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Steve POV:
It was a normal Monday morning, I woke up at 6:30 and started getting ready for school, I took a shower and combed my short dusty brown hair into a flip, like I did every morning.
I ate a bowl of frosted flakes until my alarm rang
7:00
Dang, its time for school,
I walked to the school bus when I saw him, a lime green hoodie, tousled, dark, blonde hair and sparkling, Emerald green eyes, eyes that I could get lost in for hours. Hes so dreamy, I thought to myself.
We made eye contact that was only broken by the bus honking at me to sit down, I blushed and looked away.
I took my usual seat in the back of the bus next to my best friend, Robin Buckley, who could tell something was off.
. . .
*some time later, Lunch*
"Steve?" Robin asked, snapping in my face to get my attention "did you hear anything I just said?"
"wha?" I asked, because I had not been listening to her, id been staring across the cafeteria at the dreamy, mysterious stranger.
"I was saying that you've been distracted all day, are you okay?"
"Yeah, sorry I'm just... Distracted"
"Thats what I'm saying, whats going on?"
"Huh? Oh, nothing"
"Nothing huh?" She followed my gaze across the room to the blonde boy, who was sitting with his rambunctious friends, "He doesn't seem like nothing"
"Wha- What?! What are you talking about?!" I say blushing looking away "who are you talking about?!"
Robin raised a skeptical eyebrow "you've been staring at the new kid this entire time"
"New kid?" That would explain why I didnt recognize him
"yeah, he just transferred from Florida with his two friends"
"Florida?"
I looked back at their table again and noticed the other two for the first time, one of them had jet black hair with a white bandana across his forehead, the other had dark brown hair with thick white rimmed sunglass, they were playfully shoving each other as the black haired one stole food from their trays,
The Dreamy one looked up and we made eye contact again, this time he looked away and I swear, I saw a blush on his face.
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Dream POV:
"Is it just me or has that guy looked over at us a lot today" I whispered to George and Sapnap, jerking my head in the directions of the boy who had stared at him in the bus, his thick fluffy brown hair swirling around his face.
George looked over at him in suspicion "I think he's only been looking at you clay, I havent noticed" He tapped his knuckles on the table, chewing on the inside of his lip.
I put my hand over Georges, sapnap jokingly gagging and shoving my shoulder. I rolled my eyes at him and laughed quietly "He probably just wants to be friends or something George chill"
"don't be so territorial god" sapnap stood up and took Georges glasses, putting them on and planting his hands on his hips "im talking to him, you guys should come along and be nice" he said before starting to walk over to the other boys table.
George looked slightly offended, watching sapnap leave and flinging his wrists up. "What the hell man" he said before turning to me and sighing "okay then, should we follow him?"
I shrugged, standing up and pulling George with me "why not, whats the worst that could happen" I said as I dragged him over to the table , hearing him mutter "A lot of things"
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Steve POV:
"Robin oh my God they're coming over here, why are they come over here?!?" I panicked and tried to hide my burning face,
"They probably saw you staring" Robin said disinterested, eating her lunch ignoring the very prevalent problem rapidly approaching our table.
I watched as the Dreamy boy and his entourage walked towards us, the black haired one, who it appeared had stolen the brown haired boys glasses, stepped forward and said "Hi! Im Nick, this is George-" he said pointing at the brown haired boy, his brown eyes looking annoyed, "-and that's Clay," he said, finally pointing to the blonde boy.
"Hi" I said shyly
"We came over because we couldn't help but notice you being enamoured by our presence, how may we help you?" George said, voice heavily tinted with sarcasm and annoyance, he also had a British accent, one that didn't match with the information that was from Florida.
"I- Im sorry, I wasn't- I didn't mean-" I stuttered
" no, no, its okay " Clay said, smiling "im flattered"
George rolled his eyes at this, he seemed unnecessarily annoyed at this situation, I thought maybe he just didn't like me. Ignoring him, Nick asked,
"We were wondering if you would like to hang out with us later?"
Hang out with them?? Was this some kind of cruel prank? This is too good to be true!
"uh, um that, that would be" I stuttered
"That would be great!" Robin interrupted
I looked at her and tried to convey my greatfullness with my eyes.
"Cool!" Clay responded, "George is hosting a party on Saturday, will you be there?"
"of course!" I responded making eye contact and smiling.
He smiled back "Its at 7:00, hope to see you there!"
They turned and went back to their table while I tried not to explode with excitement.
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Dream POV:
George slid back into his seat. I could tell he was annoyed but I didn't really understand reason why. I took my seat next to him as Sapnap sat on the table. "So do I get a thank you for taking care of your admirer?" He said jokingly
George rolled his eyes, quietly laughing. "Dream and his miLLioNs of admirers"
"oh shut up, you know it's probably not like that" I chuckled, bumping George's shoulder as I looked back at the boy and his friend.
he never did tell us his name, did he? even so, I had to admit he was rather attractive, even though he wasn't my type...
