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It had seemed like a good idea at the time. He just wanted to see how long it would take Dream to notice the switch, if he even noticed at all. Besides, they usually just communicate through discord since it’s open almost all the time – what harm would come from swapping their contact names? What would Dream text George anyway? ‘check your discord dumbass’?
How wrong he was.
12 hours after Sapnap changed George’s contact name to Sapnap and vice versa in Dream’s phone, nothing had happened. Obviously. By the time Dream had finally woken up, they’d been busy nonstop – making breakfast, taking care of Patches, just hanging out before a jam packed day of recording shorts and doing a mini stream train (George vs Dream manhunt with Sapnap spectating and offering unhelpful advice, followed by a chill q&a stream on Dream’s account for once). Sapnap had dipped out of the q&a halfway through because he’d felt a headache brewing and besides, it was 2am and he was tired because unlike Dream he didn’t have a totally whack sleeping schedule. This, of course, had left Dream and George alone on call at the time of night where thoughts are a little less filtered and consequences are considered a little less. Even chat had started picking up on it, but they tend to theorise on every breath they hear so no surprise there. After they’d pulled the plug on the stream, they stayed on call, of course. Did you even stay up beyond 3am if you didn’t stay on call with your best friend?
And then 4am hits. 4:06, to be precise. Sapnap is woken by his phone buzzing.
“George?”
“George come back”
“Please come back to the call”
“I didn’t mean to scare you”
Bleary eyed, Sapnap blinks at his phone. It takes him a second to remember what he did, and another second to process what’s happening. What the hell happened on that discord call? Just as he’s decide to call the prank quits and come clean for the sake of sleep, another message buzzes through.
“you don’t have to feel the same and this doesn’t have to change anything but I just couldn’t not tell you”
“well whenever you want to talk about it I’m here. I do love you though”
Well shit. How’s he supposed to face Dream and tell him he just read all that?