I do not own these characters, they are made by Andrew Hussie.

There will be a scene between Aradia and Sollux, you might wanna skip that if you're not yet allowed

Hope you enjoy! I think it's gonna be long before I can finish this, though.

"Karkat! Hey Karkat! Come here! Look at this adorable puppy!" Jade said as you and her goes around a zoo for your first date. You've been waiting a really, really long time for this, and finally it's happening. You excitedly went to her and tried to see what she was pointing at. As you look down, you see a puppy probably merely around seven weeks. Lying on the ground, still unable (or maybe simply too lazy) to walk around. "Isn't it the most adorable thing you've ever seen your whole life?" She exclaimed.

You look at the puppy, then back to her. Leaning a little in, you looked at her straight in her beautiful green eyes and said, "No, you are."

Her eyes shimmered a little with tears and she put a hand on your cheek.

"Oh Karkat, I love you so much. I'm so happy that you love me too, I've waited so long for this…" Trailing off, she places a hand on the back of your neck and pulls you closer. You closed your eyes and nearly got lost in the pleasure of the kiss, thinking about how you've been waiting for so long for this kiss. You thought, if only she can imagine how long you've been in love with her and just how much your love for her is. You've loved her even before you said that you're in love with Terezi, who is now in love with another person. But it doesn't matter, because Terezi isn't your love. Jade is, and will always be. Sighing happily, you stopped thinking and allowed yourself to get lost in the sensation of having Jade's lips pressed against yours, and how everything is wonderful…

"Karkat? Karkat! We're gonna be late! You better wake up now or we'll get thcolded by the teacher!" You hear your best friend and your roommate Sollux's voice. The dream slowly faded away, yet you still kept your eyes closed, willing the dream to come back. Giving up, you slowly rose and opened your eyes. You spot the familiar red-and-blue eyes peeking from the shower. Sighing, you stood up and went to the kitchen to prepare food. To deal with your laziness, you and Sollux made a deal that you'll cook and eat while he showers, then he'll eat while you shower, so that you'll finish at nearly the same time. So far this strategy is working. As you cook a few slices of bacon and a couple eggs for breakfast, you pondered about what you want to happen, like having the balls to ask Jade out, or getting the chance to kick Strider's ass without being punished severely for it (You're fine with pain, but you'll most likely gonna be expelled, and you don't want to be far from Jade). When you're finished, you put it all in a plate, went to the table and started eating, while continuing your thoughts from while you were cooking. You heard the shower door open and Sollux stepped out wrapped in a towel.

"Yo bro, it'th your turn", he said as he went inside his room to change.

You sighed, then entered the shower. You stripped and, not even bothering with the warm water, opened the shower and felt the frigid water hit your body. You've always preferred cold showers than warm ones, even early in the morning. A few minutes later, you turned the shower off, grabbed a towel and went outside. You see Sollux digging happily on the food you've cooked. He turned and gave you a thumbs up as you went inside your room. Looking at the clothes hanged, you dressed as quickly as possible. Then, in your black polo and black slacks school uniform, went outside and combed your hair. You went to the sofa and grabbed your bag and tossed Sollux his. He caught it and stood up, then the two of you went outside and started to head towards the school.

"Yo Karkat, I have something to ask you…" Sollux started.

"What is it?" you replied.

"I think I'm in love with Aradia, but I'm not sure how to tell her…" he trailed off.

"Welcome to the club," you muttered.

"What do you mean?" he said.

"Nothing. Look man, I really can't help you in this. I'd suggest just stay being you and brave it up. Tell her!" you told your friend. "There's only like, ninety-eight percent chance that you won't be friends anymore. Either because you're her boyfriend now, or if she rejects you."

"Thanks a lot," he grumbled.

The two of you arrived at the school, and you immediately headed towards the room of your first and second class. As usual, you barely listened and continued your thoughts while you were cooking earlier. As the class was about to end, the teacher handed out the quiz results from yesterday. As usual, you barely got a passing grade, while Sollux got nearly perfect. As the bell rang to signal the start of the short break, you stopped thinking about what you wanted to happen and ask Sollux if he wants to go to the cafeteria with you.

"Nah, bro. I think I'm gonna stay here…" he said in a weird manner, which made you suspicious of him, but you still left and headed for the cafeteria. Looking forward to the next class, since nearly all your friends will be there. Sollux, Nepeta, Equius, Eridan, Rose, John, and your crush Jade. Unfortunately, Jade's boyfriend, Dave, will also be there, the only sobering fact about it. But you stopped thinking about that for now and started buying some food.

"Hey Karkat!"

Turning around, you saw John, Rose and Jade walking towards you. As usual, Jade and John are both excited, Jade running towards you and John running with her, waving his arms around. As Jade started hugging you, which she unfortunately does with everyone, you looked around for any sign of her boyfriend. Dave is nowhere to be found.

