Before I Die || Dnf Fanfiction

{~Chapter one~}

GEORGE POV:

I sigh and drop my head on my desk. Why did I move to America in the first place? Why did I think this would be a good idea? This stupid computer science course could die!
You see, I decided to move to the USA to do a course in computer science because the courses here were better than back home.
However the struggle of settling in to a new country, having to catch up with almost a whole year of study, because I thought it was smart to hop in in the middle of a fucking schoolyear..., and having to adapt to my new roommates was getting a bit too much right now.
I groan, lifting my head from the desk and slamming my laptop shut. "This fucking course be damned. I am going out. I haven't seen the sun in like 4 weeks."
I walk over to the closet and grabbed my roller-skates and the protective gear. "I'll be out for a while." I yell while I rush down the stairs to get through the front door. Outside I put on the blades and the protection and easily I skate away.
From the moment I could basically walk, I had been roller-skating. It was my life and it gave me freedom. No car needed; I would skate my way through life.
I take a deep breath and let the air flow through my hair.
I first decided to skate around the neighborhood, but soon that got boring so I looked for a skatepark nearby on Google.
There was one 10 minutes walking from my house. Let's make that 5 minutes skating.
Alright, maybe it wasn't very responsible to go that fast on the road. But I had some frustration to work out.
Soon I arrived at the park. Nobody was there, good. I check all of my gear one more time and then I go to the half-pipe. Time to see if I still know some tricks.
While I practiced some tricks, I notice a group skateboarders coming over to the park. They stood on the side and whispered with each other for a bit. Eventually two of them started to skate around the park as well.
I try to ignore them. I start doing some random tricks but end up falling on the ground. I sigh and get up. I look around and notice the two boys that are now also in the half-pipe talking. I decide to skate over to them. "Hey!" I say and they look up. "Uhm hi? Do we know you?" The boy with brown hair and purple hoodie says. I shake my head no. "I just wanted to say hi, you two look cool." The boys look at each other and then they look back at me.
"You do know this is a skatepark, right? For SKATEboarding." The boy with blond hair and a white hoodie said.
I huffed. Why was this guy so rude? "Yeah, well these are called roller-SKATES. So I feel like they also belong in a SKATEpark."
"Oh Punz, look at this. The new guy is a smart-ass." The one with brown hair and the purple hoodie says. "What is your name, smart-ass?"
"My name is George. I am new around here. What is your name? I figure his name is Punz." I say.
"Well, GEORGE. It's clear you are new around here. My name is Sapnap and this is OUR skatepark. Nobody comes here except for us." Sapnap, apparently, says.
"It's public property. Everyone is allowed here." I say and roll my eyes. Sapnap starts to laugh.
"Poor guy thinks we care about this being public property. Do you hear this, Punz?" Sapnap says as he was almost crying with laughter.
"Aw look, Sap! The new guy wears kneecaps!" Punz says, pointing to the kneecaps. Sapnap looks at the kneecaps and pulls them off my knees. Punz starts laughing now too. I look at the two boys in surprise. Why are they so mean? What did I do wrong? "Why are you so mean? I didn't do anything at all?" I say, trying to grab my kneecaps out of Sapnap's hands. "Aw, can't the new guy skate without protection? You got this from your mom, I suppose?" Says Punz. Sapnap throws the kneecaps to Punz and Punz throws them back to Sapnap. "Come on! Get them!" Sapnap says laughing as they keep throwing back and forth.
"Never mind.. You can keep them." I say and skate away. I hear them laughing and then I feel something thrown against my back. "We're not babies anymore, so take it! You need them more than we do!" Sapnap yells as I pick up the kneecaps. I skate to a bench and put on my headphones with music. I look around a bit and see that Sapnap and Punz are with another boy. Probably a friend of them or also someone they're going to be mean to without a good reason. I open my phone and scroll through discord. Tommy is spamming me. "Hey George! How are you? Are you having a good time there?" I smile. "Hey! It's okay I guess? I'm in a skate park near my house right now." I send back. I see that he is typing right away. "Did you bring your roller-skates with you?" "Yes of course! You know I can't live without them!" Tommy is one of my friends I had when I lived in the UK. He is pretty funny, but he can also be very annoying. I get up and skate around a bit while chatting with Tommy. I want to turn around but bump into someone and fall to the ground. My phone falls out of my hand. I look up, and in front of me is the other boy. He has dirty-blond, curly hair, and green eyes.
