Once upon a game

Chapter 9 : Ikea

George POV :

"Yes mom all I need is to go to IKEA, I can go to IKEA alone , you weren't even there when I nearly drowned so please stop bring so overprotective!" I shouted down the hallway , my mom won't stop nagging me after I nearly drowned , I mean , I never liked the ocean anyways , floridians are just crazy and Dream offered so I didn't wanna sound mean. We've been hanging out a lot for the past week and it's already nearly the end of October , so i NEED to buy some Halloween decorations... and since I don't go to IKEA often I can also finally buy some stuff for my room , like a rug or something.

I step out of the house , I'm so lucky there's an IKEA so close because I'm not bothered to call a taxi , it takes way too much time and it's way too overpriced. And as you already know , a colorblind person can't legally drive. So that's beggineers luck right there.

I walk for around 10 minutes before making it to thr building , the wind messing up my hair , not a thought between my eyes . Well that's a lie. I had a lot of thoughts. No not about the incident , I mean like what in the world am I gonna buy in IKEA? Yes some halloween decorations and some other stuff.

I take a deep breath , stepping into the IKEA and getting one of those massive carts , enough to fit a dead body... in other words skeletons , I headed straight to the Halloween section and picked out a few plastic pumpkins , some pumpkin fairy lights . I looked around for fake cobwebs and decided the glow in the dark ones sound cool , and thankfully it's not that god awful green glow , it's a normal white glow. I find some fake skeletons and some fake cheap graves , I'm so lucky that Dream decided to randomly gift me 6,904.20 dollars , i have no idea what I would do without him.

After picking out the Halloween decorations I decide to get a nice white Fluffy round rug with a low table and two beanbags , I buy some shelfs , a table for my pc and three gaming monitors , a gaming chair, some cool fairy lights , some mushroom decorations , a bookshelf that I won't use for books but I will use for random trinkets I find laying around and finally a bunch of blankets and pillows , you could never have too many.

Of course some people would buy plants but I can't even keep a cactus alive. A god damn cactus. I wait in line and decide to pay. When yet another surprise hit me.

"Would you like to pay with cash or card sir?" Said a familiar voice , I look up after putting everything I bags and realise, that's Jack Manifold, "George! When did you move to Florida?!"

Of course we had a long chit chat , but the line was growing do I had to leave. Jack told me to wait outside until his shift ends because he has a van and well, it was obvious I wouldn't be able to bring everything home.

I sat outside on a rather useful bench , waiting with all the stuff , until I saw Fundy walk out of IKEA looking for someone , I waved to him. He looked over at me and started walking towards me.

"Oh hi George , when did you move to Florida?" He asked , in a more of a formal whisper talk kind of way, he smiled.

I stood up from the bench and began to speak, "Oh around a month ago I-"

"How was the beach?" He asked.

I hesitated, "how do you know I was at the beach?.."

"How was it. The water was nice wasn't it?"

I started to feel uncomfortable, "I never told anyone about what happened at the beach..."

Fundy laughed , punching his knee , I looked at him confused , was he knocking me?

"Oh George you're making me sound like a creep! It was all other twitter I mean , who doesn't know? Now seriously, you doing good or??" He laughed , then making a worried expression , he seemed honest.

I smiled , feeling relieved that he wasn't going to kill me , I mean , why would he? I answer "Oh I don't remember much of what happened and I was pretty okay after , It felt like I never even stepped in the water so-" I again, got interrupted , what is with people?

"Hey George! I got thr car keys now let's go before you freeze out here" shouted Jack , I say my goodbyes to Fundy and loaded the van , he then drove me to my house and I thanked him , we spoke a bit before saying he has some "lore" to attend to, I mean , I'm in the dream smp but I don't play a major role , the only reason people have been recognising me is by the name "the twitter drowning man!" , it's funny hut st the same time sad thst I try to make content and the only thing that made me go viral is my near death , is that what people find entertaining? People nearly dying?! I sigh. People really need to get themselves f*cking checked out.

And I thought people who read gay fanfictions about two Minecraft youtubers at 3 am in their bedroom were bad.

When I got home my dad immediately insisted on getting all the stuff I bought built by him, I couldn't say no and he's pretty good at putting together IKEA furniture, not Walmart or Mercury Market furniture, only IKEA furniture.

While my dad built everything I decided to let my sister decorate the front door with the Christmas decoration, she was always creative and I couldn't say no.

*timeskip till 22:45 / 9:45 pm*

Everything was finally built! I looked around my room, pretty proud of the stuff I picked out and pretty proud of how my dad assembled everything. I like how the fairy lights don't shine a cheap yellow but a nice baby blue , or purple, I can't really tell but I'm hoping it's blue , why would I care? I don't care how other people see my room , I like my room the way it looks. Even if thr mushrooms and fairy lights look childish.

I head outside, I decided its dark enough to see the cobwebs shine white- oh for f*cks sake! They were shining an obvious yellow color , which meant one thing. They have the cheap looking green glow, but the cobwebs were white how in the world do they shine green and- I got rudely interrupted for a third time this chapt- I mean this day, I open up my phone to see who messaged me.

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DREAM:
You know why your knees
hurt ;)
NEW MESSAGES
DREAM:
Georgeeeeeeeee

Helloooooo

Idiot

Me: watch your
mouth , I'm the only person
aloud to call other people
idiots.

DREAM:
ooooooo~ kitty got claws
🙀

Me: Shut up Idiot,
what do you need?

DREAM:
since its Halloween tomorrow,
wanna go to my house for a
Halloween party? Sapnap
Organises one every year and like
A hundredpeople go , it's
So fun!!
Me: What do I get in
return?

DREAM:
A make out session.

Me: Alright I'm gonna
be there, what time?

DREAM:
Oh I thought I was
Gonna have to beg you, that
Made stuff way easier, maybe
I do have some charm 😻

Me: The time.

DREAM:
oh f*ck , right. Its at
Half past 11pm , BTW its
A costume party
♥ by GOGY

'DREAM' SET 'GOGY'S NAME TO 'MAKEOUT BUDDY'

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Welp I guess I'm going to a party tomorrow , I'm not even sure what I'm gonna be...

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SPOILER INCOMING!!

BET YOU WERENT EXCPECTING THAT HAHA anyways I think there will be a Christmas chapter and a new year's chapter... unless they die before- I mean Pffffftttttt whhhhhatttt who would die? I deffo not just making you all emotionally attached to these people so thst you shred tears-

Imagine the train tracks covered in snow , with a soft gradient of blood.

End of chapter!

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