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Loud screams of obnoxious laughter and screams echoed through the headphones that were placed over the top of George’s head, obviously too large for the brunet’s head. It didn’t matter though, they still functioned like normal headphones, plus he has had these for years.
“You motherfucker!” Quackity swore through his mic, being the loudest one out of the 5 that were there. Don’t get him wrong, George loved his friends so much… But in this specific moment in time, there was only one person he wanted to spend his time with.
Diverting his eyes to his second monitor, he overlooked Karl’s face that was shown on his screen. Karl was currently streaming a 5 out of 5 feral boys stream, deciding it had been a long time since they had been able to get all 5 of the boys together. One of them always seemed to be busy with the reality of real life.
The chat flew by with capital letters of ‘LMAOOO’ and other letters that didn’t make full sense. George looked down slightly, looking over the desk that he spent hours upon hours sat at every day. All the small objects he had collected from his adventures he had experienced with his friends lay out in a line below his monitors. Like the small rock from one of tommy’s vlogs.
Despite enjoying himself in all the outings and trips he had been on, he couldn’t stop the aching feeling in his chest that he felt. He was surrounded by so many people that loved him and appreciated his presence, but the only person he wanted that from was Dream.
It had now been a full 6 months since George and Dream had met up last, too long if you asked George. But being so busy with other stuff like their family, they hadn’t found the time to meet up again. George hated it, long distance was so hard sometimes.
George more than often not found himself zoning out in these moments, wanting nothing more than to just get on a plane and fly across the ocean. The ache in his chest was constant, never leaving his side. Was it just him that was suffering like this? Or was Dream hurting too, he was quite frankly too scared to ask.
A pink elephant caught his attention on the hardwood desk, he remembers it all too well. A silent tear sped down his cheek, the stinging in his eyes now making It known to him that he was crying. Thank god he wasn’t the one streaming.
More memories came back the brunet, like the time when both the boys first shared the feelings they felt with one another. It was probably one of the most happiest days of his life, realising the person whom you have loved for so long loves you back.
The time when they both met up in the airport a few weeks after that happened, the way they clung onto each other so tight not wanting to let go. Tear were shared in that moment, despite George not really showing his emotions a lot to people. It was only Dream after all, the love of his life.
It was safe to say the day that Clay had to leave was even more emotional, after spending a full month in the UK. George had to accept that Dream had to get back to his normal life of visiting family and making content for his fans.
George now still sat on his desk chair, reminiscing all the times he and Dream had shared together with tears cascading down his cheeks and making his face red and puffy.
He had only just realised how long he had been trapped in his thoughts when he looked over at the time in the bottom right of his screen, jumping out of his seat when a high-pitched voice came out of his headphones. “George!” Quackity had screamed, seeming to the top of his lungs. George covered his ears slightly and the loudness, not really making a difference.
“huh.” Was the only sound that came out of his mouth, causing the Discord call they were in to explode into a fit of laughs and giggles.
“Where have you been? You just like, disappeared.” Quackity followed on.
George looked onto his monitor, showing his character in Minecraft standing in front of his small Minecraft house he had built. His screen also showed Dream standing a few blocked away from George, seemingly looking directly into his soul. “Oh, uhh Guess I just zoned out for a while… Sorry.” He apologised.
“Alright, anyways theres this…..” Quackity began speaking again, rambling on about random things that has happened to him in the week. Once more George blocked out all the noise that emitted from his headphones. Slight movement from Dream was seen on Minecraft, where he pulled out a sign and placed it on the grass.
‘Are you alright bub?’ was wrote out quickly, Dream exited out of the typing menu before looking around to make sure they were both not being watched. It would be quite the surprise if their relationship was exposed to the worldwide internet like this.
George stood still for a few seconds, processing the question that had been asked of him. His cheeks seemed to show more pink at the name ‘bub.’ Wasn’t used very often, but George kind of loved it.
