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Dream woke up at 1am to the sound of his dreaded alarm going off. “Ugh…Why?” He groaned while trying to gain the energy to push the covers off of him and get out of bed.
The boy got a phone call from the only person that could possibly be calling him at 1am… Karl. His boyfriend was the only person that would have the energy at this unholy time in the morning to pick up the phone.
“What?” Dream asked, his rough and raspy morning voice going through the phone as he only woke up a few minutes prior.
The blond heard a scoff on the other end of the phone, “well someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed.” Dream heard his boyfriend say sarcastically. “No ‘hey, baby’? Just a really rude, if I may add ‘what’,” Karl continued cutting himself off mid sentence trying to sound hurt but Dream could hear the smile peaking through his words as he spoke.
“Hey baby,” the blond said more lively now that he has semi-woken up “what’s up?”
“Nothing, just waiting for another hour so I can come pick you up all by myself. I’m also finishing packing that I didn't finish last night,” the male replied.
Dream replied with a laugh “Karl you got your licence like 3 weeks ago. Your mom has to be in the passenger seat.”
“Ugh!” he dragged on “Knowing my mom she won’t let me drive,” Karl replied with clear annoyance in his voice.
Dream let out a chuckle that quickly turned into a wheeze. “How am I dating such a fucking dumbass?” He continued this kettle like wheeze until he could no longer breathe as Karl stood at the other end of the line wondering how his boyfriend suddenly got so much energy.
“I will push you off of the Eiffel Tower,” the smaller male announced.
“Oh shit yeah. I should probably finish getting ready. I kinda forgot we are literally flying to France in a few hours.” Dream giggled realising he should probably finish the packing that he only half started last night at 10pm.
Karl laughed knowing rightly how much Dream probably had to do knowing his boyfriend.
Dream yawned. “Why did we have to get up at 1am for this stupid trip,” He asked his partner.
“Maybe because of the fact that it’s almost an 11 hour flight. It will be 4pm here but 10pm over there.” The brunet reminded him.
Dream scoffed “Time zones are fucking weird man,” he uttered before letting out another loud yawn which felt like it lasted forever.
Karl giggled “I’ll let you get yourself sorted. I’ll see you in an hour. love you.”
“Bye! Love you.” He smiled before hanging up the phone to go and get ready as well as mentally prepare himself for the 11 hour flight ahead of him.
He started off by clearing his wardrobe of any clean clothes he could find before throwing them into his overly large suitcase, not bothering to fold them, telling himself that he would do it later. He then moved on to his kitchen where his mom was up and running making pancakes as well as packing snacks into a small backpack.
“Hi mom,” Dream said, walking into the room where his mother was standing preparing breakfast. It was technically a midnight snack.
She jumped “Clay! You need to stop sneaking up on me like that,” his mom stated playfully, slapping him on the arm.
The man chuckled “what are you making?” He asked his mom who had turned back to the frying pan to check the food wasn’t sticking.
“Pancakes. Thought I would make you something nice before you leave,” she said tears threatening to flow down her eyes at any second.
Dream pulled his mom into a hug. “Mom, I'm going away for like 5 days if you count coming home. It will be like I was never gone and we can call everyday. There's like a 6 hour time difference. It might sound bad but we can make it work.”
“But what if you get lonely?” She sniffled, not wanting to pull away from her son's tight embrace.
Dream smiled, pulling away from the hug to look at his mom while drying her tears. “Mom I'll be fine, Karl’s going. You know Karl, he can even keep me out of trouble.”
“Promise?” His mom replied with a smile.
Dream held out his pinky, “Pinky promise.”
The boy continued to get ready for the long day of travelling ahead of him until he heard the horn of a car beep outside. More specifically Karl’s horn…Or Karl’s moms horn to be exact.
“Karl!” Dream exclaimed running out of his front door to give his boyfriend a big, bear hug.
“Dream!” Karl yelled back with the same energy while digging his face into the crook of the blonds neck.
The two separated and waited until their moms finished their conversation.
After what felt like ages of the two parents talking, Dream mom quickly rushed into the house to grab something. The same bag that Dream saw his mom pack just half an hour ago.
“I almost forgot about these. It’s just a bag of a few things you can snack on while on the plane. Aeroplane food is gross” She said as she scrunched up her nose in distaste.
Karl’s mom spoke up “well we better get going. It was amazing talking to you again Tracy,” She shouted as she got into her car followed by Karl.
“Bye mom. I love you,” Dream said, trying not to shed tears as he pulled his mom into one last tight squeeze.
“I love you too sweetie. Remember to have fun and behave, ok?” She replied barely over a whisper as she pulled away.
Dream started to walk towards the car “Bye!” He yelled one last time before getting into the car, closing the door and driving off.
Karl was sitting in the middle seat resting his head on Dreams' shoulder who was sitting beside the window. He was behind the passenger seat where he had the most legroom.
The two boys almost fell asleep on the way to the school where they were all going to meet up with teachers and other students before getting a bus to the airport where they would finally take off.
