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His fingers tightened around his wrist as he looked at their shared apartment door. He loosened his grip on his wrist and put his hand against the door and spoke up:
“George let me in, please? I didn’t mean it! I didn’t want to say that! Please let me inside! I know you can hear me; I know you are just behind this door. George, please?”
He heard something move behind the door, he shut his mouth and listened for more movement. He could hear George breathing in loudly and he swallowed. A quick breath intake made him smell the sour scent George was emitting. He took a step back and debated staying just in front of the door for the night. But wouldn’t that make George more panicked? He rubbed his eyes and felt how tired he was of all this. He turned towards the door and debated the chance of George giving him his phone at least. He turned away from the door and started walking away, George wouldn’t open that door in the next hours. He could be just as stubborn as Dream.
“Fine, let’s talk tomorrow again.”, Dream shouted over his shoulder and felt himself wince at his tone. But this time he just kept on walking. He took a turn to the left and started skipping steps down to the lower floors. Nicks single room was based in the dorm building just next to theirs. He passed through a group of Beta females that smelled him and scurried away from him, he kicked the railing in his anger on the way down and heard them gasp in surprise before they started mumbling again, this time presumably about him.
Nick opened the door on the second knock with a look of pure confusion.
“What are you doing here? Did George kick you out?”, Nick opened the door more after seeing his friends face but stopped as he didn’t hear the usual laugh coming from him.
Dream just stood there as Nick mustered him and inhaled a bit of air before his eyes widened.
“Oh god! He did! What did you do?”, Nick gestured him inside and he sat down on the betas bed. Nick sat down next to him and put an arm around his shoulder.
“I said somethings that were really stupid, and I need to stay a night here. Is that okay?”, Dream asked with his head hanging low.
“Yeah sure man. I’m your best friend, you can always trust me.”, Nick rubbed Dreams shoulder a bit before standing up and getting two bottles of water from his stack.
Dream took the bottle gladly and held it against his forehead to cool off.
“Want some patches for your glands? You are stinking of hurt omega. Not a good smell man, especially with your angry alpha scent. If someone else notices this, you might get a problem with the Omega Protection Services. “
Nick climbed up the bed and reached for a box and threw it onto Dreams lap.
“Here. Put these on.”
Dream nodded at Nicks words and opened the box. He took four patches and took of the clear sterile plastic. He smiled as he realized what the box in his lap meant.
“You are still keeping some for me?”, Dream put the four patches on and closed the box. Nick shrugged with his shoulders and Dream raised his eyebrow.
“What? Someone has to look out for your sorry ass.”, he took the box and put it back on the shelf before sitting down on the bed again. “Now tell me what happened.”
Dream opened the water bottle and took a sip before inhaling and starting to explain what happened.
Dream felt rage bubble up inside of him: “I don't know what I'm supposed to say to make it better!”
George turned around sharply with a pointed finger towards Dream. His face turned crimson as he jotted his finger deeper into Dreams chest.
“You could stop lying! How about that? Be honest! Did you or did you not flirt with him!”
Dream stared down at George and clenched his fist. He hadn’t even meant the damn compliment to his classmate, it was just his natural instinct to compliment a pretty omega. Maybe it was weird , given that he was in a relationship with George but it was in no way worthy of a big fight.
“You are making a big deal over nothing. It is not like I slept with him! I was just noticing his appearance and giving him a fucking compliment. Is that so wrong to do? Did the big bad alpha hurt your feeling by being nice to someone else?”
But just as soon as Dream wanted to take back his last words he saw Georges eyes tearing up and then a slap followed. Dream clenched his jaw and looked at Goerge who was glaring up at him with tears in his eyes.
“I am not an idiot, even if you sometimes think that! I know when someone is being unfaithful. But look at me now! I thought that just for once in my life I would find an alpha that actually cared about me. But what do you do? Go after the first guy with hooker barbie pink hair and a slightly feminine figure. Oh look at me I’m Dream I think with my knot!”
Georges had pushed his finger more and more into the fabric of Dreams white shirt and felt the mand growl at the end of his speech. He looked up and stood completely still as he stared at Dream who was fuming with his fist clenched. His whole posture screamed alpha and it was enough to make Georges knees wobble, he wanted to be everywhere but here at the moment. But running away would just get Dream to charge after him.
He thought about submitting and just letting this whole thing go but the whole thing bugged him, Dream shouldn’t have given that compliment. He was in the right, and as Dreams omega-oh.
No, as Dreams boyfriend he still held the right to be angry at this. Even without the bond he had the right to be angry at his own boyfriend telling someone they were “hot pink in his eyes”.
He tried growling back but that got Dream even more agitated.
