Hey! So, I'm a bit rusty with my writing skills, so all reviews will be nice. I just wanted to share with others. Just be gentle with helping me fix things, I've never shared my works. Don't yell at me just yet either, I know my facts(most of them). This is only the first chapter. Thanks, love all you readers
Without further ado I give you the story~
The party had come to an end. It was quite sad as John had actually enjoyed himself, but everyone had left by now. This left just him and his roommate. Sadly the human was stuck with this burden for another year. It wasn't too bad other than his language. Usually Karkat kept to himself or left to go to work. He wasn't sure how that guy had ever found somebody to hire him, but John didn't complain. It was much better without him here after all. The grumpy troll didn't even say anything when everyone had left, which was slightly unlike him. Instead he merely left to retire to his bedroom.
The apartment was a nice and cozy little place, consisting of two bedrooms, a kitchen, a living room, and a bathroom and well that was it. Even if everything was a bit on the small side it never bothered John, although Karkat would complain about it when the chance came up. That guy never ceased his complaining, ever.
"Goodnight Karkat," he called cheerily. He couldn't not say goodnight, they needed to be on good terms, not bad terms. Last time that happened nothing good had come out of it. After getting a grumble of a response the human shrugged and retired to his own bedroom. Flopping onto his bed with a delighted sigh of relief he rolled onto his back.
It hadn't been a lot of people, just a few. Dave came with Terezi, those two were adorable together. Then came Rose and Kanaya, they claimed to be friends but everyone knew it was something more. Jade, Gamzee, and Tavros also stopped by. Feferi said that she had plans with Sollux, which meant those two were out. Nepeta and Equius had planned on going to the movies already, another two out. Eridan, well… nobody wanted him around ever so that was a definite out. Sometimes John felt bad for him, but he would still prefer to stay away. Aradia had to work at the book store down the street, but promised she'd try and come next time, one more out. That left Vriska, who never showed up even when invited as she always had her own plans to attend to, which made the last out. Yeah, that was all of them. Four humans, twelve trolls. But only five of the trolls had been around today.
Giggling to himself slightly John rolled back onto his stomach. He couldn't sleep at all with all this excitement. Maybe he'd watch Con Air? Oh wait no that would be a bad idea. John didn't want to wake Karkat up; he already couldn't even stand it in his own room when that guy was sleeping. All he ever did was have nightmares and scream. Claiming it was some troll thing the human often tried to ignore it. On some occasions he'd try to calm Karkat's dreams but all had ended with the troll screaming at John to leave.
Giving a gentle sigh he sat up and looked at the wall separating their rooms. Karkat wasn't asleep though; usually he was asleep by now. Slipping off the bed John made his way over to the wall, hearing a faint noise from the other side. It sounded muffled by not just this wall. Pressing an ear to the cold wall the human leaned close, blue eyes shutting to concentrate. It sounded weird, almost like he was crying. Freezing at the thought John withdrew from the wall. No, Karkat wouldn't be crying, why would he? The conflicting questions started to echo in his head. He felt bad just for eavesdropping on the other boy. More questions raced through his mind. Could trolls even cry? Was it just in his dream? Did Karkat even have any emotion other than anger? The questions slowed as he started piecing things together.
"Fuck," he mouthed as his eyes darted back to the wall. Today had been Karkat's birthday and nobody had said a single "Happy Birthday".