually a joke. Why's he acting all suspicious now.

He turns back to me and stares intensely at me. "I-I need to talk to you about s-something." He starts talking really fast.

"Yeah I know just tell me what?" I say leaning against the wall, he goes to walk back and forth around the room. Very frantic and fast. Ok so he's definitely unsettled I wonder what's got him spooked like this.

"You ok there buddy." I interject he looks back up at me with a very worried face. Ok so the answer is clearly no, he's not ok.

"I'm fine, it's not me you should be worried about, it's George." Now I get a little scared too.

"Wait George, how?"

He stops and walks closer to me "Has George been acting different lately?"

I think back to him losing his chess match just now. Nope.

"No he's been normal." This seems to have confused Dream more though. "Wait, really?"

I shake my head yeah. "Oh" he looks downright lost, now.

I go up and open my arms asking for a hug. He goes in and hugs me.

"You're worrying me here." I say trying to sound nonchalant and not panicked.

"Sorry, he says" he looks so lost now though. "Are you sure you're ok?" I ask him trying to make him look at me again.

He eventually does "I'm fine."

I feel my brows crease "you sure?, what made you think something was wrong with George?"

"He was acting like he was forced to be with that Morgan guy."

I crease my eyes now "how?"

His eyes go a bit wide, "I don't know, he just- you remember when we had that couple movie watching thing?"

I shake my head. "He just seemed like he was forced to be there the whole time, he seemed scared or annoyed of Morgan."

Scared..

"Was he actually scared?"

He shooks his head distraught "I'm not sure"

I sigh "Are you sure he seemed scared."

We looked at each other "I'm not sure, he had symptoms of being scared. I don't know, if I'm overreacting, or if I should ask him."

I let my creases go in my eyebrows, "we should definitely ask. I mean, what if that guy has been hurting him or something?"

I see Dreams face fall crestfallen "I really, really hope not. I will destroy that Morgan guy if he had." I shake my head I would do the same if someone were to lay their hands on George too.

"I don't want to be direct when asking him" I look back over to Dream confused. "Not direct?"

He shakes his head as he says yeah. I peak an eyebrow to show my confusion. "I mea- what if we trigger something by being direct. I want to ask as gently as possible."

I sigh, he's right. I shake my head showing that I'm 100% on board with this.
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What was that, those two have a thing together or something?

Sapnap and Dream being secretive is weird. I roll my shoulders, maybe I'm overreacting and it was just those two making a dumb joke.

I wonder what the important thing was that Dream 'needed Sapnap for' I sigh.

They better not be talking about me.

I mean the way that Sapnap smirked at Dream did seem pretty convincing. Plus he said he'd been 'waiting to hear those words ever since he met Dream' which I had been too. So is it real or is it just something stupid.

A very obnoxious and anger inducing image pops into my head.

Dream looking into Sapnaps eyes green foresty coalescing with one another. Sapnaps longing stare as he gently moves one of Dreams curls back from his eyes to see them better.

Dream smiling at the action. A giant torment to my soul. And then they push forward about to kiss. I stop my imagination before I see the motherlode of all fucks.

I really thought I had non to give but clearly I was mistaken. Dream and Sapnap could totally be a thing and I just never noticed. There's no way right?

Has Sapnap had this crush on Dream for a long time? Am I just overthinking this.

Please be just a dumb joke.

But Dreams eyes when he walked in and said that looked so serious.

I guess it could've also been quite suggestive as well.

I sigh, I'm really disliking reality right about now.

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"Spin around," Dream followed my direction twisting around to show off the jacket.

"Yeah that brown complements the blue and tan shirt under." I say,

"I want a second opinion."

"I swear George told me he'd be done with his work already."

Dream nodded "I'll go get him."

I walked to Georges door and not even bothering to knock I opened the door forcefully. It seemed like it didn't stir George at all though.

He continued writing code completely unaware. I let out a laugh in my mind, this guy should know to be fully on guard around here.

I walked over and crouched beside him looking up at him. He looked over and squealed at the top his lungs once he got a glimpse of me. I dubbled over laughing at his expression.

He stared at me wide eyed "wha-"

He was breathing heavily, and heaving.

"You should be aware of your surroundings." I say with a tear in my eye from laughing.