When they finally got to the school Karl gave a long goodbye hug to his mom before the two walked off hand in hand towards the buses where they would start their expedition to France.
“Aye! George, Sap, Wilbur, Tommy, Tubbo how are you all? Dream said as he greeted his friends with hugs and handshakes, Karl following behind doing the same.
“Hi everyone! Sorry I'm late,” spoke a female voice.
“Niki!” Wilbur yelled excitedly when he saw one of his best friends, “I didn’t know you were coming,” he said once again not being able to wipe the smile off his face.
“Of course I'm coming, Will,” Niki giggled, “I refuse to leave you with Tommy and Tubbo.”
“Well thank you Niki,” Dream stated sarcastically wrapping his arm around Karl’s shoulder making both their presence known. “Good to know you care about the well-being of our eardrums as well.”
“What about us?” Sapnap questioned looking at Dream in disappointment due to the fact that neither his name or George’s was mentioned.
Karl let out a cute, child-like giggle, “How’s it feel for Dream not to care?” Sapnap rolled his eyes while George just laughed bringing the other boy into a hug.
“Aww Pandas of course I care,” Dream cooed, going to join the small group hug.
Wilbur looked around the group looking for 1 specific person. “Where’s Ranboo?” Wilbur said, confused while turning to Tommy and Tubbo in hopes for an answer.
“He’s said he’s sick. But I don’t believe it. I think that dickhead just feels bad that he would be leaving his parents for what 5 days?” Tommy said while Tubbo backed him up by nodding for the taller guy.
Dream nodded “Fair. Kinda feel bad though.” Everyone let out a sound of agreement before Mr.Phil walked up to the group.
“Aye! Philza my man!” Tommy said, more like shouted, the teacher's nickname as he walked up to them.
“Tommy just cause i’m your dad doesn’t mean you call me ‘Philza’. We are with school so it’s Mr.Phil to you,” Phil replied with a smirk knowing he had embarrassed Tommy because of how pink the boy's cheeks were.
“Fuck you old man!” Tommy yelled before walking away from the group followed by Tubbo as everyone else laughed.
Phil laughed with a proud smile on his face. It was one of those ‘dad who’s trying to be cool’ faces. “You guys ready?”
They all nodded before walking towards the buses ready for the long day or travelling ahead.
They all sat in the bus. Dream and Karl sat in the middle of the bus with George and Sap behind them, Tommy and Tubbo in the row next to them and Wilbur and Niki behind the younger boys.
“Do you guys want any snacks?” Dream asked, opening his backpack curious about what his mom packed.
The only two that wanted anything this early in the morning were obviously Tommy and Tubbo. Dream and his boyfriend tucked into a few twizzlers while the two younger children stuffed their mouths shut with fruit gushers.
Karl went to take a bite of his twizzler when he let out a quiet yawn.
“Are you tired? You were full of energy a second ago. What happened?.” Dream smirked looking at his fluffy haired boyfriend who had a sad but tired face. “I’m only kidding. Come here.” He chuckled as he pulled Karl closer so the brunets head was on his shoulder. “Go to sleep baby,” Dream said as he also closed his eyes.
“I love you.” He just about heard Karl say.
“I love you,” He replied, giving Karl a kiss on the head before both guys fell into a deep sleep.
They woke up an hour later to Dream getting slapped in the face by Wilbur and Karl being gently shaken awake by Niki.
“Wake up bitches we’re here!” Tommy yelled loud enough that even people outside the bus could have heard the younger teenager.
Dream felt Karl dig his nose further into his shoulder. He chuckled. “C’mon baby time to get up.”
“Hmm. I don’t wanna,” Karl uttered sleepily.
“I know you don’t but as soon as we get through security and on the plane you can sleep for the whole 11 hours if you want,” He said softly trying to get the male to wake up as the whole bus had already left.
Karl finally got up and dragged his feet sleepily down the bus aisle and down the stairs as Dream held his hand to make sure he didn’t fall in his tired state.
The two finally made it into the airport where the class was waiting on them and Philza was doing headcount to make sure he still hasn’t lost any children.
“Oh there you two are! I thought I had already lost people,” Phil announced, letting out a deep breath that Dream could tell he had been holding for a while.
“No, we’re ok Mr.Phil, had to wake up Karl.” Dream laughed, reassuring him that all was ok.
“Clay you know you can call me Phil right. I’m only saying Tommy can't to wind him up.” Phil told him while putting a hand on his shoulder.
Dream laughed, “thank you Phil,” He continued before walking off, back to his group of friends.
The group talked and laughed for the 2 hours they had to wait to get onto their plane. Luckily they were all seated close to each other. The only reason Tommy liked this was because it meant he got to steal more of dreams snacks.
Karl sat with his head on Dreams' shoulder as they put a movie on the small tv screen that was attached to the back of the seat in-front of them. They scrolled for a minute on the tv scrolling past the shitty movie selection when they came across High School Musical. Dream was about to scroll past it when he heard a quiet but audible gasp leave the fluffy haired brunet’s mouth.
