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“sap?” the younger turned his head to dream, ceasing his conversation with george in favor of turning to the blonde who was nervously standing infront of them. “yes, angel?” they both picked up on the fact that the other was little by the slight whine in his voice and how he was holding his penguin in his hands. “know you’re hangin’ out with daddy but- needed help.” they both frowned at that. ever since they’d suggested knocking to the other since he’d accidentally walk in on them kissing he’d been hesitant to come to them when small. “hey thats okay. we can all hang out together, yeah?” george proposed to which sapnap nodded and effectively put a smile onto his friend's face. “can- can hang out even though you don’ love m’ like georgie?” hesitantly they’d looked at each other, unsure if he’d meant it in the way they thought.
“dream come sit with us, yeah?” upon the request the other quickly moved near the others before stopping, unsure of where he should sit till the younger patted the spot in between them both and he curled up there with his penguin. “can you tell us what you meant when you said he didn’t love you like he does me?” george asked and smiled as his boyfriend took to gently running his fingers through blonde hair, soothing the nervous look on dream’s face. “dada doesn’t wan’ kiss me nd’ stuff. he kisses daddy so he must love you more.” the fingers running through his hair stopped until he proceeded to whine softly till they resumed. “dreamie i can’t kiss you like i do george, he’s my boyfriend.”
they were both unsure if while little dream just didn’t understand that kissing was a romantic thing or if he wanted to be kissed outside of his headspace. “know. s’ jus’ not fair! daddy always looks so happy after. wan’ know what its like.” sapnap smirked at the brunette, earning him an eyeroll before george spoke once more. “dream are you saying you want sapnap to kiss you?” just to make sure he was reading the situation correctly, surprised when he received a nod accompanied with a soft sniffle. “thats, wow. um, sapnap?” the other looked just as surprised as he did, unsure if they were even allowed to kiss dream when he was little. the tears welling up in the blonde’s eyes surprised them even more although they were still quick to react, sapnap pulling the boy into his lap and george moving closer so he could comfort dream.
“no! its okay, please don’t cry. we just aren’t sure i should kiss you right now.” he cringed at his own wording, knowing it didn’t make the situation any better and in fact made the tears begin rolling down the others cheeks. “fuck. i’m not good at this. george?” the brit sighed softly and gently took dreams face in his hands, looking at him lovingly and gently wiping away his tears. “there. look at our pretty boy, hm? so beautiful all for us.” they both knew dream was a sucker for praise, especially when small. “y-yours?” george chewed on his bottom lip nervously and looked over at sapnap for confirmation that this was okay, noticing how tears almost immediately welled up in dreams eyes once more at his hesitation.
upon getting a nod from the younger he immediately went back to reassuring dream in an attempt to stop the tears. “yes. all ours, if you’d like to be.” unsurprisingly he nodded in agreement excitedly. “even when m’ big? will still be yours?” they both couldn’t honestly answer that, this being uncharted territory. “if you want then when you’re big then we’ll talk about it.” sapnap decided, that answer being good enough for the other. he was theirs now and thats all that mattered.
the next day rolled around and dream woke up with them. in their bed. little did he know he’d practically begged to sleep with them the previous night, everything from when he was little was typically fuzzy like when you try to remember a dream after waking up. he then proceeded to rub the sleep out of his eyes until they opened once more and he realized george was awake. he was in their bed with them and he’d have to talk to them about this. “oh. h- hey.” there it was. that smile that never failed to make him relax. george’s smile was always reassuring and could make him feel better even after particularly bad days.
“hi. i hope its okay you’re here, you didn’t want to leave.” he blushed a little at that. he’d asked to be here? “its fine. i don’t mind it.” dream missed the smirk that’d fallen onto the others face before getting ready to move, only to be stopped by the arm around his waist. “good luck. he cuddles like a koala, you wont get him off till he wakes up.” the blonde couldn’t be bothered to hide his smile at that and instead moved to curl up in the others arms, pausing before doing so. “is- is this okay? know he’s your boyfriend and all…” george couldn’t help but smile as the other rambled to him.
“you didn’t seem to care that he was my boyfriend yesterday.” he audibly giggled at the flash of fear that flew across dream’s face at the fact that george may not be okay with this. “you mother fucker! oh my god i thought you were upset.” the brunette set his phone down to run his fingers through the others hair, much to his dismay since his question wasn’t being taken seriously. the blonde proceeded to pout, furthering the giggles erupting from george. “god, dream i don’t care if you cuddle with him. he’s your best friend for fucks sake, cuddle away. its only ten you’ve got time to kill.” he finally allowed himself to relax in the others arms, smiling as he was pulled closer to sapnap’s body and allowing himself to indulge by burying his head in the youngers chest. they look good together. george thought, surprising himself.
was he supposed to think that? should he be upset that his boyfriend was cuddling with another guy? dream doesn’t really count as just ‘another guy’, right? well, what made dream different from other guys? he’d be upset if sapnap cuddled with someone he didn’t know or wasn’t close with wouldn’t he? maybe i’m not upset because they look cute together. he was always painfully obvious to himself with his emotions, so much so he’d take on more feelings at once than he could handle. it was too early to be thinking about this, he decided. so instead george set his phone to the side and curled up beside them, grinning when dream moved to accommodate him as well. “this okay?” the words were whispered to him from below and he simply nodded in response, feeling sleep tug at him.
the next time they woke up it was around six pm and sapnap had awoken first, moving away and watching as dream whined before curling into george’s chest instead, always looking for touch even when asleep. he’d be lying if he said he didn’t find it cute. still somewhat tired, the other reached for his phone and responded to messages until he’d come across karl’s asking him if they wanted to stream uno on his alt later tonight. instead of responding he shuffled out of the room and called his friend, smiling at how fast he’d picked up.
