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“George, babe, could you make me some food? I’m going to start streaming in a little with James and I don’t have enough time to make it for myself.” Alex said, opening the door to George’s bedroom finding his boyfriend editing 3 hours worth of footage.
George barely turned around as he answered, “Sure hon, just gonna finish this part of the video first.”
“Perfect thank you!” Alex said, exaggeratedly blowing a kiss at the older male. He could practically feel George’s eye roll as he left the room.
About 10 minutes after Alex’s original request for dinner, George finally stood up from his desk to go fulfill his boyfriend’s wishes. Deciding he wanted spaghetti, George set to work on making dinner for the both of them. As he worked, he could hear Alex’s laughter from his room, followed by a lot of yelling, followed by more laughter. George smiled slightly at his boyfriend’s laughter, humming contentedly as he finished up the food.
After successfully managing to finish a decent bowl of spaghetti, George grabbed Alex’s portion and made his way to the man’s room. Knocking a little to warn Alex, George entered the room, knowing he was out of frame from the camera. Alex looked over at him for a second before quickly turning back to the stream.
“Hang on guys, George the peasant is here with my dinner,” Alex laughed out into his mic, “I’ll be right back.” He clicked a few times, then motioned George over to him. George, assuming that the camera was off and Alex was muted for the time being, walked over to his boyfriend and placed the food in front of him.
“Peasant huh?” George smiled, “I should get something in return for making you food, hm?” Alex laughed, then stood up, throwing his arms around George’s neck as the elder’s hands wrapped around his waist. Alex laughed as George pulled him into a kiss, pulling away after a minute.
“I’ve gotta get back to my stream Georgie.” Alex giggled, stepping away from George’s grasp.
“Alright alright alright.” George relented, turning and walking towards Alex’s door. “Come find me when you’re done alright?”
“Alright.” Alex laughed as he unmuted his stream again after George shut the door. “Hey guys I’m back, I’ve got spaghetti!”
There was silence over the call. After a few seconds, Alex opened his mouth again to speak before James cut him off. “Mate… please look at your chat.” Alex, confused, turned to his chat to find thousands of messages flooding in, all of them saying almost the same thing,
MEMEULOUS X IMALEXX IS CONFIRMED
Alex’s heart stopped as he read those messages. How could he have been so stupid? There were probably thousands of clips online of whatever the fans just witnessed. George will be so angry, Alex thought, his head starting to spin. Every worst case scenario starting to float through his mind. What did he miss? He’s pretty sure he muted himself. He wasn’t using-
Oh god.
He was using his camera.
He forgot to turn off his camera.
George is going to dump him so fast after he sees the clips all over Twitter. He probably also screwed up the man’s face reveal, broadcasting his and George’s relationship to the internet after agreeing they wouldn’t three months ago and blasting George’s face all over the internet after the man tried so hard to keep it hidden in one blow? Alex was the shittiest person in the world.
The younger could feel the tears starting, and he could feel himself starting to spiral, so he quickly ended his stream. After triple checking his stream was in fact off, Alex felt the thoughts starting to take over. He could barely register James yelling at him through his headphones. His thoughts were too loud, George is gonna leave me-
His headphones were ripped off, and standing above him was George. A probably very angry George. Tears were pooling in the younger’s eyes, blurring George’s face. Oh God here it comes, Alex thought, bracing himself for George’s anger. Instead, he could hear George trying to get his attention.
“Alex? Babe can you hear me?” George asked, his voice sounding far away to the brunet.
“Georgie.” Alex managed, his hands shooting out to grab George’s shirt. “George please don’t-“ he hiccuped, cutting off the rest of his sentence.
“Please don’t what baby.” George muttered, carefully unwrapping Alex’s hands from his shirt, holding them in his own hands instead.
“Please don’t leave me” Alex got out, a sob wracking his body.
“Lex, Alex, why would I do that?” George asked, cupping Alex’s cheek with one hand, swiping away the tears with his thumb.
“Because- because I was an idiot, and I- I-“ A sob wracked through his body again.
“You what, Lex, you’re gonna have to tell me the full thing okay?” George asked softly, pressing a kiss to Alex’s hand. Alex savored the moment, George was never gonna look at him again after this.
“I forgot to turn off the camera.” Alex rushed out, his words sounding mushed together. After a few moments of silence, Alex burst out in a new round of sobs, fully expecting George to leave and never return. Instead, George wordlessly pressed a kiss to Alex’s hand, and pulled him up out of his gaming chair.
“Let’s lay down, yeah?” George muttered, guiding Alex to the bed. Alex nodded, and let himself be dragged to his bed, letting himself fall as soon as he was close enough. George lay down beside him, and Alex turned to face him. He watched as George grabbed his phone, presumably unlocking it. George smirked a little as he clicked on a few things, then he turned the screen so both of them could look at it. On it was a clip, but not any clip, the one from his stream from a few minutes ago. Alex sucked in a breath as George pressed play. Alex watched as he motioned for George to walk over, and a few seconds after, George’s torso walks into frame. Alex lets out a small sigh of relief as George on screen places down Alex’s spaghetti, his face staying out of shot. He watches as he stands up and throws his arms around George, his arms and head moving out of frame. George’s hands wrap around his waist and although both of their faces are out of view, it’s a little obvious what's happening.
“It wasn’t…” Alex began, still feeling awful about giving away their relationship like that.
“It wasn’t that bad.” George says, setting down his phone to throw an arm around Alex’s waist. “There are worse ways to be outed on the internet.”
“So you aren’t-“ Alex muttered, his words starting to fail him again, “you aren’t mad?”
“A little,” George hums, “but not enough to dump you. I’d be crazy if I did that. I love you too much.”
Alex smiled, burying his face into George’s chest, “I love you too.”
He heard George suck in a breath, followed by the sound of a laugh. “We should stay away from our phones for a little bit, Al.”
Alex hummed, he could hear George’s phone continuously vibrating on the side table, and he didn’t doubt his phone was the same. “For sure.” He paused, “Love you George.”
“Love you too Alex. And accidentally revealing our relationship to the internet isn’t gonna change that.” George tightened his grip around Alex’s waist.
“Thank you.”
“Now shut up and go to sleep.”
Alex giggled, “yes sir.”