ORPHANED

:: eighty-seven ::

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that's a lot of people :flushed: enjoy another prewritten chapter that probably doesn't make too much sense!

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dream sat in the quiet of george's apartment tracing unremembered lines onto the warm skin of the other, comfort overtaking him as the summer like light bled into the dim room. his eyes darted to the head of dark hair that lay on his chest, rising and falling slowly with every breath the blonde took. the pleasant feeling in the environment sending him back to a place he used to call home.

he recalled the day he lay on his old bed surrounded by boxes full of things previously packaged. he remembered the unimpressed look the brunette sent him from over his glasses, it was engrained in his brain, the only way he could remember the other.

"there's how many people in the world, and so many places to go and see and you want to stay here?" the brunette continued stacking dream's belongings into a box that hid the importance of the items inside.

"if it means i get to stay with you." he stared up at the pictures, hung above the bed, of him and his friends living with no worries of the future. he missed those days.

"you're being unreasonable." the brunette sat beside him, handing him the very last yearbook in his possession, that would include him along with his friends. "i knew you were going to fight me about this the moment your mom told me you got in."

dream sat up from where he lay on the bed, opening the yearbook to a bookmarked page, tracing his finger along the vibrant print on the new book. "it's so far."

"wasn't that the point?" his eye roll wasn't subtle in the long time silence amongst them. "we wanted to get away, to see what was out in the world, wasn't that our plan?" he stood from the bed, returning to where he hid away items dream had collected in the nineteen years he lived here.

"our plan." dream's scoffed, his finger came to meet the matching pictures they had taken. pink hair standing out in the midst of their graduating class. "i've had so many firsts here, i don't want to leave that behind."

"you don't have to, this is your backstory, imagine all the things you can say you did if you make it. nobody's experienced life like you have, and you should be proud enough about that to go out and flaunt it."

the blonde sighed, closing the book that lay in his lap. "i don't want to do this without you, that's not part of the plan." he remembered the day thay had applied fully knowing they'd get in and be able to experience it together.

"you worked so hard for this i'm not going to let you throw it away because you're scared to move forward. you've got so much life to experience."

"and what about you, you're acting like your life is over, come with me." he gave a pleading look up to the brunette, how would he be able to do this without him.

"dream. i'll be fine, i always have been, there's nothing out there for me, for you i can't say the same. i've seen how you look at things you've never experienced, you've always wanted out, you only ever stayed for me."

"because who's going to make it easier if not you?" dream could feel himself getting worked up, he couldn't imagine himself in a world where the other wasn't trailing closely beside him. his thumb indistinctly came to his lips and he ripped at the skin.

"maybe someone with more energy, someone who you have to calm down instead of the other way around, i've held you down, i'm willing to admit that. there's people out there who need you to fill in that missing hole in their hearts, you've given me so much and more it's time to stop hogging it."

dream lay back on the bed. this was most definitely the hardest thing he'd had to face yet.

"you can't expect your sister to live here all her life. she wants this just about as much as we did when we were younger. you've never got to experiment, you know everybody here, remind me what it was that you said you were looking for?"

he closed his eyes envisioning the person who'd be waiting for him on the other side. he imagined someone bashful, with a contagious smile and an even more infectious laugh. someone who he'd want to keep happy. when he opened his eyes he was no longer in his old bedroom, and instead a pair of sleepy dark eyes stared back.

"hi." george, now awake, flashed a shy smile after being caught staring. his chin resting against dream's chest.

the blonde felt a smile bloom at the pink on the brunette's face. "hi." he responded.

"you looked really concentrated, what were you thinking about?" george reached a hand up to trace his finger along the print on the blonde's t-shirt, occasionally glancing up to smile at him.

"home." dream pressed his hands harder into george's warm skin, hoping the heat would keep him intwined with his past.

"you were replaying the day you kissed techno weren't you?"

dream felt his eyes roll playfully. "you wish." they sat and smiled at each other for a while, seeming to not mind the time that passed when they were together. "how are you feeling?" the blonde's eye came to meet the brunette's.

"better." george smiled, resting his cheek on dream's chest to turn his eyes from the other. "you helped a lot, thank you."

"anything for you georgie."

george had been relaxed until the very last word was spoken. thus leading into another time dream wished he could take back his words after they were spoken.

"can you not call me that anymore?" george kept his eyes away from the blonde, not daring to make contact. dream hated how the name was now associated with such a terrible situation.

"that's alright, what can i call you?"

george thought for a while, shifting against the blonde before he connected their eyes again.

"babe."

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i was supposed to update this yesterday but i fell asleep after "be grug"