overthinking

its too obvious

GEORGES POV

George had been up into the early morning the past night thinking about his best friend. George had a feeling that something was going on with Dream. He was worried, he noticed that Dream had distanced himself slightly and was always much more stiff and awkward when talking to george. He'd acted that way ever since george said he loved him. He wondered if it was the way he said it, if he was too 'sus' about it.

George's mind kept finding similarities to the situation with Henry, which made him 100x more afraid.

George and Henry were best friends when george was a teenager until they had a, falling out of sorts. Georges mind was anxiously searching for similarities between that falling out and the way dream was behaving. He didn't know if he could survive if his friendship with Dream ended, let alone in the way it ended with Henry.

George forced himself not to bring back up his old memories and eventually fell asleep.

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George was relived that Dream had started acting semi normal again that day. It secretly warmed George's heart that dream still cared enough to ask why george couldn't sleep, and that he knew him well enough not to pry. George truly couldn't live without Dreams lov- frienship. Without dreams friendship.

———   DREAMS POV   ———

After talking to george a bit more, Dream's mind was calmed down and he was able to keep his thoughts under the most control as he had in a few weeks.

George was out eating dinner so dream searched for something to fill the time. Tommyinnit was streaming on the dteam SMP so it seemed like the perfect opportunity to stir something up.

Dream, Tommy and Tubbo spent the first part of the stream working out their "drama" mostly by trying to make various deals neither could agree on usually ending in PVP battles that dream would ultimately win. They were all having lots of fun with different bits when WilburSoot, another minecraft streamer from London joined Tommy's discord.

They joked around and it eventually evolved into a bit when tubbo joked that dream and wilbur were flirting, tommy being the middle man. This escalated into Wilbur asking Dream on a "date" to the pizza hut in Brighton. Of course this caused another uproar on twitter with fans joking about how Dream could finally meet George.

Dream knew this was all for the a meme but seeing the small writings on twitter about what fans imagine the perfect george and dream meetup would be made dream think. He read many about airport hugs which made him laugh only because he had thought about the same thing in his own head before.

——— GEORGES POV ———

George was also scrolling through twitter on his alternate account, where he secretly followed all the stans. Different tweets caught his eyes though. Hundreds of them joked about how jealous george is of wilbur and how dream is just collecting british boyfriends. They all made him laugh of course but there was something about them that scared him.

He didn't want dream to see those same tweets and get the wrong idea. His common sense reminded him that dream would find them just as funny. but his mind kept going back to Henry. The situation that got out of hand so quickly. George couldn't bare loosing dream. The thought of it had been keeping him up at night. George decided he should call dream just to keep his mind off of, well, loosing him.

"Hey are you awake" george asked trying not to hide his anxious tone.

"yes obviously, george i answered didn't i?" Dream joked, "what's up"

relived, george laughed and made up an excuse for himself calling,  "haha have you seen how crazy twitter is right now over your date with Wilbur"

"oh my god it's insane, they're all idiots" dream replied laughing

The two of them read some of their favorite ones they had seen dream wheezing at a few of them, george doing his signature giggles.

"Hahaha this one says 'george is gonna be third wheel on their date sitting in the corner wishing it was just him and dream'" George read aloud without thinking first. George immediately stopped laughing which just made the situation worse. It was a funny tweet, nothing awkward about it. Silence fell once dream seemed to realize george took this one slightly more serious.

"uh i'm ahaha" george tried to speak but was only able to get out a nervous laugh. sending more silence through the call. George was making his feelings too obvious. But how was that possible? George didn't even fully know if he had feelings for dream yet- yet.

After a long minute went by dream finally spoke up

"hey george i was thinking"

"what?!" george said nervously, thanking god the silence was over.

"what if i actually come and meet you?"

george paused, that is the last thing he was expecting to hear.

"hello? do you think that's a good idea?" dream spoke up.

"are you serious??" George spoke. his head was still spinning with regret of the awkward silence from before. he was glad dream had just glazed over it but was he really going to fly to london??

"well i've actually looked into it before and i've had some money saved up for awhile, i'm tired of waiting"

"i'm tired of waiting too, but are you sure? this seems a bit impulsive" george said, feeling like he was being too harsh. of course george wanted to see dream, he wanted to do a lot of things with dream. but the last thing he wanted was to seem too desperate.

"i don't know it feels like the perfect time, i've been getting impatient. and especially because of the whole meme with wilbur" dream said sounding very confident in his decision

George paused to process before speaking up "i mean, i'd love- i'd like that, yeah i'd really like to see you finally" george stuttered, severely struggling to get out his sentence.

The two of them looked into flights and hotels etc to see if it really would be possible, especially with corona. Both men gradually got more and more excited and had to keep trying harder to contain it.

Dream was able to find a red eye for the next night. Georges head was spinning. He was mostly excited but the more he overthought the more anxious he got.

It would be near impossible to hide his desperation in person, he could barely do it over a call. Not to mention he was probably already making it too obvious based on how dream had been acting.

Georges mind wondered once again back to Henry, this time george couldn't suppress the memory.....