Chapter 1

I sat at the computer and scrolled through Trollian to see that Sollux was online. My stomach did a flip.

I sent him a message, "hey there sol"

"what2 up fii2hdiick"

"absolutely nothin wwhat about you"

"ju2t workiing on codiing"

"mind if i stop by"

"ii dont care go ahead"

"givve me an hour"

I logged off and walked over to his hive, which took roughly an hour. I walked into his house without knocking and walked up to his block and walked in without knocking again.

"It would have been nice to you know knock fishface," Sollux turned from his computer as I walked in.

"Shut up, I never knock when I come here you know that."

He rolled his eyes, "Whatever. What do you want to do?"
"I don't know, what do we normally do when I'm over here?"

"Argue like wrigglers, you watch me code, and so on."

I rolled my eyes and walked over to look at his computer screen, "Watchin' you code it is."

I watched him code for a few hours, and after getting mind numbingly bored I poked the side of his head.

"What the fuck?" he said before poking my side, hitting one of my gills.

I jumped, startled, and my eyes widened, "Don't do that! My gills are there you idiot! Those are sensitive!"

An evil smirk crossed Sollux's face and he got up. He started tickling my sides and I fell over, biting my tongue to bite back the sounds that were building in my throat.

I ended up on my back and he sat on top of me, continuing with that evil grin. I swallowed hard and managed to choke out, "Please stop you don't want to do that those are really sensitive…"

He slowed, "Sensitive as in…?"

"You'd get a similar response from messing with my horns you idiot!" I managed through clenched teeth.

His eyes widened, "Oh shit…"

We stared at each other in silence for a little bit before I coughed, "It's fine Sol, no harm done."

"Shit ED that wasn't okay…"

"It's fine okay?"

He shrugged, "How do you even know about that they're sensitive ED? Do you…"

I didn't give him the chance to finish his sentence, "No Sol! I know from people brushin' against them and from people intentionally touchin' them!"

He stared at me, "People intentionally touch them?"

"No, just my former kismesis."

"Oh yeah.. forgot about her."

More silence. This time Sollux broke the silence, "Do you ever miss her?"

I scoffed, "Not in the slightest."

He nodded slowly, "Ah."

Nervousness churned in my stomach, "Actually I sorta have a flush crush on someone else now…"

He tilted his head to the side, "Really now? Who is it?"

"Like hell if I'd tell you!"

He scoffed, "You already mentioned that you're flushed for someone now spit it out. Is it FF?"

"No! Not anymore."

"Hm, is it KK?"

"What? No!"

"Then who is it then ED?"

I bit my lip, "I'm not surprised he hasn't figured it out yet. I'm kind of an asshole to him."

"Just tell me who it is ED. You're an asshole to everyone."

"He really would have figured it out by now if I wasn't an ass to him all the time."

"Just. Tell. Me. Already."

"Hell he would have figured it out in the last five minutes if I wasn't such an asshole to him."

Sollux stared at me, utterly dumbstruck. He figured it out.

I covered my face with my hands just in time to feel his hand come across them, blocking it from hitting my face.

"What the fuck Eridan!?" he yelled. "Do you not know how to act around people? First you act pale to FF when you were red for her and then you act black toward me when you were red for me?"

I said nothing, I was too busy choking on a sob. This was a bad idea, why did I even think this would have worked out well.

He climbed off me, "Say something fishface!"

"I… I'll just leave you obviously don't want me here Sol."

He growled, "You don't get it ED! I hate you, I hate you more than I hate myself."

I sighed, "I know Sol, and I'm sorry."

"Don't be, just get out."

I sat up slowly, rose to my feet, and left.

The walk to my hive was a lonely one, but when I got there I was suddenly overcome with rage at myself. I stormed up to my block and trashed it. After trashing everything I stormed over to the wall, tears streaming down my face, and slammed my head against the wall.

As everything went black, the last thing I saw was Sollux's angry face.