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It was late at night. A late night in the middle of june, Dream noticed with a huff as he draped his black bed sheets over his body. Ironic. It was a late night in the middle of june, some random music was softly playing on his pc in the background and ironically, florida is suffering under a heatwave right now.
He almost despises coincidences like these as they get his head racing with a million thoughts to no end. Coincidences like him and George not being able to play on hypixel leading him to do an ‘Am I in love with my best friend' quiz in a discord vc with thousands of people listening to him.
Except that this one wasn’t really a coincidence, right? Because it made perfectly sense that all the little interactions, jokes and innuendos, which were toying around a blurred line between friendship and something more, lead up to him taking this godforsaken quiz right in front of everybody.
And even though Dream greatly enjoyed their dynamic as it made him feel giddy and a little excited sometimes, he really wished he could turn back time and decide not to take that quiz. He didn’t plan to make a fool out of himself just because he couldn’t help and let his mind wander a bit, to at least consider the idea of him and George being something more than friends. But apparently hesitating to answer questions like „Did you ever want to kiss your best friend?“ doesn’t seem to be entirely platonic and he could already tell that his fans will have a lot to theorize and analyze after this.
The thing is that Dream knows that he and George will be fine after this even if the latter was even remotely affected by Dreams answers or the test results. Which in that case he couldn't really blame him – his quick goodbye was probably confusing to him to say the least. Dream knows they will be fine because they were always fine after things like these, whatever these things were. Over the years of sometimes getting frustrated when George closed up and held his emotions close to his heart, Dream learned to give him his space and let him figure out his thoughts and feelings on his own. And then they will be fine.
But the problem is that he maybe didn’t want them to be fine again. Maybe Dream wanted to have that conversation they keep on not having in fear of destroying something fragile. Maybe Dream wanted George to ask him why he chose to take this quiz and why he hesitated on some questions. But even though they both valued honesty more than anything else, he also knew that they will never have a real discussion about it. Sure they established boundaries and talked briefly about how they friendship could be portrayed on the internet, but that was just for the audience, for their fans and not for themselves.
They never took the chance to talk about it privately. Dream just assumes that either George was just about as much of a coward as him or he didn‘t care at all.
Just as he was about to follow his almost hourly routine to open Twitter a message popped up. Of course it was him.
Are you okay? You left so suddenly earlier.
He didn’t really know what to respond to this because he himself didn’t have a reasonable answer as to why he had to leave. Maybe it all became too much all of a sudden and he had to allow himself to think about them in peace.
Dw, everythings fine lol : )
He knew that George caught on that something wasn’t right and that his sudden disappearance wasn’t because he remembered that he had to go somewhere but because he abruptly felt uncomfortable. They’ve been around each other for long enough to know what the other one feels. That’s what he answered in the quiz, too.
That damn quiz.
Okay. Talk in 2 hours?
He shortly answered with a quick "yes" and then let his mind wander a bit again.
Was he gay? No. He liked girls, thats for sure. But was it even important what he was? The most crucial thing that he had to find out about himself is whether or not he had feelings for his best friend. Sure he thought about what it felt like to kiss him, just out of curiosity, of course. And he also found himself smiling when hearing his voice or doing the most to make him be happy.
Okay so maybe he was a little in love with him but is he willing to risk their friendship just because of a little crush? Especially when they were doing so good right now, Dream didn’t want to make things awkward.
Eventually he decided that all this thinking and figuring out his feelings made him pretty tired, so he closed his eyes to rest before he had to deal with talking to George again.
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The familiar Discord ringtone shook Dream out of his thoughts and made him pick up the incoming call from George instantly.
"Dream!", the other boy said a little too cheerfully which quickly put a smile on Dream’s face. It wasn’t even that long ago since they last talked to each other but he found himself having missed the other boy regardless.
"George!", he responded, trying to match his energy even though he was still feeling a little bit tired.
"Just so you know, I know that something is off with the way you left so quickly earlier. But I guess it doesn't matter because you don’t want to talk about it so I am just gonna let it slide"
"Yeah, thank you" Dream didn’t expect to be confronted with that topic again so quickly even though he probably should have.
"But you should know that I am here to talk about it… I didn’t think that taking this quiz would make you uncomfortable honestly, but-", George said before the younger boy interupted him: "So we are not letting it slide then, yeah?". He was met with silence.
After a while of just staring at the screen without either of them daring to say anything, George choose to speak up again: "I guess not. I know that you weren’t comfortable and I think that's something we should talk about. Is there a reason behind your behaviour? Did the test results upset you?"
"I can assure you that's not the case. Stop reading too much into it, it was just a stupid test that means nothing", Dream defended himself and noticed that he was fidgeting a lot with his fingers. He was nervous. Ironically he was the one to be closed up about his feelings now.
"So I am reading too much into it then?", George asked a bit hesitantly.
"You are"
"Good"
"Yeah, good"
Again there was silence and he didn’t think it was possible to regret taking the quiz even more. He hated that he was the reason they were sitting in silence not quite knowing where the other one stands. Then again, was there ever a time where they were not like this?
So after that they did what they could do best; ignore the argument and move on. And unknowingly that the other person feels the same way, they were fine again.