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"Dream? dream.."
Dream zones back into the conversation with George.
"Dream, what are you going to do later?" George asks "chat wanted to know"
Dream blinks a few times at his computer screen as he focuses on the figure on his screen.
"Oh sorry, I'm just kinda tired right now" he said as he rubbed the sleep from his eyes. "Probably going to edit the new manhunt video later"
"Just go to sleep already dream, it's like.... Five in the morning there!' George said as he stared to the left, probably at his discord.
"But I want to be here with you~" dream countered as he put this chin on his hand, chuckling to himself and looking at George's webcam on stream. George went full bright red as he rolled his eyes, seemingly to play off the clear indication of his bright pink cheeks. "You're such an idiot dream"
The chat starts to fill up with awwws and pogchamps when George tells him "dream you've been working a lot this week, just go take a break"
"Hmmmm... Nah" dream replies as he concentrates on George's facecam, looking for a response. George immediately frowns. "pwese do it for me dwemei" he says jokingly as he pouts. Dream wheezes as he sees this unfold Infront of him, along with George.
George quickly regains composure and begins to end stream. Dream watches silently as George waves to the chat,focusing on him and everything he does. From the brown hair to the smooth porcelain skin to his accent, he just couldn't get enough.
"What am I DOING!?" dream thinks to himself as the screen turns black, signaling that the stream ended.
"Dreeeaaamm?"
"Yeah"
"Are you okay..." George asks nervously
"Yeah yeah... I'm just not feeling it today" dream says as he buries his head in his arms. "A lot of work and personal shit coming up" he says out in a low grunt.
"You wanna talk about it or..." George starts off slowly.
"Not really up for that...maybe someday"
"Yeah...someday" George repeats in a hushed voice
"I'm just tired but I can't really sleep" dream says as he lolls his head to the side, looking at discord vc. "Just me and George" he smiles to himself.
"You wanna sleep call?" George asks " Its been a while and I'm down if you are"
Dream exhales before he replies "nah... I don't want to bother you, probably going to head off to bed soon"
"You know you don't bother me dream, unlike sapnap ever since he got my number." George chuckles. Dream smiling along at the memory.
"Whenever you want to talk I'll be here okay?"
"Yeah... Thanks George, see you later"
"See ya"
Dream closes discord and shuts down his computer in a few clicks. He gets up from his chair and immediately fall onto his bed which was just a few steps from his set-up.
His mind wanders as he closes his eyes. He hates this. Being alone with his thoughts. He thought about new videos he had to make. the upcoming meeting with the other dream smp members to work on the script. His sister getting ready to move away. The stress was piling on but usually he was able to keep up with it. "Usually"
As he stared up at the ceiling, he couldn't help but think about his empty apartment. He rarely had anyone over, apart from his younger sister and the rest of his family.
The only time he could actually enjoy himself was when he talked to his friends, most of whom are online, especially George. He wanted something more however. Real life friends who I'm close with? maybe. Patches is good company, but he longed for more.
He buried his face into the pillows, attempting to drown out the thoughts as fell deep into slumber.