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chapter 01

TW - BLOOD, DESCRIPTION OF DEATH

Dream woke up to the sound of his alarm. He always hated the sound, but today it actually hurted. He took his phone and turned the alarm off, sat up in his bed and took a deep breath.
"You can do this" he said to himself. His voice sounded rusty and a slight smile appeared on his face. George used to like it when his voice sounded like that. George, the name hurted, a lot. Today was the day he never wanted to come. His best friends funeral.
A day no one ever wants to experience, at least not at that age. But it was here, the day. The day Clay was afraid of.

He looked up into the closet mirror.
God, I look awful. And he really did. Since George died all Dream did was crying. Everyday.
But not today.
Today he needed to be strong. For Georges family, his friends, himself but most important, for George.
The boy that has been his best friend since 2nd grade, when Clay sat alone at a bench in school daydreaming and the boy came up to him and asked if he wanted to play a game.
The boy whos accent sounded so funny to Clay and made him laugh so many times.
The boy who always stood up for Clay, when no one else did.
The boy that give him his nickname, because he used to daydream a lot.
And most important, the boy he was in love with since high school.
Dream never told anyone about it, except three people and two of them were dead now.

When someone knocked on his door, he jumped. He forgot that Sapnap slept over at his house, because of the funeral. Sapnap was his other best friend, kind of. He met him in high school and they both really were into video games, so they understood eachother immediately. He also got along with George pretty well, which made Dream extremely happy. George also gave Sapnap his nickname. Just one of the things he was really good at. They were a trio, inseparable, until in senior year, Karl came to the school and him and Sapnap became best friends. They still did somethings together but Karl liked to rather do things alone with Sapnap so they kind of went seperate ways. After high school they almost completely lost contact, because Sapnap and Karl went to college while Dream amd George stayed in their home town. They played games online sometimes, nothing more. But when Sapnap heard that George died, he came back, mostly because he knew how sad he must've been. He stayed at Dreams house because his parents moved away from here and he had no other place to stay.

Sapnap knocked again.
"Come in" Dream said, voice still rusty.
In came a totally ready Sapnap, he was wearing all black and he had a smile on his face. Dream could see that it was fake because Sapnaps eyes were just as crusty and red as his own, which told him that he also cried.
"How you feelin?" Sap asked.
"I am fine" was what he wanted to say, but his voice broke halfway through. His eyes began to tear up. The smile disappeared from Sapnaps face and he walked to Dream and closed him into a tight hug. Thats when Dream lost it and he totally started sobbing in his arms.
"Oh Dream, I am so sorry. I knew how much you loved him."

" Yeah." he laughed a little. Dream got out of the hug and looked at Sapnap. His eyes were full of pity.

"Sap, I don't think I can do that. I've only been up for five minutes and I feel like it's crushing me."

"It's okay Dream. I know you can do it."

"No Sap. Nothing is okay. George is dead. And I feel like its my fault." Now Sapnap looked confused.
"How could Georges death be your fault? You weren't the one who stabbed him."

"No but I was the reason he was stabbed."

"What do you mean?" Sapnap looked more than confused now.

"He kissed me Sap!" Dream basically screamed it out.

"Oh." Sapnap said. "Thats amazing. But...but I still don't understand how it is your fault then."

"I dreamed of kissing George for so long, but when he did it... I rejected him." Dream thought back painfully.
"It was just a normal night and we went out partying. We both got a little too drunk and on the dance floor he kissed me. I just shoved him off me and looked at him. He then turned around and left the club."
Dream breathed heavily.

"I still don't understand how this is-"
"Shut up Sap. I am not finished yet." he looked around and blinked to stop the tears.
"After he stormed out I went to the bar and drank another drink. Someone suddenly screamed for an ambulance and I was so confused." Dream was taken back to that night.
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Someone screamed in the club. I turned around and saw a girl searching her way to the bar.
"I need a phone to call and ambulance. Some guy just got stabbed outside the bar."
George. My thoughts immediately went to George. He had just left the bar. I got up and ran through the club and out through the door, looked around and saw a body laying about 10 meters away from the club. Oh please no. "George, George" I screamed and ran to him. Everywhere was blood and one of George arms looked weirdly. "No, no, no" I kneeled down next to him amd took his hands. "George? George please talk to me, look at me." George groaned and his eye lids fluttered. "George, please stay with me." "Hi Dream." his voice was rusty. "George, I am sorry. I shouldn't have rejected y-" I was cut off by George putting his finger on my lips. "It's okay, Dream. I shouldn't have done it."
"No." I looked around, more tears building up in my eyes. "I like you too. I liked you for so long, since high school. Oh God, I always thought you would hate me. Thats why I never did something." I looked down at George. His eyes were closed again. "George." I ruffled his shoulders. "George, wake up!" now I screamed, tears streaming down my face. "George please." My voice broke. No,no,no. "Please come back to me."
Suddenly someone grabbed my shoulders and pulled me back from the corpse. "No" I screamed. "George." But it was too late. He was dead.
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"Oh my god Dream." Sapnap hugged Dream again. The tears were streaming down his face again.

"I just wanna know who did this. Why would they kill him? "

"Dream, I wanna know too, but we need to get ready now. It is already 10 and the funeral starts at 12. Plus we need to drive at least an hour."

Dream looked at his phone and Sapnap was right, if he wouldn't start getting ready they would be late.
"Ok, see you downstairs in half an hour?"Dream asked. Sapnap just nodded and left.

After Sapnap left, Dream got up and went to the closet. He took out some black pants, a black hoodie and then changed. Dream looked at himself in the mirror, eyes still red. God I just don't want to go. But Dream knew he had too.

He turned around and was heading to the door when something catched his eyes. The mirror. In the mirror stood a person. Dream turned around but no one was there. Then he turned back to the mirror but the person was gone.

It looked like George.