《Nightmare | Dream ✔️》𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚛𝚝𝚢 𝚃𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚎
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I wake up early to see that it is bright and nice outside for the first time in a while. For a while I stay in bed with Dream as Dream holds me close to his chest. Eventually my stomach growls lightly and I get up, giving Dream a quick kiss before making my way to the front of his apartment. I try to sort my way through the cupboards but frown when he has little to no food. It then hits me that I haven't been to the market around here yet, sure I've been to a few stores here and there but we usually order in or walk to a local shop.
"Dream," I walk back into our room and his eyes flutter open to see me as I move back towards the bed, sitting in the edge slightly.
"River," He says and his morning voice makes me melt but I pull it together. I see a small smile appear on his face because I have told him that I really like his morning voice before.
"I want to go to the market," I say a bright smile on my face. He raises his eyebrows, his hair messy from sleeping gives me a little smile.
"Take my card," Dream says, sleepily motioning towards the bedside table and I frown a little. It's a sweet gesture but I don't want to use his money, not once in our relationship had I used his money on my own. It felt kind of wrong even just thinking about it.
"I want to go with you." I argue and he shakes his head which makes me huff.
"Bed warm, outside cold, no leave." He mumbles tiredly and pulls me back into the bed with him, wrapping his arms around my waist. "You stay too." Dream says greedily and gives me little kisses.
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"Please," I mumble to him and he sighs.
"No." He shakes his head, meeting my eyes with his bright green ones.
"Dream." I practically beg and pout a little.
"I love you," He whispers, ignoring me and he huff.
"Come on Dream," I say, rolling out of his grasps and standing back up. I push my thick long hair behind my ears and note that I will have to get a trim at some point. He groans a little missing my warmth before sitting up in the bed and looking at my, his hair still messy and I am practically drooling over him which makes him laugh. I am aware that he looks at me like that sometimes and the thought of wow just runs through my head. "I want to go shopping." I repeat, snapping out of my own thoughts and he sighs, getting out of the bed. He comes over to me and kisses my forehead before grabbing some new clothes.
"I said take my card baby," Dream says and I frown a little which makes him cup my face I'm his hands. "Go out and do whatever you want," He says and I make a slightly confused face. "You're my girl," Dream says happily before kissing my forehead. "Go spoil yourself baby."
"Dream," I whine and he gives me a little grin.
"I love you," He laughs and I huff.
One phone call and taxi ride later, I am standing inside the sliding doors of a huge shopping mall. My eyes scan over the groups of people around my age walk through the doors and I notice a few people every now and then wearing Dream merch and I smile a little at how the fact that they wouldn't notice me due to the fact I don't show my face. I grin when I remember that I have a team helping me make some merch for my followers as well.
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I feel someone's hand land on my shoulder and for a second I panic but spin to see Annabelle, Anna, is smiling brightly. I quickly wrap my arms around her in a hug because we have been talking a lot since we met at the diner and she's a really good person.
"Hello," She greets me and I laugh lightly.
"Hi." I grin and step back so we can walk further into the mall. "It's really nice to see you." I smile happily to the taller girl and she grins as we spin around looking for a store to go into.
"Dude, it really is." Anna laughs and we look around some more. "So what do you want to do?" She asks and my eyes travel over the shops, trying to figure out where we should go first. Dream had instead on me taking his card, telling me that he had enough money due to his huge growth through YouTube and Twitch recently. I felt bad but he had practically forced it onto my hands. "You look so excited." She laughs and I grin.
"Because I am," I say with a bright smile and see a place where we can get our nails done. We wonder around the mall a little after getting our nails done, mine painted a light shade of purple and Anna got hers a bright blue. Anna's eyes travel around the store and I grin when I see the game store. "There." I pull her with me and she laughs.
"You really love gaming don't you," She teases me and I laugh a little because she wasn't aware of my personality on the internet. Instead she knew me as River, a girl she met at a diner where she worked.
"You don't even know the half of it." I laugh a little and she shakes her head as we walk into the store.
"Fine," Anna says and my eyes travel the walls landing on a Squirtle Pokémon stuffie and I pick it up happily. "But I get to choose where we go next." She states and I look at her, shrugging a little.
"Ok, I trust you." I say bouncing on my heels and dragging her around the store picking up a few things and eventually going to check out with Dream's card because he would kill me if I spent my own.
"You sure?" I ask, self cautiously playing the bag in my hands. I had been wondering around the store that Anna had dragged me into and she had been helping me look through everything trying to find the best stuff for me. I bite my lip a little because I don't want to get in the line unless we are very sure with what we have in the rather heavy bag.
"Yes." Anna says confidently and if I have learned anything from this trip it is that Anna is way more confident then what I thought she was. "Clay is going to love it so much, I promise."
"I hate you." I say as my face goes red and she laughs.
"You'll thank me later," She grins mischievously and I nod a little. "Come on, let's check out." She says pulling me into the line while my face is still bright pink.
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