"Oh hey there, Jade!" You excitedly greeted her. "And John, and Rose." Usually, you're a very grumpy, mean and hot-tempered person, but when Jade's around, you can't help but be goofy, excited and happy, like her brother John. You sometimes think that the reason why John is like that is because of all those years of living with someone like Jade.

"Wanna walk to our next class together, bro?" John said.

"Sure! Where's Strider?" you inquired.

"Already went ahead," Jade said.

"Come on, then! We shouldn't let cool kid wait long." You said half-heartedly, then started towards the stairs. The rest immediately followed.

As you sat in your seat, you watch the others sit too. Then the teacher entered and started to ramble about bullshit you will never use, but trying to best to listen. Since you don't want to study, you prefer to just remember everything from the lessons. But just like always, your mind wanders off and continued your daydream from earlier, but you found yourself replaying the same scene again and again. The scene where Jade Harley squeals and hugs you while you're kneeling with an open box, a ring inside. You're so happy about this part, but the bell signaling the end of the classes disturbed your train of thought. As usual, you head to the cafeteria for a little snack before going home. You went to the cafeteria, to find Sollux fidgeting nervously, with the others around him except some of your friends. You walked towards him.

"Hey bro, what's happening?" you asked.

"You'll see, Karkitty! I'm so proud of you, Sollux!" Nepeta said.

This intrigued you, and you looked at Sollux to see him nodding. Then, the door opened and in walks Aradia. Sollux takes a deep breath then walks towards her. The others followed, with you being the last. When you get there, everyone's cheering and happy. As you elbowed people out of the way, you saw Sollux being hugged by Aradia. You thought, probably told her how he feels, and she probably feels the same way. Lucky guy… You wish you're as lucky, but you know that it's hopeless. Jade is taken. And by not just any other person, but by Dave Strider himself. The cool guy. Suddenly, you noticed that both Jade and Dave are missing. You looked around, then finally seeing the two of them heading towards a private part in the corner of the cafeteria. You thought that they're just going there to have a private moment of kissing and shit, but something about Dave's face made you follow them. You listened, careful to not let them notice you.

"—but our relationship's long overdue. I'm in love with someone else," you hear Dave say.

You hear sobbing, then Jade says, "I—I—I see."

"I'm sorry, Jade, I loved you, but it's time for us to move on," Dave continues.

Jade didn't reply, she just simply sobbed there. The sound feels painful to you. It feels like there's a hand, gripping your heart, crushing it. The feeling is too much for you to bear, and you retreated. You hid in a corner, banging the wall, till you heard Strider's shoes walking out. Then you went to Jade. You saw her, kneeling on the floor, back against the wall, crying. The sound feels horrible to you, and you tried your best to make her feel better. You kneeled beside her and comforted her, shushing and papping her. After a few minutes, she quieted down.

"Are you alright?" you asked, then realized how stupid it sounds. OF COURSE SHE'S NOT ALRIGHT! THAT STRIDER BASTARD DID THIS TO HER. These words entered your head and filled you with such hatred for the guy that you realized that the guy better hide from you or he'll taste the full force of the hatred of Karkat Vantas.

"Ye-yeah, I'm fine now," Her voice shook, but she said it clearly enough.

"Come on, stand up. Let's go out before the others start getting worried about you. Or worse, they'll notice that we're both gone and some idiot starts saying that we're fucking each other's brains out," you joked, trying to insert some humor into the situation, but knowing deep in your heart that you really want it to happen, though more of "loving her all night long" than of "fucking her brain out".

She released a half-hearted laugh, saying, "Yeah, you're right. And I know that after what happened with Terezi, you don't want anything to do with women right now,".

You helped her up, then led her to the ladies' bathroom. "Collect yourself, and make yourself presentable. I'll go ahead so that nobody will think anything about our sudden disappearance. But I doubt that someone noticed it. They're all probably too busy celebrating Sollux and Aradia,".

She nodded, then went inside. You put your hands inside your pockets and walked out, trying to find your friends. You saw a clock and noticed that the time is four-forty. More than an hour since you started eavesdropping on Jade and Dave. Then you noticed your friends. Just as you expected, they're celebrating Sollux and Aradia. Drinking softdrinks (it's been two years since you guys were able to drink alcohol legally, thankfully the school doesn't have them or this party might get insane) while your bro Gamzee is downing his favorite beverage, faygo, can by can (you wonder what will happen if this guy switched to alcohol, but maybe he won't, since he obviously loves his faygo). A few minutes after you joined the party, you saw Jade walking towards you. She no longer looks so forlorn nor so sad, instead she looks like nothing happened. Then you saw Dave enter with no other than Terezi on his arms. Terezi is giggling her psychopathic laugh of hers, and Dave merely glanced at Jade, then turned his head towards Terezi to listen to whatever bullshit she's babbling about. The guy seems to be bent on pissing you off. First, getting your crush and most likely the love of your life. Then getting the only woman you have a chance on. You walked towards Jade and talked to her. She seems OK, although a little distracted. Then she got up and said that she's gonna leave now. You decided to accompany her, knowing that her travel is dangerous. Although you know that she can usually defend herself, being EXTREMELY handy with a gun (she always has one: in her boots, on her arm, on her hip, or on her back) but you thought that with her current state, she might get distracted and this might happen to her disadvantage. She thanked you and the two of you walked out. As expected, the road to her house is all dark.

