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---Nightmare's POV----

As we soon as we walked through the school gates I looked around for any signs of Cross. It's clear Dream was doing that as well because he was stood on his toes and was scanning the field.

I spotted Ink and Blue and smirked. "Found them Dream~" I purred, nudging him over to his friends.

"I-I wasn't looking for..." He trailed off upon seeing my unimpressed expression.

"Cya round Dreamy." I called as he walked over to his friends. Him and Ink have sorted things out, kinda. They're back to being friends again and they're no longer in an 'ignore and hate each other phase'.

I stood still and looked around, searching for any sign of the black and white skeleton. What if he wasn't in today? I don't think either of us know where he lives...

Now that I think about it... He's never mentioned anything about his house or home...

Eh, we've never asked, so it's probably nothing...

Suddenly someone in the crowd caught my eye. I looked at them and smiled. Genuinely smiled. Cross had seen me and was now trying to force his way through the stream of people to get to me.

He kept in being dragged back by the flow of people, getting dragged further away from me.

I reached out a tentacle and he lifted his hand up, letting the tentacle wrap round his wrist.

I pulled it back and Cross pushed, both of us working together. Eventually he broke free and stumbled, tripping and falling into my arms.

"You need to stop doing that Cross~" I cooed, helping him back to his feet, his face going a light shade of purple like always.

I glanced around the courtyard and smirked as I saw Dream watching the two of us. He looked extremely pissed but also really nervous at the same time, probably worried that I'd suddenly sweep Cross up into my arms and run off with him into the sunset.

I'm telling you now...the idea is rather tempting.

I locked eyes with Dream and smirked. He looked at me, shaking his head, an almost pleading look in his eyes. I felt a flash of guilt, but it was quickly blocked by Cross gripping my arm suddenly.

"Nightmare the others are here..." He whispered.

I looked in the direction he was and there they were, waving and pushing through the crowd to get to me.

"Nightmare your back!"

I nodded at them and smirked.

Dust made it over first. "First off...sorry for the water and I hope your okay, second you have no idea how weird yesterday was. And finally Cross has moved on from you with some sassy cute thing."

I blinked. "What...?"

Dust went to repeat everything he'd just said, but the others got there before he had a chance.

"Nightmare what happened yesterday!?"
"Did you nearly die?"
"Have you heard about that kid that attacked Dust?"

I took a step back. "Guys, guys, one question at a time. Please..."

Dust glared at the others for silence and then turned back to face me. "Well, uh, I just wanted to say sorry for the whole incident...what happened to you anyway."

"My instinct kicked in and I teleported home, where I ended up being violently sick."

Dust looked at the floor. "Heh, sorry about that. You gave us a scare, disappearing like that suddenly. Cross was so panicked that he fricking teleported out of school and ran off to find you."

Cross' grip on my arm tightened and I glanced down at him. He can teleport as well?

Dust coughed and continued. "Anyways, so you have no idea what you missed yesterday..."

I raised an 'eyebrow'.

"So we see Cross in school with some kid we've never seen before, apparently he was a friend checking out our school cuz he'd just moved or something. Anyways we were generally teasing him and making little jokes, just being general dicks, like usual.

And then I say he looks cute and he just snaps and punches me right in the face. Then we had a massive fight right then and there. That kid was better than I thought he would be and actually out up a good fight. A teacher stopped us though. But look what he did to me!"

Dust pulled up his sleeve to show a bandage wrapped round his arm. I smirked and nearly laughed. I'm glad I managed to get some proper damage on him as well.

"Oh and Cross has left you for that kid. Sorry. It wasn't even Cross making the moves or hinting, this kid was obviously obsessed with him."

I felt my face heat up a bit and I glanced at Cross to see his face had already turned a dark shade of purple.

They can never know that was me...

---Time Skip----------------------------------

I've been trying all day so far to think about anything but Cross. But he's making it increasingly difficult for me. Its not like he's doing it on purpose or anything. He's just doing what he normally does every Lunch, which anomaly consists of three things.

Hanging round me.

Clinging on to me.

And doing everything possible to stay close to me.

Normally I'd just ignore him and act like it wasn't happening. But its not as easy as usual today. Why? Because Dream is death staring me from across the field, his eyes filled of anger and jealousy.

I feel a little bad. Dream already lost Ink to Error. So to lose Cross to me, his own brother, would hurt him even more. Not to mention the fact that we live together and are really good friends. I'm pretty sure Dream wouldn't ever talk to me again.

But then again...

If Dream and Cross went off together...

I growled to myself and glared at the floor.

"You okay Nightmare?" Cross asked.

I didn't look at him and nodded. "Just thinking about something..."

Cross eyed me suspiciously but shrugged, leaning against my arm softly.  I glanced over at Dream, he was glaring at me like I was leaning against Cross and not the other way round like he should be seeing it.

I sighed and rolled my shoulders, making Cross have to sit up straight up again. I immediately wanted him to lean against me again, but he didn't, he sat stiffly, looking out across the field.

I glanced at Dream again to see he was now smiling at me, a thankful and relieved look on his face. I looked down and frowned. Why am I feeling this way? Its horrible and starting to piss me off. I want Dream to be happy. But at the same time I'll currently do anything to stop him getting Cross.

Even shatter his heart again...

---Time Skip----------------------

It was the end of the day. And I was having a mental battle with myself. Part of me was screaming to go to the blossom tree and get Cross before Dream had time to confess. But the other part of me was yelling at me to let it happen so Dream can be happy again.

I let out a yell of frustration and punched the wall next to me, ignoring the pain it caused. This is stupid. Why can't I just make my mind up?

I frowned and started walking down the corridor. I should let Dream be happy, he deserves Cross more than I do...

I walked out of the main entrance and made my way across the courtyard to the school gates.

My mind was screaming to turn back around but I forced myself not to. If I did there would be no way I'd be able to keep walking.

"Nightmare!"

I stopped and tensed. I was literally screaming at myself in my head to stop as I slowly turned around.

It was him...

Cross smiled and waved at me from over at the blossom tree.

That one action broke me. Literally. I growled and looked around for any sign of Dream.

He didn't seem to be here yet. Good.

Cross smiled as I started walking over to him and I smirked.

Sorry Brother.

It looks like you've left it too late again.

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-Jess-