Foreshadowing

Chapter 6: Its in the past

( TW - This chapter will talk about death, murder/self defence so if anything like that triggers you don't read!)

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George's heart was pounding. What was he supposed to say. His best friend just told him that he killed someone.

George quickly stood up off of the couch not losing eye contact with Dream. His face was covered with fear, he was terrified, terrified of Dream. He wasn't sure what to think of him. He was his best friend but that doesn't excuse what he did.

"George..please sit down. You need to listen to me okay, i have to explain." Dream was panicked, what had he just said. A tear rolled down his cheek, his best friend was terrified of him. Dream slowly stood up, getting off the couch and walking towards George.

"Stay away from me! Please don't come any closer!" George was petrified, it was written all over his face. He didn't want to judge him without knowing the full story, but how couldn't he? What was he supposed to think?

Dream's eyes filled with tears. He put his hands up defensively. "George please. I would never hurt you. It wasn't like that, please let me explain. You can't tell anyone about this, it's dangerous." George was slowly backing up to the door when he suddenly turned around and started sprinting to the door.

Dream slammed the door shut with his hands. His hands were both on the door, next to George's face, George was in between his hands, he turned around. He was sobbing, terrified, shaking, the look on his face broke Dream's heart. "Please George you can't tell anyone..not until you've listened to the full story."

"If you mean me no harm then let me walk out of this door." George said, his voice shaking. Dream couldn't help but let tears stream out of his eyes, the way George was looking at him. He slowly let go of the door, George opened it and sprinted away. He got into his car and drove off.

George was a mess, he could hardly see, tears blurred his vision, his hands were shaking, he could hardly drive. He finally parked outside his house and ran inside, locking the door behind him.

He picked up his phone seeing that Dream was calling him. He didn't want to answer, he really didn't. But he needed answers. "George. Please tell me you got home safe? I'm so sorry." George took a deep breath "I got home fine." his voice was shaky. "George please let me explain everything. It wasn't like that. I didn't murder him. I was being selfish and looking out for myself." Although it didn't excuse what he did, George let out a sigh of relief, it was better then him being a cold blooded murderer.

"Please can I come over? I need to explain." Dream asked, it was obvious he was crying, the tone of his voice said it all. "I don't really want you to come over. Please just tell me what you have to over the phone." George wanted answers desperately but he couldn't help being scared, he couldn't face him.

"His name was Alex. I was 19 at the time, he was 18. We were pretty close friends, until we both got involved in some deep stuff." Dream explained.

"Like what?" George asked.

"Crime. gangs. Things we should have never gotten involved with." Dream was blunt about it. "Anyways, there was one night..we were instructed to do a robbery..i didn't want to do it, i'd never done anything like that before." Dream carried on.

He took a deep breath "I refused to do it, so I left. Alex still went ahead with it. He got himself killed." Dream's breathing was heavy, his sobs were full of pain.

"C-Calm down Dream." George stuttered. He still cared about him obviously, he didn't want him doing anything stupid.

Taking a deep breath once again "I don't know exactly what happened. But if i went..if he didn't do it alone, maybe i could've prevented it happening..he could still be alive.."

This made George feel a bit better about the situation, knowing that it wasn't his fault, he didn't actually murder him. he only blamed himself.

"It's okay Dream. You couldn't have done anything. You can't blame yourself for that..you did the right thing." George said reassuringly. "I'm so sorry George, i didn't mean to ruin our friendship, but i had to tell you, i had to." Dream was still sobbing.

"Dream. It's okay. Look I'm sorry I barged out in a hurry..but the way you said it, i thought you actually killed someone, not just blamed yourself for something you couldn't have prevented." George was still shaken up, he didn't know what to think.

"Why are you in witness protection though?" George asked.

"His brother. He blamed me for everything that happened. He always wanted revenge, he tried to kill me. The police thought it'd be best for me to go under witness protection when it went too far." Dream sounded a lot calmer. "I just wanted to leave this in my past..but when you said about your nightmares, I knew i had to tell you, i couldn't lie to you for the rest of my life."

George was silent for a few minutes. "But how am I seeing him in my nightmares. It doesn't make sense."

"Honestly George I have no clue. it sounds messed up. But he's in my past, we have nothing to worry about." Dream reassured him.

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Sorry if this was a bit sort of boring, I just felt we needed a chapter to fully understand what happened and find out more about Dream's past! :)