Boys Will Be Boys // dnf

ch.7 - Was I A Joke to You?

Friday, March 31th. "Day before THE party."

Friday, the day everyone doesn't want to go to school, most skip. Dream, sapnap, and George showed up though. They went to class, saw each other in the halls, then went to the field at the end. Finally it's the weekend again. Free from the brick walls of strict dumb rules.

The three of them sat on the grass looking up.

"Hey George," sapnap called out. "Hm?"  "How do you do an ollie, kickflip, and heelflip so well?" George sat up quickly. Dream's eyes widened. "Wait what? Were you there.. watching me or something?"  "Oh uh. Yeah we saw you yesterday."  "Wait "we?" dream you too?" George looked lost and confused at the same time. "Yeah." He laughed. "We were in town and passed by the skate park, which we saw you."  "Oh okay. Thanks I guess sapnap."  "Of course my man! You gotta teach me one day."  "Bet."

Dream smiled at the word "bet" coming out of George's mouth. What is this feeling..?

They lied there for a few then left going to their houses.

The day changed into night, and back into day.

***

Saturday, April 1st. "Party time."

Dream got ready. He put on jeans and a nice shirt, a polo. Sapnap threw on his sweatpants and his baggy shirt, he didn't really care what he looked like. George, he stood at his mirror clueless on what to wear. Shaking his head, he hopped into the shower to clear his thoughts.

Dream drove to sapnap's house. Knocking, his mother answers the door.

"Ah hello Clay!" She smiled. "Hello! May I come in to see sapnap?"  "Of course!" Letting dream in, he walked to sapnap's room and walked in.

"Hey dude." Sapnap said looking up from his phone. He is sitting on his bed. "Hey. Wait that's what you're wearing??"  "Mhm." "Okay, we'll c'mon let's go. We gotta drive to George's house."

Sapnap hopped off his bed and walked down the hall. Dream followed. "Bye mom!" Sapnap said, and dream waved goodbye as the two of them walked out the door. They got in dream's car and drove off.

***

George is listening to his music in the shower when all the sudden he hears a knock.

"Who is it?!" George could barely hear due to the water. It sounded like someone trying to scream underwater. "It's me, mum! You have friends downstairs so hurry up!" Friends? Oh sapnap and dream! George shut off the water. He was done anyways. "I'll be down in a sec." He heard his mother's footsteps recede as she walked down the stairs.

He got changed into some sweatpants and a tee shirt. Brushed his hair, then walked downstairs. As he stepped further down, there they were. The two popular kids standing and waiting for the George himself.

"Welcome, welcome!" Dream said as he was smiling. "Damn dream drop the smile" George laughed. Sapnap stood there as he was on his phone. "Uh guys we are gonna be late. It's 9:40-" "Oh shit yeah- you ready George?" "Yup! Bye mum" George hugged her.

The three of them were finally off.

"Here we goooo!" Sapnap turned up the music. It was rap of course. George isn't very fond of loud noises though, every time the beat would drop he'd make a face like it hurt.

Dream looked in the mirror. Immediately, he turned the music down. "Yo dude what was that all about?!" "Can't you see George doesn't like it?" Sapnap quickly turned to the backseat where George sat. "Well, do you..?" "I mean I like anything if-" "See!" "No, Sapnap he's just saying that to be nice." "Whatever man."

A few minutes later, they pulled up to Maddie's house. A occurring deja-vu hit dream when this was the same spot he dropped Maddie off. They got out of the car and walked up to the front door. Dream knocked. Someone answered. It was that kid that drove George home.

He wore the multicolored hoodie with a pair of sweatpants. "Hey! Welcome! Oh and hey George."  "Hey Karl-" So that was the kid's name. Karl. All three of them walk in.

Looking around there is a bar stand with a man behind it, as well as a soda fountain to the left. Disco lights surrounded the entire room with party streamers hanging. "Okay this is kind of cool."  "Sapnap we aren't staying long okay?"  "Sure. I'm just glad we came"  They walked to the outside part of the house. That's where everyone was, including Maddie herself. It had to be at least a party of 50.  "Well, see ya dudes!" Sapnap walked off to the bar then to a group of girls who were gossiping. On occasion would they look over to dream.

There stood George and dream. "So what do you wanna do?" George asked while fidgeting his hands. "Hm. Well, let's start off easy. You wanna know my name?" George smiled. "Duh." He smiled. "If you're soo desperate, it's dream." George could barely hear over the music. "What?" He was practically shouting at this point. "My name! My name is dream!" He rolled his eyes. "The music is too loud."  "Okay, come" Dream pulled George by his arm quickly running inside into a vacant hallway. "Okay. Can ya here me now?"  "Mhm."  "Alright. My name, it's dream."  "Dream?"  "Yeah, well it's Clay but I stick to the nickname of dream."  "Oh okay. It's a nice name." He smiled. Dream smiled back.

It was them. The two of them in a empty dark hallway. There was silence, but it wasn't awkward, instead it was that nice type.

"George..?" George looked up to dream. "Yeah?"  "I know you don't like parties, so what you say we ditch this place?" His eyes slightly widened. "What- how'd you know?" He chuckled. "One, you fidgeted your hands earlier. Two, you didn't say to go back when we left outside. It's obvious"  "Fine fine you got me. But where would we go?"  "I don't know you choose."

Before George could say anything, a girl came up and kissed dream. He kissed her back. And George stood there uncomfortable. She pulled away. "That was nice." It was Maddie. "Maddie can you just leave me the fuck alone? We never dated."  "Sure!" She walked off.

Dream looked back over to George. "Sorry about that- can we go?"  "No it's okay. I'll hang here with you guys."  "Oh you sure?"  "Yup!" They walked back outside.

In about 5 minutes, dream looks around for George. No sighting, but dream had a feeling he knew where he went. He left. And Karl was gone too.

They left together.