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karl’s birthday is tomorrow and sapnap has somewhat of a plan. kinda scruffy, but it works.
- birthday cake or cupcakes??
- present(s)
- stream?
ok, it isn't kinda scruffy, it’s absolute shit. but it works for now, for now. karl went to sleep early, sapnap isn’t sure why- could be so many reasons. wants to sleep early for his birthday, caffeine crash, hasn’t slept in a day, etc.
it's 11PM and he has no other plans, so he messages dream, 'YOOOO i need Help. what do i do for our Boyfriend's bday :) REPLY RN ASSHOLE!' he gets a reply less than a minute later.
'uhh ?? idk if he's planning a stream but maybe make him breakfast in the morning nd then just hang out all day? LOL SORRY SAP'
he sighs, that seems good but dream's wording is kinda shit. despite that, he replies 'swag thank u bae' ok, he'll make breakfast. not like he's horrible at cooking or anything- nope! he's the best actually. what's the guy? ah yup- gordon ramsey, he's superior to him.
anyways what does karl like? he doesn’t exactly remember, so he’ll just make a typical breakfast. eggs, bacon, and pancakes, that should be it? he should probably watch a cooking video to know how to do it, but he’ll probably call dream in the morning for help even if the dumbass doesn’t know either.
he sets an alarm for 7AM, puts a note to call dream and sets it to vibrate mode so the sound doesn't wake karl up. he undresses himself so that he’s only in a white stained shirt and black boxers. he slips under the soft covers and cuddles into karl becoming the big spoon. he hums and makes small circles on karl’s shoulders, he passes out to the sound of soft breathing and the buzzing of their fan.
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he wakes up to a vibrating sensation on his side and goes, but reaches out to stop it. he dismisses the alarm and forces himself up, once he gets up he almost slips on his pants.
he notices the fan has spread apart the thin curtains so it’s very bright in their room. sapnap walks towards it to close it and squints his eyes at the brightness. it’s so fucking bright despite it being early. he thought it would be a dark kinda light if that makes any sense. the kinda dark where it’s still dark, but you can see everything around you. the kind of dark where you can look at your hand and raise it to the ceiling and think, ‘i am real.’
quiet mornings like these remind him of his grandparents house. their house is out of the country so every time they’d go he’d pass out on the way and wake up to their dogs barking. those mornings were only ever worth it to see the sky. like now, it’s so bright, but so lovely. he wishes he could remember this specific image but he knows he’ll forget soon.
he grabs a hoodie from one of the chairs in their room and leaves, he closes the door slowly so it doesn’t make any noise, but at the last moment a creaking noise gives out. he hears karl mumble something but doesn’t wake up.
he walks down the stairs and enters the kitchen and hears a ping come from his phone. ‘what’ from dream, instead of replying he calls him on discord. “hi, goodmorning or whatever, help me cook.”
“what’re you making karl?” sap tells him that he’s making a very simple breakfast, one he’s never done himself. dream tells him he’s made this countless times for his family so he explains it. “dude i wanna put uhm what’s it called like berries in the pancakes, how do i do that?” “just through them in? i don’t know.”
it's 8AM when they finish. he wants the food to be warm for karl when he wakes up, but he also wants him to get rest. karl has been so tired lately, but forces himself to stay up for planning streams or sometimes just to annoy sapnap.
dream yells his name. oh fuck, that scared him so much, "dream! what do you want?" "your attention, hi, love." they continue
flirting
talking until Karl wakes up, aka ten minutes.
sapnap's laughing at something stupid dream said before he hears a thump behind him. he turns around expecting karl but finds a bundle of blue blankets.
"hey baby," a groan in response. "hungry?" karl stumbles towards the closest chair. he slumps and rests his face onto the cold surface. sapnap gets his breakfast ready, two pancakes, some bacon and eggs. he sets it down in front of karl and ruffles his hair.
"i'm still here, idiot." oh yeah, dream. karl perks up at the sound of his voice and mumbles a good morning. he starts eating his food so sapnap makes a plate of his own.
when sapnap sits down he grabs his phone and turns his camera on to face them so dream can see them eat. (totally not weird, endearing.)
they continue eating and karl avoids the eggs. while sapnap eats the eggs, dream pretends to fake gag. "shut up, you stupid man. you have the worst taste ever, especially because you're with me. not karl though, you did great there." he ends off by putting his fork in front of the camera threateningly.
dream had turned on his camera right after sapnap so at sapnap's action he raises his hands up in defeat. they continue eating and talking for a while before sapnap cuts one of them off. "so uh dream? what did you get karl? because we never got anything in the mail."
he hears shuffling from dream and can only sees his forehead with locks of hair covering it. "ah- yeah yup, i- okay." huh? besides him karl let out a 'laugh' through his nose. he had been scrolling through twitter, but had gotten a notification from the paypal app. he assumed it was a donation from a fan and was checking if they had left a message.
what. what the fuck. it's five thousand dollars from dream with the note, 'heyyyyy bb boy heyy happy bday swag money B)!!!'
oh, he's such an idiot, he tilts his screen to show sapnap and he immediately starts yelling at dream about how his 'gift' wasn't 'from the heart' like sapnap's. he had drawn a random screenshot of over the garden wall from google. he runs to his room to get it and sticks it onto the fridge with a flower magnet. he stands in front of it proudly with his hands on his hips.
karl grabs sapnap's photo and flips the camera so dream can take screenshots. "okay look this is uhm- red hat gnome guy-" "wirt!" "-and little weird man!" "greg!"
dream teases sapnap for not knowing their names and sapnap yells back, "shut the fuck up, you dick. you didn't even get him a gift." dream sputters out defenses but karl laughs so he lets out a sigh of defeat. they both end up bullying him and dream whines about how 'this isn't fair' and that he 'has nothing against them.'
after a while the teasing goes down and karl says, "hey? wanna watch over the garden wall with me? so you can know all the characters!" in this moment karl seem like the human embodiment of '^-^'
"of course, baby." they go to the living room and get into their cuddling positions. sapnap as the big spoon and karl as the little. (karl holding dream on his lap.)
on the second episode all three of them pass out. soft breaths and snores are heard throughout the room.