A Demonic Dance

Chapter Fifty Four: Dating 101

I'm so stupid I've just realised how good of an ending last chapter would be. Instead I subjected myself and you to 8 more chapters and an extra month+ of writing
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'I love you'

TThree simple words, eight insubstantial characters, that's all they were. Yet somehow Dream couldn't get them out of his head.

Sure, he himself had said them hundreds of times, some meaningful, others not.

So what made this time special?

George.

George was what made it special.

His laugh, his eyes, his lips and his smile. Every inch of him was special and more special then the word itself.

And he'd told him he loved him.

You never think words so simple could mean so much to someone. I mean, they're just words.

Yet they're not are they. Because it's not the words but the people who say them.

If your teacher told you they loved you you'd freak out (or not, depends on what kind of person you are), if it was a parent then that's a different kind of love. But if it's someone you love, someone you cherish closely, then it can mean more then the world.

And to Dream, as you may have guessed, that certain someone, was George.

At first he saw love as a sort of curse. It tangles you in it's arms and refuses to let you go. It holds you close, gives you a taste of what it holds before cruelty ripping you apart, making you wonder if any of it was worth it.

But it is worth it, isn't it. Worth every smile, kiss and embrace, even if they will eventually fade from your grip.

Dream had once, in the very distant past, heard a saying about love and those you direct it to.

'If you love someone, you should be willing to let them go'

That was the saying, or something along those lines.

Well, Dream had loved George, and he had let him go. And through his experience he could confidently tell you that that statement was the most bullshit he thinks he'd ever heard.

The saying goes off the basis that if you love something you should be able to let it go, that if you loved them that much, then you would be able to leave them behind.

But it's never that simple, is it?

Dream had had to learn that the hard way.

He thought— he naively thought that George would be better off without him, that with him, the demon gone, he would be free to live his life again.

Of course however that had been absolute bullshit too.

He'd told himself he would stay away -of course he hadn't been given a direct command to leave so could return at any time -but he slowly realised that if you love someone, the last thing you should do is let them go.

If you love them you should show them you love them; you should give them the world with extras on the side.

It seemed stupid, idiotic even, but in a way -and a messed up way at that -his time away from the human made Dream realise would almost rather be George's mortal enemy then nothing to him at all. And I know it sounds stupid and idiotic and messed up as fuck.

But at least then he wouldn't have to lose him, wouldn't have to leave him.

At least then he would still be able to look into his eyes, full of anger or happiness, and be able to see the man he loved.