Chapter Text
"George," Dream said with a soft yawn, opening the door, "did you take my blanket?"
George's head shot to the source of the gravelly voice and muted, "hey, how'd you sleep?" George asked but judging by the way Dream was leaning in the door frame with heavy eyes and a pale sickly look on his face with deep eyebags, George would guess not well. George unmuted and excused himself, before muting again and walking over to Dream.
"Your blanket is on the sofa, you left it there this morning before you went to lie down, I can go get it if you want?" George's voice was actually pretty soft off camera, at least with Dream, not once did it go unnoticed.
Dream only nodded, running a hand through his unkempt hair, watching George walk away and grab a blanket, returning with it, "here idiot, get some more sleep, I'll end soon."
Dream wrapped himself in the blanket, giving a weak smile to the short brunette, "sorry I've been sleeping all day, I didn't get hit with the jet lag till after my stream last night."
"I know, I know, go get more sleep then idiot, I'll be there when I'm done and depending on the time I'll make you dinner."
"My hero," Dream chuckled, pressing an ever so gentle kiss to George's forehead after moving his hair slightly, "see you in a bit, George."
"See ya, Dream." George happily went back to his stream, seeming much happier than before, he admittedly was pretty down most of the stream since Dream was sleeping and couldn't make it to the stream with George. He knew Dream needed the sleep and wouldn't force him to be unhealthy over one silly little stream.
...
Dream woke up to George gently shaking his shoulder, "Dream, you gotta wake up and eat something please, then you can go right back to sleep."
Dream groaned and blinked awake anyway, somehow his eye bags were dark despite him being asleep for 10 plus hours, the blanket incident somewhere in that time range. This worried George about Dream's stress level.
Dream sat up slowly, letting his brain adjust to the world around him, quickly pecking George on the cheek, before taking a bite or two of the food presented for him.
"It's my first time making fet- uh shit, what's the word, fetta, you know what the word is."
"Fettuccine Alfredo." Dream said with certainty and George nodded with force, "yeah!"
Dream chuckled and laced his hand with George's smiling fondly.
"If you wanna kiss, just ask me, loser." George smiled cheekily and Dream rolled his eyes, his cheeks turning dark pink, "I think you're the one who wants the kiss here, darling."
George felt happy at the pet name, it was domestic, something that, before Dream, George thought he would hate. Things are just different with Dream, a good different. They hadn't even been in person for more than 3 days, and everything just fit into place.
The reality behind it all, is that they haven't kissed, on the lips yet, they've joked about it in private, but so far it's only small kisses on each other's skin, everywhere but the lips.
Neither would complain since they were both afraid of it going wrong, plus, they needed the right moment, even if they aren't sure what that is, yet, but they'll know.
Dream's fingers brushed along George's jaw, both their eyes fixed on the other's lips. Okay, so now seemed like the right moment.
Their noses were touching and lips parted, both full of anxiety, neither daring to breathe too harshly to ruin this moment.
An alarm ruined the moment though.
Dream groaned and pulled away, grabbing his phone and shutting it off, "I have to stream soon." Dream said before Tweeting that he was going to stream soon.
"Are you sure you're fine to do it? You don't have to stream, no one will be mad." George was clearly concerned and Dream only smiled, he made sure it was reassuring, made sure it was convincing.
"Come on, Georgie, let's go set up." Dream didn't hesitate to leave George, his plate long discarded.
The stream was nice, Dream just decided to play Minecraft, George was sitting in a chair so he was facing Dream and out of camera frame, scrolling through his phone.
Dream felt his phone going off a lot, and tabbed out of the game, to look at his discord on his monitor.
Gogy:
Hey!
Hi!
Ello
Dream!
Dream!
idiot! Lol
idiot!
idiot!
idiot
Darling!
Dreamie<3:
Yes darling?
George:
Hi!
Dream turned to face George and shook his head with a soft chuckle before returning to the game.
Eventually Dream's throat was getting hoarse so George looked around the room and frowned a bit, standing up and walked over to Dream, making sure the chat couldn't hear him by whispering, "I'm gonna get you some water," George spun them slightly in the chair so it appeared he was still whispering to Dream, but George placed a soft kiss to his cheek, "I'll be right back."
