It wasn't Dave's fault, seriously he just went to this diner to get some god damned food. Is that so much to ask? Apparently because the place was packed and as he was waiting in line some guy with white hair got behind him. He must have been albino because his eyes were red too and for whatever reason he was wearing a sweater. This was Texas for fucks sake! In the middle of summer too!

So finally a waitress came around to give him a seat but when she came over she noticed there were two people who seemed to have wanted to eat alone. She approached them, them being Dave and this mystery guy, and asked, "Excuse me sirs we have a table for two if you wouldn't mind sharing."

Dave looked at this other guy and shrugged, "Sure."

The other guys voice was rough as he spoke, "Fine, who gives a fuck as long as I get my fucking food."

The man sure had a way with words so waitress seated them. They were sitting maybe five minutes when Dave finally noticed a lady staring at them. When she saw Dave had noticed she turned his nose upward and huffed, "Disgusting." Dave shrugged it off and continued his awkward silence with his lunch partner.

Mister Fuck You, as Dave was now mentally calling him, was burning holes in the table with his glare. "Hey man you're going to burn the place down if you keep that glare going."

"Fuck off," He grumbled and looked away.

Dave only chuckled as the waitress finally came over and took their orders. Eventually Dave couldn't take the silence anymore as he spoke once again, "So we've been in this akward silence for about 20 minutes now. How many gay babies do you think that equates to?"

"What the fuck," The guy finally asked, looking at Dave with confusion.

"Nevermind look my name is Dave, what's yours," Whatever joke Dave had tried to pull back their clearly went over the other guys head.

"...Karkat," He said taking a drink of his coffee.

"Well Karkat, if we have to sit through the rest of this lunch together we might as well enjoy some civil conversation," Dave said with his classic Strider smirk.

They conversed for a while Dave making dumb remarks, Karkat getting angry, and then they would move onto another topic. Eventually a young girl approached smiling sweetly, "Um, excuse me, I hate to interrupt but I just had to say you and your boyfriend are just really cute together."

Karkat was about to say something but Dave beat him to it quick to take Karkat's hand. "Why thank you, it's not easy putting up with him sometimes but what can I say, I love his dick."

The girl looked stunned as she slowly backed away. That was a good choice on her part because Karkat's face was quickly turning the color of his eyes and before Dave could say another word he lashed out.

"What in the ever loving FUCK," He yanked his hand away as people turned to look at the commotion.

"Hey chill man it was just a joke," Dave said throwing his hands up in defense.

"A joke, A JOKE!? Well guess what smart ass it wasn't funny," The whole restaurant was looking at this point.

Where mostly people would have been scared and gotten pissed off themselves, something about Karkat's anger only made Dave smile. "Well it doesn't have to be a joke."

Karkat's anger quickly dissolved into confusion, "What?"

Dave smirked and put money on the table. He got up quickly without a word and grabbed Karkat's wrist dragging him off. Yepp, in no way was this his fault that he woke up next to this cute little albino the next morning.