George rolled his eyes. "Come on, you told us you'd quit coding at 12:00" he nodded. "So?"

I looked back over to him smirking "and it's 12:00."

He rolled his eyes again. "Come on Dream needs a second opinion on what to wear to the award show."

George got up at that and walked out to the living room with no more fight.

Well that was easy.

I walked out to see George also asking Dream to spin. Dream turning around showing off the other jacket, it was black with a maroon pocket.

"No I think the brown jacket brings out your eyes more."

He says like a professional fashion stylist.

I stared in interest. "Oh" Dream took off the black jacket and I watched as George's eyes followed Dreams actions very closely.

Than Dream put the brown jacket back on. I saw George look Dream up and down twice.

I try not to gap at the unsightly flirting?

Well that definitely seemed like flirting at least, but more one sided. Dream still wasn't paying attention staring down at his shoes like he was contemplating putting on the other shoes that made him look like a man witch.

George bit his lip staring at Dreams face.

Hmmm..

I was interrupted from my staring "These shoes suck too."

I looked back to Dream and he had indeed changed into the shoes that made him look like a man witch. "Those shoes are for witches."

George and Dream and looked at me confused. "You mean a warlock?" Says George, "where'd you learn that from? All of your Harry Potter books?" I say.

George blinked at me twice, then promptly stared back at Dream.

"Wrong shoes all together, we need to get you some better ones, less the entire internet make fun of them again."

Dream giggled at that.

Wow, George sure was staring a lot more than usual. I hope it had nothing to do with Morgan.

I guess it wasn't too weird seeing as George and Dream had always been in their own land, flirting unknowingly most times. It's probably that deep seated friendship just showing through like usual.

I mean it happened to the best of us.
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Ok, the jacket fit Dream perfectly. A little too perfectly it left little to the imagination. I couldn't stop staring. Sapnap looked at me like I was doing something but he wasn't sure what just yet. I had no idea what that expression meant.

"I think this looks the best."
Said Dream completely oblivious to his surroundings.

"Yeah me too." I say trying to not sound like I really was into this.

"Did you get those clothes from Leane?"

Dream finally looked between me and Sap. "yeah I bought it with her out at the mall a few weeks ago."

A flicker of a memory from watching him and her head Into a clothing store came to the front of my mind.

"Yeah, well she has really good tastes." I say nodding.

"Yeah.." said Dream trailing off.

"Ok it's official we finally agreed on something." Said Sapnap. Dream sighed and handed him some cash. I pulled up a brow.

"Why're you paying him?"

Dream smiled "I lost a bet, I thought you'd choose the other jacket."

I rolled my eyes smiling too. Sap laughed running out waving the money around like it were millions. "I'm always right suckers"

Me and Dream both looked at each and laughed.

Dream stopped soon after watching me. "you ok?"

I smiled up at him. "I'm fine, just need to finish that code for you."

He shook his head. "Maybe you should leave the code for a bit?"
I nodded.

He walked over directly in front of me giving me a hug.

I tensed up and then placed my hands around him gently.

"George, have you been uncomfortable with your new relationship?"

I stopped hugging him pushing back to stare into Dreams eyes.

"Umm.."
He looked back unwavering.
"Is this your first male on male relationship?"

I blinked and then nodded. "I just don't want to mess it up, but it seems like everything I do messes things up even more."

He hugs me again "that's not true, you make things better." I pull back and look into his eyes wishing I could spill all of the weird truth out about, Morgan and the position he had put me in, all the half truths, and lies.

"Y'know I can help you? I was in a male on male relationship too, before."

I nodded "Was it Morgan that made you think you had messed everything up?"

I try to keep my face as blank as possible.

"No." I state matter of factly. Dream sighed softly looking down at me with concern in his kind green eyes.

"Yeah, of course not." He pulls me in for another hug. I can't tell if he believed me or not, but I really hoped he would drop all of the questions.

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George said he felt like a mess up, I looked down and sighed, I had been editing this video for over seven hours now and I wasn't sure whether it would be done by the end of the week.

I hope the fans weren't too sad about it.

I got a text, just then.

I looked at my phone and it was Leane.

I read it 'on my way babe'.

Great.

Not that I didn't like Leane to be at my house I didn't like that it would cut into my editing time.

