Royally Upset

Two Days

To say George was upset, actually that was an understatement. George felt many things.

Anger at Sapnap for denying something he knows for a fact they both want and crave. Sadness at Dream for walking away and leaving them, at Sapnap for not answering. Heartbroken because of of the people he loved and cared for walked away from him and someone else George also loved and cared for just as much. Pain because of everything that just happened. Exasperation at himself for not saying anything about it while it was happening.

"Sapnap!" George demanded. "What the hell was that?!" The bandana wearing male looked at him, eyes flashing with a few of the same emotions as Georges but hidden better and George's harsh and angry eyes instantly softened.

"I-I couldn't speak. It was like something was stopping me. I wanted to tell him I didn't mind, I want him to be with us but something stopped me, 'm sorry..." Sapnap trailed off, gaze now on his hands.

"Aww, Sap." George cooed, pulling Sapnap into his lap. "Don't be sorry, you were nervous. I would be too if he asked me but we all know I didn't mind as long as the only one who flirted with us was him. He wanted to make sure you were ok with it." Sapnap nodded, resting his head against the older males shoulder as he blinked away tears he didn't even knew were gathering in his eyes.

'I still hurt him,' Sapnap thought.

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Dream, however how much he tried to ignore it, took Sapnap's silence to heart. He didn't want him, or at least he didn't want him to flirt or tease or cuddle with them. He thought if he was rejected he would be fine, but at the moment all that was on his mind was to convince them to love him, convince them to be his and for him to be theirs alone.

He knew he loved them, but he never thought he loved them enough for one thing to completely shatter his heart. Normally, Dream would just stare sadly at them from under his mask, but now he was less then a snap away from crying and his mask wouldn't be there to hide his pain. It felt like he was hanging over a void by a rope that was once thick and seemingly unbreakable but was now snapping under the weight of Dream's sorrow and heartbreak. The void just seems to beckon and call to him, ready to show him the cold reality he will never escape from.

They don't want him.

He had to remember that from now on. Every time he sees them, hears one of them laugh, feels one lay on him-if that ever does happen again- he would have to remember that they are happy without him.
He was just stupid to think they would be willing to date him. Not even date him, he was just an idiot for thinking they could love someone like him.
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Dream sighed, having to put on his "Prince Clay" persona, he was feeling off still. Heartbroken and sad. It only increased when he saw George standing in the castles public garden, admiring the white tulips.

"Hello again, Lord George." Dream smiled, nodding his head respectively towards the colourblind male.

"Prince Clay! I didn't expect you to be in the public gardens, what brings you here?" George smiled, looking up from the flowers. Dream could see the strain in his smile, the sadness lurking in his eyes.

Dream frowned, he hated seeing George upset and hated even more when he was also part of the reason he wasn't smiling or happy. "Ah, please just Clay is fine. But how are you, you seem... stressed?" He asked, watching closely at Georges expression. It flickered, pain. Then it quickly became anger, and now sadness.

"Yes, yes. I'm quite alright. My lover, on the other hand," George pointed at a bench behind Dream where said lover was sitting, "is currently going through a lot of things."

"May I ask what happened?" Dream spoke with caution. Why was Sapnap upset? He was the one who practically rejected him.

"There's this friend we have, his names Dream. We consider him very important to us. Recently, yesterday actually, he had found out we were dating-" Dream cut him off.

"Why yesterday? Wouldn't he have known before if you two suddenly started dating?" The taller asked, frowning.

"Well, we did kind of hide it from him. It wasn't like we were hiding much. Besides, we were going to tell him but then he disappeared for about three years. We had started dating almost a year prior to that, I think. The day he had left we both decided to tell Dream about us but he was gone before we even got the chance to explain." George mumbled, and Dream froze.

"So you have been together for four years?" George nodded. "And the one year Dream was there for it, he didn't know? Sounds like a major idiot." Dream muttered, but of course George heard.

Furiously, George backed away from the prince. "Listen here, you might be the prince, Clay, but Dream is anything but an idiot." The oldest spat, surprising Dream. He knew that George used to be protective of him and Sapnap but he didn't know he still was towards him.

"Surely you must he pissed at him? To call him your best friend and he never paid enough attention to see you two are dating? Then he just disappears and boom there he is suddenly? Come on now, you can't say that isn't a little suspicious." Dream raised an eyebrow, looking them up and down curious as to how they will respond. Just tell me you hate me, please chanted like a mantra in his head.

"He had a reason and I have faith that he would find his way back to us." George snapped. "After all, we can't suddenly stop being his boys." Dream didn't know if George knew what he was doing when he said that but Dream almost shivered. "We are his as much as he is ours, romantically or platonically." Oh no, George knew what he was doing. He had to.

"Why would you be involved with him romantically? Aren't you both together? And didn't Sapnap basically reject him?" Dream forgot his role, he let it slip. They never said Sapnap rejected him.

Immediately, Dream was against the wall. Sapnap pinned him, dark red almost black eyes glaring into green. "How did you know that?" Growled the youngest.

"Well, lets just say I know Dream," he ignored their hitched breaths at that but Sapnaps grip loosened, "and yesterday he didn't seem particularly happy." Dream sneered, Sapnap and George looked guilty. "Claimed he might runaway again. Try to escape and start anew."

"No!" Sapnap yelled, dropping Dream entirely and bringing his hands up to his head. He gripped his hair as his eyes glistened. "He- he can't go! I didn't mean- We- No!" George rushed to Sapnap, pulling the man into a hug and setting him on his lap. By now Sapnap was chanting something along the lines of 'he can't leave'.

Dream frowned, straightening out his clothing. "He said he might. I could try to talk to him, get him to see you both one last time so you can convince him otherwise." He smiled softly at how hopeful Sapnap's expression became.

Sapnap was now straddling Georges lap, forehead on George's shoulder. His head was tilted so red eyes could look up at him. "Can you really?" The tone broke Dream heart, but the clear desperation for Dream, not Clay a forced persona, Dream the real him, slowly stitched it back together.

Two days, thats what they agreed on. Two days, Dream and Sapnap one on one.

Maybe finding them again wasn't so bad after all.

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HI HELLO I AM ALIVE- Also I'm sorry for such a late update, I have another story on AO3 I hadn't updated in like two months and I HAD to finish the chapter for it.  BUT IM BACK WITH ANOTHER CHAPTER :D