Summer in Florida

{Chapter 12}

"George?" George looks around after hearing his name being called, he saw Dream pulling up onto the side of the road in his car.

George suddenly panicked. His face probably looked awful and he wasn't in good shape. He didn't want Dream seeing him like this, mainly because it was embarrassing that he let himself get beat up so bad, but also because that means Dream was right, Aaron was not a good guy.

"Hey George what are you.." Dream cut himself off when he turned George around and saw blood and bruises covering his face. Dream saw the tears form in his eyes and saw the physical and mental pain he was in.

Without saying another word Dream pulled George into a tight hug, he gripped onto him tightly. It was comfortable, it made George feel safe, feel secure.

"I'm sorry..I should have listened, I should've just came home." George stuttered, sobbing into the hood of Dream's hoodie, gripping onto Dream tight.

Dream traced his hand up and down George's back whilst one hand was wrapped tight around his waste, comforting him.

"What are you talking about George? What happened?" Dream was so confused as to what had happened.

George mumbled a few letters, he wasn't able to form a word, let alone explain everything that just happened. He was in shock and pain.

"Can you please just take me home?" George sobbed.

"Of course I can." Dream replied.

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The two arrived at their current house, they walked inside and was greeted by Sapnap who was about to scream with excitement after seeing George. Until Dream gave him a look and Sapnap noticed the cuts, blood and bruises on George.

George walked into the living room. He slumped onto the couch, he pulled his hood over his head, funnily enough he was wearing Dream's black smile hoodie. It was huge on him. He covered his hand with the sleeve and pulled his hand up to his face, resting his face on it whilst quietly sobbing.

Dream gave Sapnap another look, signalling him to go into another room, Sapnap walked into his bedroom and shut the door behind him.

Dream soon joined George on the couch, he passed George a glass of water. George shook his head, refusing the glass of water.

"George can you please at least take a sip?" Dream asked, very clearly concerned about his best friend.

George saw how worried his friend was, he took the glass out of his hand, he raised it to his lips, cupping it with both his hands, he took a small sip and handed it back to Dream who placed it on the coffee table.

"What happened Georgie?" Dream asked, he didn't want to push George too much but he was incredibly worried about him. He needed to know what happened.

"I just had an accident, it was my fault." George lied.

"An accident? George, please don't lie to me." Dream replied, there is no way that he just had an accident.

"Please leave it Dream. It was my fault, I was stupid and weak, I should've protected myself." George explained, tears rolling down his bruised cheek.

Dream moved closer to George and cupped his cheek with his hand, wiping his tears with his thumb.

Dream lowered his tone, it was soothing. "Whatever happened was not your fault. Never call yourself weak, your not, okay?"

"But I was. I couldn't protect myself. I just let him do it." George replied, letting out more tears as he spoke.

"Him?" Dream raised his tone. The look in his eyes..It was pure anger. "Your telling me someone did this to you?"

"Dream.." George tried to calm him down "I was being stupid okay, It was my fault, Aaron, he's not a bad guy really." George was cut off.

"Aaron!?" Dream stood up from the couch, clenching his fists.

George placed his hand on Dream's clenched fist, Dream looked down to see George's pleading eyes.

"Dream, no. Like I said, he didn't do anything wrong. It was my fault, I angered him." George was trying his best to calm Dream down.

Dream knelt down in-front of George, who was still sat on the couch. He cupped his cheeks with his hands and moved his face to make direct eye contact with him.

"What he did to you. That was not your fault. Do not blame yourself for that. I don't care what you said, he does not have the right to do that to you, and I'm going to kill him for it." Dream said angrily.

George could hardly reply, he just started sobbing. Dream pulled him into a tight hug once again.

"Please don't go after him." George begged.

"George..." Dream was cut off.

"Please promise me you won't? For me." George begged once again.

Dream sighed. He didn't want to hurt George more than he already was. "I promise."

George let out a sigh of relief.

"We better get your wounds cleaned up though." Dream said, George agreeing.

The two walking into the bathroom, George sat on the seat of the toilet. Dream grabbed a towel, drenched in warm water, and knelt in-front of him.

Dream gently started to dab the towel into George's wounds, cleaning up the blood, and doing his best not to hurt George.

"Did he only hit your face?" Dream asked, removing the towel from George's face after cleaning up his wounds.

"He kicked me in the chest too." George said sheepishly, he felt embarrassed, like Dream would see him as weak.

George lifted up his hoodie, revealing a large and painful looking bruise. It did not look good at all.

Dream squirmed at the sight. Tears started to form in his eyes, he hated the fact that this had happened, Dream should've tried harder to bring him home. Then this wouldn't have happened.

"God i'm so sorry he did this to you." Dream placed his face into his hands, trying to fight back his tears.

"It's okay Dream." George said, trying to comfort him, he could see Dream was upset.

"No it's not. I should've tried harder to bring you home." Dream said, feeling guilty.

"This is not your fault Dream. You can not blame yourself for this! Okay I was stupid to think that a normal guy could be interested in me." George chuckled, trying to joke around.

Dream looked at him, making direct eye contact. "Shut up George. Any guy would be lucky to have you." Dream also chuckled.

Any guy would be lucky to have him? Then why didn't Dream want him? Why was Dream chasing after Eva if George was as good as Dream made out.

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