The game of Truth or Dare was my idea. Terezi loves that 'earth human culture' shit. Not sure how she managed to rope Vantas into it, but watching that asshole squirm under her relentless interrogation makes the game at least five times more entertaining. So of course he finally breaks down and asks for a dare, and that's when I tell him to kiss her on the lips, half because I want to watch him get mad and sputter and turn red, and half because I know that Tez is such a tinderbox of unspoken feelings for him, she deserves a fucking break and Vantas sure as hell isn't going to give it to her.
She's grinning daggers at him and he actually looks terrified behind the whole rage ball deal he's got going on. And he says some shit to me that I don't think even makes sense in Vantasland about how he shouldn't have to go through with this. I tell him his bullshit is bullshit, and Terezi waggles her eyebrows and makes a comment about how red he'll taste.
And suddenly he's actually doing it, and he's closing his eyes because fuck if Vantas can kiss a girl without making it horribly cliché, and as he leans in I realize that she's stopped grinning and stopped breathing. He's getting closer and closer, so excruciatingly slow it's silly, and I don't even know why I'm watching this, but it's a mesmerizing trainwreck of a kiss and I can't look away. Neither of them knows what they're doing, and neither of them can even fucking see the other person, so when their faces touch of course they just sort of hit the corners of each other's cheeks and start fumbling around for lip to lip contact.
They finally find it, and Terezi gasps and starts breathing again (fucking finally). So then of course she flips out about how much he's blushing and her hands start to curl around his cheeks. She doesn't seem to care that I'm there, and he looks like he's totally forgotten about me, and it hits me that I'm staring at two aliens making out, one of whom is my best bro, and I decide I'd better leave before I start questioning my life and my choices too much.
As I get up to go she starts flailing one arm around in my general direction, and I tell her it's hilarious that she can't even tear her mouth away from her crush long enough to tell me to leave them alone. She turns to me and cackles that it's my own fault for making the dare in the first place, and Vantas looks like he just figured out that I'm here and his face can't decide if he's embarrassed or fucking ecstatic.
I really do need to leave, though, before my brain catches up to the fluttery things my heart's doing at seeing them kiss. I tell Rezi to make sure to actually talk about what's between her and Vantas, and then I leave, closing the door behind me.
Author's Note: Expect a second chapter showing the same scene from Karkat's perspective.