Dream nodded and watched George leave, returning his attention back to the game, George was right back with a filled water bottle that Dream moved out of frame to drink from, while George made funny faces to the camera. Dream was happy George had made the trip as fast as possible, Dream was doing a great job faking his surfacing panic to the chat, but George knew about it, he knew everything about Dream, it felt.
Which wouldn't be a bad thing, actually.
Once back into frame, Dream whispered a 'thanks, George' letting George move his own chair into camera frame, drinking from the water bottle Dream just did.
Stream had a hay day with it.
Dream read a Dono, "how was the airport meet up?"
Dream chuckled, "I hugged George, and he tried to kick me in the balls"
George chuckled, "I warned you.."
George thought back to the actual events of the airport,
He was pacing, the air was thin, at least to him, Wilbur and Sapnap were breathing just fine.
Sapnap also kept a look out for the tall dirty blonde to be seen at the baggage claim, knowing George was too hyper and nervous to be watching himself.
George started thinking of all the things that could go wrong to make Dream a minute and a few seconds late, not like George was counting.
George was pulled from his head when Wilbur tapped his arm and pointed to a tall man. George had told Dream that he wouldn't run at him, or hug him, or cry.
George did run at Dream, jumping and being held up by the tall man who only smiled into the embrace, and George did start crying, only after Dream placed a kiss to his cheek.
"This is real, you're really real.." Dream mumbled, still holding George who showed no signs of letting go from his koala hold.
"I could say the same to you, I'm glad you're here, you should carry me to the car!"
"Gog, I have to take my luggage."
Wilbur walked over and grabbed the suitcase and Sapnap grabbed the backpack, "we'll let you guys settle into each other's company, George knows where the car is." Wilbur explained and Dream watched them exit the airport.
"Now I guess I can carry you." Dream chuckled and felt George nervously kiss his cheek, before tucking his head back into Dream's neck. "My little George is shy~ how cute.” Dream teased and walked towards the exit, "though I wouldn't have you any other way."
George was pulled from his thoughts when Dream needed another drink, which he took after putting on Chapstick he had in his pocket. Once back in frame, George took the water and sipped from it, his lips tingling from the soft vanilla that rubbed onto them. So kissing Dream would taste like vanilla, I can't wait.
"Gog? George~" Dream chuckled and leaned closer to George, lowering his voice and making it gravel, "Darling, you're spacing out~"
George gave Dream a lopsided smile, his eyes had gone wide and his cheeks were red, "don't do that to me, idiot!"
Dream only laughed and watched chat wonder what he had said, choosing to ignore it. Just like he's ignoring how they almost kissed hours before.
That would have ruined it all.
The jokes are fine, the small pecks on the cheeks mean nothing to George after all, just part of the joke, so if they actually kissed it would have been bad.
Besides it's not they like each other like that.
...
Long after the stream, Dream was scrolling through his stream logs, reading through the donos, he say one that mentioned the song Astronomy by Conan Gray reminded them of DNF and to start it 40 seconds in, Dream went back to that time stamp of the dono and saw it was during a drink break explaining how he missed it.
He saw that most of the chat agreed and some people said it's more of when they have to finally leave each other.
Dream knew that the song might hurt, so he decided to listen to it anyway.
A tale old as time, young love don't last for life.
Dream let out a breath, 'Jesus, this is gonna hurt.'
And now I know, now I know.
It's time to go, it's time to go.
Dream inhaled.
We've traveled the seas, we've ridden the stars, we've seen everything, from Saturn to Mars. As much as it seems, like you own my heart, it's astronomy, we're two words apart.
Dream paused the song and tugged at the collar of his hoodie, it felt suffocating on his chest, or maybe his heart was the only thing suffocating.
His heart was overflowing and he wasn't sure what to do, so he resumed the song.
From far away, I wish I'd stayed with you.. but here face to face, a stranger that I once knew...
Dream mumbled something to himself, something not even George had heard him say, he was scared to face his fears, scared to have the walls he's built break. Scared to show vulnerability.