“hey! did you see my message?” silently, he shut the bedroom door before responding, voice still somewhat thick with sleep. “yeah i did. i don’t think we’ll be able to play though, something kinda happened yesterday? could, like, fuck up everything and i don’t wanna say we’ll join and back out.” shuffling was heard on the other end before karl’s voice returned, now filled with worry. “oh thats fine, i'll do golf or something. is everything okay with you guys? like you and george and such? i really don’t feel like finding out you guys broke up via fucking twitter.” sapnap giggled at that as he set the phone on the counter and shuffled around the kitchen in search of his goldfish he’d stashed so dream wouldn’t eat them while little.
“no, we’re fine. its uh, dream. i’m not sure i should say cause its kinda his business but god i need to talk about it. my brain is, like, melting.” he got a hum in response from karl, practically picturing the other sitting at his computer working right now as they spoke. “well you can tell me if you want? like if you just need to get it out i won’t judge and i’m not gonna tell anyone.” sapnap sighed in response, grabbing his goldfish and leaning against the counter the phone resided on before speaking. “its just, he said something while little yesterday.”
karl was well acquainted with the idea of little space since dream had come out to him about it after george had to leave a stream to take care of him. “said he wanted to kiss me just to know what it was like because george always looked so happy after. and- and when george said he was, like, ours he asked us if we meant that for when he wasn’t little either.” he let the words sink in before he was startled by karl suddenly speaking. “holy shit. he likes you? what about george? he had to be upset, right?” sapnap shrugged before realizing the other couldn’t exactly see him. “i dunno if he likes me, but george didn’t seem upset about it? maybe it was just because he can never be upset with dream when he’s little but he didn’t seem to care? and dream said he wanted to be ours as in, like, me and george’s so maybe he likes both of us.”
there was silence on the other end when he finished talking, much to his own dismay since he always took it as the other was judging him instead of processing. “okay so lets say he does just like you. what then?” he didn’t know what happens then. sapnap wasn’t even sure if he liked dream. (oh who was he kidding, of course he liked dream. it was dream for gods sake.) “i don’t know. i think if dream likes us at all he likes us both.” karl hummed in response before speaking once more. “okay if he likes you both then what? do you guys like him?” karl was way too upfront for his liking, feeling unable to hide what he was feeling from the other. “i don’t know! he’s been my best friend for nine years and when i look at him i feel all bubbly inside, does that mean i like him?”
he could practically hear the smile on the brunettes face as he spoke and internally groaned, knowing the reply he was going to get. “i think it does.” god this is a mess. “morning, sap.” his head shot up from his hands upon hearing a voice to his right. “oh! uh, hi dream. you didn’t hear anything right?” the other still looked pretty out of it and tired so he doubted if he’d heard anything he’d remember it “morning? its six pm.” the blonde visibly jumped at the voice coming out of the phone before relaxing a bit, going to open the fridge. “i didn’t hear anything and hello karl its good to see you too.” karl giggled at that, fostering an eye roll from sapnap. “i’m gonna go, talk to you later?” the younger knew he would but sapnap figured he’d ask anyway. “yeah, but please talk to them. i think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.”
after sapnap bid the other goodbye once more and dream did so with his head in the fridge looking for the leftover mac and cheese he’d left in there. “dream, you don’t remember shit from when you’re in little space right?” the other asked, watching as he pulled out a container of mac and cheese and stuck it in the microwave since he was truthfully too tired to actually cook. “mhm. its all just really fuzzy.” so he didn’t remember asking to be kissed? this was gonna be awkward. sapnap decided he’d wait for george to wake up since it concerned him as well. “why? did i say something bad?” the worry rising in his voice made the other frown a bit before shaking his head. “no, nothing bad . i was just wondering.”
the emphasis on the word ‘bad’ confused dream but as the microwave beeped he found he couldn’t bring himself to care yet. “alright, if you say so. when do you think george will get up?” sapnap shrugged and reached into the drawer to get the other a fork. “dunno. he likes sleeping alone so it could be an hour or so.” dream raised an eyebrow at that and tilted his head in confusion as he watched the other pull goldfish out of a bag. “why on earth does he like sleeping alone? i hate it, and when did we get those?” it was well known dream wasn’t the biggest fan of junk food, always offering to cook instead. “i got them and kinda hid them, in my defense i really wanted goldfish. he likes having his own space sometimes, i don’t mind.”
they were somehow having two conversations at once and he loved it. it was so them to be talking about goldfish and george’s habits all at the same time. about thirty minutes later george stumbled into the kitchen, making them both smile at his bed head before he wrapped his arms around sapnaps waist and laid his head on the others shoulder. “morning to you too.” dream said, smiling at the two because he was happy for them and he most definitely did not feel a pang of jealousy. nope he did not want to be in both of their positions because that would be weird. he was so fucked.
