Dreams pov

"What the fuck!?" Eliza shouts slamming the door.

She walks over and takes her jacket off, putting it on the chair.

"Dream what did you do," she says "what the fuck did you do!"

"I didn't do anything!" I say "I was just doing what we normally do, just putting my hands on his waist and kissing him. I don't take it far I never ever would- he started freaking out and yelling at me not to call him by his nickname I gave him. The glass dropped and split his hand open- I hugged him and we fell to the floor..."

Tears fall from my cheeks.

"What did you call him," Eliza says grabbing the broom quickly from the kitchen pantry and sweeping up the broken glass.

"Pretty, like I always do it's nothing new," I say holding him tight against me.

Eliza doesn't answer and she throws the broken pieces in the garbage.

"Did I- did I do something wrong?" I ask.

She shakes her head and grabs the first aid kit from underneath the sink, before sitting herself down beside me.

"No," she says "you didn't do anything, it's about what happened on Friday"

"Quackitys birthday?" I ask in confusion "what do you mean?"

"When you guys went to get ice cream.. these guys approached Karl and George. George said the main guy looked like this guy along with two others who were harassing him went he went to the grocery store. Sapnap helped and- anyways, the guy was touching him.. specifically his waist and was calling him pretty and pretty boy. Then one guy checked Karl's bag which had his ID in it. They found out their age and they ran. Karl told me because he wanted to make sure that nothing would happen, and in case something did I would know why"

More tears escape my eyes as I think about what she had just said.

The grocery store? That was on Wednesday... why didn't sapnap tell me?

And why didn't George tell me?

"He told me not to call him that ever again-" I say.

"Then you don't, you don't call him that ever again unless he tells you that it's okay," Eliza says getting an ice cube out from the fridge.

"What are you doing?" I ask watching her place an ice cube on his head.

"Waking him up," she says "I heard if someone is a deep sleeper pit an ice cube on their head"

His eyes flutter open and Eliza throws the ice cube in the sink, before drawing her attention back to him.

"George you can sleep soon I just- I need to help you okay?" She says taking out a needle and stitches.

George nods, laying his head back on my chest.

"Keep him awake," she says grabbing rubbing alcohol and putting it on a tea towel.

I nod as I lean down to George's ear.

"You're okay George, I'm right here and I'm not leaving. I just need you awake and then you can sleep again okay?" I whisper.

He nods slowly.

She disinfects his hand and the needle, which doesn't seem to cause him much pain.

"Okay George, you know what to expect so I just need you to calm down okay?" Eliza says "don't be scared"

"What are you doing?" I ask again.

She starts stitching up his cut as I watch more blood pour from the new wounds.

He lets out a sob in pain as he buries his head into my shoulder.

"Eliza stop," I say panicking "you're hurting him!"

He grips my sweater with his other hand as he lets out another scream.

"I can't," she says.

"Eliza!" I yell.

"What the fuck is going on!?" Max shouts running down the stairs.

"Max go call mom!" Eliza shouts "go now!"

Max nods and runs to the house phone on the table,  where he begins to dial his mom's phone number.

"Eliza stop!" I yell again.

"Dream I can't!" She yells back "I can't!"

"She's not answering!" Max says "who do I call!?"

"Sapnap!" I say "I'll explain why later- but call sapnap!"

"Number?" Max asks.

I tell him sapnaps number as he dials it in. He puts the phone to his ear.

"Sapnap!" Max says.

I feel like a ton of weight has just been lifted off my shoulders as I hear max call his name into the phone.

He tells sapnap a quick run down before hanging up.

"He'll be here in three minutes!" Max says "he's already on his way here for some reason"

George flinched from the pain.

"Calm him down" Eliza orders.

"You're okay, she's almost done you're okay," I say, trying my best to comfort George as much as I can.

He sobs again.

"Okay! Okay! I'm done!" Eliza says, wiping the now stitched cut with a soaked towel.

I wrap my other arm around him as he cries and cries and cries.

She cleans up his hand as the pool of blood grows bigger and bigger.

"I can't stop it from bleeding, the cut is so deep that even with the stitches holding it together it'll keep bleeding-"

She starts digging around in the first aid kit.

"Dammit!" She yells "no no no-"

"What? Eliza what?" I say.

"We're out of gauze," Eliza says.

"I have some!" Jacob says from the stairs "I play baseball and we always get injured"

"Get it!" Max says.

A few seconds later Jacob comes back with gauze and tape.

The front door opens and sapnap appears, shutting the door and then rushing over without taking his shoes off.

"Don't put the gauze on yet" he takes it from Eliza's hands and puts it on the floor.

He grabs the blood-filled towels as he stops the bleeding.

"How?" Eliza asks.

"Took a med class last year, you should too," he says as he puts the towel beside him, and starts wrapping George's hand in the gauze.

I hear muffled cries from the boy on top of me.

"You're done, you're okay," I say "thanks sap"

"Your welcome.." he sighs "I was coming over to drop off George's soccer bag from Karl's house that he left. Your lucky I didn't go to the gym until later"

Eliza begins to clean the blood off of the floor, along with the small shards of glass.

