72,452 words "you tingle my heart strings dream, you vibrate them, you twirl them between your fingers like the most delicate yarn, you move them in ways i didnt think they could" "how so?" "you play them gently like a violin yet at times you pull them harshly as if you're falling searching for something to grip onto" "who's to say i'm not falling, george?" - George hadn't been the same since brighton pier burned, his mind never worked the same way it once had. His best friend Dream tried his hardest to understand how georges mind worked, he tried hard to be there for his friend, but things seem to be more complicated when dream finds himself falling for george, george the philophobe Things seem to improve until a new content creator threatens to release the truth about george. - Trigger warnings Death Angst in general Trauma themes mental health mentions anxiety PhiloPhobia Fire Disassociation MAJOR CHARACTER DEATH Hospital mentions - does include skephalo, karlnap and karlnapity content 👍

Dream lives thousands of miles away from his best friend George. Weekly streams and making videos with him are the only ways dream gets to see his chocolate brown hair, warm eyes, and a gentle smile formed from his soft, pink lips. Mesmerized with his features, Dream finds out that what he feels for George is completely different than what he has ever felt for anyone else. But when George comes to suddenly visit him, Dream notices that he's acting different than normally. Even after a lot has happened to the boy, Dream stays calm and realizes that nothing can get in his way from giving love to George. Or is there? ••• CAUTION: you might suffer from A LOT of second hand embarrassment‼️‼️IM SERIOUS

Heat Waves but George's perspective.

They're friends, right? Friends make jokes like they do all the time; you can make inappropriate jokes about your friends and not mean it. You can joke about how much you're in love with them, right? Right? Dream and George have been and will always be friends, even when George smiles like that, and laughs like that. Even when every word he says adds another butterfly to Dream's stomach. Life without George would be unbearable, but living like this, every day in agony, can he stand that either?

OLD STORY NAME: Just Friends? George and Dream fall in love but when confessing to the internet, they face some problems.