1000 phone calls. -Karlnap

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(KARLS POV)

 I grab my hair in my hands and pull my feet up onto the library chair. I was in a secluded corner where nobody could see me. I put my head on my knees. After a couple of minutes I hear somebody call my name, "Karl? Are you in here?" I hear someone call with a thick British accent. I look up, and he is nowhere in sight until he walks around the corner of the bookcase. "Oh my god, Karl, there you are. I'm so fucking sorry. " He runs up to me and wraps his arms around me tight. My eyes widen in shock. "Wai-wait what? You're joking, right? Why are you apologizing?" he pulls away from me and looks at me with confusion. "It's my fault. I didn't warn you about how he can get snappy sometimes, but I swear he didn't mean it, but still, you didn't deserve to be yelled at." I give him a warm smile before hugging him again. I think for a moment before bringing my lips up to his ear and whispering, "So are you and dream a thing?" He pulls away from me and his cheeks go red "KARL what the hell!" he says bursting out with laughter "Hey Karl, wanna come to my house after school, so we can work on our project?" I haven't been to anyone's house in ages. "Sure, can I come around 4? 00 ish? He looks at me and smiles. "Sure, that works for me. Pass me your phone, so I can give you my number. " I hand him my phone and watch as he adds my contact before handing my phone back to me. I grab the phone, and after a few seconds, it buzzes. I look down at it to see a singular text that the boy sent. "Hey Ka-rl"

(SAPNAPS POV) The moment I got home, I went right up to my bedroom. I sat on the side of my silk-sheeted bed. The past day had been chaos, and it was all my fault. 'it's always my fault" I sit up from my bed and stare at my mirror covered in sticky notes. The image of a tired and stressed-looking boy stared back at me he had a faraway look in his eyes showing that all of him was not completely there.I grab a yellow one closer to the left side of the mirror and flip it around, feeling the paper ruffle in my hands. I flip the sticky note over. "Call Clay," I mutter under my breath. As I read the yellow note, I ball my fists and hang my head low, my brown hair covering my eyes. I feel worse than I usually do when I scream at my friends. I don't know why, but Karl's just different, and I probably ruined everything with him. I spin around, walking to my bedside table. I grab my phone off my bed and stare -at the black screen "Do what the sticky note says you know it will help, the voice of my counselor rings through my head pick up a sticky note when you don't feel yourself, and follow its instructions. I click on Dreams caller ID and listen to the sound of the rings. One... Two... Three... Four I hear the phone connect to the other side. "Sapnap?" I freeze as I hear his voice. I don't know what to say or how to start. "Sapnap hello, are you there?" I open my mouth to speak, and it all comes barreling out like a waterfall "Dream I'm so sorry I'm such an asshole I Don't know what to do I didn't mean to hurt anyone it was an accident I'm such a dick I'm so sorry I'm not surprised that you probably don't want to speak to me anymore but I just wanted to say I'm sorry so, so sorry" I hear a sigh at the other end of the phone "Sapnap I know how hard it must be with your parents gone again and everything but that was an absolute dick move. Especially because we invited him to OUR table, you don't say that to someone you hardly know" I feel another tear slip down my cheek "I know and I'm so, so sorry" I hear another sigh from the other end "You know what Sapnap I'm coming over, stay there." I hear the line disconnect. I sigh and throw my phone onto my queen-sized bed. Before jumping right to the beanbag chair in the right corner of the room. The room was a medium size the bed was in the far left corner. And right beside it was the sticky note-covered mirror there were LEDS strung on his ceiling which were now set to purple on the left wall was a shelf of his trophies from football He also had a gaming setup that was placed across from the foot of his bed. It was simple, but he liked it I lay down on my bed and slowly close my eyes, shutting out the blinding light that is expelling from my window I feel myself slip into a peaceful world of comatose as I slowly drift off to sleep.

(Karls pov) I follow closely behind George as he walks through the front door of his house. "SO this is my house!" He cheers excitedly, giving me a grin. We walk through the kitchen and see a short woman with brown hair that looks exactly like George. "Hi, mom! This is my friend Karl we are going to go work on our science project," she turns around and a glint of surprise shows in her eyes "Finally George you've brought home someone other than clay," I look at George as I see his face flush red "he's not the only one I bring here," his mother scoffs at him "mhm okay... Anyway It's nice to meet you Karl make yourself at home!" she smiles welcomely "Thank you and nice to meet you too I hold out my hand for her to shake and she envelops me in a hug I stand there awkwardly until she lets go, "Have fun boys!" He flashes a smile at her, "thanks, mom!" George leads me up the stairs and makes a sharp left towards a hallway the walls are plain white and the hallway has two doors he leads e to the first door and walks inside a moderate-sized room with LED lights he had shelves full of random stuff and a gamin set up in the corner his room was painted a navy blue colour, and he had a queen-sized bed "So this is my room!" He smiles brightly and holds his arms up. I smile at him. "It's really cool!" He smiles at me again. "You think so? Thanks!" I walk towards his gaming setup and smile as I see the wallpaper. Its three Minecraft characters named GeorgeNotFound dream and Sapnap crouching beside each other the one named GeorgeNotFound has a blue shirt and blue pants on the shirt was a red square with a white square in the middle he had glasses on his eyes the one named dream was lime green with a giant white smiley face on the front the last one Sapnap which was by far the coolest had black hair with a white shirt with black sleeves on the shirt was an imprint of a flame "Aw this is so cute" He turns around to look, and a smirk grows on his face he drops his glasses over his eyes before he says "Sapnap? Or the wallpaper?" I feel the heat grow on my face I thank the LED lights for being on as they hide my blush I scoff at him "The wallpaper obviously" I say as I squint my eyes at him "Okay sure" I roll my eyes "Wait, so you play Minecraft?" I say with a questioning stare, "Uh yeah, everyone in our group plays, we have a server and everything?" I look at him, slightly shocked. "Really? that's so cool!" He looks at me and I see his face light up. "Hey, do you wanna join the server?" I look straight at him. "Wait, really?" He walks over to his setup and sits down in the chair. "Yeah, I just need to make sure Dream's okay with it. he's the owner of the server after all." I walk up behind him and grab the stool beside the desk. I watch as he opens his discord and clicks on dream's icon before calling him. After the second ring, he picks up "That was fast" George shushes me before he clicks the speaker button and sets the phone on the table "Hi Georgie" I see George turn red at the nickname "Dream before you say anything else Karl is here and yes he can hear you." I hear a wheeze come from the other end "Oh hey Karl" he says laughing "anyway if you're with Karl then I'm guessing there is a reason you called" George hums a response "Yeah I was wondering if Karl could join the SMP? only if it's fine with you though since you are the owner" George says awkwardly. Dream thinks for a moment before responding. "Yeah you know what sure." My face lights up as I respond, "Thanks, dream. I appreciate it!" I can hear him shrug from the other end. "It's no big deal. Though are you okay with the whole cafeteria thing?" I feel myself tense up as the words quickly tumble out of my mouth "Yeah, I'm fine, all good. thanks for your concern though." I hear a nervous chuckle come from the boy "Okay as long as you say-" he pauses mid-sentence "Hey sorry guys I have to go see you guys tomorrow okay bye!" George stumbles to grab the phone "Okay bye see you tomorrow" He waits for George to finish his sentence before hanging up "I wonder what that was about" George shrugs "Eh doesn't really matter anyway we should probably start on our project since that's what we came here to do" "Yeah probably,"

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