𝐶𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐴 𝑆ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟 ☬ℑ𝔫𝔨𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔢☬ ☬𝔈𝔯𝔯𝔬𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔨☬

Chapter 22: Brotherly Fights

~Nightmare's PoV~

Me and Dream went back to the Star Sans' base but as soon as we got there I rushed upstairs and threw myself onto Ink's bed.

'How could I have not seen through the act?! FOR TWO YEARS!'

I kept asking myself that same question over and over and over again until it was engraved within my mind.

I took a tissue from the box that Dream had brought up a while ago and wiped more tears. I looked at the tissue to see black smeared on it like how it would usually be smeared on Ink's cheek.

I started to sob thinking of Ink. For all I know he could be dead and I'm sitting here like a fucking moron crying! I cried so hard I couldn't see so I laid down and tried to bury my sorrows in his blanket but even thinking that it was HIS blanket I was laying on sent me into another spiral of sadness.

Someone must have heard me because somehow I managed to hear the door creak open and a pair of footprints coming toward me. I grabbed whoever it was by their neck with my tenticale and quickly wiped the tears away enough I would actually look a little bit less sad to make room for the rage.

I slowly turned toward whoever it was, silently hoping by some miracle it was Ink. But to my demise it was just Dream. Of course it was him.

I tightened my tenticale while glaring at him before switching to a bored expression and dropping him. I turned back to the bed and face planted into it.

"Go away.."

I could feel pressure on the right side of me, guessing Dream sat down.

"Brother... Please... I know you love Ink dearly but we need to find him. The sooner we find him the sooner you can be with him!"

I gripped the bedsheets and growled lowly.

"You really think he's even gonna want to be within a ten foot radius of me? Dream, for once let me give you some advice. Stop trying to give people false hope. The only thing that does is hurt them more than it would if they didn't get their hopes high when whatever it is your giving them false hope for fails. You of all people should know that by now but I guess I shouldn't have expected that from you because you were always blind from the beginning."

I felt a Dream suddenly get up and slam his hands on the table, which made me look up at him.

"NIGHT I AM TRYING MY HARDEST TO HELP YOU, I REALLY REALLY AM, BUT YOU MAKE IT SO DAMN DIFFICULT TO EVEN WANT TO!"

I wasn't expecting an outburst like that so I was surprised at first but that surprise quickly was overcame by anger

"Oh YOUR trying to help me?! How about you stay out of my god damn love life for once!"

"Your love life?! What does that even have to do with what I was talking about?!"

"You said you were trying to help me huh?! Well guess what! YOU WERE NEVER THERE FOR ME! YOU TOOK THE ONE PERSON THAT MADE ME FEEL LIKE I WAS WORTH IT, MADE ME FEEL LOVED AND CARED FOR AND FUCKING STOLE HIM FROM ME! YOU ARE THE REASON WHY I'M LIKE THIS! YOUR THE REASON WHY I NEVER LOVED ANYONE!"

"OH I'M THE REASON YOUR LIKE THAT?! I'M THE REASON WHY INK LEFT YOU SO EASILY WHEN WE WERE YOUNGER?! I'M THE REASON WHY PEOPLE DON'T LOVE YOU?! WHY DON'T YOU TAKE A LOOK IN THE GOD DAMN MIRROR NIGHTMARE AND TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE! DO YOU SEE THE SAME PERSON YOU WERE WHEN WE WERE YOUNGER AND AT LEAST A LITTLE BIT HAPPY OR DO YOU SEE A PSYCHO ASS MOTHERFUCKER THAT NEVER KNEW HOW TO LOVE BECAUSE HE NEVER OPENED UP ENOUGH TO BE LOVED?! TELL ME! TELL ME WHAT YOU FUCKING SEE BROTHER!"

"ENOUGH WITH THAT DREAM! YOU KNOW WHY THEY BULLIED ME?! WHY THEY ALWAYS PICKED ON ME AND BEAT ME UP?! DO YOU KNOW WHY THEY ALL LEFT ME BLEEDING ON MY SIDE OF THE TREE WHILE YOU WERE OUT PLAYING HOPE FUCKING SCOTCH?! BECAUSE THEY COMPARED ME TO YOU AND YOU WERE ALWAYS THE FIRST CHOICE! YOU WERE THE HAPPY FUCKING GO LUCKY SHIT BAG WHILE I WAS THE NEGITIVITY MONSTER!"

"THEY ONLY DID THAT TO YOU BECAUSE YOU NEVER INTERACTED WITH THEM AND WHEN THEY FIRST MET YOU AND TRIED TO PLAY WITH YOU, YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID?! YOU FUCKING PUSHED THEM TO THE DAMN GROUND AND TOLD THEM TO FUCK OFF AND YOU'D NEVER PLAY WITH THEM EVEN IF THE WORLD ENDED! YOU WERE A MONSTER FROM THE VERY START NIGHTMARE! I'm just sorry Ink had to deal with you.."

After Dream said that he ran out of the room with visible tears in his eyes. He shut the door as he went out and snuck a glance at me. I just glared at him.

When I no longer heard his footsteps I sat back on the bed and held my head in my hands and took some deep breaths.

"Oh dear God there's no way he's recovering from that argument..."

Usually whenever we had a small argument over something as simple as a daisy he would stop talking to me for a day but then the next he would continuesly apologize for ignoring me, but that fight was over something more than just a flower or a bee.

I took my face out of my hands and decided I would go downstairs and see if my brother was down there of if he went to his room or somewhere else.

I walked to the door and opened it, not liking how loud it creecked. I slowly descended down the stairs and held onto the railing, thinking of all the possible outcomes. What I saw surprised me though.