The Exchange Student - DNF (Gream / DreamNotFound)

Chapter 7

George POV

◦   ◦  ◦ 1 week later ◦  ◦   ◦

Today was the day we were finally going on the trip. It'd been a hectic past week, but after hours upon hours of discussion we'd made a shared decision to go to a camp with tents and bonfires. I've personally never been to a camp so I was over the moon with excitement, also because of the possibility of sharing a tent with Dream.

They'd advised us to only bring a very small backpack with essentials like a toothbrush etc. because they'd everything else sat up and ready for us. I didn't feel like bringing anything but a toothbrush and toothpaste, so Dream was sweet enough to offer to carry it for me.

We'd been told to meet in front of the school half an hour before school would normally start to catch the bus that was waiting for us. 5 minutes before driving we found ourselves two seats almost at the very back. I sat closest to the window, Dream complained wanting that seat but almost immediately gave up.

We were 20 minutes into the bus ride, when my phone started ringing. I'd forgotten to change my ringtone before going to America, and saying it was embarrassing was an understatement. It was just a bunch of duck sounds to which I noticed Dream burying his head in his head, trying to hide his laughter. Just to end the ringtone I picked up the phone.

"Hallo, it's me Quackity, how've you been?"

Not gonna lie I'd not really given Quackity much thought the past week or so, so it was nice hearing from him again.

"Hello, I've been good, i'm currently on a bus towards a place we're gonna camp at"

He went silent for a moment before asking, "Can we facetime? I wanna see if you're actually being for real"

I disconnected and turned my head to look at Dream, "My friend from England's facetiming me, do you wanna meet him perhaps?" Dream just shrugged so I went to facetime Quackity.

"Quackity, Quackity, look this is Dream he's my.." I didn't know what to call him so I ended up making the easiest decision I could think of, "friend"

Dream's smile decreased a little but he quickly seemed to ignore it, "Hi, yeah. I'm also the one he's currently living with. George told me you two were neighbors, Am I right?"

I was happy Dream didn't comment on me calling him my friend, cause that was actually all we were right now, unfortunately.

"You're right, George and I were neighbors but i'm also his best friend, he probably already told you that though, considering how awesome I am"

Dream didn't take notice of Quackity and turned his attention to his own phone, kinda disrespectful but whatever. Quackity didn't seem to care as we agreed to hang up, but to call again soon.

By now we'd been sitting in the bus for over 4 hours, slowly I felt my eyelids getting heavy. Without noticing I'd leaned my head on Dreams shoulder, totally forgetting my surroundings.

Suddenly I was shock awake, which surprised me in a very unpleasant way, until I noticed who it was, Dream.

"George we're here, get up already" Dream looked half annoyed, seeing we were also the only two plus the driver that was left in the bus.

"I'm up, relax ok"

Pulling me up from my seat he put an arm around my shoulder and slightly ruffed my hair with his fist.

"How do you still look so cute with your hair all messed up?" He giggled.

I tried fixing my hair but Dream kept slapping my hand away, insisting on me letting it be like that. Ultimately I gave up turning my attention to the camp instead. In total there were 10 tents set up for us in a circle, around a stone fireplace in the middle. Trees were placed along our little camp space with a lake, a few meters away.

Miller abruptly yelled so everyone could hear "We're gonna stay here for the next 3 nights but as you know, you decide what you wanna occupy your time with, as long as we meet here around 11 pm to sleep. Now please choose in pares of 3 what tent you wanna sleep in"

Already thinking I was gonna share one with Dream, we went to pick one before getting interrupted.

"DREAMY?!"

We looked at each other with disappointment in our eyes when we saw Melissa running up to us, focusing on Dream.

"I've found our tent babe, come" She hinted to him to follow her before he answered in a different way than what she probably wanted to hear.

"Actually, I was wondering if George could sleep with us as well"

She went quit for a second before she visibly felt enforced to obligate, "Sureeee, heh"

I successfully swallowed a laugh from her awkward answer, following her til we reached the 4th tent from the right. It was around 10 pm so we decided to already set up before having to sleep.

Melissa zipped up the entrance to the tent. There was only one wide mattress, we apparently had to share.

"Do we all have to share the same bed now!?" Melissa yelped and looked at Dream for support.

"It doesn't matter, I'll just sleep in the middle, don't worry"

Melissa didn't look very happy but corporateed anyway, not having any other choice.

Seeing the time was 10:30 pm we had placed our bags in the front side of the tent and afterwards lay down on the mattress. Melissa and dream were all the way on the right side, leaving me alone on my side. She practically stole Dream for her own favor which made sense when she's still his boyfriend but I couldn't help but feel slightly jealous anyway, wishing it was me.

All of a sudden I felt a finger carefully poking the back of my hand. I jumped at the slight contact and opened my eyes to see Dream trying to get my attention. On the spur of the moment I loosely grabbed his finger. He withdrew his finger to try and interclock all his with mine. We stayed there, fingers interlocked and none of us wanting to move.

It felt sort of weird though, knowing he was holding my hand while still being curled up with Melissa by his other side. I knew he couldn't break up with her right now but it was really strange to me, that I was somehow ruining their already messed up relationship.

After some time I heard Dream's small snores, knowing he was asleep I decided to withdraw my hand, not wanting to risk Melissa waking up to it.  

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