He sighed before pressing play on the movie and sent a smile in Karl’s direction. Karl placed a soft kiss on Dream’s cheek before turning back to the screen and snuggling back up to his boyfriend in the same position he was in before.
He listened contently as Karl hummed along to every single song in the movie but he was loudest when ‘Breaking free’ came on.
The first movie turned into watching the second which led into watching the third. By the end they were both in tears. Dream didn’t think a cringe teen movie made back in 2008 would have made him cry as much as it did. The two boys just sat cuddling each other as silent tears ran down their faces.
It was hard to believe that only 5 hours had passed. The fact that they still had 6 hours made Dream want to curl into a ball.
They both simultaneously wiped their tears as they saw Tommy start to walk towards them.
“Hey Big D!” Tommy yelled too loudly for such a small space. Karl laughed at the nickname.
Dream rolled his eyes before he replied hoping his voice didn’t break from the crying. “Tommy, I've told you to stop calling me that.”
“Anyways, Big D. Me and Tubbo are wondering if we can have more of your sweets?” He asked obviously trying to sound polite in hopes for a yes.
“Why should I? I've told you to stop calling me ‘Big D’. Why should I give you anything,” Dream replied with his arms crossed happily with how pissed he was making Tommy.
“Please?” Tommy said, making puppy eyes at Dream just hoping for a yes.
Dream took a few items out of the bag before handing the 4 packets of candy to the younger boy. “You do not tell Phil that I was the one who gave you them when he asked why you're so hyper. Okay?”
Tommy nodded happily before walking back to Tubbo, both boys with huge smiles on their faces as if it was Christmas morning.
“I think i’ve made a mistake,” Dream said while rubbing his hand over his face in regret.
Karl looked up and gave him a kiss on the lips. “Probably. It’s ok though cause Phil doesn't have to know it was you,” He finished before he yawned.
“How are you always tired?” Dream chuckled looking at his boyfriend who just couldn’t stop yawning.
Soon enough Dream yawned as well. “Stop yawning you bitch.” He stopped to yawn again “I fucking hate you.”
“Aww true love am I right Niki.” Dream heard the voice belonging to Wilbur coming from behind him.
Dream and Karl simultaneously turned around “What the honk,” Karl said, looking at Wilbur to see he had his phone in his hands obviously recording the interaction.
“Sorry, don't mind us. Go back to your conversation.” Wilbur looked him dead in the eyes as he said it with an innocent smile on his face as Niki died of laughter and the couple looked at each other confused before looking forward again in their seats.
All was quiet for a few minutes until they heard the very loud and obnoxious voice of Tommy from a few rows forward. “Tubbo, look at this! Dream called Karl a bitch!” Which sent Wilbur into a loud laugh as everyone else looked at them confused and Phil kept reading his book honestly just not wanting to know what was happening.
“Oh my fucking god” Dream groaned as he buried his face into Karl’s fluffy hair not wanting to look up at all of the confused classmates staring at him.
“What the fuck happened that Tommy was screaming?” Sapnap asked from the row next to them.
“Wilbur being a dick,” Dream replied, finally coming out from hiding.
“Language you muffin!” He heard Bad yell from all the way across the plane.
Karl giggled once again “How the honk did he hear you,” He said before taking a handful of his skittles.
Once everyone had settled down they tried to find another good movie to watch as they were now too hyper after their candy to go back to sleep. They settled on Moana after 2 whole minutes of Karl begging Dream to put it on.
‘You’re welcome’ was playing when Sapnap looked over to see what the two were watching. Next thing all you could hear was Sapnap loudly screaming the lyrics to the song.
“What can I say except you're welcome!” He continued to scream the lyrics as everyone died of laughter until a new voice was able to be heard over the screaming brunet.
“Sapnap! Shut! The fuck! Up!” They heard Punz yell before yet again another voice was heard but only this one was cheering Sap on.
“Yeah Sap! Get it I guess! Why’s he kinda…” Bommer yelled which just turned into an argument across the plane of Punz and Boomer arguing.
“Boomer don’t fucking encourage this! Just cause your a fucking simp!” Punz said once again before Phil had to get involved.
“Fuck you Punz!” Boomer screamed at the boy on the other side of the plane.
“Boys! Right c’mon sit down and stop arguing” Phil said trying to calm down the situation.
“Yeah calm down, you're giving the old man a headache!” Tommy yelled which made everyone die of laughter to the point that everyone on the plane was purple.
You could just about hear through the loud laughter Phil mutter “I don’t get paid enough for this shit” before he sat back down with his book.
Tubbo proudly high fives Tommy before both went back to eating their delicious Hershey kisses and their peanut m&ms.
The place had finally calmed down, there was still the giggle coming from somewhere every now and then or the quiet sound of it being repeated after someone recorded it.
Dream wondered what he did to have to sit here for another 5 hours… And stay another 5 days just to be in the same situation.
