Cupid (DNF + Karlnap)

Chapter 46: Night Time

Is it night time for anyone right now?
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George POV.

I wanted to stay here alongside Dream. When I said that they were our friends I still had something deep down that made me cautious. Part of me felt betrayed that my shaky love for Karl was changed by him having a hidden pair of wings. I didn’t want to encounter him right now, instead wanting to hide out in here for a few hours to process my thoughts.

“I’m gonna go to bed.” The blond told me after a few seconds of him being silent. “I think that I have a headache.” Part of me wanted to crawl alongside him and stay in here. It would be good for me to have some time to process this alongside the one individual in the house who was going through the same thing as me.

But when he didn’t offer to let me stay with him I stood up. It didn't feel right for me to ask. “Okay, you can sleep. I’ll go to my room and we can all talk about this in the morning.” I felt upset however managed to keep my head high and unbothered as I headed out of the room, quietly shutting the door behind me.

All three of our non-human friends were hanging out in the hallway, it seemed as though they had been listening in on our conversations but I couldn't be sure. I kept my gaze low to avoid looking at them while I walked.

"George?" Karl's voice was soft and I glanced over at him. "Is Dream okay? I'm worried that we freaked him out too much."
"He's fine." I reassured all three of the angels. "Probably just tired."

None of them said anything else, even though I felt that there was a lot that needed to be said by all of us. "I'm going to bed." I announced to all of them as they watched me. "It'll probably be best for us to talk about this in the morning." It seemed as though they all wanted to say something, but nobody spoke.

Techno followed me to my room, and as I stepped inside he lingered in the doorway. I didn't say anything to him, feeling annoyed about the fact he lied to me. "George," his voice sounded broken. That one word was probably more emotion than I had heard from him in months. "I am sorry that I never told you."

He watched me expectantly, waiting for me to say something. His gaze, even unintentionally, was boring into the side of my head when I turned away, guilting me into looking back at him. I sighed. "It's a bit annoying when you find out one of your best friends is lying to you about something this big." I told him.

“I am sorry.” He repeated. “I am still your friend. I still love video games, and making Youtube videos, and I am still effortlessly more popular than both of you combined.” He tried to make me laugh but it didn’t work. It felt cruel of me to hate him for this, but I couldn’t help it, the idea that one of my best friends was an entirely different species.

“Goodnight Techno.” Was all that I could think to say at the moment. “We’ll talk in the morning.” I gave him one final look before shutting the door in his face. Part of me had expected him to knock or open the door or continue to try and talk. That was a ‘Techno’ thing to do that I expected, but much to my surprise he didn’t.

With a sigh I went to sit on my bed and pulled my phone out of my pocket. I wasn’t sure if I was tired, instead just sitting myself down and planning out things that I could say. It felt as though the world darkened around me as I focused on the videos that began playing on my TikTok.

Techno POV.

As I slowly turned away from the door I noticed Sapnap and Karl were both watching me. I didn’t acknowledge Karl, he hadn’t done anything to piss me off, however I looked directly towards the Seraphim. “You are pathetic, you know that right?” I asked, and Karl gasped at the blatant insult I sent to his soulmate.

“What?” Sapnap responded, eyes narrowing with suspicion. “How am I pathetic?”
“You couldn’t bear the thought that you were exposed, and had to expose me, putting my job at risk because you screwed up yours.” I basically growled at him, feeling my entire body heating up with fury, powers rippling under my skin and preparing to flare out.

“I only did that because you were being a dickhead and joking about us being exposed.” His fingers began glowing a hot red and his gaze narrowed. Karl began saying something about the language the ravenette was using but I cut him off.
“That may have been a dickhead thing to do but I think I earned the right.”

He took a step towards me, hands going to begin glowing white as it continued to heat up. “And why do you think that?”
“Because I managed to stop them from sneaking out of the house and calling the army on you. You would have exposed our entire species and put everyone at risk.”

We continued to size each other up. Karl noticed this, hurrying between us to block any attacks we may begin hurling at one another. “Techno, I apologise for what my soulmate has done, rest assured I will be talking about him to it. But getting physical won’t help anyone.”

“I think that it actually might.” I responded, however I did take a step back out of some respect to the brunette. “But maybe this is a good lesson that you shouldn’t have your wings out in the middle of a human home.”

I sighed and turned to leave, not allowing either of them to say anything else to me . “How about you two go to bed, you don’t have to worry about hiding your wings now. I’ll stay up and make sure Dream and George don’t change their mind and call an exorcist.” Then I disappeared to my room, shutting the door behind me.

When I was alone I was annoyed, feeling as though I had let myself down. I had been wanting to just help the two angels get my best friends together and then they would leave and allow me to do my job as a guardian angel, but now there were so many issues popping up.

I hoped desperately that it would be all sorted out, this would be the first time I ever felt close to actually losing my cool. Hopefully it will all be sorted out.
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