"So how are you?" you asked

"Fine, thanks for accompanying me. And for being there for me when I most need someone to be there," she said, her head bowed down for some reason.

"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeah yeah yeah i—it's ok, my pleasure," you awkwardly replied. Then looked up and saw that you've arrived at her house. "Pesterchum later tonight?" you asked, hopefully.

"No thanks, Karkat. I'm tired. I just wanna sleep…." She trailed off.

"Uhh yeah, it's fine. Have a good night!" you can't help but sound a little…disappointed.

"Good night, Karkat," she said half heartedly, as she goes inside her house. As the door closes, you started to walk away but not before you heard the slamming of tw-three doors and the sobbing of a beautiful girl with glasses and long, black hair. You started to feel sad, depressed to the point of crying yourself too. This surprised you, for you never cry. You ran away before the image of the girl of your dreams crying reduces you to a sobbing mess. You entered your apartment and saw Sollux and Aradia cuddling on the couch. You threw them a look of disgust then headed straight to your room, not even bothering to wave back as Sollux waved at you when he saw you enter. Aradia noticed this odd behavior of yours, and she frowned. You've always liked Aradia, she's not condescending like Equius or Eridan. Nor is she conniving like Vriska, or as insane as Terezi or Gamzee. As you entered your room, you slammed the door so hard your whole room shook. You head straight for your bed and curled up like a baby. Sobbing silently, trying valiantly to stop it. But you know you can't, because you've come to terms with two truths that changed everything you've believed in. First of all, Jade is actually making you cry, which is making you angry at Dave for making Jade cry at the first place. Second, the reason why you're crying is the undeniable fact that you, Karkat Vantas, is falling in love with one Jade Harley.

"Karkat?" you hear Aradia's voice coming from the doorway. "Is there something wrong?" she said, the concern obvious in her voice.

"Yeah, everything's fine. Go away," you replied, your voice muffled by the pillow pressed against your face.

"You know, if you have any problems. I'm always here for you. Your friend Sollux is always here for you!" she said, trying to be cheerful.

"I don't have a problem!" you yelled, making her gasp. You immediately felt sorry and told her so.

"Yeah, yeah, it's fine. I know your having a tough time. But you've got to understand, your friends here won't tolerate you unless they know what your problem is. And if you try to make them understand, maybe they can even help you!" she said.

You looked at her, and noticed that the two of you are alone and that Sollux is nowhere to be found near. You gestured for her to sit beside you, and she complied. "I'm having some problems right now, because I—I think I'm in love with someone." You said.

This surprised her, but she tried her best not to show it. Instead she calmly replied, "And may I ask, with whom?"

You know you can trust her, but you simply can't tell her outright. So you immediately thought of ways to tell it subtly yet obviously. "You know her. She's our classmate, and one of our closest friends. And uhh… She recently broke up with her boyfriend…"

You don't know if she knew, but even if she did, she didn't say anything about it. "I see… And your problem is what to do with these feelings of yours?"

You nodded, then she continued. "Well, for one thing, have you told her already?" When you shook your head no, she kept going. "Well, you see. People need to be told before they understand. Like how we, your friends, need to be told that you have a problem with your feelings before we tolerate this, shall we say, fuckass attitude of yours. And the situation is not so different with this situation. You've got to tell her how you feel. Or she'll never understand. You've got to tell her that she holds the trigger of a gun pointed at you, or she'll never understand the pain she causes. Look at me and Sollux. I've liked him for quite a while, even flirted with other guys just so I could maybe make him jealous enough to show some signs that he feels the same way towards me. None of that worked, because apparently he's just as shy as I am. But he overcame that shyness and asked me out. And now, there's no other couple happier than us. I heard that that was your advice, so maybe it's time to have a taste of your medicine and follow your own advice." She finished.

"Thanks Aradia, you're a really good friend…" you trailed off, then fell to sleep. Aradia carefully laid your head on a pillow and slowly walked out, careful not to make any noise. Aradia walked towards Sollux.

"So what happened?" Sollux asked.

"Oh nothing, the little guy's growing up and has some girl problems, and I gave him some advice," Aradia answered.

"Wow, that guy… Gave me the best advice ever but doesn't know how to follow it himself? I can't believe him!" Sollux exclaimed.

"I know right…" Aradia trailed off, laying her hand on Sollux's cheek. Sollux looks at her with curiosity evident in his eyes. But she didn't see it for long, for she closed her eyes as she closed the distance between their faces and kissed him on his lips.

I hope you guys give me reviews to help me next time! :33