[ ❛ ☾ .' HUES! ❜ ─ ✧ DREAM]

── chapter i !!

( real life )

"So."

"So."

The two walked along the bustling Boston sidewalk, awkward silence filling the air like smog, choking them out. 

"..So." Dexter started again, hands stuffed in his pockets. His hat was backwards on his head and his eyes glanced over at his childhood best friend as she matched his stride. 

"Jesus christ Dex, what?" Marley turned to face him, eyebrows raised. The two hadn't spoken since last night, where a certain tweet was shared over iMessage between the two. 

Giving her a friendly pout, Dex pulled his hands out of his jacket pockets and tapped his pointer fingers together. "Don't yell at me, I'm sensitive." He flashed her puppy eyes, which got him and groan and a small smile in return.

"I just don't know what you want me to say. I don't know why Dream tweeted that. Honestly, I didn't even think he knew who I was." Marley shrugged, cuffing the sleeves of her sweater as the two passed stores and apartment complexes. "I think he just did it because he hates Tommy."

"Just wanted to know what you thought about it, thats all." Dex hummed softly, turning and stopping in front of a small coffee shop. "You know, I think he could be your ticket into the Dream SMP or something."

"I don't want to join the Dream SMP." She mumbled, opening the door when Dex didn't. 

"Speak for yourself. Get me in." He laughs, following her in. "All I'm saying is... draw this out."

"Like that Logan Paul fight?" Marley snickered. "Yeah well, I just know that if I don't win, I'll never be able to live it down. Tommy still's tweeting about it!" She opened Twitter and flipped her screen to him, showing off Tommy's newest tweets, where it finally appeared he had learned how to trash talk. She was almost proud.

tommyinnit | tommyinnit
> #tommywinnit Gonna call
match_boxx "Big B" now, for
"Big Bitch"

Dex laughed before covering it with a cough as his friend kicked the back of his calf a little. She turned the screen back to herself before replying. 

matchboss | match_boxx
>> this you? 

She attached a photo of young Tommy that she had saved in her camera roll. Double chin, blurry camera, the photo had it all. Smirking smugly, she went to slide her phone into her pocket, but a buzz stopped her. A discord message from Techno. She'd have to head home soon to call him about her little pvp lessons. She replied to him that she'd be able to call him in a half an hour before she stepped up to order coffee. When the two sat down, it was right back to their phones, reading all the predictions about the outcome of the match. 

"I think it should be set up like this. Tommy and I both have three lives. We have a few hours in a server to collect armor and enchant tools. From then, we battle it out until someone loses all their lives." She rambled as Dexter scrolled through his Twitter timeline. All she got was a small nod, so she leaned back in her seat.

"I also think that Tommy is gonna win, he's obviously more skilled." She tested. Dex nodded again, responding with a hum. Little shit.

"Nod if you're a lesbian." A nod. She snorted to herself. What an excellent listener. Going back to her own phone, she found herself returning to Dream's tweet. He didn't follow her, but she didn't follow him either. Gnawing the inside of her cheek, she swiped away from his profile. The tweet was such a shock for her, Dream had an astronomical amount of subscribers compared to her. She almost wanted to tweet something out about it, but held back.