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When the plane landed everyone was happy to finally get back on solid ground after being stuck in a cramped plane with Tommy's obnoxious screaming about running out of snacks the whole time.
Phil started talking to himself making sure someone didn’t get lost once again. “Tommy, Tubbo, Clay, Wilbur, Niki, Karl, George, Bad, Skeppy, Sapnap, Boomer, Puffy. Perfect!”
“So where to, Philza minecraft?” Tommy yelled in the man's direction while Dream looked up from his phone after texting his mom that he landed safely.
Phil started leading the group towards another bus after collecting their bags before responding, “first we go to the hotel and sleep Tommy. It’s 10pm. I’ll tell you what we are going to be doing for the next three days tomorrow.”
When they arrive at the hotel Phil assigned everyone rooms. Each room had 2 double beds. It was Dream, Karl, Sapnap and George in one room, Wilbur, Boomer, Skeppy and Bad, Niki and Puffy and finally Tommy and Tubbo who were overly excited to be 1, sharing a room and 2 getting a double bed to themselves.
Phil handed everyone their room keys and they all made their way to their rooms silently, still tired from the long journey. And having to listen to Tommy for that long.
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When Dream woke up the next day it was 3pm. George was asleep cuddled into Sapnap, Sap was playing a game on his phone and Karl by the sound of it was in the shower.
“Hmmm,” Dream groaned, still tired from the long day yesterday. “Good morning..Or afternoon. I’m not so sure anymore” Sapnap laughed for a second before stopping not wanting to wake up George who’s head was on his chest.
Sapnap looked over at the blond, “good afternoon sleepy bitch.” He smirked knowing how much it would piss Dream off.
“Who the fuck are you calling a “bitch” dumbass?” Dream replied with a look that could kill which just made the younger boy laugh harder. But of course woke George up.
The boys sat silently hoping to hear George’s semi quiet snores once again. “Why are you yelling?” He said, sitting up and rubbing his tired eyes.
Before they could reply Karl walked out of the bathroom dressed for the day and his damp brown hair covering his eyes. “I definitely need a haircut”
“Karl if you get a haircut I mean it when I say I will kill you!” The blond spoke, running over to Karl bringing him into a hug while running his hands through the smooth, wet hair.
“Guess you’re going to have to kill me because i’m not dealing with the amount of times my hair has gotten in my eyes.” He shrugged, walking away and scrubbing his head with the towel.
Sapnap interrupted the conversation saying, “We should probably go find Phil and see what we are doing the next few days, although I'm pretty sure today is just a rest day because of the time difference.
The boys explored the hotel while trying to find Phil. They found every single student except Phil. Luckily Punz knew what room he was in and of course it was the same room they had passed multiple times.
They all stood outside arguing over who was going to knock the door when Karl finally decided to knock the door 3 sturdy knocks before they disrupted the whole hotel.
“Tommy this better not be you and Tubbo knocking my door and then running away again!” Phil yelled, opening the door to see the 4 students. “Oh sorry. Hi boys! What’s up?”
When Dream realised he was finally able to speak without breaking out into a laughter he said, “Hey Phil! We were just looking to know what is going to be happening for the next few days?”
“Oh yes! I forgot to tell you yesterday. So today is just going to be a rest day so everyone can get use to the time difference, then tomorrow we are going to Sacre-cœur which is this church thing on top of a hill it has some really pretty statues and from there we can go to Montmartre it’s this really nice place that has many tourist places where you can get things like postcards and then there are food stalls. It’s also all on cobble paths so it’s really, really pretty!” The man excitedly explained.
All the boys were amazed by the sound of the day ahead. “What about the third day?” George asked while rocking on the balls of his feet from excitement.
“Now that’s a secret,” Phil announced with a growing smile on his face.
“Aww Phil,” they all simultaneously said, being dissatisfied with the mans answer. “Can we atleast have a hint?” Dream asked, hoping for an answer.
“Hmm,” Phil thought. “I hope you’re not scared of heights,” He said with a smile closing his door.
“But I am scared of heights!” Dream yelled, through the door while his friends all laughed at him.
When they finished laughing Karl gave his boyfriend a hug and said, “C’mon baby it’s ok. Let's go back to the room, order food and just watch movies.”
They made their way up to the hotel room inviting Wilbur to come along and watch when they saw him walking around the halls exploring.
When they got up to the room they ordered room service which consisted of baguettes because they couldn’t understand anything on the menu. It also consisted of Wilbur and Sapnap arguing because Sapnap asked where the pizza was and refused to believe Wilbur when he said Pizza was from italy.
When the food got delivered they logged into Dreams disney + account on the hotel TV because once again they couldn’t understand anything that was being said.
They sat all day watching movies until it hit 10pm when Wilbur decided to head back to his room. They were all in agreement that it was time to go to sleep for their early start in the morning, well 11am…but that was early for them.
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“ Dream! Baby! Babe! Darling!” Karl was yelling in Dream's ear for the last 5 minutes trying to wake up the deep sleeper.