The video sat frozen on a frame of Georges goofy smiling face.

I smiled at the screen, maybe I should see how everyone else was doing.

I save everything and turn off my computer and walk out to the front living room.

George and Sapnap are sat around laughing while arguing about something.

I walked over to hear better, then I snorted at the conversation.

"Yeah, well you wouldn't have had to go and eat that pecan pie if you had actually told her you didn't like it."

Then Sapnap made a 'tsk' noise "well I didn't want to be rude."

He kept rubbing his hand on his leg nervously. "Hey" I said to them walking in and sitting on the couch.

They both looked over "hey" "sup".

"You ok?" I say smiling at Sapnap, he nods, "I don't want to talk about it."

I start laughing softly.

Sapnap looks down in dismay, I can't believe he really ate that whole pie just because he didn't want to tell the lady he wasn't hungry.

I remember George sending me the video earlier.

"What are you doing?" My question is aimed at both of them, but George is the one to respond.

"I was writing in some possible fixes for one of the code errors."

He looked back to his laptop and typed something.

Sapnap stared over at me. "It's crazy to see you out of your room, is the world ending?"

I scoff at the ridiculous question.
"Yes, it was when you had to eat that pie I bet."

I heard him snort at that.
"No for real?" He asks with raised eyebrows. How did he do that. I raised one of my eyebrows just to see if I could do it too.

"Leane said she was headed this way, plus I just wanted to see what y'all we're doing."

Sap nodded at me.

George kept typing away, he did glance over at us, though.

I gestured for Sap to come closer for me to whisper.

He did, still with the raised eyebrows in confusion.

"So, did you get George to admit anything?" I asked, he very unsubtly looked over to George than back at me.

He shook his head no.

George saw this obviously, "what are you two conspiring about over there?"

I laughed and pointed at Sap, "he wanted to let me know that he was really into feet."

They both laughed slightly, "oh is that so?" Questioned George.

Sapnap laughed and stretched like this was no big deal, "yeah and what of it?"

I started laughing too, because he was playing into it.

"I always knew you were a freak."

Then it turned into those two calling each other freaks over and over again. I shook my head at their display of arguing. A nice sense of fondness seeping into my mind.

I'm guessing George, probably never got to feel less pressured around his boyfriend. What could the possible cause be for him feeling like he messes things up.

I was blankly staring at the floor and messing with my zipper on my pant leg. I didn't notice until I heard George break through my wall of thoughts.

"Let's see what Dream has to say about this matter."

I looked up at my name, but I was completely lost.

"Huh" sapnap laughed "he clearly wasn't listening which means it's an automatic forfeit."

I rolled my eyes.

The two began to argue some more when I heard the doorbell ring.

I got up and walked out to the front door. I heard those two slightly quiet down after I had left.

I opened the door and there stood Leane as happy and smiley as usual.

"Hey" I said she nodded at me and brought out a envelope and handed it to me.

I stared confused before taking it and letting her in.

The door shut softly. "What's this?" I nodded at it. She smiled "I got in."

Huh, "into what?"

Her smile started to feel forced after she heard this.

"Dream, I've been trying to subtly tell you now for months, that I wanted to study in college abroad."

My eyes grew wide at this, abroad, college.

What.

What did she mean?

"What-WHAT... What.." that's all I could say before I could see her studying me like a book.

"You're not happy for me."

"I-I thought.. I don't understand."

I looked over to her sadly then I vaguely gestured to us.

"What about?"

"We can still date, it'll just be long distance."

" Why... Why the sudden change?"

She stared at me sweetly, "it's not sudden, sweetie, I've been saving up money at my very crappy job. Plus I just hate working there, at this point it's torture."

I nodded because I knew that much at least. "My ex will make anyone want to study abroad." I said trying for a joke.

She smiled at me, but her eyes felt like she thought I was made of porcelain, about to break at any abrupt movement. I didn't know if she was right or wrong about that.

My little world of best friends, girlfriend, code, and social media felt like it was coming to a massive halt.

My worlds floors were being stripped from under me and I was standing on the last piece of floor held up by a very crooked and slightly wobbly column. The loneliness was palpable I can almost smell it, taste it.