“its not the morning. our sleep schedules are shit.” george muttered and they both melted at the way his voice sounded with sleep practically coating it. “god you sound so hot right now.” sapnap was very upfront with it, shocking dream and making george grin sleepily. “simp.” the younger rolled his eyes at that, moving away from george out of spite. “fuck you! just for that you can lay all over dream now instead, i’m going to eat my goldfish.” it was obvious he wasn’t actually upset, but george grinned anyways and felt dream shiver as his arms wrapped around the blonde’s waist before laying his head ontop of the others. “wow dream flirting with my boyfriend right infront of me. not cool dude.”
almost immediately dream went to apologize, face falling into one of worry. “i’m not- he- george! i’m sorry, sap i-” the blonde paused as he heard sapnap giggle and turned to george, forcing the other to lift his head and expose the smile on his face. “i hate you both.” he said, almost unable to hide the smile that wanted to overtake his face as he moved away from george’s arms with his food in hand. “oh come on dweamie you know you love us.” sapnap teased, much to the others dismay as he watched george get closer once more and take his face in pale hands. “g-george?” the other now no longer had a teasing smile on his face, he was now looking down at dream with a rather serious one.
the blonde held in his breath as he felt the brunette gently thumb at his lip, glancing over at sapnap who didn’t seem to care. “sapnap i think we should talk.” dream was beyond confused. george was looking at him with burning intensity but also talking to his boyfriend at the same time. “sure, about what?” there was a pause. like they were mentally communicating. “i can go if you-” “no. i think you should be here.” george decided before releasing his face and moving back over towards sapnap. “did you tell him what he said when he was little?” george was very blunt. getting right to the point instead of dancing around it. “no, figured you’d wanna be here.”
the brunette nodded in agreement and ignored the panicked look on dreams face. “dream, yesterday you asked sapnap to kiss you.” he dropped the container in his hand. they both jumped at the loud noise the plastic hitting the floor made, but other than that there was no mess since it was empty. “oh my god i am so sorry, i shouldn’t have asked you to do that. i literally have no memory of it.” george and sapnap looked at each other, trying to understand each other without speaking.
“its okay, dream-”
“fuck do you mean its okay? you’re my best friend and so is george!”
they both sighed simultaneously and sapnap went to pick the container and fork up, sticking them in the sink to be washed later. “dream its okay. that’d be a dumb thing for us to be upset about, plus you were little we couldn’t hold it against you and he didn’t kiss you when you asked. its something else that you said made us want to bring this up.” dreams heart sank. he’d said more? “you started crying because we weren’t sure if i should kiss you whenever you’re little, i think? and george reassured you that we weren’t, like, upset and he said you were ours. as in, you know, ours? and you asked us if that counted for when you were big as well.”
as the other spoke dream practically drowned in embarrassment, curling in on himself and shying away from them. “dream i need you to look at me and stop running away.” george’s voice sounded so much closer than earlier before dream looked up and realized he was closer.
“i- how can you say that? i asked your boyfriend to kiss me, and-”
“dream.” the brunette cut his rant off, not wanting the others mind to go to the possibility of them hating him. “we are not upset with you. we just need to know…” he trailed off, looking to sapnap who nodded in agreement. “we need to know if you meant it.” out of all the things dream had expected him to say that wasn’t one of them. his mind was yelling at him and telling him that they wanted to move out to get away from him and that he was weird for what he’d said. “what?” his disbelief was showing through and he did cringe at bit at it. “we need to know if you meant what you said. about wanting to kiss me and wanting to be ours.” sapnap explained and they gave dream a moment to process.
“i think i meant it? is- is that okay i know you guys are together and i respect that-”
“dream.” “what?”
“you’re rambling.” the blonde flushed in embarrassment and took the fidgeting with the hem of his hoodie to distract himself. “i think i can speak for us both when we say we aren’t opposed to the idea of kissing you or, like, being with you.” sapnap was surprised at that and george noticed before rolling his eyes. “you practically jumped at the idea of kissing him. the only thing stopping you was him being little and you not knowing if you were allowed.” the younger flushed at that, george was always better and reading his emotions than he was and he wondered how long he’d known about them liking dream. “i’m confused. you guys aren’t upset?”
the brunette looked down at dream for a second before turning to sapnap who was no doubt blushing. “sap?” he looked up from his suddenly very interesting spot on the ground before nodding. “yep. we’re happy about it. george how long have you known i’ve…?” he trailed off at the end and tilted his head cutely in confusion. “since, like, yesterday. you aren’t exactly subtle. you look at him with so much love.” there was a pause in the conversation as they got used to their new normal. they weren’t just dating each other anymore they were dating
dream.
“can you blame me?”