I look down at me and George to find blood-stained clothes.

I look at sapnap, whose knees are covered in blood from kneeling on the floor.

"In the guest room, the third drawer from the bottom," I say "I'm sorry"

"No big deal, I was helping him" sapnap gets up and makes his way upstairs.

George is still crying into my shoulder as he stays limp in my lap.

"George I need to get you out of your clothes okay?" I adjust him so his legs are wrapped around me so he won't fall when I stand up.

I wrap my arms tightly around him as I stand up from the tiled floor.

I look at Eliza who nods.

I give a small smile to her as I go upstairs into his room.

I open the door and close it behind me before entering his bathroom.

I set him on the bathroom counter and take a small step back to look at him.

He has a tear-stained face, to which more tears are added. His breathing is getting better but it's still unsteady.

His hair is a mess and his clothes are tear and blood-stained.

He lets out a sob as he covers his mouth with his good hand "I'm- so sorry.." he says.

"Don't be sorry" I run a hand through his hair,  fixing it so it's not all over the place "don't be sorry my love, we all have our moments sometimes... I would never be mad at you for anything like that okay? I care for you so much"

I kiss his forehead before backing away again "I'm going to change, then I'll get you a new pair of clothes okay?"

"Okay-" he says.

I leave the bathroom while closing the door behind me and I get changed.

I leave a pair of sweats and a t-shirt here every time in case he wants me to sleepover, or I need an extra pair of clothing.

Once I change, I grab him a new pair of sweats and a sweater and I go back into the washroom.

"Do you need help?" I ask "if not I can leave"

He shakes his head "no help.."

I nod and then turn to leave.

"Stay, but turn around," he says while hopping off the counter.

I nod and turn around to face the wall.

I hear him get changed, which takes a bit longer than I thought it would.

There's a moment of silence before he sighs and hiccups in frustration.

"Do you need help?" I ask "don't be embarrassed George it's me"

He makes out a "yeah"

I turn around keeping my eyes on his face.

"My sweater-" he hiccups again.

I chuckle "okay Mr. hiccups"

I help him put on his sweater and then he's done.

I kiss his forehead gently before wiping the tears from his face.

"You did well George, I'm proud of you" I give a small smile while I push the hair away from his face "I hated seeing you like that"

He gives a soft smile "she's done it to me before, I told her if anything- (hiccup) like that happens again she wouldn't stop"

"What happened last time?" I ask.

He lifts his sweater up a bit to reveal a scar on his waist "I fell (hiccup) off a tree"

I shake my head and smile "stupid"

A half smile appears on his face as his eyes get heavy.

"Do you want to sleep now?" I ask.

He nods and we make our way over to his bed.

I lay down first, opening the covers as he comes and lies down in my arms.

I wrap my arms around him while putting the blanket over him at the same time.

He makes sure not to hurt his hand as he moves back into my touch.

I hear the bedroom door open and sapnap comes in.

"Oooh cuddle time," sapnap says closing the door and laying beside me, on top of the blankets instead.

"Ew sapnap-" George says.

"Woah someone's got the hiccups! And excuse me but I just stopped you from passing out due to blood loss- so what I think your trying to say is thank you, and you're welcome"

George doesn't respond but he closes his eyes.

"Die it down sap," I say "but thank you for helping"

"Your welcome," he says in a serious tone "I'm guessing Eliza-"

He stops and looks at George who is now sleeping.

He falls asleep rather quickly, no matter the situation.

"I'm guessing Eliza told you?.." he asks.

I slip my arms from under George as I sit up, making sure not to wake him.

"Why didn't you tell me?" I ask "why didn't you?"

"George isn't aware that Karl tells me everything, and George didn't want to tell you" Sapnaps shrugs "I helped him and then after he said for me to shut my fucking mouth so I did. Sure, your his boyfriend but he doesn't like the attention and he doesn't like being babied"

"Well when he's being harassed I would like to know so he doesn't freak out on me again-" I say in a harsher tone "it scared me sap, he really scared me today... I have never seen him do that before and it scared me. He was acting like I was going to hurt him or worse! I can't even call him by his nickname because it triggers him!"

I feel tears prick my eyes "I can't- I can't help him through with these things if he doesn't tell me"

"It wasn't and it still isn't my place to tell you about it. He said for me to not tell you so I'm not going to" sapnap huffs "I love you dude, I just don't want him to feel like he can't trust me because we're all friends and we have to tell each other everything. Which we don't"

"I know but-"

"I get it Dream you don't have to explain, I understand," he says "is he okay?"

I nod "his hand hurts really bad though"

"I don't blame him, Eliza was giving him stitches without giving him anything to help the pain- fuck I couldn't even do that" sapnap puts a hand on my shoulder "good luck brother" he stands up from the bed.

"Thanks, sap," I say wiping my cheeks with my hand.

"Anytime loser- oh! I put his stuff in the living room" sapnap grins "okay okay- bye" he shuts the door behind him as he leaves.

I lay back down as I bring George into my arms.

Well shit.

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