George moved his hands to his keyboard to move his character towards the sign, he broke the sign only to place it back down again and begin typing. ‘I miss you.’ Was all that was wrote on the sign, as soon as he pressed enter, he stepped away to allow the other to read.
‘Want to go on call together? lets talk about this.' George stared at the new sign, how was Dream so understanding. It seemed that every problem that George faced, Dream knew exactly what to do.
‘Of course.’ That was all that needed to be said before Dream spoke in the loud call, silencing everyone.
“Me and George are going to leave now, have something that needs to be taken care of.” Everyone obviously seemed to be understanding of them, they knew about the relationship that the two had.
George and Dream obviously didn’t leave without the odd joke of what the two would be doing while off stream. “What you guys going to make out or something?” Sapnap shot out, to which Dream just chuckled at the words and spoke “You are such an idiot.” Before leaving the call with George.
Now it was silent, only noise being the white noise from the computer. A few seconds of this passed before a loud ringing noise from George’s phone was sound. ‘Clay <3 is calling.’
George obviously wasted no time in grabbing his phone quickly and pressing the accept button. “Hey honey, how you doing?” A soft voice immediately spoke through the speaker. George was ever so grateful for this man, how on earth could he have gotten so lucky.
“Hi.” George said, voice wavering slightly from his crying only 5 minutes prior.
“What’s wrong Georgie?” Dream spoke out, hearing the hesitance.
“I just- I want you here Clay. I miss you so fucking much my Heart hurts. I want to cuddle you on the couch while we watch a cringy film, I want to kiss you in the morning when we both wake up. I want to sleep in the same bed as you while we huddle up because it’s cold. I love you so much it’s killing me.”
At these words Clay’s heart shattered, he hadn’t realised how much George was hurting on the inside. He was glad that George had expressed this to him though, knowing he had a history of finding it hard to admit these things. Dream was happy that he was trusted enough to be able to hear these things.
Truth is, Dream was feeling this too. He wanted nothing more than to travel across the ocean to be with his love, he knew that long distance would be hard for the two of them. They had both talked it out before making anything official, and decided that it could work if they both put the effort in. Neither regretted a thing.
“I know bub, I miss you so much too. Maybe I can look at some flights tomorrow morning to come see you, it has been way too long.”
George’s eyes lit up from this comment, realising there was a possibility that he could see Clay. “Do it now! Do it now!” He replied happily over the phone, mood immediately changing. Clay chuckled from this, already pulling up flights from Florida to England. “Okay Okay…”
“There is one here for about 2 days time, would you want that or one for about 2 weeks?” The only thing Clay ever wanted is for George to be happy.
“The first one, I want to see you as soon as possible.” He sounded so desperate, so desperate for the loving touch of his boyfriend.
His heart melted, he didn’t know how desperate George was to see him… But then again, he needed to see George too.
“Right okay…” Clay said to mostly himself as he filled in his card details before clicking pay. “It’s done.” George let out a small cheer of excitement, making Clay chuckle out of amusement. It was clear the smile was now evident in George’s voice.
“Why don’t you sleep honey… It’s quite late for you over there, aren’t you tired at all?”
George was in fact very tired, but didn’t want to miss an opportunity to talk to his boyfriend for a while on their own. “But I wanna talk to you.”
“I will be right here when you wake up, I can cancel anything that was going to happen tomorrow, I want to make sure you are okay.”
Now this was something George could get behind, spending the whole day with Clay. He sauntered over to his bed in the corner, getting under the covers quickly while setting his phone on the bedside table. “Let me see you.” Clay demanded playfully. George rolled his eyes but did it anyways, even though his face was probably still visibly blotchy from crying. “Goodnight Clay, I love you. Thankyou for being here for me always.” George closed his eyes, about to sleep the most restful sleep he has had in a while.
“All I wanted is for you to be happy George, I love you so much. Have a good sleep, I can’t wait to see you.” Was the last words that came out of the blonde’s mouth before George was fast asleep.
Oh boy was he in love.