"Why did you tell them about my party?" George asked, flinging school lunch mashed potatoes at Sap with his plastic fork
"Because I wanted to annoy you" he said dodging the potatoes.
George just rolled his eye as he turned back to me
I looked up and met his dark brown eyes, he looked irritated, more irritated than usual. I leaned my arm on his shoulder
"C'mon George it could be fun"
"Yeah" he rolled his eyes, getting up as the bell rang "absolutely thrilling"
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(time skip: Saturday, 6:00)
Steve POV:
“What if he doesn’t want us there Robin? What if he changed his mind?” I worried, I wore my best party outfit, black jeans and a colorful button down shirt, I styled my hair more slicked back than i usually do.
”then he changed his mind, and we’ll come back to my house and do something else, I don’t know?” Robin also wore her best party outfit, a emerald green 2 piece suit and was smearing dark liner around her eyes in the mirror while I paced nervously across her bedroom,
i didn’t want to think about what would happen if Clay, or his friends George and Nick, decided they didn’t want me or robin there, George seemed like he really didn’t like me,
“Listen Steve, you’re a great guy I’m sure everything will be fine, maybe his friends didn’t like you but I know if they get to know you a little better you guys can be best friends, now come on, we only have 15 minutes before the party”
. . .
we stood in George’s driveway, Robin got the address from someone else who would be there, I didn’t catch their name. The house was already alive with loud music and bright lights, and people going in and out and lingering in the yard.
Too late to turn back now
i took a deep breath and followed Robin inside.
we found Clay and his friends almost immediately
”Hey you!! So glad you could make it!” Nick said slinging an arm around my shoulder “We were just wondering when you’d show up!“
George rolled his eyes
“Sap, leave him alone he just got here give him some space” Clay said trying to steer him away from me.
”I’m gonna go mingle” Robin whispered to me before wandering off
”sorry about Sapnap, he has no respect for personal space” Clay said walking over to stand next to me
as if a demonstration Nick walked back over to George and dragged him to where I was standing with Clay
“I have no idea what you’re talking about Dream” he replied smiling
Clay laughed softly at that, it was the sweetest sound, I could hear it even over the blaring music,
George looked angry
“I know what you’re doing Dream, I’m not going to let you get away with it” he whispered to Clay, then to me “watch yourself, I’ve got my eyes on you”
“Hey guys why don’t you find more drinks I want to talk to, uhh, I want to talk about something” Clay said to them giving them a look, Nick, or Sapnap as they kept calling him gave Clay, Dream, a knowing look and dragged a complaining George to the kitchen.
after they left Dream turned to me and said “why don’t we go somewhere quieter?”
he lead me to a bedroom upstairs and closed the door behind us, muffling the noise significantly, the song still played, it was one of the glass animals songs that got popular recently, I didn’t know the name, I mostly listened to music from the 80s because that’s what Robin liked so I didn’t know a lot of newer songs.
Dream sat down on the bed and gestured for me to sit beside him
i sat nervously, I had suspicions but none of them were very likely, but how many reasons could there be for wanting to talk, alone, in a quiet room upstairs at a house party? Not very many that I could think of,
”so…” Dream started awkwardly “ how’s the party?”
”it’s good” I respond worrying my lower lip with my teeth “your friend doesn’t seem to like me much”
”oh George doesn’t like anyone at first, one you get to know him a bit he’ll lighten up a lot, Sapnap on the other hand seems to like you a lot”
”Sapnap? What’s with your nicknames? I heard them call you Dream?” I ask a bit nervously,
“oh! We’re streamers! Those are our gamer tags, I’m Dream, Nick is Sapnap, and George is GeorgeNotFound”
”that’s so cool!” I exclaimed
“yeah I guess so, we moved here in hopes to try and find more people for our group, do you play video games at all?”
”i do sometimes, I’m not very good at it, maybe you could help teach me?”
while we were talking we got a lot closer together, i was barely talking louder than a whisper now
”yeah maybe I could” dream said smiling at me, his lime orbs staring into mine
I leaned in closer until I couldn’t help myself, I kissed him and for a moment it was the best thing in the world, I couldn’t hear the music anymore, all I could hear was our hearts beating together as our mouths moved together, then Dream pulled away and the moment was over
He stood up very suddenly and left the room a without a word
after he was gone I sat in disbelief, I had just kissed Dream and it was everything, I laid back onto the bed and giggled uncontrollably.
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Dream POV:
i walked out of that room as quickly as possible, I went and found George and Sapnap, they were still in the kitchen, waiting for me it seemed,
Sap started taunting “SoOoO? How’d it go? Was it everything you hoped for?”
“He kissed me and I want to leave“
this delighted George, seeing how uncomfortable I was made him laugh uncontrollably while we made our way outside to get away from people
“We’re going back to Florida, Indiana was an Awful Idea”
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the next day
Still Dream POV:
we bought plane tickets back to Florida as quickly as we could, packed our backs and left without a trace and never went back.
THE END.