CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE. ✧ ೃ༄
❝NEW WORDS: MINE & YOURS. ❞

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Sapnap
So... how was it
with Ang? 😏😏😏
5:34 PM

George
Yeah tell us!
5:34 PM

Dream
Why?
5:35 PM

George
Stop teasing!
5:35 PM

Sapnap
You notice how hes
not responding quick? 😐
5:35 PM

Dream
Yeah because Angelica's
siblings stayed over yesterday
and they're still here so we're
watching a movie idiots
5:37 PM

Sapnap
Hey! Don't call us idiots
you asshole 😒 we just
want to know pretty please? 🥺
5:37 PM

George
🥺🥺
5:37 PM

Dream
Look we went to
In-N-Out yesterday.
Angelica had a bit of an
issue with her mom at
the party yesterday so
we went, along with
her siblings, to In-N-Out
5:38 PM

Dream
She also showed
me her face :)
5:38 PM

Sapnap
No fucking way
5:38 PM

George
Bad said she's
really beautiful
is she?????
5:38 PM

Dream
She is so beautiful
I was just... 😦
5:38 PM

Sapnap
Sounds like someone's
whipped for someone 😏
5:38 PM

Dream
No. Im just simply
stating that Angelica
is beautiful. Not whipped
just complimenting a friend
5:39 PM

George
A friend you say? 😏
5:39 PM

Dream
Yes she's a friend
5:39 PM

Sapnap
Since when???
5:39 PM

Dream
since we've cried
together and told
each other about
our lives
5:39 PM

Dream
Actually... are
we even friends???
5:39 PM

Dream
Hmmm until she says
something, we're not.
I don't want to assume
anything like that
5:39 PM

Dream
But, she can
be tolerable
5:39 PM

George
And you like her 😏
5:39 PM

Dream
No.
5:39 PM

George
Yes you do 😌
5:39 PM

Dream
George 😐 listen
Angelica is kind, but
I'm not ready for
anything. So, I swear to
god if someone mentions
anything, I will fucking
get mad 🙂
5:39 PM

George
Dream we get you
were hurt before
5:39 PM

Dream
I don't want to
talk about it. After
what happened with
my last relationship,
I don't want to be in a
relationship. I don't want
to love nobody. I don't care.
I fucking stopped believing
in finding someone because
fuck that shit :)
5:40 PM

Sapnap
We'll just drop
the subject
5:40 PM

George
What film are
you watching?
5:40 PM

Dream
Angelica put
The Sandlot
5:40 PM

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Dream shut off his phone and sighed softly, making sure no one heard it other than himself. But, Angelica heard so and she looked at him, eyebrows furrowed together in questioning, while eyeing his movements. He was fidgeting, hands tightly holding onto his phone that kept lighting up with notifications. He looked irritated, or like he was too into his thoughts which he probably was because he wasn't blinking and had his own eyebrows furrowed.

"Are you okay?"

Was Dream okay? Because he believed he was, but was he really? He has suffered through so much and has barely gotten out of a toxic relationship, even though it was months ago. But what his then girlfriend had done to him made him go back to a shell where he pushed away any type of relationship or love. He appreciated his friends love, but that was more brotherly. He knew the difference between a platonic love and a romantic love. Friends come and go, he knew that, but he believed his girlfriend was someone who would stay. He should've remembered that relationships come and go, too, but they had been together for 3 years!

He was hurt. Still. He's experienced his fair share of heartbreaks, but he truly believed his ex-girlfriend was going to be someone he was going to spend the rest of his life with.

Don't get him wrong. Angelica is so kind and she matches well with his personality and even with his family. Hell, his older sister and you get siblings got along with him well. Even Patches! Patches loved her. The cat probably loved her more than him. But, even though he and Angelica have seen each other cry, have seen each other on their worst, have admitted secrets to each other, it all goes back to their first meeting.

He remembers how he spoke crap about her, she spoke back, he spoke more, she spoke louder. Yes, they hated each other. They were always at each other's throats, they were always complaining about one another, but now... She trusted him enough to show her face. He clearly trusted her, too, since he's shown her his face. And she was beautiful. Really beautiful. She had plump lips, he remembered and he's watching her now. She has a mole on the corner of her lower lip and a mole under her nose. She has beautiful eyes, too, and a beautiful—

Dream shook his head, thoughts wandering. He went back to his previous thinking.

Angelica is nice. But, he simply doesn't want to love anyone, he doesn't want to like anyone. Whoever liked him in real life, whoever liked him because they knew him in real life, whoever, he felt bad for them. He wasn't going to love anyone.

"Dream, are you okay?"

Dream looked at Angelica and she arched an eyebrow, the ones she had been complaining about since she was too lazy to pluck them herself.

"Yeah," Dream breathed out, a smile stretching on his lips. "I'm good. Are you good?"

"Well, I have two kids drooling on me."

Dream turned to look down at Rose sleeping, head resting on their sister's lap, and mouth wide open. She was indeed drooling. Then, he turned to look at Jose who was resting his head on his sister's shoulder and was snoring loud enough for Angelica to just hear.

"I need to take a picture of this moment," Dream chuckled and grabbed his phone, standing up to get the perfect picture. He eyed the girl. "May I?"

"Go ahead."

Dream snapped a picture and giggled at the picture, a small squeak escaping his lips as laughter came out of him.

"This is my favorite picture," he admitted before his head snapped to the front door of the house, knocking heard. He headed towards the front door and he smiled when he saw Genesis and her husband, Chris, next to her. They were admiring the house, clearly awestruck.

"Yo," Genesis breathed out, "your house is so fucking cool. Is this your house?"

Dream thought about the countless of times Angelica always said "his house." Yes, it was his house when she first came, but it's been almost a month since she's been here. Her stuff is here, her presence, the countless of leftovers in the fridge since she made so much food the two would be so full, and she's here.

"It's mine and Angelica's home. Come in."

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

I only slept for one hour
yesterday and I'm staying
up again. LETS GOOOOOOO
Also found out I have summer
school LETS GOOOOOOOO

Anyway, are you guys excited for the
angst coming up in a few? 🥲 I am :)

Now, I'll update in a few. Have to
update Past Ghost 🥲