“Yo dickhead! Wake up bitch!” Sapnap screamed in his ear which managed to wake Dream up. “Finally. Took you long enough you fuckin’ sleeping giant, beast fuckin’ thing. Even George woke up before you and if you ask me, that’s saying something.”
Dream rolled over in bed to face the boys who were all crowded on his bed like children waking up their parents on christmas morning. “What time is it?” He said, sleepily.
Karl lifted his phone to get the exact time. “It’ 11:08. So get the honk up.” Karl lightly smacked Dream in the face before jumping off the bed and running out the door.
Dream quickly went for a shower before getting ready and walking out the door with his friends to find his dearly beloved boyfriend. They decided to go straight to the breakfast buffet in the hotel knowing that was the most reasonable place someone would be at 11:20.
When they got there the smell of bacon and eggs filled their nostrils which made their stomachs grumble, but what caught their eyes was the sight of the brunet digging into a plate of food like there was no tomorrow.
“Karl! Save some for us!” George yelled from across the room while running towards the boy which awarded them some stares from other guests.
They sat down with Karl and ate, admiring the taste of the food in front of them.
Karl swallowed his food before speaking. “Did you hear what Tommy and Tubbo ordered from room service last night?” The boys shook their heads in hesitation wondering what the two 15 year olds had done this time. “They ordered snails! Like actual snails! Like the gross slimy things! They ordered honking snails!”
They all gagged at the thought of eating the disgusting creatures. At the same time they pushed the plates away from them after losing their appetites.
Phil told them to meet him by the buses at 12pm so they could start their adventure into the foreign country. When they found Phil he was standing outside the bus with everyone else in a line while he marked down who was ready to go.
“Hey phil!” George called over to the man who looked up from his clipboard.
“Hey boys! Are you ready to go? Everyone else is in the bus,” The older man asked the students in front of him.
They all looked at each other before nodding in agreement. “Okay great! Go get on the bus I just need to get google translate open on my phone to talk to the bus driver!” Phil continued, looking back at his phone before nodding them onto the bus. “Seats aren't assigned so take whatever seat your teenage hearts desire.”
“Haha! Thank you Mr. Phil.” Karl laughed, leading the way onto the bus.
The boys took a seat at the back of the bus where Wilbur sat with his feet along the row trying to stop Tommy and Tubbo from sitting at the back where they claimed “is for the cool big guys”.
“This is bullshit!” Tommy exclaimed, with Tubbo nodding in agreement. “It’s not fair! We’re 15 But you are all 17! You should let us sit here!”
“That’s actually a lie. Wilbur is 18 and Sapnap is 16. Only me, Dream and George are 17.” Karl corrected the boys with a proud smirk on his face.
Tommy and Tubbo walked away in a huff because they didn’t want to face the fact that they had been corrected while the males all just laughed.
When they arrived at Sacré-Cœur they all made their way off the bus and stared up at the hundreds of stairs before them.
“Are you ready kids?” Phil asked, singing in the tune of the theme song from SpongeBob.
“Aye Aye Captain!” Every single student replied, Boomer, Tommy and Tubbo competing to be the loudest of them all.
“All right then! Let’s go!” Phil led the way towards the many steps that Dream was dreading going up. “Now as you can see there are in fact many steps in front of us! Does anyone want to guess how many steps there are?”
Answers flooded through the crowd. Answers like 500, 420 and 269 being said. This continued for another 30 seconds before Phil gave the answer, “300. There are 300 steps that we have to walk up.” There were noises of amazement but also groans coming from the two boys that Wilbur had given the nickname “Clingy Duo” because of the fact that the two were always attached at the hip.
“I know it sounds like a lot but we will be able to walk up in a matter of minutes,” Phil assured the class. They started to walk up the stairs, talking at how beautiful the place in front of them was. They were at the top of the hill in less than 5 minutes. It would have taken an even shorter time but for once instead of Tommy and Tubbo, Punz and Boomer were arguing on who had the “most chad” name until they settled on Foolish who was back home.
They stood at the top in astonishment of the sight in front of them. “That’s one big ass place,” Sapnap stated, as everyone nodded slowly, still star struck at the huge building.
The class followed Phil into the building and their heads immediately shot in different directions as they took in the high ceilings and the statues.
The duo consisting of the two T’s ran off after Phil told them they couldn’t play tag or hide and seek in fear of them breaking something.
“This place is so sick,” Dream said in the direction of his friends.
“I can vouch for that,” Sapnap uttered, hardly getting his words out. “George is about to swallow fuckin’ flys if he keeps his jaw on the floor like that!” The sentence that his best friend spoke caused Dream to wheeze like a damn kettle which just caused everyone else to laugh.
“Guys, look at the amount of benches! How many people do you think this place could hold?” George asked the group in curiosity.
Before anyone could continue Tubbo came running in with Tommy trailing breathlessly behind him. “Can someone give me a euro? Please?”
“Can I ask why?” Dream asked while taking out his wallet.