“Goerge, be a good omega and sit!”, he stared at Dream in shock as his body slumped down to the ground. He couldn’t feel his knees, his legs were like pudding and his lungs felt like they didn’t have enough space in his body.
“Stop!”, he rasped and cried. He couldn’t belief his boyfriend of 3 years would go as far as to use his alpha voice on him. He pulled his knees closer and hid his head between his legs. He could feel Dream towering above him, he felt sick.
“Look at me one last time, dream. Look at me again and say you’re the one overreacting!”, he bit his lip and stood up. The pain helped to ignore the alpha command that was still sizzling in the air.
He went straight to the door and opened it while pointing outside.
“Why don’t you go and ask that bitch to let your stay at his place. I’m sure he’d be thrilled to see you. Because if I correctly remember, two days after your little stunt he went into heat. How funny is that? Almost as if you triggered it! I am sure he could use a knot right now! So why don’t you go?”, he swallowed down the jealous feelings and looked back at Dream who was standing still and looking at the place he had ordered George to sit down at.
“I didn’t mean to! George, I promise I didn’t want to do this! I don’t like him in any way please don’t do this!”, Georges heart winced at Dreams green eyes staring deep into his but he couldn’t back down after this.
“I said get out of here! You hurt my trust today twice and I won’t let there be a third time. Get out!”, Dream shook his head and stood his ground.
“No, please. Let’s talk about this. I don’t understand why we are even fighting about this.”, Dream opened his mouth to correct himself, but George had already started growling.
“Get the fuck out! Now! I will start screaming if you won’t get out!”, Dream groaned and shook his head.
“Sometimes I don’t get you. You’re such a little bitch.”, Dream walked towards the door and grabbed the doorknob to close it behind him before turning back and sneering:
“Don’t come running back to me and asking for help with your heat again. But I will gladly take your offer to go take care of Dave.”
George felt his jealousy feed of these words and he felt closer to a collapse than ever before. He wouldn’t know what to do if Dream actually went to that guy. He could cry all he want but in the end he would have allowed him to do so. He felt tears threaten to fall and he saw a look of recognition on Dreams face before he quickly relaxed his face muscles and closed the door. He didn’t want to give Dream the knowledge of what these words did to him but he felt that the other already knew.
He hid behind the door and cried silently into his hands. He was to angry to say anything, he wanted Dream to come back inside but on the other hand he wanted to hurt the other just as much as he did to him just now. He sat there and ignored everything that Dream said. He wouldn’t answer at all, they could talk in the morning. Or maybe they wouldn’t have to, if Dream did go and sleep with that pretty-
George felt his chest tightened and he sat down and pulled his knees to his chest. Why was he so insecure when it came to looks. Dave was one of the best looking Omegas in their year, and he knew that Dave had an interest in Dream. Many were even rooting for them to get together. George bit his lip, he didn’t want to lose Dream. He sometimes didn’t even understand why the alpha chose him over so many others. They had common interest but he didn’t look special. Maybe his colour-blindness was a part of his stupid problem, he had read in a history book that their instincts associated colours with fertility and therefore attractiveness. Maybe he didn’t find himself attractive because everything looked a bit the same to him.
He shook his head and stared at the ground.
“Or maybe I’m just really sad right now and I should go to bed to sleep it off.” George took a shower and jumped into Dreams bad, he grabbed the shirt Dream used as his pyjama shirt and buried his nose in the scent. He felt himself cry again but he felt comforted by the others scent. The warmth of the duvet made him feel like Dream was holding him while he cried.
“You fucked up big time.”, Nick said as Dream finished his Story.
“I know.”, Dream admitted quietly. “I want to apologize but he wouldn’t let me. I might just wait for him in front of his classroom after his first class. But I don’t want to pressure him, I honestly understand it if he tells me to ask for another room.”
Nick nodded and smiled at Dream.
“You always have me, if he kicks you out than we can just ask the dorm to move that bed to here. Should not be that hard. But hey, maybe it’ll be alright tomorrow? Let’s go to sleep and think about consequences tomorrow.”
Nick patted the mattress and laid down. “We can share, I don’t have anything you could sleep and I don’t want you sleeping on the floor so get in here.” Nick posed with his hand laying on his hips and whith his eyebrows wriggling.
“Come on under.”
Dream laughed and felt a bit better at his friend’s stupid antics. “You’re so dumb.”
“But you love me!”, Nick said with a laugh and turned of the lamp behind the bed.
“I do. You’re the best friend I ever had.”, Dream said in all seriousness and Nick stopped laughing at that.
“Thanks man. Good Night don’t let today trouble you too much, kay?”
“Mhm, I won’t. Night.”