all for a dare

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-3rd person- (no ones pov)

clay and george have been distant during the rest of the school week.

sapnap and george continued to go to the library to eat lunch. carter would sit with an old friend group of his from middle school.

lastly, clay. no one really knows where he goes during lunch. no ones ever seen him sitting at a different table, or eating lunch with friends. none of the teachers said he was eating in their classrooms either.

george got over clay easily, even though it was hard. deep down he still had the slightest feelings for him. except he knew that he shouldn't be with him.

clay didn't get over george too easily though. he would skip class sometimes to go cry in the bathroom, or he would completely leave school and go home.

clay didn't have many friends either. his only friends were george, sapnap, and carter.

except he lost them. everyone.

clay hated himself. he hated how he selfish he was, and how he used george to his advantage. he hated how he hurt another person while trying to fix himself. all he wanted to do was forget about some stupid boy he liked, which worked. except now he has to try and forget about another one.

it's not like this was his first time though. he would always find someone to 'date' to forget about people he knew he shouldn't be with. usually he would forget about them too, they meant nothing to him. but george. george was different.

a month after george had blocked clay on everything, clay had spent each and every night crying himself to sleep.

he wished that he tried talking to george instead of making a dare do it for him. he wanted to be with george, and bad, but george didn't want to be with him.

whenever they saw each other in the hallways george would always turn away, as fast as he could. clay didn't though. he never looked away, he didn't want to. except every time he looked at george his heart shattered.

george wanted to stay in contact with clay. he wanted to at least be friends. george genuinely enjoyed hanging out with clay. it made him happy, happier than most people made him.

except he knew it wouldn't work out. it's been a month since they've last talked, why start now? and seeing clay liked him still, it would be even harder to hang out with him. george didn't feel that way anymore.

clay and georges relationship was like unrequited love. clay would spend his entire day thinking about george, yet george never thought of him.

clay would do anything for george. to be able to talk to him one more time, or to at least be able to look at him without him turning away. clay couldn't forget about george, which just kept tearing him apart.

both of them wished their relationship ended in a different way. except that's what they got.

one was left heartbroken.

while the other was left unbothered.

it all worked out in the beginning. except later on it crumbled apart.

maybe they weren't meant to be together, or maybe love isn't real after all.