Kidnapped

Chapter 43: Drista

George's POV

After spending another 30 minutes talking with Drista we got called for food, heading down the stairs and sitting in the dining room.

She placed wraps in the middle of the table and allowed us to take as much as we wanted to eat.

I sat next to Dream with his mum on the end of the table next to me, Drista in front.

As the rest of their family took wraps onto plates of their own, my hand refused to go anywhere near them.

My brain tried to move them but they were glued around my waist, holding my stomach.

Dream takes another one and puts it onto my plate, giving me a small glance and nudging the plate closer to me.

"So did you guys have fun catching up?" Dream asks Drista.

"Yeah! I showed George all the cool art I've been doing" she smiles, taking another bite of her food.

I look at the wrap in front of me, trying to find the easiest place to start eating it.

"Are you still into art George?" Aria asks me and I nod.

"My colourblindness is making it difficult though" I admit with a faint smile.

"Don't be silly! It makes your art more unique" she reassures, taking a bite into her second wrap along with Dream.

"Well that's one way to describe it I guess, are you still working at the library?"

"Yeah! I own it now so I've redecorated and everything, you should come by at some point" She smiles.

"I'd love to, I should probably get back to reading again" I faintly smile back, looking down to the wrap that still sat there.

"Come on Georgie you promised you'd try" Dream frowns, looking between the wrap and me.

"It's okay, we have fruit in the fridge I could chop you some up and put it into a bowl?" Aria offers and I feel guilty but also relieved.

"Only if it's not any trouble" I look up at her with pleading eyes.

"Of course not! You boys head upstairs and I'll bring it up to you, are you staying the night?" She offers.

"Uhh well I wasn't planning on-"

"He can stay, we will let his mum know" Dream smiles.

"Okay I'll be up soon" she adds, cleaning up the table.

I follow Dream up the stairs and into his room as he shuts the door behind me.

"Why did you say I would stay? I literally have none of my stuff with me and we said we would pick up Tubbo" I say, taking a seat on his bed.

"See if Tubbo wants to stay over at Tommy's, if not I'll still take him home" He adds, sitting on the other end of the bed.

I pull my phone out and open Tubbo's contact.

George: Hey Tubs, I'm going to stay at Dream's, do you still want picking up or do you want to stay at Tommy's?

Tubbo: I can stay round?

George: Only if you want to

Tubbo: Yes please

George: Will you be okay on your own?

Tubbo: Yeah, I told Tommy about my nightmares and stuff

George: Does Phil know?

Tubbo: Yeah I spoke to him too, he's really nice

George: Okay, let me know if you change your mind and want to be picked up

Tubbo: I will

George: I'll let mum know where we are

Tubbo: I'll send her a message too

George: Okay stay safe

Tubbo: You too

I press out of my messages with Tubbo and let my mum know where we are, sending her some heart emojis too.

A knock at the door makes me look up from my phone.

"Come in" Dream says as he sets up his Xbox and puts two controllers on his bed.

The door opens to reveal Dream's mum with a bowl in her hand and two bottles of water.

"I didn't know what fruit you like so I put a bit of everything we have and brought you up some water" she says as she passes me the bowl and a bottle of water.

"Thank you" I say as she gives Dream the other bottle.

"No problem, let me know if you need anything I'll be watching a film with Drista" she faintly smiles and closes the door.

I put my phone in my hoodie pocket and look at the fruit, it didn't look as scary as the wrap and I felt comfortable enough to try and eat it.

I look at the different fruit in the bowl.

Strawberries, Banana, Apple, Orange, Pear and Pineapple.

All cut up into smaller pieces.

I start eating, and it didn't feel horrible, just foreign in my mouth.

"Here's your controller when your ready, I set up Minecraft"

I take the controller from Dream's hand and carry on eating, I could see the small smile that crept on his face which made me feel slightly better.

I finish the fruit and hold the controller properly, then joining him in whatever he had already started doing.

When's the best time to ask him questions?

Do I bring it up now?

He won't be mad that Drista told me right?

What if he gets mad?

Maybe he doesn't want to talk about it

"George?"

He probably doesn't want to tell me

He would've told me himself right?

Why is he so nice to me if I hurt him so bad?

"Georgie?"

Then again he did hurt me

And I still forgave him

Does that make me the idiot or him?

"George!"

I snap out of my thoughts and look over at Dream.

"You good? You spaced out for a while there"

"Dream" I say, putting down the controller.

"Yeah?"

"Did it affect you? Me not being here?" I ask and watch as he puts his controller down.

"Of course it did, what kind of question is that?" He asks confused.

"I never asked how, like what it was like for you, I never asked any of you" I state, then looking back up at him.

"Dream I need you to be serious with me, I need us to finish the conversation we were having in the car"