Commoner//Dreamnotfound Royalty AU (On Haitus)

11; Hostpitality

"Didn't you say you were gonna tell us what happened?" I ask.

"Yeah, what did happen?" Tubbo puts down his fork. We were having pancakes.

"Brief or in detail?" Clay asks.

"Detail!" Tommy yells. Alex nods.

He takes a breath. "So, Nick, Drista, and I were just chilling around. We heard a loud noise of some sort, so we went to go check it out."

"You went to go check it out. Someone stopped us." Drista puts in.

"Right. Then I heard some guy yelling about how someone killed his father and he wanted revenge and whatnot. I advanced down the stairs to see him pointing a gun at my father—"

"I would've beat the shit out of him!" Tommy interjects.

"TOMMY!" Phil and Kristin look at Tommy in disbelief.

"What??? I would've!"

I smother a laugh while Phil tells him off for swearing. Techno sighs and opens his book again.

"Anyways, as I was saying, he starts talking to me abou..."

I take a moment to study Clay. To be honest, he is actually really really attractive. He's got the perfect ratio of freckles to skin...

That makes me sound like a weirdo. Yuck.

Though I might not want to admit it to myself, Clay is practically perfect. He's always in a good mood, it seems. Plus, he treats me nicer than anyone ever has. Well, besides Niki. I don't deserve either of them.

The thing is, I don't really know if I like him like that. I know I told Niki that I did, but I still don't know. I mean, I've only known him for a few weeks. Maybe this is just a phase.

This happened to me with Niki. When we first met, I really liked her. I mean, really liked her. I don't blame my past self at all, though. What's there not to like? She's nice and she cares about me. That was just a phase, though. After a while, I realized that I only really liked her as a friend. We still laugh about it to this day.

That's my problem. I'm shown attention and then I'm ready to commit to a relationship.

But this is different. The feelings are a bit stronger this time.

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I'm really pathetic, aren't I?

All I know is that Clay is attractive as hell.

I decide to study his eyes again. For all I know, they could be actually the deep marigold color I'm seeing, or they could be green. I don't know.

A sudden elbow in my ribs interrupts my thoughts. It's Niki who's elbowed me.

She widens her eyes at me quickly, looks at Clay, and then goes back to what she was doing.

That's our 'code' for "stop drooling over that boy and get back to reality".

She's right.

I'll just go back to listening. Well, I haven't been anyway. Oopsie daisy.

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I finish telling the story of what happened.

"That's horrid. You guys can stay here as long as you need to, you know that, right?" Phil says sympathetically.

I nod. "Thank you, Phil. You will always have our gratitude."

Phil smiles and then gets up. We all do the same. Niki approaches George and leads him somewhere. I opt to go after them, but I decide against it.

"Wilbur, Wilbur, can we get the Monopoly board?" Tommy asks, tugging on Wilbur's sweater.

He thinks for a moment before saying, "Sure, why not."

Tommy, Tubbo, and Alex look at each other with excitement. They started going around and asking everyone to play with them.

Eventually, we all sat down around the board. We ended up having to have 2 people act as 1 player since we had so many people playing. The pairs were: Nick and I, George and Alex, Drista and Techno, Wilbur and Niki, and Tommy and Tubbo.

Techno and Drista had surprisingly worked together very well, while Tommy and Tubbo argued over the smallest things like who got to move the piece during their turn. Nick wouldn't let me handle any of the property sales, which costed us the whole game.

"HAHA, LETS GOO!!" George had screamed when he and Alex won. He bursted into a fit of laughter.

Now that...

That made my heart flutter.

"ARGH, IT'S NOT FAIR!" Nick threw his money on the ground. "GEORGE CHEATED!"

"CRY ME A RIVER!!" George yelled back. He continued to laugh.

"SOMEONE CALL THE WAH-MBULENCE!" Alex wheezed. Nick pouted.

I could hear Drista whispering to Techno. "We'll win next time. With the forks."

Techno nodded in agreement as they picked up their money and put it back in the box.

While George and Alex celebrated their victory, I couldn't help but stare. He looked so happy and adorable.

"WE'RE POPPIN' OFF, WE'RE POPPIN' OFF—"

"Now you guys are just milking it." Wilbur says, even though he's laughing as well. Tommy and Tubbo tackled Alex.

"We'll win next time!" Tommy says while wrestling Alex.

Out of all this chaos, George stood out the most to me. His laugh made blood rush to my head and forget where I was for a moment.

Maybe Nick was right.

Maybe I love George.

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MAN IM REALLY POPPING OFF WITH ALL THESE CHAPTERS!! MANY HOURS OF BEACH BUNNY'S MUSIC GOT ME THROUGH THIS, SO THANK THEM

i'm still in a car lol pog. we're driving from cali back to vegas where we'll finally hop on a plane and scoot back home, finally. also, how do y'all californians live in la/hollywood?? literally the smell of pot is everywhere and i almost had an asthma attack from everyone smoking on the streets— (no hate intended)

ok ok ily guys have a really good day <3
~lem