Karkat Vantas had despised his entire first day of high school. Or at least that's how he pretended to feel about it, although he had enjoyed a few classes. One or two. Or all of them. Okay, Karkat Vantas liked all his classes. But that's beside the point.

The point is, this particular class was different.

There was a girl in this class.

Okay, sure he had girls in every class, but this girl was different.

It was the last period of the day and this was the first time he had seen her around. He had know clue who she was, but something about the way she ran her fingers along the pages of her history book made him feel...I don't know...happy.

Happier than normal.

He stared only for a few seconds before Nepeta, a old friend of his, tapped his shoulder.

"hey karkitty! look at my drawing! isn't it purrrrfect?" Nepeta said, rolling her "r" to resemble that of a kitten's purr. She slid her drawing onto his desk.

Karkat looked over the drawing. "what the hell is it?" he asked.

"It's me and you as Neckos! don't you like it?"

Karkat looked over the drawing again, seeing now that it was in fact a sketch of him and Nepeta with kitten ears and tails. It was a good drawing, but not really his taste. "Its fucking beautiful" He said sarcastically.

Nepeta giggled. "glad you think so! i drew a bunch more" she said opening her folder.

"yeah yeah, that all fine and fucking dandy, Nepeta. Except the fact that it is shitting creepy that you spent your entire asswiping day drawing me." He said. He returned his focus to his notes.

"you never said it was creepy before" she said, offended.

He turned and looked directly at her. "that was before we were in fucking high school Nepeta, things change. We aren't in the damn middle school anymore!" Karkat said sternly. "now shut the hell up, okay? I need to take the bitches notes before i fucking flunk this retarded class." He turned back to his notes.

Nepeta sunk down in her seat. "i was just trying to be furrrendly, geez"

The class went on for what felt like hours. Every tick of the clock and every tack of someone putting their pen to the page annoyed him. The teacher just droned on and on about some war he couldn't be less interested in. He decided to forget about taking notes. He sent his attention over to the other girl again and kept it there until the bell rang for the end of class, awaking his from his daydreaming state.

He quickly gathered his things, hoping he could ask the girls name, but by the time he had slung his backpack onto his back she was already out the door. He hurried to the doorway.

He could see her on the other side. Only a few feet away and looking lost. He went to go out, but then Gamzee stepped out in front of him. "Hey motherfucking best friend!" Gamzee said. His voice slurred, he was obviously high or drunk or something.

Karkat sighed. "Gamzee I don't have fucking time for this, get your high-as-shit ass out of my way" Karkat said.

"Holy shit bro, how did you all up in know I was kicking the motherfucking highness?" Gamzee asked, shocked.

"There's never a shitfucking moment when you AREN'T kicking the motherfucking highness or whatever you call it" Karkat grumbled in response. "you can't even lay the damn drugs for a few measly seconds to make one shitstain excuse of a good impression, can you?"

Gamzee chuckled. "this society is motherfuckin bullshit man. Why waste my good motherfucking time trying to make all these motherfuckers happy when doing that is just gonna all up and drain your giggle chakara to an all time motherfucking potato?"

Karkat sighed. "Look Gamzee, as touching as I'm sure that bunch of FUCKING BULLSHIT would have been had it made even the SLIGHTEST BIT OF VAGBITING SENSE, I really need you to move out of the doorway"

Gamzee just stared down at his short friend with a blank expression which then turned to a smile. "thanks brother" He continued, without budging. "you hear i got all up into that motherfucking principle office three times and he is a chill bitchtits guy. he gave me these really cool motherfucking slips and-" As Gamzee went on with his story, Karkat struggled to see over his shoulders, making sure the girl was still there.

And she was.

Except now there was a boy too. One of those "cool" guys. He wore his sunglasses indoors, and kept his blonde hair slicked back like Elvis. If there was one thing Karkat didn't like about him, it was that he had her attention. She was giggling. She was laughing. She was having a great time.

Karkat watched as the "coolkid" offered to lead her out of the school. He watched as she accepted and he watched as they walked out of Karkats field of vision.

Panicked, Karkat then ducked under Gamzee's arm and ran to the center of the hallway just in time to see them exit the building. "fuck" he said, trying to catch his breath. He then added a sarcastic "thanks gamzee"

"you're all welcome motherfucker" Gamzee said, "though I really don't know why you're all thanking to me over"

"the motherfucking miracle of friendship, that's what I'm fucking thankful about, you assnugget" he said sarcastically. "lets go"

"aww man that's the nicest thing any motherfuckers ever said in ever to me" Gamzee said following along beside Karkat.

"fuck you" he said as he left, and hurried to his bus which was just about to pull out.