Someone cares // No one cares part 2 || Dnf

17. laughing

George POV

"DAMNIT!!", I yelled out in annoyance as an attack of a blaze threw me into the lava.
"Shut up!", I heard from the room next to me.
"Fuck off!", I rolled my eyes, clicking 'title screen' and deleting the world. Again.

Over and over again I generated worlds, but either just stopped when the time went over 30 minutes or immediately created a new one when I died. After about 10 attempts I got annoyed and angry.

I leaned back in my chair, sighing and groaning while looking at the screen with the two buttons 'respawn' and 'title screen'. I had just died because of a stupid enderman because I thought fighting it with no armour and 4 and a half hearts would be a good idea.

"Are you done?", I suddenly saw Clay standing in the door frame, leaning against it and raising an eyebrow.
I just huffed and let myself slide down the chair slowly.
"Hungry? Pizza?", he asked, not changing expression or position.

"Yeah....", I mumbled.
"What Pizza?", he straightened up, turning around, about to leave.
"I don't care. Surprise me", I answered before yawning loudly.

Groaning quietly, I leaned forward again and turned off my computer.
Maybe another time.

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I woke up in the next morning, stretching and yawning.
Looking over to the clock, it was 1pm.
Sighing, I cuddled back into my blanket and pulled my legs up to my upper body.

'Why is there no arm around me? Why don't I hear any "Good morning sunshine, or cutey, or Georgie, or some nickname"? Why wasn't Clay doing anything?', went through my head.
Was he still asleep? No way. I had the habit to sleep long, yeah. Not proud of it, but it was how it was. But Clay didn't sleep that long.

Was he up? Making breakfast? Watching TV?
I turned around slowly, proving to myself that he wasn't lying next to me.
Where was this fucker????

I sat up, throwing the blanket aside on the mattress and slowly stood up, letting my legs carry me to the door.
Opening it, I yawned again while looking around.
He wasn't in the living room.
Kitchen maybe?

So I went over to said room, I was greeted by emptiness and silence.
He wasn't here?

I searched up every single room. He wasn't home. Was he out? Meeting with Nick? He'd leave today, right? Oh, damnit! He had said he would be leaving at 12! Fuck!

I rushed back into the bedroom, turning on my phone. A message from Nick. Yeah, of course.

'Hey mate. I'll be leaving now. See you in 3 days again! Have a great time with Clay. I'll miss yall! Don't do anything stupid while I'm gone, ye?!! Love ya man <3'

I smiled at the message and quickly typed back
'Why didn't you come personally?'
I quickly deleted the message again after thinking he maybe didn't have time for it, or maybe rang the doorbell and no one opened, depending on where tf my boyfriend was then, or maybe just didn't want to wake me. I didn't have to ask.

'Have a great time! I'll miss you too. Promise I won't do anything stupid. How would I be able to solve my problems without you? I need to be careful ;)
Love you too! See ya then'
I sent instead.

Turning off my phone, I let myself fall on my back onto the bed.
Sighing, I remembered that I still didn't know where Clay was.
I stood up quickly and went to the bathroom. I took a quick shower before brushing my teeth and putting on comfortable clothes.

I went outside the house to look for signs of Clay. It was damn cold. I mean, of course it was. I was December-....wait...
I quickly looked at my phone, checking the date.
It was Christmas!!!!!
Fuck!

Maybe Clay was getting presents? That could be a good excuse for his disappearing. But then I should be doing that too! Shit! I had completely lost track of time!

I went back inside and began walking around, thinking of what I could give Clay.
And I had no idea.
I decided to go to the mall and look around there.

I grabbed my keys again, put on a warm jacket and left the house. The walk to the shopping mall from here had to be around 20 minutes or so, so I took my earphones with me to hear music on the way.

I was just passing the small forest when a song I didn't like came up. Why was it even in my playlist then? I just skipped it, being too lazy to remove it now. Maybe that's why I it was still there.....

In the small time gap where no song was playing, I heard male laughing from the direction of the forest. Familiar male laughing.
As soon as the next song started playing, I stopped the music.

I stepped closer to the sounds until I hid behind a tree, looking at two guys tossing a football back and forth.
Clay and Corpse were playing with each other?

"You think you also can catch that one?", Corpse shouted, throwing the ball really high and really far.
Clay jumped up and slightly to the side, perfectly catching the ball before landing back on his feet.

I raised my eyebrows in astonishment and decided to keep watching a bit.
They just tossed it to each other over and over again, sometimes making it more difficult for the other one to catch, but they rarely missed.

After a few minutes Clay caught the ball, holding it with his arm on his side and walked towards Corpse. They clapped their hands together before Clay patted Corpse's shoulder.

I was happy that they got along with each other well and I smiled at them,....but....why did I feel so lonely suddenly?

As they turned into my direction, I quickly stepped back and continued my way to the mall.
I thought about different things on the way.
'What could I give to Clay as a gift?'
'I'm glad they're good with each other'
'.....what is this stupid feeling of loneliness?.... I had no reason for it, did I?'

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