I thought if I wandered, I'd fall back in love. You say distance makes fondness but guess not with us. The only mistake that we didn't make.. was run.
Now look what we've done..
Dream ran his hands over his face, checking the time to see it was 2am. George had gone off to do something at like midnight with Sapnap for some reason.
He'd be home soon, surely.
The chorus rang back into Dream's ears, he knew each word already, he was attached to the song, and it attached right back.
Stop trynna keep us alive, you're pointing at stars in the sky, that've already died. Stop trynna keep us alive, you can't force the stars to align... when they..'ve.. al..rea..dy.. DIED!
OH WE'VE DIED~
Dream sang this time, "oh, we've traveled the seas, we've ridden the stars, we've seen everything from Saturn to Mars. As much as it seems, like you own my heart, it's astronomy.. we're two worlds apart."
It took the door closing to the house for Dream to realize he had been crying and shut of his monitor quickly trying to wipe his face without George seeing, "hey Dream!"
"Hey, Gog." Dream said softly.
"Sapnap's vlog tomorrow will be so cool! It'll be your first UK vlog! Aren't you excited!?" George walked over and saw the red in Dream's eyes on his nose and cheeks, he also noticed how Dream was shaking. "What's wrong?"
Dream smiled, "allergies mixed with sleep deprivation, I was just waiting for you to get back so I could make sure you made it back safe, I'm gonna go to bed now."
"Oh Uhm, sure, sleep well, Dream."
Dream only nodded and walked away from George, not looking back.
*
"I'm going to go meet up with Phil, I already talked to Sapnap and told him I didn't feel ready to do the vlog, I'll see you after though." Dream said as George had a death grip around his torso, Dream had an AirPod in, Astronomy playing through it, like it had all night and all morning.
"We can watch a movie when we get back!" George said with a smile, moving to his tip toes and planting a small kiss to Dream's cheek, "so you don't forget me, Dream."
Dream pressed a kiss to George's forehead, "so you don't forget me, Georgie." Dream smiled despite the crushing feeling at his chest. Why did George, hurt.
Dream walked off for a moment and came back with a hoodie, his face dark red. George only smiled and slipped it on, catching himself in the mirror and examining himself making sure his skin was fairly covered, it was bound to be chilly out with a storm approaching hours ahead, so George wasn't going to complain about the large hoodie, even though he knew it was only to keep George covered.
Dream had his own hood up already, glad he was taller than most people he would be encountering, tall enough for them not to be checking out his neck.
Dream felt arms around his neck and lent down towards George, their noses brushing, "Dream, kiss me."
Dream licked his lips before softly pressing his lips to George's, George melted into the kiss, one of his hands going to Dream's hair, while Dream rested his hands ghostly at George's waist.
It wasn't too deep of a kiss but they only pulled away when there was a knock at the bedroom door. Dream placed another kiss to George's lips, just a quick peck before following him out.
...
Dream had met Phil at a café. Once Dream noticed the barista hadn't recognized him or Phil, it was safe to remove his mask since the place was empty.
Dream was content with the warm silence of the place, sitting down at a table with Phil who was holding their coffee. Phil's was warm and Dream's was slushy like.
Dream had already opened one of the many packages of candy he had bought, being drawn to it when he entered, Phil knew he was stressed and didn't stop him.
"George and I kissed last night." Dream blurted out and Phil nearly spit out his coffee. "A little more warning mate." Phil has said with a laugh before patting Dream's arm.
"Mate, kisses happen, you guys clearly have feelings for each other, plus Sapnap already told me that you guys will like to kiss each other on the cheeks and forehead, shouldn't it be a good thing that you're slowly getting there?"
"I.. I wouldn't say slowly.. we didn't only.. uhm... ok this is.. ok uhm.. damn.." Dream muttered and Phil let out a deep sigh at the swear, "ok so.. we didn't like do anything.. and it's all fine.. nothing bad or anything.. there was kissing, a lot of kissing, and we were on his bed, actually. Then uhm.. we just slept because I had said we were both too tired.. and it's all fine because as long as he keeps the hood up and I keep mine up it's fine, actually."
