All Time Low

3

dream tapped his pen against the desk, twirling and flipping it every so often. He was due to stream in half an hour, for some reason he hadn't been able to get ahold of george or sapnap all day, something he wasn't happy about considering they had all planned to stream.

He'd showered and gotten dressed in the time he had free, he always felt he needed to be dressed appropriately when streaming despite his facecam being off. So simply he wore a white shirt and grey sweats, nothing too extraordinary, just what he was comfortable with.

His eyes glanced to the ADHD medication that had collected dust in the weeks he didn't take them, in honesty he hated them with a passion, they made him depressive and snappy, two moods he couldn't stand, they made him feel like a shell of himself.

Spotify ran through tracks just playing whatever was shuffled onto the player, dream hummed and sung along to the words every so often.

Inevitably the one song he wished to avoid began to play, he didn't fight it though, he eased into the words even singing a few.

now all your girlfriends say that you don't want to see me
you're the reason that i just cant concentrate

that line specifically stung at his heart, like peroxide on an open wound.

he remembered a time george was distant with him, a time he hated with everything in him

-
"george!" dream beamed as the phone finally was answered after endless ignored calls
"dream, i'm kinda busy right now" george mumbled
"oh, sorry- it's just we haven't spoke in weeks and i kinda missed you i don't know i just wanted to say hi to my friend" dreams words were fast, he was nervous, they stumbled over eachother and would've been hard to make out
"now really isn't a good time dream" george sighed
"oh okay, i'll uh go, bye george"
"and don't call again!" another voice giggled from georges end.

dream ended the call feeling his heart race and fall to his stomach whilst his face flushed and burned in the worst way possible, he fidgeted with the fidget cube which gripped firmly in his palm.

Georges stupid girlfriend, a dumb blonde girl from manchester, he had met her at uni a few years back. they had only been together for two months and ever since she got with him, george avoided the hell out of dream. It drove him crazy, he constantly blamed himself and tried to fix things that weren't even wrong with himself.

Dream grabbed a glass bottle and threw it against the wall, he'd never been one to be full of anger, yet it wasn't anger, just hurt. pure hurt.

he walked over and began picking the shattered glass with his bare hands placing it into a plastic bag, it cut and tore at his skin but he didn't mind, his brain was too occupied.

-

dream shook his head looking at the clock

7:57

he'd really been that deep in thought for almost 30 minutes?

he didn't like thinking about that time, george one day broke up with her, they only lasted something dumb like 70 days; everything went back to normal after that, they never brought her up neither did sapnap or dream question the sudden breakup. After all dream was just happy to speak to his best friend again.

Dream put on a smile and hit go live.

"hi everyone!" he beamed, he loaded up geoguessr to play through until he could get ahold of sapnap or george

"i was meant to be streaming with sap and george today but for some reason they've decided to go awol" he chuckled as he guessed the countries

Chat was hectic as always, he couldn't keep up with it so decided to focus on the game

[Amelia_Innit: shhhh chat don't say anything !!!]
[Elizawastaken2: wth why is everyone freaking out lol]
[_Aaliyahwashere: i love when dre plays geoguessr]
[AllyAries: HWIDJWJDNWDJWNEIE GEORGE]
[neverenoughsmut: i'm hungry]
[ayomyah: dream streaming geoguessr on main??]
[ayupdream: i miss sapnap]

"so what we thinking guys, germany orrrrr berlin" he chuckled, he turned to chat to see them spamming germany.
"i think you guys are right-" he clicked germany, it was correct "good job guys! we did it!" he laughed

he heard knocking at the front door, "one second guys!" he muted

[Skyfallpug: OMG ITS TIME]
[ahadreamteamgobrr: GO GO GO]
[itsnerfornothing__: IM SO NERVOUS AHSISNDIWN]

dream made a little jog to the front door, checking himself in the mirror, he grabbed a pen incase he had to sign for a package, he opened the door and his face dropped.

"hi dream" george stood smiling

dream didn't know what to do and panicked, he slammed the door shut.

"DREAM!" george let out a yell bursting into laughter

"i think i scared him away chat" george giggled looking down at his phone, he had managed to set up a stream solely on his mobile, he'd started streaming at the end of the road making sure to hide anything considered dox-able.

he had also made sure to block dream on any account he had so dream wouldn't see the surprise.

slowly the door opened again, this time george got a proper look at him.

for the first time ever.

george saw dream.

"holy- you're hot-" georges hand instantly flew to his mouth covering it at what he said, obviously that was a thought that was meant to remain as a thought, not one that was meant to be spoken.

"did you just-" dream began wheezing and clutching his stomach "call me hot infront of atleast 100,000 people"

"600,000 actually and if they could see what i'm seeing right now they would be saying the same thing"   george felt a firm red take over his face, he definitely didn't expect dream to look this good.

"uh- come in- you might have to end your stream because i have photos of me and family around the house- don't really want anything getting leaked" dream chuckled nervously, his heart racing against his chest.

George did so, saying goodbye and ending, making sure to save the VOD.

"can i hug you?" dream stood still in disbelief
"of course you idiot"

dream made his way to george pulling him into a friendly hug.

they pulled away quickly to make sure it wasn't awkward, "i need to end my stream- then after you have some explaining to do" dream nervously rubbed the back of his neck
"okay, okay sorry boss" george raised his hands up in defeat as dream gestured to the living room which george made his way to.