when we were young | adele clay and george were childhood friends, but george had to move away. and with distance, they drifted apart. years later, george inherits his grandparents' house in their old neighborhood, where he and clay used to play. what's peculiar was the box of letters there for george, all in clay's handwriting. " love letters, to what used to be you and i. " --- intentional lowercase :) cross-posted on ao3 ( 02/06/21 - 02/26/21 ) ( 03/09/21 ) ; edited wc: 16,452 words

༄ Dream is the lead guitarist in a band, George is just a boy who happens to be the one Dream falls for. Little does George know this isn't the first time he's ever encountered the man he will slowly come to love. - tws/cws at the start of each chapter !! :)

After Clay and George meet up in Orlando Clay starts acting different, but can George notice before it's to late? Does George know what to do? Is George fine or is he just good at pretending like it? This story was inspired by the song Tired by beabadoobee :) *This story does/will contain swearing* Should be sfw for most if not all of the story Tags: #4 in ed 4/4/21 #22 in crying 3/9/21 #34 in writing 3/17/21 #40 in mlm 2/13/21 #86 in eating disorders 1/29/21 Reads: 1K: 2/13/21 2K: 2/26/21 3K: 3/7/21 5k: 3/17/21 6k: 3/23/21 7k: 3/29/21 8k: 4/4/21 9k: 4/10/21 (republished 5/11/21) 10k: 5/11/21 11k: ? 12k: ? 13-19K: 5/31/21 IN ONE DAY 19-27K: 6/1/21 ONE DAY AGAIN WTF 28-4K: ? 35K: 6/5/21 39K: 6/8/21 45K: 6/14/21 48K: 6/20/21 50K: 6/25/21!!! TYSM 70K: 9/2/21 OMG WHAT

⚠️TW⚠️ Mentions of suicide and attempts Complete✔️ George felt he had nothing to live for anymore, he drove to an tall empty bridge and leaned forward, only to be stoped... Get tf out of here I wrote this 2 years ago.