Ship: Gream/Dreamnotfound
Me and my best friend George have been talking about moving in together. He's been meaning to come to the US but then a quartine happened so our plans got delayed. But after 8 months quarantined finished so he's able to come to the US. I'm really excited to live with him, we've been best friends for years and I'm finally able to meet up with him in person again.
*George's arrival day*
Today's finally the day, I'm supposed to meet him at the airport, he still hasn't texted me back about when he's landing. I just stood there waiting in airport pacing around wondering when he's gonna text me or when he's gonna tell me he's coming.
Another 30 minutes go by and I see him walking out the terminal and looking around. Seeing him again, he just looks so... cute. His nice hair, his smooth skin. He's just so perfect.
Then I realized what I'm thinking, what am I thinking? I can't keep having these thoughts about him. He's practically the only friend have right now, and I can't let those feeling ruin it.
"Hey Clay!!" George shouts the moment he sees Clay and runs up to him. "It's really great to see you again" Goes in for a hug.
Leaving Clay flustered, Clay hugged him back "Hey George, it's great to see you too" Clay didn't want to let go. He didn't know why, but he didn't want to. But he had to since he doesn't want to make things awkward. They both pull from the hug and George smiles at him.
"It's been a while, I forgot how tall you were" Looking at Clay head to toe.
"I think you're just short, I don't think you grew at all since last time," He snickered and gets a punch in the shoulder playfully by George.
"Forget I said anything", he pouts and crossed his arms playfully. "So we should head to the apartment right?"
"Yeah, of course, my car is just outside" He picks up George's bags and gets a weird look from George. "What?"
"I know how to carry my own bags" Goes to take them from Clay. But Clay puts them above his head out of George's reach.
"Nope, I'm trying to be a good friend and gentleman. Besides you're too short", he starts laughing and gets punched in the shoulder by George.
"I'm starting to regret my living choices", then he starts laughing. "But seriously I got my own bags", he takes his bags from Clay, and they start walking to exit.
They got to Clay's car and George put the bags in the trunks and walks to the left side of the car to open the door to go in. When he opened it he was met with the steering wheel. Clay started wheezing then George realized that cars in the US are different
"Shut up! I forgot this country is backwards" Walks to the passenger side, and goes in.
Clay still wheezing, goes to the driver's side, and begins to drive. "I'm surprised you forgot since I made the same mistake when I went to visit you"
"Yeah I know, you're an actual idiot."
They sat in silence for a while, George scrolling through Twitter, then George spoke up. "I'm really happy we're living together now."
"Me too", Clay says looking straight ahead.
"Are you okay? Like with all that has happened on Twitter a few days ago?"
George was concerned since the Twitter drama made Clay really upset, and he was really sad about the hate he was getting. George spent his night staying up with him on TeamSpeak playing Minecraft, to help relax Clay.
"Yeah, I'm fine now. I'm not going to let it bother me anymore" Then he started to drive into an underground parking lot and parked his car. "We're here", he unlocked the doors and got out the car along with George. Then he went in the trunk to get George's bags. "I'm carrying these the rest of the way" he smiled smugly, and George smiled back and lets him do so.
They got to the apartment and George was surprised by how big it was, it was bigger than his old apartment back in England.
"Whoa, this is bigger than I expected," George says and starts looking around.
"Ha, I know right. It is good to finally have someone here. Anyways, let's get you settled down." He directs George to the room he's going to stay in, it was already equipped with a made bed, drawers, and desk for his computer set up.
Clay walked out if the room to let George set his stuff up. While George was doing that Clay started to look at Twitter, he wasn't surprised by the hate he was still getting. He decided to keep ignoring it, but even so, it still affected him. You know the say 'sticks and stone may break my bones, but words can never hurt me'.
But words do hurt, especially if it's repetitive and people saying things to the point its a threat. As he kept scrolling through Twitter, he couldn't handle it anymore, he deactivated his account, uninstalled Twitter and powered off his phone. He then went to see what George was doing, hopefully, it'll make him feel better.
"Hey George, whatcha doin", he says slowly walking into his room, seeing George on the floor.
"Just finished plugging in my PC stuff. I'll put my clothes away later on tonight." He gets up from the floor. "What do you want to do?"
"We could watch a movie or show or something." He says unsure.
"Yeah, that sounds good. As long as I choose the show." He goes to the living room and picked up the remote then smiled at Clay.
"Of course you can, as long as it's nothing dumb," He says as he watches George put on SpongeBob. "No, this is a kid's show. How can you watch it?"
"SpongeBob is for everyone, I know you watched it."
"Yeah as a kid, then it got boring, but if you want to watch it, I'm down to watch it with you." He sat next to George on the couch.
George smiled and started the episode. Clay got back up to get some popcorn and came back with a big bowl of it a few minutes later. He placed it between him and George and they ate it while keeping their eyes glued to the TV.
They both reached for the popcorn and their hands collided. "Oh, sorry," Clay says with his cheek turning red.
"No worries" George looked at him and smiled.
After a few episodes George got some Twitter notifications and he decided to open some of them. He was shocked to see what happened, he looked over at Clay and spoke up.
"Clay", he says seriously, but concerned.
"Yeah?"
"Did you really deactivate your Twitter account?"
Clay was ashamed to tell George what happened, but he ended doing so. "Yeah, I did. I couldn't handle the hate anymore."
George gave him a sorry look "Clay, you should've told me it was still going on. I could've helped you through it."
Clay on the verge of tears "I know, I just didn't want to bother you anymore about it."
"You're my friend Clay, actually no. You're my best friend and I want to help you through whatever you're going through. You help me a lot and I want to do the same for you." Moved closer to Clay hugging him.
"Thank you so much for being there for me, I- I love you, George." Clay instantly covered his mouth and pulled away from the hug. His face was burning up, standing up looking away, he was scared to meet George's gaze. "I'm sorry", was all he managed to squeak out.
George stood up and walk over to Clay, holding both their hands together. "Clay, look at me."
Clay slowly made eye contact with George, then looked deep into his eyes. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that"
"Why are you sorry? Friends can I say I love you. Unless, you didn't mean it as a friend."
Clay just looks away silently scared of telling George how he truly feels.
"Did you really mean it? Like as more than..." George moves close to Clay.
Knowing what George means, he nods "yes, I mean it in that way. I guess I felt that way for a while and was too scared to admit it. I don't want this to ruin our friendship."
Then he was met with George pressing his lips onto his kissing him softly.
George pulled away and looked at Clay in the eyes. "I feel the same way Clay"
End
I really hope this came out good. I'm still like practicing this writing style. If you have any pointers please let me know.
Hope you enjoyed REEE :)