A Brief Inquiry Into (Real) Relationships

just one

Dream awoke to his phone continuously buzzing against the sheets next to him, eyes groggily coming to focus with the world around him as the sound continued through his ears. He suppressed a groan at the fact that he hadn't put his phone on do not disturb the night before, rolling onto his back and letting his palms cover his eyes and drag down his cheeks and chin, forcing himself awake far earlier than he normally did or intended.

It took a few seconds of the blonde lifelessly staring at the ceiling for his mind to wake up, blinking away the hunger for sleep still deep seeded in his eyes. Dream sat up and patted the space next to him before his hand met his phone and he brought it into his lap.

The first dead giveaway something was definitely wrong: his sister had texted him seven times within the past minute. His eyes shot open at the immediate notifications he could read, before noticing a missed call from his mom, and two texts.

From: Sades :P

YOU DIDN'T TELL ME???

From: Sades :P

WHAT THE FUCK??

From: Mom : )

Call me as soon as you wake up, I'm so excited!

He swallowed before shakily opening his phone, barely noticing the other notifications across his bluelit screen, eyes fixated on whatever the hell his family was doing in his messages. Dream wracked his brain for anything and everything they could be excited about, a milestone, a trip, anything , and through his scrambling he was left empty handed and filled with clouds of confusion.

His mom said excited , so it must be good news? Maybe he didn't even know yet and-

From: Sades :P

WE HAD TO FINDOUT YOUNDGOERGE WERE DATING THROUUG A FUCKIGN WEDDING INVITE???????????

His eye contact couldn't be broken from the grey bubble clear as day on his screen. Dream's throat tightened, his head was burning, and he felt like all the oxygen from the Earth had been selfishly ripped away from him in a ruthless act of defiance against him and his hopeless crush.

Did I really miss something on the invite?

It took the blonde a minute to gather himself, blinking a few times, before he could even look at the other texts his younger sister spammed him with.

From: Sades :P

HELLO???

From: Sades :P

oh my god you cannot ghost me rn ill actually kill you

From: Sades :P

CLAY.

From: Sades :P

IM SO. ???????!?!!?!!

From: Sades :P

YOU DIDN'T TELL ME???

From: Sades :P

WHAT THE FUCK??

Despite the dread and anxiety he was feeling deep at his core, confusion had still taken over a majority of his brain. A wedding invite? The one he'd sent the day prior? Nothing on there even remotely had mentioned romance, right?

He shook his head, the fantasy of what it would be like to take George to a wedding as his date completely took over his mind and swallowed it whole. Walking in dressed in clean suits, an arm around the brunet's waist with wide smiles, being able to introduce far extended family members to his boyfriend George only to receive even brighter smiles and more enthusiastic introductions, leaning down to whisper into his ear at dinner to crack jokes and tell short stories of people there, pointing them out subtly after continuously making the shorter giggle, being able to unabashedly show the light in his eyes everytime he looked down at George, be it talking with family or simply during a quiet moment in between chaos, the warmth and tender affection within each and every glance, holding him close during a slow dance and cooing soft praises of love as he held the boy closer to him, refusing to let him slip away-