Beyond the still standing piece of my world my floor board was the end of it all, the world's stop button. I felt a hand come up to my cheek and wipe at my eyes.

I felt my reality come back into focus and there still stood Leane smiling gently at me, as if she was trying to bring me comfort.

She had a Hand on my cheek, I heard a sniffle and then I felt the warm tears. She was wiping them with her fingers.

I was the one sniffling and crying, I immediately felt like a massive loser, she said we can still date but long distance.

It was something I wasn't sure I could do.

A thought, I've done it before with my ex girlfriend.

Though that relationship was different than this one.

I smiled at her reassuringly. "I'm proud of you, for taking this risk and going out to achieve what you want in the world."
I said her smile faltered then I saw a tear and then a few more fall from her eyes.

I held out my arms and she ran into me cuddling and squeezing me, I kissed the top of her head.

"How far?" I asked kind of scared to hear the answer.

"France" I nodded "bonjour" I said laughing through my tears. She snorted at the dumb joke, and rubbed my back like a mother would her child that just barfed in the middle of the night.

I snorted at the thought.

It'll all be alright.

It had to be.

I had to be.

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They say sadness is denial in a river. I say my sadness is loud and obscene constantly getting in the way of what, I want to do.

I think it's getting more and more obvious to my friends. I mean it's not like me and Leane broke up we still do face calls and text but it's been a few weeks since she left and I already feel left behind.

Like I'm the past, she talks about her new daily routine and life like it's never been better. Maybe I'm just a bit more needy than I realized.

I hear a knock on my door, I quickly flip over onto my side away from the door. I wipe my face with my sleeve feeling the wet tears, and cringe at myself.

I hear another knock. "Dream! You ok?"

I nod to myself and then I realize he can't hear me.

"I'm fine" I say I hear George open the door at that. He walks in softly trauting around my room and slowly heading towards my bed.

The thing is, I feel like the worst boyfriend ever and I don't know how to fix it and simultaneously the worst friend ever.

I should be helping George to feel better, he admitted that he feels like he's always doing something wrong in his relationship. I should be comforting him.

Some friend I am.

I feel a soft divet in my bed behind me and the bed creaking. George just sat down, then I feel a hand be placed onto my arm almost hesitant.

I immediately get a sense of comfort.

"You've been down, is it because of Leane?"

I hear myself sigh at her name. Making myself stomach feel like it's been punched by Mike Tyson.

"Well?" I shake my head yes.

I hear a 'hmm' from behind me. Then George gets up and moves to the front of me. I can feel his intense stare as I continue my hard stare with the wall.

"You've got bags under your eyes. You need to sleep a little more."

I sigh again, "I'll be fine" I say again.

He comes up closer looking me directly in the eye and he made it impossible for me to see anything else but him. He looks like wants to put his hand on my head for a second but he hesitates and drops his hand down.

I see it happen at the corner of my eye but I'm not sure I would care if he did or didn't.

"Aren't you guys still dating?"

I shake my head yes. He rolls his eyes like he thinks I'm dramatic. "Then why are you moping?" He says softly, like I was made of porcelain.

I feel comfort for a second at the worry. He moves close and then hugs me. I finally move up to hug him better.

He leaves a few minutes later.

That was a bit unusual yes, but it also wasn't. I know my friends are worried about me.

Maybe George is right I'm over dramatic but I feel so strange, ever since Leane left.

Like I was the thing she was running away from not her old work. Why aren't I happy? she got into a university and is now doing what she loves I can go and visit her in a year or a few months. But everything is phone calls until then.

A soft urge to cry pushes back up to my esophagus.

Oh I'm so cooked.

Why am I like this.

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I shut Dream's door and I heard a soft shuffle on the other side and then a soft whimper.

He's right back to quietly crying.
Most days Dream has been in his room pretending to not be crying and the other half is him playing with cats.

He hardly comes out to hangout or be on videos, streams.

I feel bad.

I really wanted to touch his hair. He had cut it but it still looked like too good of an opportunity to pass up.

I think he noticed me contemplating touching it though which is kind of funny when I think about it.

I walk over to my room and open and close the door and slide onto the ground sitting down against the door frame. Feeling like the worst best friend ever.

I know the holidays are coming up. I sigh sadly I hope we can make them good for Dream so he can come out of his slump.