The boy smiled at me and reached out his hand to help me up. "I am so sorry." He said.
"No, no. I am sorry. I wasn't looking where I was going. I am the idiot here." I quickly apologize. He grabs my phone for me and hands it back to me.
"You are new here, aren't you. My name is Dream." Dream said.
I smile. "Yeah, I just moved here a couple of weeks ago. My name is George btw."
Dream smiles. "Nice to meet you George."
At that moment, Sapnap and Punz skate up to Dream. "Dream, you are not actually talking to this loser, are you? He brought roller-skates to OUR skatepark. Tell him to get off. This is our place." Sapnap said, as he looked me up and down like I was a piece of filth.
"Since when is it OUR skatepark? We're not the only people that come here." Dream said looking at Sapnap and Punz. "Since this loser is here, it's now our skatepark." Punz said. I look at the three, not knowing what to say. "What about Karl and Quackity? Are they now also not allowed to come here because it's 'our skatepark'?" Dream said. Why is he defending me? They are his friends.. right? I'm a bit confused. "And what are you looking at, loser?" I hear Punz say. "Uh.. Sorry.. I guess I better leave.." I say, a little offended. I turn around and skate away. They're jerks. I put my phone in my pocket and skate back home. This time not as fast as on the way when I was going to the skatepark. After 10 min, I got home. I knock on the door, because I forgot my keys. I know, I'm smart...! My roommate opens the door. "Thanks!" I say while I walk inside. I am that kind of person, that maybe forgets a lot of stuff.. maybe sometimes a bit TOO much... Just like how I kinda forgot to get to know my roommate- Oops. Oh well! I had other things that were more important.
I look at my roommate. "Quick question, and totally not because I forgot it or anything... But what is your name again?"
My roommate laughs. "My name is Karl. I study art history and modern art, in case you forgot that as well."
I laugh. "Thanks Karl, for letting me in the house." He walks to the kitchen. "Do you want anything to eat or drink?" I follow him. "Uhm.. Yeah, can I have some coke?" He nods and opens the fridge. He takes a bottle of coke from the fridge and then takes 2 glasses from one of the cupboards above the counter. I open my phone to check the time. It's 5:40pm. "Do we have anything for dinner yet?" Karl shakes his head no. "I can cook for you if you want?" Says Karl, as he hands me a glass. "You sure? We can also just order food?" I say laughing as I take a sip of my drink. "No! I like to cook! Sometimes I do it for my friends as well!" He says as he opens all the cupboards. "Do you like pizza?" He turns around and looks at me. His messy brown hair sways a bit from the turn around. For some reason, I just realized that Karl is a little bit taller than me. "Yeah! I like pizza!" I say smiling.
"Cool, then we are making pizza. Anything you absolutely want or don't want on your pizza?" I think for a minute. "No, I'm fine with everything."
So, Karl made two pizzas for both of us. Once we were done, we moved to the dining table.
"What does your study even look like, Karl?" I ask, while eating a slice of my pizza.
Karl laughs. "It's honestly amazing. It's just a lot of analyzing. Like, we watch movies and have to be able to tell what the director meant or wanted with it. Same goes for paintings or buildings. Once for a test I practiced by watching a barbie movie. Ended up watching 4 more barbie movies with my friends. Totally to study of course."
"That does sound great." I say while laughing. "Maybe I should switch courses. Computer science is boring compared to that."
"Two of my friends also do computer science as extra courses." Karl says while eating another slice of pizza. "Also! This pizza is pretty good!" We both laugh. We eat our pizza and talk about random things. When we finish our pizza, I walk to the kitchen with our plates and wash them. "Do you wanna game when you're done?" I hear Karl yelling from out of the living room. "Yes, sure!" I yell back. I put the plates back in the cupboard and walk to the living room. "Wanna play Minecraft?" I nod. "Can I have your discord? Then we can go in voice call." I give him my Discord and then we walk to our rooms. I start up Minecraft and Karl calls me on Discord. We play survival and it's pretty fun. "Can one of my friends join?" Karl asks after about ten minutes. "Oh uh yeah sure." I say. "Okay let me add him to the call." After not even a minute I hear someone join. "Hello?" I hear the person say. The voice sounds familiar. "Hey Sapnap!"