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"George..." Dream sobbed out as Sapnap was crying into his shoulder, they were sitting on the floor of their hallway, both profusely crying.
"Shit are you guys okay!?" George asked, his sleepy voice prominent.
"George.. it was so sad.." Sapnap mumbled.
"What was sad? Are you okay? Is someone hurt?"
"My heart." Dream let out with a sniffle.
"Mine too.." Sapnap added, "it's just, why would Wilbur do that?"
"What did Wilbur do?" George asked he sounded seriously ready to fight someone for his friends, even if it was Wilbur.
"He cut the cord to the.. to the phone.." Dream could hardly make words.
"It's your fault Dream! You made him!" Sapnap blamed Dream even if it wasn't actually his fault.
"It wasn't though... Dream just wanted to protect George.." Dream cried out, his body shaking making his voice falter.
"Dream, what the hell are you talking about? You are Dream and I'm literally right here." George laid back down on his bed, lost.
"No George.. it was.. I thought it would be another spicy story from Tiktok." Sapnap mumbled, "I should have listened to the comments about it being fucking sad."
"Wait, did you guys read a stupid fanfic?" George asked slightly irritated he was called at 4am over this, even though they both sounded way more hurt emotionally for this to just be about a fanfic, George had read his fair share of them, especially the ones that would trend on social media, like Heatwaves and Helium by tbhyourelame, George liked Helium better, maybe because he finally got to actually meet up with Dream and even if it was just a fanfic, seeing Dream hurting that bad in Heat Waves broke George more than once.
He also read Accelerate and Passerine. That's for the trending ones, if he pulled up his Ao3 tab with the search of DNF fics he would be on page 108 of like 200, he had read almost each one, experimenting how he felt during each one.
He also had a handful bookmarked, the soft fluff ones that really helped him when he was missing Dream- missing was an understatement. When he was longing for Dream.
The one person he couldn't have.
"It was Flowers from 1970." Dream admitted pulling George from his thoughts.
"Yeah you idiots, I had heard it was sad." George rolled his eyes, remembering when he read it weeks before and sobbed for hours alone before calling Dream just to talk to him, to hear his voice.
After certain fanfics where something goes wrong, where George loses Dream, the real George will call Dream and make up an excuse for the call when he just needed to make sure Dream was still there.
It was a silly thing that he wouldn't admit to, to Dream's face, luckily he's never seen it.
In the fics he always ends up seeing Dream's face, always.
Why can't life be as easy as a fan fiction.
"Have you r-read it?" Sapnap asked, sniffling.
"Sap, I told you I don't read Fanfics, I'm not stupid like you, and you should have read the tags, they tell you everything you need to know, like that huge fight on TikTok about Accelerate where people were complaining that there was not enough street racing but the tags warned them about the real truth behind the story, and also, I wouldn't be that desperate for Dream to fuck me." George realized he had said too much, "at least I hear George was really impatient.. from TikTok."
"You read Accelerate? Like that one with you in booty shorts and a sucker?" Sapnap asked.
"With George and what!?" Dream asked, wiping his face.
"I'll send you the link." Sapnap said and giggled.
"I wanted to see the hype, besides I only read the trending ones just so I understand what my fans are talking about, it's not like I'm going to get on the hood of Dream's car with booty shorts on and a lollipop hanging from my mouth, I like on the other side of the ocean." George joked and Sapnap started dying of laughter, Dream was still trying to process everything.
And he was imagining George in booty shorts.
"Oh Dream, since we haven't talked since this afternoon, I got your package."
"That's good! Send a pic tomorrow."
"You have a picture of me in the black one though~" George complained and Dream chuckled.
"Just do it, also go to bed, I'm sorry for waking you up." Sapnap added, getting up to head to his room.
"Goodnight Sappy Nappy~" George cooed and heard Dream walk into his own room and plop on his bed, yawning.
"Hey," George said after a few moments of silence.
"Hey.." Dream said, his voice low and raspy.
"Some of those fanfics are brutal, and some of them are stupid, it all depends."
"You know a lot about these things huh?"
"Well when I'm not sleeping I like to see what the fuss is about, Passerine made me tear up a bit and I prefer Helium over Heateaves"
"Why?"
George froze for a moment, "oh uhm, Idk, because we meet up in the second one."
"You're not telling the whole truth, I can tell, let the night sink in, you're bolder at night." Dream chuckled a little, his voice not breaking the rasp.
"I didn't like to read about character you being in so much pain because of character me, that's all."
"Aww you care about me! I love you too, Georgie"
"Yknow we make all these jokes, but what if something more real happens instead."
"Real like what?" Dream asked, curiosity heavy in his vocals.
"I bet I could speed run my way into your heart." George said softly, "as more than friends"
Ah so George was bold bold tonight, wonder what he was reading before bed.
We've all been there though.
"Fine but I bet I can speed run into yours faster." Dream challenged.
"Okay great, what does the loser get?" George asked.
"If I lose them I have to go to cold ass London for a winter and experience my first winter with you, or if you lose you can come spend the summer in Florida and die of heat." Dream's smiled could be heard, deep down they both knew this would be a win.
"You're on, pretty boy." George chuckled a bit.
"Get some sleep babe, we can stream tomorrow, I love you." Dream spoke softly and George's heart almost gave a flutter.
"Goodnight, Dream." George mumbled softly and allowed Dream to end the call, before dozing off with a smile on his face.