my best friends roommate.

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9:00 p.m.

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dream and george are in the living room watching TV while sapnap and karl are sleeping in sap's room.

"i'm sorry about earlier." george says suddenly, "you don't have to be sorry, it was out of your control." dream says as he turns to his friend with a soft smile, george looks away from dreams gaze and fiddles with his own hands, "i know, but it must've been scary for you." george whispers slightly, "it was scary, but only because my friend was in distress." friend, huh? dream already considers them friends.. this has got to be the fastest friendship george has ever been in. dream looks back at the t.v. and opens his mouth but he hesitates.. george notices this,  "what were you going to say?" george says as he leans closer to dream, dream stiffens up and makes eye contact with geogre, "do you.. want to talk about it..?" dream says as he turns and sits directly in front of george, cris cross apple sauce; "i... guess?" george says as he musters up the courage to tell dream why he's the way he is.

"my parents aren't the greatest. they've always been so strict, my mom would take me out into the garden when i did something she didn't like and would make me apologize for whatever i did wrong." dream's eyes widen as george slowly lays his head onto dreams lap, "if she didn't like the way i apologized to her she would leave me out for the entire night in the garden.. the patch of grass that was kept neat was from me laying and sleeping on it all night." george says, unfazed by what he's saying. "my dad didn't like that i was gay so he wouldn't talk to me. ever. i was like a ghost that lived with him, he let my mom treat me like that because he didn't care about me." george says, dream is playing with george's hair now, "my older sister would take me to the US almost monthly because i had no friends and my family situation wasn't good for me and she knew that i had a bestfriend here." dream pieces together the story, "so sapnap offered you a place to stay because he was dating your best friend?" dream says with a soft voice, "more or less. i got closer with karl and his boyfriends, sapnap so happened to be moving out when he was 19 so i asked him if i could be his roommate." george smiles as he recalls how excited he was to be moving permanently away from his parents.
"im so sorry george." dream says as tears fall down from his face voice shaking a bit, george looks up at his friend, "i'm okay. i'm here aren't i? away from them. with you. with sapnap. with karl. with quackity." george says as he wipes away his friends tears and smiles up at him, dream nods and smiles back, that damn smile.

"im happy now, but the ghost of those who traumatized me live in my head forever." george says as he looks away from dreams face, "there's something about you that makes me drawn to you." dream says out of no where, "what? because im charity work?" george says half jokingly, dream frowns and flicks george's forehead "no idiot. your smile, your laugh, the way you dress, the way you cuss when no one is watching. what's it like? being you behind closed doors." dream asks, "it's always been like this i guess, i dont like bothering people with my presence." dream plays with george's hair some more, "i like your presence." he says as he stops playing with his hair, george looks up at him, turning slightly pink; "i wish i could be as bold as you are." george say in almost a whisper, he closes his eyes and sighs. "what do you mean by that?" dream chuckles a bit, standing up a bit more straight.
"you laugh so loud, like you don't care who's listening, you talk like you've known me forever, you constantly say what's on your mind no matter what. i wish i could do all that." george says as he opens his eyes to look at dream, who's flustered by what geogre had just said.
dream smiles and covers his mouth, "that. that's the only thing i hate about you." george says as he points at what dream is doing, "please stop covering up your smile. i don't want to forget what it's like to make someone happy."  george says softly as he reaches up to pull dream's hand away from his mouth.

dreams heart races, butterflies absolutely engulf his entire stomach but he's slightly hurt at what george had said "i don't want to forget what it's like to make someone happy." someone means george thinks he doesn't make the people in his life happy..

"you do make me happy. so happy that i could die from a dopamine overdose any minute now." dream jokes, hoping that it brings a smile to george's face. it does.

"what are you guys doing? cuddling?" sapnap says at the top of the stairs, with an obvious smirk on his face as he looks at his two friends, george gets up from dream's lap and blushes, "yeah, we were." dream says as he pulls george's head back into his lap. "ewwww not on my couch." sapnap jokes and goes back into his room.

dream laughs as he watches george freak out a bit, getting back up from his lap and scooting away from him. "oh come on george we were just getting to the part where you fall asleep on me again."  dream teases.