smiles // dreamnotfound

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TW
- death threats
- mature language

-dream pov-

Going back into my room after dinner like always. There's nothing wring with me, I'm okay, it's just what Sapnap and I do. 
The aftertaste of my meal was still on my taste buds. Sure, it was nice, but this taste hanging around really wasn't. I couldn't be bothered getting any water, so I pulled out my phone and laid down on my bed, not the comfiest thing in the world, but it's better than nothing.

Like usual, the first thing I did was turn on my phone and click on twitter. I like looking at my feed, I find nice fanart on there. Not just of me, it's usually of my friends and I, but that's not what I saw today.
Tweet after tweet, all about me. You would think I'm lucky, that I'm famous, but no.

"Dream neg" was all I could see. I tried scrolling to escape them, but it just got worse and worse.
Tweets like "Dream cheated", "Dream's ugly", and "Dream's racist" filled my small screen. 

I looked in the corner and saw "99+ new messages", but I didn't dare to click on them. Tears filled my eyes as I kept scrolling. 

My heart was telling me to stop, but my mind was telling me to keep going, to find out what I did wrong.

There was no reasoning in any of the tweets, just regular hate like always, but it was worse. Multiple death threats came across my screen. "Kys" were the 3 most common letters I could find. Normally, I wouldn't be bothered by hate, but this destroyed me. 

Water flowed down my face and filled my eyes until I couldn't see anymore. Not knowing how to take out my frustration, I threw my phone at the wall, instantly regretting it. 

The door immediately swung open. 

"Are you okay?" Sapnap asked, awaiting an answer, but unfortunately not getting one.
I watched as he looked at me with that worried face, the worried face he first showed me a few months ago. I looked at him as his eyes met mine, then went down to the floor where my phone was. 

He slowly started walking over to my phone. I wanted to stop him so badly, but I was out of energy, and my voice would probably be shaky.

His face grew into shock as he picked up my phone and scrolled through my feed. His eyes constantly went from me back to my phone. Silence started filling the room, until his voice broke it. 

"I'll be right back" he spoke, walking out of the room and closed the door.

I brought my eyes back up to the celling, staring off into an unknown universe. A peaceful one. One where no one was judgemental and no one spread lies. If only...

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-sapnap pov-

I closed the door behind me, still in shock after what I just saw. Dream did get hate on a regular basis, but it never seemed to bother him. I would always check up on him, but he would just smile and say that he's all good. I guess that wasn't all good.

I wanted to help him. I knew none of this hate would stop, there was no way I could convince every dream anti or ever dream smp anti to stop hating.

He looked so hurt. So hurt that it broke my heart. I started thinking about everything that makes him happy. Minecraft, the reason why he got hate. Streaming, the other reason why he got hate. Playing board games, he probably wasn't in the mood for it.

That was when the answer hit me.

I quickly walked back to my room, pulling out my phone as I did so. I clicked on a particular contact and pressed call, awaiting an answer.

"Sapnap?" a tired voice echoed through the other end of the phone, "is everything okay?".

"You need to come here, to Florida" I spoke, trying not to sound too commanding.

"What's wrong?" the voice asked me, as I didn't know how to respond.

"Just, please come".

"You know I so desperately want to, but you also know I can't" the voice responded.

"Please..."

"I'm just..." the voice sighed, "a bit too stressed right now". 

"I don't want to put you under any more stress, but have you looked at twitter recently?" I asked, not knowing any other way for it to not sound rude.

"No...why?".

"Call me back when you look at it" I said as I hung up. God, I felt so bad.

I shut off my phone and slowly headed back to Dream's room, hoping he didn't hear the conversation. I don't think he did, he was sitting up right on his bed, with his head in his hands.
I slowly walked over to him and sat down, putting my arm around him. 

Well, tonight was the best night ever wasn't it?

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thank you for reading the first chapter!! i know it's short, but I didn't know what else to add :)
make sure you're staying hydrated and getting some sleep loves <33

(Also, I know it's short, just bare with me :))

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