“There is this machine outside you out a euro in and you can get this cool coin thing! I don’t say this often but can I please have a euro as well!” Tommy continued, and Dream handed them both a euro before they ran back outside. The boys decided to follow behind to check it out.
They got outside and watched the boys put their money into the machine they were talking about.
“I got a cross looking thing!” Tommy yelled excitedly. “ It says…Cathédrales Et Sanctuaires De France! What does that mean?”
“Cathedrals and sanctuaries of France,” Karl informed Tommy of the meaning before looking at Tubbo to see what he got.
“Mine has Sacre-Cœur on it! Like the actual building thingy! It says Basilique Du Sacre-Cœur!” Tubbo looked over at Karl silently asking for the meaning.
“Basilica of the sacred heart,” Karl continued with the definition as he was the only one out of the boys that knew French.
“What what? The sacred heart?” George asked in the direction of Karl.
“Yeah! That’s what Sacre-Cœur means. The sacred heart. I actually googled what it meant last night after talking with Phil about where we were going!”
“Look at him! I sometimes have a smart boyfriend!” Dream said, wrapping his arm around Karl and pressing a kiss to his temple.
“Honk off Clay.” Karl walked away and over to talk to Niki and Puffy.
“Holy shit! He called you Clay. You are fuckin’ Done for man!” Sapnap yelled in amusement.
Everyone explored and took photos for another hour before Phil led them to their next location.They walked down a cobble path until they arrived at a place called Montmartre. It was full of cobble streets and stalls. The smell of desserts like crepes, churros and waffles filled the air as they walked past. Dream spotted a crystal stall that he was hoping to get to without Karl seeing to try and get something for his boyfriend.
They all divided into groups and made their way around stalls.
“Ok I want to be able to go around all of the food stalls so where are we going first?” George asked the group as his stomach rumbled from hunger.
“I say we go and get actual food first and then we get deserts,” The blond suggested and everyone agreed as they started their journey to the first stop.
They wandered around and ate a variety of meat and bread. While everyone continued to one more stop before deserts, Dream took his opportunity to sneak next to the crystal stall only a few feet away.
“Hi I was looking for a Crystal for my boyfriend but I don't really know what I would want to get. Do you think you could help?” Dream kindly explained to the man with a bereau hat.
“Yes, yes of course I can help! You said it was for your boyfriend, didn't you?” The man replied in a thick French accent. Dream nodded towards the man. “Hmm would you want something romantic?”
“Erm… Yes please, that sounds great actually.” Dream smiled, waiting for the man to continue.
“Ok we have this rose quartz necklace. It is the stone of unconditional love. It’s believed by some to emit strong vibrations of love.” The man smiled up at Dream who was a few inches taller. “Would you like this or would you like me to find something else?”
Dream thought for a minute. “You know what? I’ll take this. But do you think you could write the definition down for me? I want to be able to say it just like that.”
The French male smiled up at Dream before taking a pen and paper to write down the meaning of the romantic, pink rock.
When Dream had paid for the crystal he quickly made his way back to the group of his childhood friends hoping nobody realised he was gone.
“Hey baby. Where were you? We thought we lost you?” Karl brought the man into a hug before pressing a soft kiss to his lips. Dream could have stayed like that forever if it wasn’t for Sapnap who coughed having to remind them of his presence.
“I was looking around all of the dessert stalls. We have waffles, crepes and churros. Are we going to all of them?” Dream asked, hoping it was a good enough excuse.
“Hmm i think we should go to them all but just share stuff since we have already eaten a lot.” George said, for once making a responsible choice.
When they ate all of their food they were too full to even move. The group sat down for a while as they let their food settle down before they were sick.
Phil eventually came to get them as it was nearing 5pm. When they got back to the bus Phil was once again making sure he hadn’t lost anyone. Specifically Tommy and Tubbo. They decided the whole class. Phil included. Was going to go back to Niki and Piffys room and watch a movie. Niki and Puffy had the biggest room so they thought it would be the best to try and squeeze 13 people into it.
They all rushed onto the bus to try and get the same seats as before but of course Tommy and Tubbo ran straight for the back of the bus and lay down so nobody else could fit.
They started the 40 minute journey back to the Hotel. Well 1 hour because Sapnap suggested going to get candy first. When they finally got back everyone ran up to the girls room, Phil trailing slowly behind because he was having his evening call with his wife.
“Ok what are we watching?” Puffy asked, tv remote in hand ready to type into the lit up search bar.
“Bo Burnham!” Tommy screamed, hoping that somebody would like his idea.
“No Tommy I refuse to listen to you singing welcome to the internet again.” Phil commented while trailing the chair in the corner of the room closer to the group.
“Phil come sit on the bed there’s loads of room because we kicked Tommy off,” Skeppy suggested, patting the spot next to him on the edge of the bed.
“Thank you for the offer, but i’m ok here.” Phil smiled at the teenager.
Sapnap said how they should watch rise if the gardians because of the simple fact that “Jack Frost is hot as fuck!” to which the majority of people agreed.
