Ruin The Friendship [ dreamwastaken x reader ]

19 | two long weeks

I rub my eyes, exhaustion settling in down to the bone. I just finished my exam. I even pulled an all-nighter to study for it. I also come to the conclusion... I'm skipping my classes for the day.

It's been a full week since I've seen Clay, now. In my sleep addled state, I send him a text. I'm just trying to tell him I'm done with my exam, since I've been talking with him about it all week. I even called him right before it.

'it's over' 10:58am

I collapse into my bed with a guttural groan, and feel my phone start buzzing, an incoming call from Clay. I melt into a smile and answer, loopy.

"Hiiiiii—" I start, cooing.

"What the fuck do you mean?" Clay cuts in, voice tight.

I blink for a second, pulling my phone away, double checking the name to make sure it's him.

"Wha—?" I ask, lost.

"What? Your fucking text? Are you fucking with me right now?" He asks, and his voice cracks.

I blink, trying to clear my blurry vision. I go to look at our texts, seeing only my text.

"What text?" I mumble back.

Clay makes a wild noise. "It's— it's over?" He asks.

I split into a grin. "Yeah! My exam! I just finished it. It's finally over!" I say, happily humming. Ignorance is bliss.

There's a stretch of silence, a shuddered breath I'm too tired to understand, then, "Oh." Soft, quiet. "I— whatever."

"How do you think you did?" He asks after a moment, hesitant.

I hum again, stretching out in bed with a big yawn. "I don't want to think about that. I'm trying to go to sleep." I reply.

"Oh— really? I was about to finally go to sleep, too." Clay replies, and I briefly wonder why he called me.

"Going to sleep at 11am? Tsk, tsk. Bad doggy." I chastise.

Clay laughs before he speaks. "I know you aren't judging me for doing the same thing you're doing."

I giggle. "Yeah but I was up studying. You were up... what... coding, Minecrafting?" I tease. It's an equally valid reason for him to stay up all night, but I want to be rude.

Clay chuckles back. "Yeah. I was studying too. Studying the blade—"

I interrupt him with a groan. "Oh, fuck off." I grumble.

I think Clay's pleased to have angered me, based on the goofy noises he's now making.

"You can hang up whenever you're done laughing at my pain." I say around a yawn.

Clay makes a noise of protest, which surprises me. "I'd rather keep you on call." He says back, voice heavier.

I don't bother replying, letting myself sink into sleep.

***

It takes me a second to find my phone after I blink awake. I didn't sleep too long, a cursory check tells me it's only 3:39pm now. I see I'm still on call with Clay, and feel my heart melt knowing we 'slept together'.

"You awake?" I mumble into my phone, just a check.

I hear... not much, then suddenly there's incoherent mumbling followed by a single snore and groan. So he's definitely still asleep. I giggle to myself, lifting my phone to whisper more shit at him.

"Say nothing if you're a pissbaby." I whisper into the phone.

It's... so stupid. At least it's funny to me. Obviously, he doesn't respond.