DNF angst one shot

Angst haha

Highschool Au// TW:  fluff, flashback, implied abuse

It was a seemingly normal day at school. Dream woke up, washed his face, got dressed and had breakfast. He rode is bike to school which was black with lime green highlights. Once he got to school he walked through the halls to find his first class of the day...

"How bad do you think you failed that maths test?" Dream asked Sapnap. "HEY! At least I studied and tried unlike George over here." He stated mockingly pointing his thumb towards the shorter guy.

"Its not my fault, I'm colourblind" George retorted crossing his arms. The rest groaned as Sap started fighting him once again about how he can't use that as an excuse for everything.

Letting his two friends go off on each other he turned to Bad who was on his other side and started chatting. It was going great til George called over, "Hey Dream help me beat Sapnap!"

Dream's eyes widened at the words but only bad cared to notice. Dream suddenly felt like the walls of the hallway were closing in and his breath hitched.

"I- i'm sorry but I have to go" he softly stammered out before briskly walking out the door. The others looked at each other confused and concerned for their friend. They decided to let him have his space, as he could have a somewhat short temper and didn't want to make him mad by pressuring him. Besides it was time for lunch the best period of the day. 

Halfway through lunch Bad spoke up, "It's really quite when dream's not here, I hope he's ok." Sapnap smirked, looking over to George, forming a plan in his head. George could tell he was going to say something 'stupid' by the telltale expression he'd seen on his friend's face before. 

"Sapnap please don't say something weird I can tell your planning something." And he was right. Sapnap cleared his voice and said that George should go look for Dream seeing as "Dream liked him the best" and winked in George's direction. Flustered George tried to deny the claim but before he could convince them it wasn't like that two of the freshmen walked over to their table. 

"Hi Tommy, Hi Tubbo!" Bad greeted politely. I waved at them before tommy, very loudly, asked, "WHERES DREAM I WANNA BULLY HIM" Tubbo just facepalmed and sighed before apologizing. "I tried to convince him not to do this I'm sorry guys." Tommy shh-ed him before continuing, "But seriously where did he go I saw you all in the hallway together like an hour ago."

George started to explain before Sapnap interrupted saying that they all were making George go look for him since  "George is worried for his boyfriend" They were all laughing, George turning bright red once again. Giving up, he agreed to go look for their friend and after throwing away what was left of his food, left the cafeteria. George started thinking up a list of all the good hiding places in the school, and started looking.

"God this is taking a while, where could he have gone?" George whispered under his breath. The bell that signaled his next period starting had come and gone a while ago but George didn't care. Dream usually didn't let anything get to him so when it did, you know it was bad. He had checked almost every nook and cranny of the school looking for the boy but came up with nothing. He walked down the old hallway that almost no one used, remembering he hasn't went this way before. 'If he is here this is going to be really cliché' George thought turning the corner. 

He peeked into a classroom that wasn't being used at the moment and sat in the corner was a boy with recognizable dirty blonde hair and a lime green hoodie. "Dream where have yo-" George stopped mid-sentence noticing his friend was shaking. 

"Dre- Clay? Are you ok?" The taller boy didn't answer and didn't seem to hear or notice George slowing inching closer until he was kneeling in front of him with his hands on his trembling shoulders. "Clay look at me." 

But dream could barely hear him. To him it sounded like he was drowning underwater and George was on the shore shouting down to him. He tried to reach up to George but terrifying images flashed before him causing him to lose site of his best friend.

Back in the present, George kept trying to get dream back shaking him lightly and whispering sweet calming words into him ears. He was scared. But clearly not as much as Clay. Tears pooled in his eyes as he tried to think of something, anything, to get him back but not hurt him more than he was already was. He moved to sit beside him and hugged him tightly and asked quietly into his ear, "Dream, Clay, please please come back to me..."

Dream, for what felt like the first time in hours, felt warmth engulf him. He felt himself being pulled to the surface of the lake he was 'drowning' in. George's voice was getting clearer and closer until he hit the surface and his head shot up. Breathing heavily His looked over to see someone who had faint watermarks on his cheeks. 

"George...?"