After a while of debating what to watch, Bad suggested Shrek to which everyone obviously agreed. The movie consisted of everyone singing and Tubbo constantly saying “Do the rawr”.
When Shrek was finished it was just after 8pm so Phil suggested that everyone go to bed and got ready for “the most exciting day ever!”
Most people went up to bed but Skeppy, Punz and Wilbur stayed to watch another movie.
“I’m so honking tired,” Karl groaned as he fell face down on the bed after walking through the door. “too much walking in 1 day.”
“Dude agreed. 16 year olds shouldn’t have to walk that much in such a short amount of time.” Sapnap dropped to the bed in tiredness.
“Haha you are 16, flipping baby.” George laughed at the boy who gave him a death stare.
“Dude you are literally 4 months older than me. Get over it.” Sapnap said tiredley as he stuffed his head into the pillows.
Everyone finally found the strength to get up and get ready for bed. When they were showered and changed they got straight into bed and fell into deep, peaceful sleeps.
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It was 1pm when Dream finally decided to wake up from his beauty sleep. Phil said they didn’t have to leave until 6pm because it would “be way nicer at sunset”.
“Hey honey. It’s good to see you finally awake.” Karl placed a soft kiss on Dream’s head before giving him a kiss on his chapped lips. “Ew! Morning breath.”
“Fuck off, leave me alone,” Dream said before rolling back over, “Go back to sleep we don’t have to leave for like…what time is it?”
Karl giggled at the shaggy haired boy's question. “It’s 1pm, we leave at 6.”
“Well then there you go we don’t have to leave for like 5 hours, it’ll only take an hour to get ready so come on let’s go back to sleep,” Dream whined, trying to pull Karl back under the creased, white covers.
Karl lifted a pillow off the floor that had fallen at some point during the night and smacked his boyfriend across the head with the soft pillow. “Oh come on now,” Dream complained in annoyance.
“Don’t “oh come on now” me, George and Sap are already downstairs trying to bribe Phil to tell them where they are going.
“For fucks sake, fine. I’m up. Happy?” Dream asked, Puckering his lips for another kiss.
“No go brush your teeth then you can have all the kisses you want,” Karl said while trying to pull his face as far away from the blonds as he possibly could.
Dream quickly ran to brush his teeth with his lime green toothbrush and his minty white paste. He didn’t brush them for the full 2 minutes like he should have in desperation of getting his long awaited kiss.
When Dream was finished with his teeth he ran as fast as he could from the sink to the bedroom. He placed his hands on the sides of Karl’s face and pulled him in for a soft passionate kiss.
“Hmm, you need to shave, you're getting itchy,” Karl complained but still continued to give him one more peck on his stubbly cheek.
The couple walked down the hall with their hands intertwined, Dream swinging their arms back and forth just to hear Karls laugh every now and then. The sound of the soft laughter that left the brunets mouth created a warmth in Dreams chest.
“Well, well, well, if it isn’t my least favourite couple,” They heard Sapnap say as he rounded the corner towards them.
“Well, well, well if it isn’t my least favourite friend,” Dream replied as he cocked his head to the side letting a smirk fall on his face.
Dream couldn’t work out if the reaction on Dapnaps face was disappointment, disgust or anger. “Did you find out from Phil where we are going?” Karl asked, trying to get rid of the tension between the two boys who were trying to give each other a death stare without laughing.
“Nope. We nagged and nagged and nagged but still no answer. I’ll say this now he's one stubborn man,” George informed the group.
“Oh well, we’ll work it out later.” Sapnap walked back in the direction of the room. “Let’s go do what we’ve done the last 3 days and watch movies,”
As the 4 boys made their way up to the room they decided on movies they wanted to watch. They chose 2 movies to kill the 4 and a half hours they had before they finally figured out where they would spend their last day.
They decided on watching rise of the guardians which Sap just wouldn’t shit up about and dirty dancing because everyone could agree on how good of a movie it was. Also because Sapnap claimed once again how “Patty Swayze is just as, if not hotter than Jack Frost”.
The group watched the first movie which because of Sapnaps constant arguing was rude of the guardians. George kept saying how the tooth fairy was going to come and steal everyone’s teeth and sell them on craigslist for any creepy old man to buy. Karl kept saying how the easter bunny was just Sapnap as a furry. When Sapnap wasn’t talking about how hot characters were he was saying how the boogie man looked like a dark haired version of Dream. And Dream was saying how the eggs looked like Karl when he wore one of his iconic colourful sweaters.
For their second movie they watched dirty dancing. It consisted of them trying to recreate the dance moves that they saw and failed, at the end trying to recreate the iconic lift…Which once again failed…terribly.
“That hurt like a bitch. George you are meant to catch me not stand there having a laughing fit and drop me on my face,” Sapnap groaned as he checked out the slight carpet burn on his right cheek from the fall.
“C'mon guys as funny as this is, we have an hour to get ready and we all need showers, especially Sappy. He stinks,” Dream informed them before George and Karl gave each other a look only they understood and both went racing for the shower. It was a close call but Karl won by a millisecond.
