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“hey george, do you recognize this trail?” dream asked, surveying their surroundings. amber and golden leaves coated the forest floor, the sounds of birds echoing through the trees. for this weekend, they had decided to take a hike. they had been sitting inside filming for far too long, so they desperately needed the exercise.
“what do you mean? literally all the trails look the same, of course i recognize it.” george replied, gesturing to the landscape. dream narrowed his eyes at his boyfriend, reaching over to snatch the map away from him. george strained to grab it back before giving up, letting dream examine it.
as he looked over it, he took note of the title of the map.
“george, this isn't the right map.”
george whipped his head around, marching over to where dream was. he glared up at him briefly before looking down to read the title for himself.
oh shit.
the map read “ruby falls trail” at the top. however, they were hiking on the blue ridge trail.
“listen it's not my fault, i'm colorblind!” george cried, trying to lighten the mood a bit with a joke. dream simply rolled his eyes at the older before pulling out his phone to open google maps.
“fuck, no service,” dream mumbled, wandering around a bit to try and get at least one bar. dream groaned and let his hand flop down to his side in defeat.
“well, since we followed the trail on the map, we can just follow that path we took, and we’ll get back!” george exclaimed, beaming up at dream. dream smiled a bit before taking the map back.
“okay georgie, where are we right now and where do we need to go?”
george pointed to a spot on the map. “we’re right here,” he traced the yellow line that he followed earlier, “and this is where we need to go.”
dream pressed a quick kiss to george's head as a sign of thanks before beginning the walk through the woods.
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about half an hour had passed and the sun was starting to set. george let out a yawn, stretching his arms out a bit before going back to following dream.
“dream i'm so tired!” george whined, catching up to dream and leaning against his arm. dream let out a sigh before halting his steps.
“alright, get on my back, i can carry you.” he squatted down to allow george to climb on. george immediately got on his back, wrapping his legs securely around dream’s waist. “comfy?” dream asked.
george let out a hum and nuzzled into the back of his neck, pressing a light kiss to the skin there. dream smiled to himself, continuing the hike to the car.
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george awoke to the sound of a seatbelt clicking. “dream?”
“yes, love?”
“where are we?” he mumbled, clearly still half asleep. dream leaned down and pressed a kiss to his nose.
“we’re in the car, go back to sleep, cutie. i’m driving,” he answered, shutting the passenger door and climbing into the driver's seat.
by the time they had pulled out of the parking area, george was fast asleep.