Dropping Hints - DNF

5 - start of the stream

He asked Sapnap to tell him. Did George not want to talk to him? He hadn't spoken to him since they spoke about Florida yesterday, had something happened? Did he do something wrong?

"Dude, stop overthinking it. He just told me and wanted me to mention it to you"

Dream stopped in his tracks. How how how how how does this boy continue to read his mind everyday.

"I was not overthinking anything, just zoned out for a minute"
"Okay sure" responded Sapnap not convinced at all, "So are you gonna join?"
"Yeh yeh why not" replied Dream, a miserable attempt at acting causal.

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Notification: GeorgeNotFound is Live!
                        Bedwars and stuff :))

Dream couldn't deny it, his heart grew a little heavier at the sight of the notification.

His favourite part about George's streams was the short teamspeak the boys always had before it. George was always a little nervous, and called Dream before every stream, just to ease him into conversation before going live. Sometimes they would sit in silence, and sometimes they wouldn't stop talking, either way, Dream loved it. It was a precious time that no one else experienced, no one else knew about, it was just him and George.

But today? There was no call.

George had gone live without talking to him, without even texting him.

Don't overthink it Dream. Listen to Sapnap, he probably just wasn't nervous today.

Dream joined the stream to find the four other boys joking around about an ice lolly? It was a joke that he couldn't quite latch onto, so he just stayed quiet until the joke died down, and George began to welcome his stream.

"Hey guys! Hey, hello, hi, hey. Today's stream is just a bit of bedwars, i haven't really got a plan"
"ITS A FIVE OUT OF FIVE FERAL BOYS STREAM BOIIS" butted in Sapnap
"Yes that too" chuckled George

Send message to: George <3
Dream: No call before stream tonite?
George: yeh sorry bout that
Dream: Getting less nervous for them?
George:  No haha i'm still pretty nervous, i                       just called Karl instead today

He had called Karl instead. Karl. And that's fine. Yeh. Cause Karl is one of his best friends, i mean it's no different to their calls. Their calls aren't exclusive, they are just a friendly chat.

But by god, they felt like so much more than that.

Dream: Oh cool
George: What do you mean by that?
Dream: It's just that we usually call that's all
George: Yeh i know, I just wanted to stop bothering you for a little bit, so i called Karl instead

Dream wanted to tell him right there and then that he was never bothered by it. That he anticipated those calls, and when they were happening he loved it. That he loved the fact that George turned to him for comfort, that they trusted each other, and those few minutes of conversation with him, sometimes made his entire day.

But no, instead he said this:

Dream: fair enough

He was a brainless idiot, and he knew it.

The five boys continued playing bedwars, teasing about the meetup every so often to make the chat go crazy, but never being explicit enough that the chat had true confirmation.