An hour later when everyone was making their way out to the bus and trying to guess where this mysterious destination everyone wanted to know about was.
“Philza!!! Please, please,please tell us where we are going,” Tommy whined, poking his dads elbow desperately trying to get the answer out of him.
“You’ll find out in a minute Tom,” Phil sighed already annoyed at the 15 year old. “Okay everyone like up so i can see who’s here!”
“Okay! Can anybody guess where we are going?” Phil called out once everyone was standing in line. “It’s a famous building if that helps.”
“The Statue of Liberty!” Was confidently called out by Tommy which made everyone else’s heads fall into their hands.
“Tommy for fucks sake! That’s in New York dumbass!” Sapnap corrected Tommy’s stupidity. “It’s not even in the same fuckin’ country!”
“Language you Muffin!” Everyone could tell by the two words that it was Bad who yelled this from the end of the line.
“Oh wait! Is it the Eiffel Tower?” Dream asked, secretly hoping it wasn’t due to his fear of heights.
“Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner,” Phil said, sounding like a host in a game show.
There were cheers flowing throughout the crowd of children but Dream was quite clearly distressed duo to the fear that he’s had ever since he was a young child.
“Hey baby it’s ok I’ll take care of you.” Dream felt a hand intertwine with his and rub soft, soothing circles on his hand, the hand belonging to his beautiful boyfriend.
The taller boy looked to his shorter boyfriend and gave him a nod to show that he was ok before walking onto the bus, hands still locked together.
“Phil, can we go to the top of it?” Tubbo asked excitedly, knees bouncing at the thought of looking over the beautiful view at sunset. Staring at the golden orange and pink sky.
“Mhm! Of course we can. It might take a while from being busy but yeah we can go.” Phil looked up from his clipboard to the young boy with chestnut brown hair.
The whole bus cheered to which Phil had to shush not wanting to distract the poor driver who just wants to do his job.
It took half an hour for them to arrive at the giant tower. Dream had never seen Tommy and Tubbo run as fast as they did to get off that small, cramped bus.
“Woah?” Dream said, starstruck by the sight in front of him only being separated by the window of the bus. “It’s gorgeous.”
“As gorgeous as me?” Karl sang as he placed his head on his boyfriends shoulder.
“Nah, this is way better,” He joked, looking back at Karl with a goofy smile just to immediately get smacked on top of his blond head. “I’m kidding.” Dream instantly hugged Karl as he tried to wiggle away, giggling like a child. “c’mon, let’s go.”
The couple were the last to leave the bus and sprinted to get a photo with the enormous structure. “Yo Punz! Do you think you could take a photo of us?” Karl politely asked the boy, holding his phone out for the boy to take.
“Yeah sure!” He agreed, Punz gently took the phone out of Karls hands as they got into position, posing for the photo. “Say cheese!”
“Thanks Punzo.” Dream high-fived him, Took Karl’s hands and said, “Come on, I have a surprise.”
They stood in the long line for what felt like forever. 45 minutes. And finally started to make their way up to the top of the Eiffel Tower, somewhere they could have only dreamed of visiting. They got to the top and found a good spot to finish watching the sunset while looking over at the amazing view.
“Wow. You know? It’s not that bad now that I'm up here.” Dream took Karl’s hand and started to trace shapes of the back of his soft hand.
“Vouch,” Karl said in a calm and soothing voice. “Anyways, what was my surprise?” He impatiently replied, bouncing back and forth from anticipation.
Dream let out a laugh “Damn you’re so impatient. There are 2 so I'll give the boring one first.”
Dream took out a box and handed it to karl. “Thank you.” He smiled. Karl opened the box to find a coin. The same type of coin Dream gave money to Tommy and Tubbo to buy at Sacre-Cœur.
“It’s the same one Tommy got.” Dream ticked nervously back and forth, scared that he didn’t like it. “If you don’t like it it’s fine.”
Karl lovingly wrapped his arms around Dream, “I love it.” He pulled Dream into a kiss and stayed there until Dream pulled away.
“Here, this is the other one.” Karl was handed yet again another box and Dream pulled out a piece of paper.
Karl gasped as he looked at the pink colored rock attached to a chain sitting in the long black box that lay in the palm of his hands.
“Give me a minute. I want to say it the same way the dude told me. It’s a rose quartz necklace. It is the stone of unconditional love. It is believed by some to emit strong vibrations of love.” He looked up from the piece of paper to see small drops of water flooding from Karl’s eyes. “No baby, don't cry, I'm sorry.”
“No, No. Don’t worry. They are happy tears, I promise. Thank you,” Karl said gratefully as Dream reached down to wipe the tears from his eyes. “I love you.”
“I love you Karl.” Dream reached into the box and grabbed the necklace before clasping around Karl’s neck.
The two boys took a seat and continued to watch the colorful sunset. Karl sat with his head on Dreams' shoulder as he constantly held in his hand his stone of unconditional love.