Phil made a lot of faces, trying to rack his brain for what was being said to him, this was no easy thing for an emotional mess to be going through, Dream honestly just thinks he's overreacting, that he's just being over dramatic and this is nothing.
It's not like continuing down the path last night was going would hurt him. Right? Or would it get him a plane ride back to America, alone.
"Dream, you're experimenting with your relationship, and yourselves. So of course the idea of kissing and sex will be weird, that's the joy of learning and experimenting." Dream grimaced at the sentence and Phil chuckled, "too fatherly?" He got a small nod from Phil, "want me to say it as if I'm a friend?"
"Please."
"Alright mate, it's alright to be scared of making a move on your bestfriend, especially being close, but I say that holding yourself back in fear of ruining your friendship is bullshit, you guys are clearly destined somewhere to be together so stop being a pussy, mate." Dream smiled at that, it was nice to get a joke in.
After that, a lot of things happened in an instance.
Dream's and Phil's phones both started buzzing, thunder shook the building, soon lightning flashed, then a group of teens came in making Dream hurry to put his mask and glasses on before the group waited by the door for permission to engage, Dream was very proud of his fan base for respecting him.
Phil was shocked that they didn't run over, Dream just held up a finger to the group and answered his phone, "we're in a building right now, can you and Phil come get us now, Dream?"
Dream chuckled a bit, "yeah Gog, we'll be there in a few minutes, can you wait like 10, we have to stop at a store first."
George paused for a moment, and when he talked a door shut behind him, he had moved locations to be alone, "what I don't get a 'Darling' anymore?" George joked a bit and Dream chuckled.
"There's fans here, actually, but I can if you want."
"You know I do."
"Alright, Darling, we will be there in 10 minutes, stay safe." Dream's voice went soft.
"See you then, Dream..." George let Dream hand up, then Dream dropped his hand and the teenager came over to take pictures, then let Phil and Dream leave.
Dream went through 4 bags of candy already, his leg shaking. He asked Phil to pull into a cosmetic store and Phil knew why they had to go there, once two concealers were bought in two different shades, Dream lowered his hood and took the one matching his own and perfectly covering up the marks that were sloppily covering his neck.
They got to the outdoor obstacle place soon after and went into the building, George freaking out seeing Dream with his hood down.
"Excuse us." Dream mumbled and dragged George down the hall and into the bathroom, locking the door behind them, "sit up there." Dream motioned to the sink and George nodded allowing Dream to lower the hoodie. The marks displayed on George's neck were neat and placed strategically just in case the hood fell for a moment too long.
"Oh wait, I have a gift for you!" George exclaimed and pulled out two boxes, handing the white box to Dream and keeping the black box in his hands.
Dream opened his box smiling fondly at the bracelet that was in the box, it was green with blue speckles. Dream looked at George's that was blue with green speckles. Dream took the bracelet out and looked under the stone to see 'Gog<3' engraved, inferring that George's had 'Dream<3' in it and slipped the bracelet on, putting George's onto him before kissing his cheek.
"I'm glad you like it." George smiled softly and Dream pulled out concealer that Dream had guessed would match the smaller boy's skin tone. "What is that?"
"This is going to make your neck look like mine." Dream explained.
"Woah your marks are gone!"
"Exactly, Gog, also I'm staying with Wilbur at Phil's house this weekend, Phil says I'm going to ditch him and Wil, and Sap was cool with it." Dream explained and started working his magic on George's neck, pleased the tones matched perfectly.
"Ditching me already?” George smirked and Dream snickered, "look I'm done."
George was amazed that Dream actually managed to hide the marks, Some were rather dark. "How'd you get so good at this?"
"My mom and the rest of my family always let me do their makeup, I got pretty good over time, I'm better than my mom and my aunts, actually."
"You're adorable with your magic life skills!" George exclaimed and kissed Dream's cheek.
Dream kissed the bridge of George's nose, "we should go back."
"Real kiss?"
Stop trynna keep us alive..
George used his soft voice and Dream nodded, giving George a soft kiss on the lips, his body burning in contact.
Fuck, it hurts.