-Through The Playlist- Poly Dream Team (DreamNapFound) {CURRENTLY DISCONTINUED}

chapter 2: according to all known laws of aviation

so pretty much, it's sorta of angsty but then we get a lil fluff. half of this is filler ngl.

after he bolted from his locker to try and get to the lunch table first (and getting stopped by a teacher who made him walk back to his locker and do it again), nick walked up to everyone. niki went to sit with wilbur and nick hesitantly walked over to clay and george.

"so like, did your teacher answer your question?" clay said, looking at nick for a second, then returning to staring at a youtube video on his phone. nick just ignored clay and started talking to george.

"hey gogy? you ok?" nick questioned, with george looking up at him after having his head on the table.

"yeah, it's just one of those days, y'know? i was in civics and bam! i'm in a depressive episode." george responded. nick remembered how george was diagnosed with bipolar a year ago. george was one of the happiest people he knew, only second to darryl, so to see him like this was saddening. nick wondered how many times he put on a fake smile even when he wasn't feeling manic. 

"aw i'm sorry george. you deserve the world for always being so cheerful and loveable and cute-" nick paused for half a second as he realized what he said, but at this point he didn't care. "i hate seeing you like this. but take as much time you need by yourself or however you cheer yourself up, if you need to." nick gave george a hug as he lifted his head and pulled his hood off.

"thanks for that, i already feel a bit better. but at the same time, being alone is the last thing i wanna do right now." george mumbled. clay was now looking at the two hugging and wanted in, so he joined in and made it a group hug. they all smiled for a bit before nick spoke.

"that's fine too! in that case, do you guys wanna come over to my place? my folks are gonna go to a party at alastair's mom's house." nick suggested, holding his breath. (yes i brought eret into this. sue me.)

"sure, i can make that! what time?" george said, his face still a little red from the hug.

"uhh... yeah i have no idea. i guess whenever you can come over after 3:30 is fine!" nick beamed. things were finally going his way. 

and just like that, the school bell rung. the friends all said 'see you soons' and 'byes' as they walked off eagerly to slump through the rest of the day before getting to hang out with the others.

~ T I M E   S K I P ~

nick practically skipped through the halls as he made his was out the door and onto bus 69. he sat in the back like all the cool kids do. he pulled his hoodie over his head and placed his beats headphones over the hood. ~all my friends are heathens take it slooow...~  (i actually really hate that song but it was a reference to a stream when sapnap, karl, and george were writing a dream fanfic while clay was speedrunning soo...)

soon enough, he was at his house. he ran inside to change into something more comfortable, yet still passing as normal clothes. he picked out a random hoodie he got from who knows where and a pair of jeans. he then proceeded to text on the groupchat he had with george and clay.

(groupchat key: clay's texts are all the way to the left, george's are in the middle and nick's texts are to the right.)

chat: Gamer Pogchamp Whatever (yes thats the groupchat name.)

hey you guys almost ready?

:)

Geez why're you hyping it up so much

And yeah ig

It's almost 3 something right?

There's the time on your phone george

Ok I'll be over in a few minutes then 

k sys

nick threw his phone at the bed as he tidied things up in his room. he cleared his search history just in case his friends wanted to play minecraft or something. you can never be too careful! nick was surprised for some reason when he heard the doorbell ring, despite knowing beforehand that there were other people coming over. he ran over to the door to greet clay and george. 

"i haven't been to your house in ages! it's so big!!" george gushed as clay just sort of swooped in and ran to the kitchen. 

"you always have no good snacks in your house, nick." clay reported. nick just silently and calmly walked over to the cabinet clay was looking in,  closed it, and opened the one under the sink. nick looked back at the blonde boy in an almost unreadable way. clay just sort of grabbed some food and smiled a bit. 

"what do you say?" george said as he winked at nick. not in a flirtatious way, just a normal friend wink.

"thank you nick." clay said as he rolled his eyes. they both knew he meant well. he just wasn't the most 'in touch with his feelings' type of guy. 

~ A N O T H E R   T I M E S K I P ~

"we are NOT watching the bee movie, george." nick sassed. 

"why not!? it's an amazing movie. let's let clay be the tiebreaker." george argued back.

"well? clay you've gotta agree with me! there's so many better things to watch on netflix than the bee movie." nick tried to persuade clay.

"ehhhh the thing is," clay started. he laughed a bit as he said the next part. "i've never actually seen the bee movie, and i won't lie, i sorta want to. lets watch it for the memes, ya know?" 

nick sighed in defeat, but he was glad to see george so much happier than he was at lunch. clay was also pretty happy as george hugged him. nick felt sort of like a third wheel as the two others were sitting together, until clay offered him a hand to grab him and pull him over. the three were now sitting on nick's bedroom floor, leaning up against the bed, clay's arms wrapped around the two shorties as the narrator started talking. 

nick felt a lot better suddenly.