It was an accident (a DNF fanfic)

Chapter 3

I didn't call Dream back until the next morning. "Hey George," he said softly. "You okay?"

I shook my head. "Dream how do I fix this?"

"I don't know buddy," he admitted. "I don't think there's anyway you can undo this."

I sighed and got quiet for awhile. "How much did you hear?"

"It doesn't matter George."

"You heard?" I asked.

"It doesn't change anything," he said.

"But you heard?" I asked.

"I heard all of it. I'm sorry I tried to call you. I tried to stop you."

"Do you hate me?" I asked him sadly.

"I'll never hate you," he said and he smiled into his camera. "I'm sorry that happened George."

"I need to talk to Karl and Nick."

"Yeah, I'll talk to you later?" He asked.

"Mhm," I smiled.

"Hey," he said quickly before I could hang up.

"Hmm?" I asked.

"I love you George," he smiled.

"Bye Dream," I smiled back and hung up.

I called Sapnap next and he answered fairly quickly. "Hey George, you okay?" He asked.

"Yeah I'm okay, I just talked to Dream. He heard everything I said."

"I'm so sorry George," he said sympathetically.

"No, I'm sorry, I literally outed you and Karl. Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I've honestly been staying off Twitter. I don't want to see what people are saying right now."

"Yeah I've been seeing different things on YouTube of people reacting to the stream." I said. "I haven't watched any. I'm so nervous. I look like such an idiot." I sighed. "Have you talked to Karl?"

"Yeah, I called him right after I got off the phone with you and he told me he had seen it and we talked."

"And?" I prompted.

"And it went well," was all he said in response. "I don't want to say anymore right now," he said with a laugh.

"Okay okay, I need to call Karl and apologize to him as well," I said.

"Okay, later George."

I ended the call with Sapnap and called Karl.

"Hey George!"

"Hey Karl, I wanted to talk to you about the stream. Nick said you saw it right?" I asked him and I felt like I shouldn't have admitted I talked to Nick before him.

"Yeah I saw I actually wanted to talk to you as well." He admitted.

"I just wanted to clear the air with you. I know you told Nick you didn't have feelings for me but then you said you had considered dating me, I just wanted to make sure we were truly on the same page."

"Yeah we totally are, like I told Nick in the stream, I really do have feelings for Dream. I just sort of was trying to project those feelings onto you because I know I'll never be with Dream, but I promise if you and Nick get together I'll feel nothing but absolute happiness." And I really meant what I said. I had hoped for a while for Karl and Nick to get together, the kiss didn't change that for me. At most it made me feel more lonely, but that wasn't their fault.

"Have you talked to Dream about the stream?" He asked.

"Yeah," I said with a sigh.

"It didn't go well?" Karl asked, surprise apparent in his voice.

"It didn't go horribly, he basically said nothing will change. But I don't know. It's going to be really awkward to get in a stream and flirt with Dream now," he said with a little laugh. "He definitely doesn't feel the way I feel."

"Are you okay?" Karl asked. "I mean you literally just accidentally outed yourself and got rejected by Dream in 24 hours."

"Thanks Karl, I had totally forgot about that," he said dryly.

"I'm sorry, I'm just saying. Things have been rough for you. Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I just don't know I literally just got over Dream telling the world about the kiss and now this. It's just too much."

"Well, what if I come see you again? So you're not alone?"

"No, don't worry Karl. I mean of course I'd enjoy spending time with you again, but I really think you should go see Nick. The fans would have a field day if they knew you were coming to see me after what I said on the stream."

"That's true," Karl admitted.

After the call ended with Karl, I felt like I needed to watch some of the YouTube reactions. I had just clicked on the first video when I got a text from Dream.

Dream: hey you still on the calls?

I opened iMessage and text him back immediately. God I looked so desperate.

George: nope, just got off

My message was read immediately which brought a smile to my face, Dream had been waiting for my reply. Quickly the three dots popped up to indicate he was texting.

Dream: well wyd now?

George: watching some reactions to the stream? 😬

Dream: want some support? We can screen share?

Without hesitation George FaceTimed Dream immediately and his friend answered within the first ring.

"Have you watched any of them?" George asked.

"No, I was too nervous," Dream admitted. It hadn't occurred to George to be concerned how Dream felt about all of this. He wasn't outed but he had been heavily mentioned throughout the stream.

"Hey how are you handling all of this?" George asked.

"Me?" Dream replied with some shock. "I'm okay George, everyone on Twitter is sort of pressuring me and asking me a lot of questions so I've just stayed off. I'm sure my next stream the chat will be all about DNF, but that's not really new so," he trailed off.

"Yeah, I'm so embarrassed to stream again," George admitted. "Honestly I feel kind of embarrassed to even talk to you," he said sadly.

"Aw, George please don't," Dream pleaded. "I'm glad I know okay?" He said. "Now let's watch these videos together." George could see his smile through the screen, it was a reassuring smile that was offered to help George.