it started with the stream { georgenotfound x reader }

chapter twenty four

"don't worry about that now," he told me, "we still have time."

i woke up to the sound of the shower starting in the next room over and groggily squinted my eyes to try and read the clock next to me. 9:43 am. i rubbed my eyes and blinked a few times, trying to adjust to the morning light. i tried not to move my head too much as the slight rise and fall of george's chest was noticeable beside me. i sat up, leaning my back against the wall, looking down at george. i leaned forward slightly and brought my hand up to his hair, twirling it around my fingers. what's going to happen when i leave. i mean, george and i will still facetime but with time zone and everything...my mind wandered into endless outcomes of how everything is going to work out with us. i stayed like that for a few minutes just thinking, disconnected from the world. i snapped back into reality when i felt george stir beside me.

"how long have you been awake?" i asked looking down at him.

"hmm, maybe like five minutes." he stuck his tongue out at me as he sat up, "so what's going on in that head of yours?" he asked, tucking a piece of hair behind my ear.

"oh ya know...the usual." i said, diving back into my mind from a few minutes ago, "it's nothing special." i quickly added and smiled at him, moving my hands back to my own hair, combing through it. i stood up, stepping over george on the bouncy bed. he tried pulling me down but i jumped off right before he could pull my ankle down. "you are lucky i got down." i said to him as i glared. i shivered as i stepped onto the floor. damn, i thought its a lot colder out of the sheets. i began to make my way to the bathroom as i wrapped my arms around myself, trying to warm them up. i heard the sheets shifting around behind me as i assumed george was sitting up.

"hey," i heard him say softly, "are you cold?" he asked as he got out of bed, his feet hitting the cool hardwood floors.

"yeah just a little. but it's fine," i said turning toward him, my arms still wrapped around myself. "i think i have a long sleeve shirt or something in my suitcase." my voice trailed off as i tried to think back and picture my suitcase as i turned to walk into the bathroom. george put his hand on my shoulder, spinning me around. he was holding something grey in his other hand.

"take this," he said holding it out to me, "sweatshirts and t-shirts are basically the only things i wear. plus, you'll have a piece of me when you leave." he cocked his head to the side and gave me a soft smile as i grabbed the cloth from his hand. i quickly put my arms into it, pulling it over my head. the soft fabric hit my arms, making the goosebumps all over them slightly fade. i pulled myself out of the warmth trance as i processed his words.

"NO! do not talk about leaving." i said as i cupped my hands over my ears, pretending to not listen to him. i removed my hands from my ears and let them hover slightly, maintaining their position. "thank you for the sweatshirt though." i put my hands back over my ears and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek before turning and making my way into the bathroom. i looked at myself in the mirror as i brushed my teeth. george's sweatshirt went down to my mid thighs, the sleeves hung slightly over my hands unless i rolled them up but, i have to admit, it was one soft sweatshirt. i thought about the words george spoke to me. plus, you'll have a piece of me when i leave. i sighed as i remembered today was our last full day all together. since we had been busy almost the whole week, we wanted to have a day where it was just us. all of us together, doing whatever we wanted. it was a slightly rainy day today which made a perfect opportunity for me to pitch my idea. i headed downstairs to get breakfast, hearing hellos and good mornings from my friends. i sat beside val and poured syrup on my waffles.

"alright guys, here is my idea," i said getting everyone's attention, "as you can all see, it's very rainy today." i gestured toward the window. "i say we take the day to play some games, maybe stream a little bit, and at the end of the day, uber eats some ice cream." i looked around the room as everyone seemed approving of my plan.

"sounds good with me y/n!" nick said. everyone else agreed and i smiled, turning back to my waffles.

after breakfast, we all went into the living room to decide what we wanted to do for today. the beginning of the day would be just be for all of us, talking, playing games together, whatever we could think to do. in the evening, we would film a small video to our fans explaining the whole week and post it on our socials. we started off the day with play games like truth or dare and would you rather. the outcome being us laughing until we cried, and a hilariously bad video of tommy and nick trying to do the lift from dirty dancing. in the middle of eleanor and bella reenacting a scene from twilight, the power went out. since nobody knew how long it would be until it was back on, we decided to play hide and seek in the dark.

"NOT IT." i yelled as i dropped to my knee and put my finger on my nose. everyone followed suit, tommy being the last one down meaning he would have to be the counter.

"DAMNIT." he said as we all stood up.

"okay tommy," val said, "you know the rules. count to...let's say forty five, at the yell 'ready or not here i come.' is everyone ready?" we all nodded as i got ready to run upstairs and try to find a good hiding spot. suddenly, tommy began counting.

"one, two, three, four..." i sharply turned and quietly sprinted up the stairs, hoping to find a good spot up there. "fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen..." tommy's voice began to fade as i made my way through the hallways. i found a supply closet in between val's room and nick's room and opened the door. there were sheets lining the shelves as i looked from top to bottom. a small basket filled with towels on the floor of the closet caught my eye. "thirty one, thirty two, thirty three..." before i could think, i picked up the towels in my arms and stepped into basket, pulling the door closed behind me. i swiftly dropped down into the bin and placed the towels back over me, giving myself a small hole in the towels right in front of my eye so that i could see if and when the door opened. "READY OR NOT. HERE I COME BITCHES." i flinched as i heard tommy yell from downstairs. while i waited for him to come up, i tried to calm my breathing to make it less obvious that there was someone in the basket. i heard a door opens from underneath me and a cry of victory from tommy.

"FUCK YOU INNIT." i heard nick's muffled voice yell. i held back a laugh as i tried to map out where tommy was in the house. he would probably find one or two more people downstairs before making his way to the second floor. i was right. tommy found eleanor and george hiding together in the kid's room downstairs. i assumed eleanor was under the bed while george was in the closet by the vague and muffled words i could make out between the four of them. after a few minutes, i heard the stairs creak as the soft stop of the seekers made its way upstairs. luckily, they began in the other direction. i heard nick gasp as bella yelled out.

"NICK this is literally the most confusing spots i could think of. how did you find this?" i heard distant laughs as only val, clay, and i remained. i sat in silence for a minute until i heard the scream of clay and the wheezing of tommy. their voices were getting closer and closer to me as my heart rate sped up, suddenly the closet door ripped opened and i sneakily saw everyone trailing behind tommy.
he looked around the room for me but could not find me. he turned to leave and i silently congratulated myself. i looked up slightly and almost jumped out to the basket in fear when my eye met george's he smirked and bent down, pulling the towels off.

"here she is tommy." i groaned at the thought of my almost victory.

"FUCK YOU GEORGE. i literally could've won that." i said as he held out his hand to help me out of the basket. a few seconds later, val emerged from her room.

"i guess that means i win." val said with a smirk. i playfully laughed as i noticed everyone outside of after their hiding spots. we played a few more games, me winning a few, as well as almost everyone else. i the power came back on two or three hours later later. we decided to hold off on the video tonight and make it before leaving tomorrow morning. after we ended the last round, we waiting in the living room for the ben and jerry's to arrive. once it did, we all took our respectful cones and at the ice cream inside, adventure time playing on the television once more. a few episodes went by as i finished my ice cream. i yawned and saw it was almost ten pm. i sat up from the couch and said goodnight to everyone, making my way upstairs. i spent a few minutes changing and getting read for bed before i flicker off the bathroom lights and sighed, setting the alarm on my phone. i moved back the sheets, leaving a space of george as my head hit the pillow. a single tear rolling down my cheek as the thought of the morning clouded my mind.