Rose Colored Boy - dreamwastaken

chapter nine

"How'd it go?" Dream asked.

Blair and Dream were sitting on the couch, eating the pizza that had arrived ten minutes ago. Mario Kart was paused and forgotten about.

"Hm?"

"I mean, you don't have to say, but it seems like, after this afternoon, you seem good. You know, forget I asked, it's really none of my business-"

"Dream, stop spiraling. It went really well, actually."

She set her plate down on the coffee table.

"We talked about Adam and whatever, and what I should do with that. I made her skip over all the boring questions about my childhood so we could get to the good stuff. Oh, and she said I probably have ADHD?"

"Oh, my brother has ADHD."

"Hm. What's that like?"

"It's not that different. I mean, he's louder, like when he is hyperactive it's more noticeable. And he's really bad with whopping topic changes-"

"What the hell is a 'whopping topic change'?" Blair asked, laughing.

"Oh, he would go off on a tangent and no one would be able to follow. It's something my mom would bring up all the time as a kid, I figured it was something everyone said," Dream explained with an amused smile. "Whopping topic change sounds crazy, I bet."

"Yeah, you lost me for a second. But it's funny, I'll be able to remember it."

Dream nodded. "But when he got into middle school he started on some medication that helped with that, and he started doing better in school. He still uses all is lists and stuff that he learned in school that help with, like, routine and structure."

"Lists?"

"Yeah, he has one on the fridge that tells him what's in all the cabinets or else he forgets. I think there's one taped to is computer monitor that tells him what time to eat."

"Oh, yeah, my mom would always pester me about eating when I lived at home."

Dream laughed. "I bet."

Blair squinted at him. "What do you mean, 'I bet'?"

He hastily wiped the smile off his face, although a bit unsuccessfully. "Nothing. It sounds familiar."

She raised her eyebrows. "Have you been doing that? Have I really been that forgetful about it?"

"A little bit?" Dream smiled sheepishly at her. "I was also trying to be a good host, I mean. You're a guest. But yeah, it's something I noticed. And it happened before you lived here, like when we did longer streams."

Blair thought back to the long weekend streams she joined a few weeks before.

"Oh, I remember. It had been, like, hours and you ordered Chinese food to my apartment." She had been building a proper house in their game, and it was taking her a lot longer than planned.

"Yeah."

She pulled her feet up and tucked her knees under her chin. "Well, now I feel kind of bad? Like-"

"No, no it's fine-" Dream started to reassure her.

"Hold on, let me get there. I feel like you've been nothing but helpful and supportive the past week, and I don't know how I'll make it up to you? Like you've been a premium friend- above and beyond what most people do and I feel like I won't be able to catch up."

"A premium friend? What, like HD, ultra rare friend?" Dream threw his head back in laughter. "You've upgraded to the Ad-free version?"

"No, Dream-" Blair burst out in giggles, too. "That's not what I meant!"