The Exchange Student - DNF (Gream / DreamNotFound)

Chapter 9

George POV

It was pretty dark by the time we'd gotten out of the water. I stood beside Dream shivering a bit, so therefore Dream had gotten a towel and wrapped it around my shoulders. He was always so caring, and looked out for me which I found extremely cute.

Chatering my teeth from still being cold I felt Dreams hand snake around my shoulder. I rested my head on him while we slowly walked to the lit up bonfire. A lot of people were sitting around the fire talking, one of them being Melissa.

Melissa saw us and yelled, "Dreamy, come join us, we're just talking. You as well George"

I knew she didn't actually want me to go join them and to be honest I didn't want to either, but knowing Dream was there I didn't mind.

Both of us sat down next to each other listening to the others conversate. They were talking about how much they shipped Melissa and Dream, weird innit?

All of the sudden Laura screamed, "Oh, Oh, what if Melissa and Dream kissed, now"

Immediately Dream looked at me instead of Melissa, but I tried playing it off like I didn't care at all. I really didn't understand why she even wanted to see that, like they hadn't been together for the past 4 years or so.

Dream hadn't got up yet so Melissa decided to walk to him instead. Before kissing him she gave me a nasty look. I kept trying to make it look like I didn't care, and in all honesty I don't think anyone got suspicious of me.

She pulled away from the kiss with a proud look on her face and then proceeded to sit back down on her side of the bonfire.

Still sitting beside Dream he snuck his hand underneath my towel to squeeze my hand. He tried to reassure me that it didn't mean anything, which I already knew but it was still nice of him.

"Remember the other day" Melissa spoke up, "where both Laura and George said they'd never been in a relationship?"

I didn't like the sound of that and on the look on Dreams face he didn't as well.

"Wouldn't it be fun to see them kiss now?"

I've never been a very bold guy and I've always struggled to put my foot on the ground. Something Dream didn't even know was that I've never had my first kiss, and I definitely didn't want Laura to be my first. Not that there was anything wrong with her. I just wished it would be someone else, perhaps the person I was sitting next to.

Laura eagerly agreed and everyone was waiting for my response. Everyone looked directly at me and I felt incredibly small at that moment. Dream seemed to notice my discomfort and tried shifting the conversation to something else.

"Let's not pressure them, ok. If they wanna kiss they'll do it without it being in front of everybody like this"

They all agreed even though Laura looked a bit disappointed but I didn't care. All I cared about was Dream who'd just rescued me from a potentiel disastrous experience.

"George, I have to ask. Are you gay?" Laura asked like she'd been forced to ask me that.

My mind went black trying to get myself out of the situation, "No.. I'm straight, 100% straight"

Techno was also sitting by the bonfire observing us, when he suddenly said in a threatening voice, "Let's hope that's true, we don't like those kinda people here. We only allow normal people in this class"

Dream was about to protest but I stopped him by slapping my hand on his back and giving him a look from the side of my eye. Still the words NORMAL kept replaying in my head. If Techno didn't look as scary as he did I would've laughed straight into his face. I never understood homophobes and their obsession with other people's partners but there isn't really anything I could say to change his mind, so I kept my quiet.

By now almost everyone had left the bonfire, except for Dream, Melissa, Techno and I. Melissa dragged Dream aside to have a quote of quote "Talk".

Techno scooted closer to me so there were only a few inches between us. It was definitely uncomfortable but I didn't dare move away.

"So..." Techno were the first one to break the silence that'd been there since the others left, "we're all alone now, huh"

I didn't answer, instead I gave him a faint nodd while looking directly into the fire.

He coughed, trying to get my attention to which he decided to talk again, "I'm sorry if I was a bit harsh before, you know saying you weren't normal and stuff"

Hearing him say that confused me tremendously so I had to ask, "Why are you apologizing? You didn't seem to care just minutes ago"

He seemed like he wasn't gonna budge until he finally did, "I'm only about to tell you this because I know that if you were gonna tell anyone, nobody would believe you anyway. If you tell anyone though I'll kill you, got it?"

I widened my eyes to the threat as I quickly agreed.

"So since we were placed in the same group for the whole panning thing I.." he whispered the next part, "I haven't been able to get you out of my head, I think I... might be crushing on you"

Surprise would've been an understatement, cause I was absolutely speechless.

"Look, I know it must be confusing but the first thing you can do is drop the whole homophobia thing, don't you think?"

He didn't answer so I decided to continue, "Listen I'm honored to be your crush but I'll just break it to you now. Those feelings aren't mutual, I'm sorry."

"That's fine I guess. I didn't expect them to be, I just wanted to let you know"

I gave him a smile that he immediately returned. He got up and began walking away before he stopped and turned around, "Thanks again for listening and being this understanding. But for the love of god please don't out me" he said in a slightly jokingly voice but I knew he was being completely serious.

"Of course not"

Out of the corner of my eye I noticed Dream walking towards me with an unreadable look on his face.

"George we're sleeping alone in the tent today" 

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